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http://dx.doi.org/10.14346/JKOSOS.2019.34.3.65

Management and Ease of Comprehension for Safety and Health Signs  

Kim, Kyungwoo (Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute)
Min, Sungki (Department of Psychology, Yeungnam University)
Lim, Hochan (Department of Psychological Rehabilitation, Korea Nazarene University)
Cho, Yoonho (Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.34, no.3, 2019 , pp. 65-74 More about this Journal
Abstract
The safety and health signs as an important communication tool can help employees recognize the harm and risk information and take proper actions easily and fast. This study investigated the management of safety and health signs in 75 workplaces and also conducted a survey for the level of subjective comprehension of safety and health signs with 150 employees in Korea. In total, 69 safety and health signs containing alternative signs by KS S ISO 7010 were used for the survey for the ease of comprehension. At the results, the frequency of education on the signs was relatively high, but it was difficult to systematically manage those in the small-sized workplaces. In addition, the results of the ease of comprehension survey showed that proportion of alternative signs was high in the upper rank, and also several alternative signs showed significantly high mean compared with safety and health signs. And the means of alternative signs tended to have higher at the categories of prohibition, instruction, and guidance. Although there are some methodological limitations, it is important that the recent management and the level of comprehension for safety and health signs were empirically identified.
Keywords
safety and health sign; ease of comprehension; management;
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