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http://dx.doi.org/10.12812/ksms.2013.15.2.39

Case studies on the Practical Ways of Preventing Injuries in Small Manufacturing Industries  

Shin, Woon-Chul (Dept. of Safety Research, Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, KOSHA)
Kim, Jin-Hyun (Dept. of Safety Research, Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, KOSHA)
Hong, Yong-Soo (Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency)
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Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science / v.15, no.2, 2013 , pp. 39-45 More about this Journal
Abstract
Occupational injury rate of Korea recently slides slightly downward after stagnating around 0.7%'s for more than 10 years. To accelerate this trend, injury prevention for small enterprises is crucially important because vast majority of injuries take place in small enterprises. Considering huge number of small enterprises, we need to focus our efforts to type of riskier industries. By analysing detailed injury data, we select type of industries which need our concentrated prevention efforts. Several preventive measures are recommended, after we made literature survey of case studies for small enterprises. The result identifies riskier type of industries including transportation machinery manufacturing industry type(B), woods & veneer manufacturing industry, etc. Safety of machinery, new enterprises less than 2 years in service and new employees serving less than 6 months are in need for focused prevention efforts. To cope with these vulnerable spots, recommended preventive measures include strengthening of machinery safety standards, early assistance for safety to new enterprises, mandatory safety education before employment, etc.
Keywords
Occupational Injuries; Small Enterprises; Type of Riskier Industry; Literature Survey; Preventive Measures;
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