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A Study on the Safety Management Items for Preventing Accidents of Aged Construction Workers  

Lee, Hyun-Chul (Graduate School of Architectural Engineering, Chonnam National University)
Song, Do-Heom (Graduate School of Architectural Engineering, Chonnam National University)
Go, Seong-Seok (Graduate School of Architectural Engineering, Chonnam National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.24, no.1, 2009 , pp. 50-59 More about this Journal
Abstract
Korea reached an aging society in 2000, and it is progressed quickly now. Government forecasts that the number of aged people over 65 years old will increase from 7.2%(2000) to above 14.3% among total population in 2018. Workers over fifty years old are increasing in construction field every year. These aged workers are exposed to various construction accidents, and also their accident rate is very high because of physical and psychological changes by aging. Specially, a disaster of aged workers more than 50 years old is fronted at the serious situation in the construction industry which has variable working environment. Thus, the purpose of this study is to suggest the precaution by analysing disaster characteristics of aged construction workers. Also, this study aims to present a basic counter-plan according to important safety management list which is abstracted from the work, aged construction workers' accident rate is high.
Keywords
aged construction workers; safety management; accident rates;
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