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http://dx.doi.org/10.14346/JKOSOS.2016.31.2.112

The Study of Preventive Improvement on Employment Type and Occupational Safety & health Activity in the Very Small Service Industry  

Yi, Kwan Hyung (Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, KOSHA)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.31, no.2, 2016 , pp. 112-118 More about this Journal
Abstract
The labor force has moved to services industry. An industrial accidents of service industry is three people on 10 persons in 2013. This research conducted questionnaire surveys of 1:1 directly person interviews with a structured questionnaire intended for 150 service workplaces, in order to improve occupational safety and health in very small service workplace with less than 5 employee. The survey contents is employment type, safety and health management system, safety and health training, activities. In the results, working with non-regular(informal) workers is two people on 10 persons 27.1% and female workers is about five people on 10 persons with 58.1%, and that 67.9% of non-regular workers who are mainly engaged in the production line appeared. And the work-related injury and accident experience was 3.3% and the occupational injury rate was 1.02%, especially occupational injury rate of female workers was 0.88%. Workplace risk assessment carried out in response that it was very low as 10.0% of the total. Also the safety & health education and activities was very low. Thus the safety consciousness and education is urgently required in order to prevent the industrial accidents.
Keywords
injury; occupational; non-regular workers; safety and Health; service industry;
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