Browse > Article

An Effective Procedure for Development of Industrial Safety Signs Corresponding to International Criteria  

Lim, Hyeon-Kyo (Department of Safety Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
Park, Young-Won (Department of Industrial Design, Hongik University)
Lee, Joon-Won (Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency)
Jung, Kwang-Tae (Department of Design Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.22, no.4, 2007 , pp. 96-101 More about this Journal
Abstract
Usually pictograms embedded in safety signs are such final means to transmit hazard information that the importance of them cannot be emphasized too much. Nevertheless, in Korea, few people are interested in safety signs and their functions so that evaluation of safety signs are seldom committed nor safety signs draw workers' attention to fulfill their functions. Therefore this research aimed to standardize the procedure for developing safety signs in order not only to give practical help to industrial workers but to match them international standards, and to develop a few examples through the suggested standard procedure. As results, a procedure for developing industrial safety signs was developed by combining both ANSI Z535.3 and ISO 9186 with a special emphasis on action inducibility as the former emphasized as well as comprehensibility as the latter suggested. According to test results with undergraduate students as well as industrial workers on a few signs developed through the suggested procedure, action inducibility was higher whereas confusion rate was lower than expected on one hand, and it could be concluded that the procedure would supply results that can be satisfied on the other hand.
Keywords
safety signs; pictogram; action inducibility; comprehensibility;
Citations & Related Records
Times Cited By KSCI : 1  (Citation Analysis)
연도 인용수 순위
1 D.H.Kim and H.K.Lim, 'Cognition of the Korean people on signal words and safety colors', Journal of KIIS, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 112-115, 1999
2 KISA안전보건표지, 대한산업안전협회, 2002
3 R.E.Dewar, J.G.Ells, 'The Semantic Differential as an Index of Traffic Sign Perception and Comprehension', Human Factors, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 183- 189, 1977   DOI
4 M.W.Riley, D.J.Cochran, J.L.Ballard, 'An Investigation of Preferred Shapes for Warning Labels', Human Factors, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 737-742, 1982   DOI
5 김동하, 임현교, '효율적 위험이미지 전달을 위한 안전표지의 평가', 한국산업안전학회 추계학술발표대회 논문집, pp. 347-352, 1998
6 KISCO CODE SA-20-2000, '안전색채 및 안전 표지에 관한 안전인증기준', 한국산업안전공단, 2000
7 D.H.Kim, B.I.Ko, and H.K.Lim, 'The Effect of Educational Background on the Hazard Image Perception of Industrial Safety Signs', Proceedings of the 6th Pan-Pacific Conference on Occupational Ergonomics, pp. 15-18, 2001
8 김동하, 이준원, 박영원, 임현교, '산업 현장에서의 안전표지 사용 실태 및 개선방향', 한국안전학회지, 제21권, 제4호, pp. 119-126, 2006   과학기술학회마을
9 W.A.Rogers, N.Lamson, G.K.Rousseau, 'Warning Research : An Integrative Perspective', Human Factors, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 102-139, 2000   DOI
10 ANSI Z535.3 Criteria for Safety Symbols, 1998
11 H.K.Lim, D.H.Kim and B.I.Ko, 'Cognition of Hazard Levels with Safety Signs and Pictograms in Korea', Proceeding of the Triennial Congress of International Ergonomics Association, pp. 672-675, 2000
12 ISO 9186 Graphical symbols - Test Methods for Judged Comprehensibility and for Comprehension, 2001