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http://dx.doi.org/10.15269/JKSOEH.2018.28.1.108

Current status of working environment monitoring the designated organization's laboratory and factors affecting reliability of the analysis results  

Kim, Ki-Woong (Chemical Research Bureau, Occupational Safety and Health Research)
Park, Hae Dong (Work Environment Research Bureau, Occupational Safety and Health Research)
Kim, Sungho (Work Environment Research Bureau, Occupational Safety and Health Research)
Ro, Jiwon (Work Environment Research Bureau, Occupational Safety and Health Research)
Hwang, Eun Song (Work Environment Research Bureau, Occupational Safety and Health Research)
Chung, Eun-Kyo (Work Environment Research Bureau, Occupational Safety and Health Research)
Cho, Kee Hong (Federation of Korean Trade Unions)
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Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene / v.28, no.1, 2018 , pp. 108-116 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objectives: This study investigated to the analytical work environment, analyst's expert and status of analytical instrument in the designated organization's laboratory for measuring work environment, and carried out to ensure reliability of analytical results. Methods: This study was conducted by 114 analysts who work in designated organization's laboratory for measuring work environment. Information on the working environment and personal characteristics of the analysts were collected using a self-reported questionnaire and were analyzed using the SPSS program through analysis of frequency and t-test. Results: The speciality of subjects was occupational health(57.0%), environmental health(38.6%) and environmental engineering(4.4%), and they had a higher level of academic ability than workers in other industries. Analysts had to handle a large number of sample analysis and many tasks other than analytical work. The analysts answered that it was difficult to analyze organic substances than inorganic substances, and the difficult parts were the analytical methods setting of new substances(55.3%), instrument analysis(24.6%) and principle of analysis(23.7%). Analytical instruments mainly have legally required instruments. The difficulty of the analysis is solved from the senior analyst in the laboratory and analytical information is mainly exchanged through seminar organized by the Association of Occupational Health Analysts. The analysts who are planning to move or considering the company were 48.2%, and the reasons for moving the company were difficult to work(14.0%), low salary(9.6%), employment type(8.8%) and job stress(7.0%). Conclusions: The conclusions of our study were that it was possible to secure reliability by solving the problems such as implementing professional education to improve expertise of analysts, strengthening analytical instruments through institutional improvement and improving work environment.
Keywords
designated organization' laboratory; questionnaire; reliability analysis;
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