• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.83-90
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• 2021

In this paper, effects on industrial accident prevention based on better safety and health environment by utilizing ergonomics expert were studied. This study was mainly based on the data from 'the survey for occupational safety and health trend' conducted by Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute. The number of industries participated in the survey was 2,084. Main results of the study were as follows; 1) Only 22.9% of the industries participated in the survey utilized ergonomics expert. The rest of the industries have never had an ergonomics expert due to the reasons such as lack of knowledge for the field of ergonomics, etc. 2) Specific activities done by the industries with ergonomics expert in order to have better safety & health were 'providing work orders'(94.8%), 'providing monitoring guidelines'(85.5%), 'providing information for dangerous work'(95.8%), 'providing safety education'(96.6%), and 'other safety management'(94.1%). 3) When the odds ratio for the levels of communication and the levels of environmental stability regarding safety & health for the different groups(with experts and without experts), it was found that the group with ergonomics experts had a significant higher ORs(2.391, 95% confidence interval(1.949-2.932) and 2.128, 95% confidence interval(1.786-2.537)) respectively than those of the industries without ergonomics expert. The results suggested that ergonomics expert has been unique in most of time in terms of his/her contributions in the field of industrial safety and health.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.33
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• pp.163-195
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• 2012

Various kinds of performances and events have been held by local governments along with the worldwide popularity of K-pop, and there is a growing concern about possible accidents. Actually, a large-scale of accident took place during the MBC pop song concert in Sangju Sports Stadium in October 3, 2005. And another great safety accident occurred during an open event in the Lotte World in Seoul in March 26, 2006. The purpose of this study is to propose improvement of security company that carry out security activity through the analysis of the cases of accidents and common causes in the event sites. The improvement of safety management for large-scale event site by the study are as followings; First, institutional measures should be taken to extend the size of private security companies. Second, more education and training should be provided for security personnels who work for the event. Third, private security companies should prepare for the security measures more thoroughly in advance. Fourth, private security companies should make every possible effort to maintain order in the event site. Fifth, private security companies should bolster their collaboration with relevant organizations. Sixth, security companies should take actions to make themselves completely ready for any possible unexpected situations.

• 방재와보험
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• s.125
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• pp.48-54
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• 2008

어느 누구도 누군가가 숭례문의 담을 넘어가 불을 질러 무너뜨릴 것이라고 생각하지 못했다. 숭례문에 관련된 사람들뿐만 아니라 불을 지른 방화범도 이렇게 피해가 크게 될 것이라고 예상치 못했을 것이다. 2008년 2월 10일 20시 50분 숭례문에서 연기가 나오고 있다는 신고 후 모두의 염원과 노력에도 불구하고 약 5시간 후인 익일 2시 5분경 숭례문은 훨훨 타 지붕이 무너졌고 사람들은 멍하니 바라볼 수밖에 없었다. 모든 국민이 이번 화재사건을 안타까워하겠지만, 그중 가장 마음이 아픈 사람은 현장에서 활동하였던 소방관이 아닐까 라는 생각이 든다.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.545-552
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• 2021

Under the Act amended on August 4, 2011, a special fire-fighting investigation was conducted by the relevant person (owner, manager, oil refineries), and the responsibility was also given to the relevant person. Instead of directly entering all existing fire-fighting targets and investigating the maintenance and management status of fire-fighting facilities, the fire-fighting agency selects and visits some targets every year, checks the maintenance and management status of fire-fighting facilities, corrects them, and imposes fines, etc. Reasons for the introduction of the system were the establishment of a private autonomous correction system by strengthening the responsibility of officials, lack of firefighting professionals, possible corruption due to frequent public contact, and responsibility of fire agencies. However, many problems arose even after the introduction of a special fire investigation system. A special fire investigation, one of the fire safety systems, checks whether related public officials and especially fire officials are properly installed, maintained and managed in accordance with relevant laws. Special firefighting investigations were introduced as firefighting inspections at the time the firefighting law was enacted in 1958, and have undergone a revised process more than 30 times until recently. Firefighting Facility Installation, Maintenance and Safety Management Act", the existing firefighting inspection was changed to a special firefighting investigation and accepted. At the time of enactment of the Fire Service Act in 1958, a special firefighting investigation was introduced as a firefighting inspection, and until recently, more than 30 revisions have been made. In 2003, as the existing fire fighting system was divided into four laws, it was approved by changing the existing fire fighting inspection to a special fire fighting investigation in the "Fire Fighting Facility Installation, Maintenance and Safety Management Act".

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.168-168
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• 2017

기후변화로 인한 집중호우 및 태풍의 발생빈도 증가로 인하여 댐 및 저수지 붕괴 우려가 증대되고 있으며, 이에 따른 주변지역 주민들의 불안감도 고조되고 있다. 특히 2017년 2월 미국에서 가장 높은 위치에 있는 캘리포니아주 오로빌 댐은 집중호우로 인해 범람할 가능성이 커지면서 지역민 19만여명을 대피하는 상황이 발생되었다. 국내에서는 기후변화와 댐 안전, 노후화된 댐 성능개선 및 재개발, 유지관리 효율화 증대 방안 등의 다양한 대비책 마련이 제시되고 있으나, 아직까지 기후변화에 따른 수문학적, 구조적 안전성 등 다양한 인자를 고려한 댐 재개발 평가에 대한 정량적 연구가 미흡한 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기후변화의 영향과 댐 시설물의 고령화 등에 따른 복합적인 댐 안전성 문제 등에 대비하기 위하여 기후변화를 고려한 댐 재개발 평가 기준 개발/개선하였으며, 국내 다목적댐, 발전용댐, 농업용 저수지댐 1종 시설물을 대상으로 평가를 실시하였다. 또한, 유역경계, 댐, 저수지, 도로 등의 지형데이터베이스와 수자원이용율, 유역면적, 수질, 문화재수 등의 댐 재개발 평가항목들의 속성자료를 검색할 수 있으며, 댐 구역별 기후변화 영향과 수문학적 안전성 평가 정보를 확인 할 수 있는 댐 재개발 평가시스템을 개발하였다. 본 연구성과는 댐 재개발계획 수립을 위한 의사결정 도구로 객관적이고 정량적인 의사결정 판단자료를 제공할 것이며, 댐 붕괴로 발생하는 경제, 사회, 인명 손실을 사전에 예방할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.158-170
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• 2012

Citizens'income has been increased along with the trend of rapid changes in society, and the quality of their lives has been improved as well. As much as the degree of increase of quality of life, the number of spectators for performing art events, etc. who desire to fulfill their needs for enjoyment of varied cultural performances have been increasing, and also a large number of spectators enjoys a variety of festivals being held in each provincial area as well as international events: we still remember such frantic rooting shown by citizens during 2002 World Cup drawing attention and interest of entire nation. There are always risks of loss of human lives if accidents occur as there sult of close-packed crowd gathered at the same time. Therefore, it is required to prepare adequate security measures in order to prevent various accidents before hand. It is hoped that this research work would be of help for further efficient and systematic security management for the performing arts centers or public theaters encouraging the event organizer and the private security firm and the Korea Private Security Association to exert great effort and investments in further projects for development of security technology. Also, it is required to build a performance culture to consider audience's safety first from the beginning to the end of the event on the basis of efficient security management. Furthermore, spect at or sare required to recognize the fact that safety in the site for performing arts should be guaranteed for everyone's sake, and, to achieve this, they are obliged to be more cooperative with the event organizer and the private security firm, forming a trinity all together, in order not to have safety threatening situations in the site of performing arts events.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.769-777
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• 2017

Objectives: The study was to promote patient safety by analyzing the effect of dental hygienist's perception of patient safety culture on infection control activities. Methods: The study is based on a survey of 377 dental hygienists in total working in dental settings. The questionnaire consisted of 119 questions, including 34 questions on perception of patient safety culture, and 85 questions on infection control activities. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between the perception of patient safety culture and infection control activities. The data was analyzed using the SPSS version 20.0, and p<0.05 was adopted to decide on significance. Results: The longer dental hygienists have worked n the dental settings, the more active they become in infection control activities. Among the different types of dental care settings, general (university) hospitals had the largest number of infection control activities, followed by dental clinics, and network dental clinics, in descending order. The dental settings possessing a higher number of dental hygienists were found to conduct more infection control activities than other dental settings. In addition, it was found that when a dental setting adopts a patient safety policy across all the units in the hospital, more systems and procedures for patient safety tend to be established, and that stricter management response to error leads to improvement of infection control activities. Conclusions:In order to enhance infection control activities, infection control activity programs should develop and implement periodic reinforcement of infection control education. regular monitoring of infection control activities.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.247-252
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• 2014

Despite the facts that navigation technology and educational programs were developed, and that maritime law has been enforced strictly, the number of maritime accidents has not dropped significantly. Accident prevention is emphasized because of the extreme life, property, and environmental losses that accompany maritime accidents. Even though there are a variety of preventive activities, their performance is not satisfactory. In order to promote preventive activities and to organize safety management, a Preventive Index of Ship Accident(PISA) and a Preventive Level of Ship Accident(PLSA) which are abstracted from the statistical data of ship accidents (2009~2013) are proposed. The survey module by which these variables can be calculated is composed of preventive domains such as education, engineering, enforcement and information, and is applied for the preventive indexes measurement of cargo, passenger, tanker, tugboat and fishery ships. We compared and analyzed measured result with statistical accident rates and cases to confirm the index utilities. It was found that there is some correlation between the index value and the ship accident rate. It is expected that this index will become useful to evaluate a preventive status for the prevention of ship accidents and for the maritime safety culture.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.172-181
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• 2010

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of strategies to promote reporting of errors on nurses' attitude to reporting errors, organizational culture related to patient safety, intention to report and reporting rate in hospital nurses. Methods: A nonequivalent control group non-synchronized design was used for this study. The program was developed and then administered to the experimental group for 12 weeks. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, $\chi^2$-test, t-test, and ANCOVA with the SPSS 12.0 program. Results: After the intervention, the experimental group showed significantly higher scores for nurses' attitude to reporting errors (experimental: 20.73 vs control: 20.52, F=5.483, p=.021) and reporting rate (experimental: 3.40 vs control: 1.33, F=1998.083, p<.001). There was no significant difference in some categories for organizational culture and intention to report. Conclusion: The study findings indicate that strategies that promote reporting of errors play an important role in producing positive attitudes to reporting errors and improving behavior of reporting. Further advanced strategies for reporting errors that can lead to improved patient safety should be developed and applied in a broad range of hospitals.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.44-49
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• 2021

Domestic industrial accidents continue to increase, with 2,142 deaths in 2018, up by 185 (9.5%) from 1,957 deaths in 2017. Industrial accidents that cause loss of human lives pose a serious risk to businesses because of the strengthening of safety regulations and the changing public perception of social responsibility. Accordingly, to prevent industrial accidents, companies regularly conduct onsite safety activities and conduct education and training to raise awareness among employees. However, many such corporate activities are not conducted voluntarily and practically by employees but mostly by formal implementation. To discontinue this customary and passive behavior of employees and establish a mature safety culture, strengthening the execution power of safety management at the site is of paramount importance, and to this end, we aim to utilize the safety practice index (SPI). In this study, the SPI calculated on the basis of the results of the 2018 and 2019 risk management and safety activities of a site was compared with the reported safety accidents. The results confirmed that the SPI index can be used as a valid indicator for safety activities for accident prevention, such as strengthening leadership and safety policies to grade and manage safety management levels for a certain period of time or by a department or to convert weaknesses into strengths.