• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.73-79
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• 2009

Hazardous materials (HazMats) are substances that are flammable, explosive, toxic, or harmful, if released into the environment. Since the transportation of HazMats increases in many developed countries, HazMat transportation has the key function in the process of HazMat usage to trace information of production, storage, shipment, usage, and waste disposal. The Korean Ministry of Environment (KMOE) and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) have developed many laws, regulations, and standards for hazardous materials. However, the Korean HazMat laws, regulations, and standards do not guarantee accurate information of HazMat origin-destination (O-D) shipments, though the HazMat O-D movement is the critical information in safety and security of HazMat transportation. The objectives of this research are: (1) to investigate emerging and recurrent issues in Korean HazMat transportation, and (2) to develop the estimation method of O-D matrices for hazardous materials under limited data sets. The sodium hydroxide waste shipment among forty candidate HazMats is selected as the sample research case. The growth-factor method is applied to estimate the 2005 O-D matrix of sodium-hydroxide waste shipment. The column-and-row factoring process is used to calibrate the estimated sodium-hydroxide O-D matrix. The result shows the applicability of the O-D estimation process for hazardous materials. The Sodium Hydroxide Waste Origin-Destination Matrix is obtained to trace routes and paths of the Sodium Hydroxide transportation.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.435-446
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• 2012

생활을 향상시키고 개선하기 위해 화학물질은 전 세계적으로 널리 이용 되고 있고, 또한 국내에는 38,000여종의 화학물질이 유통되고 있다. 그러나 화학물질은 그 이점에도 불구하고 사람이나 환경에 유해 영향을 가져올 가능성이 있어 위험물안전관리법에서는 3,000여종을 위험물로 분류하여 규제하고 있다. 위험물에 관련하여 유해화학물질관리법, 위험물안전관리법, 고압가스안전관리법, 총포 도검 화약류단속법, 원자력 진흥법, 농약관리법 등에서 개별적으로 규정하고 분류하고 있어 위험물질에 대한 표지사항이 해당 부처에 따라 상이하여 혼란을 야기하고 있고, 위험물에 대한 품목 및 품명의 고정으로 인하여 새롭게 생성된 위험물질에 대해 적용하는 데 문제점이 있다. 이에 의해 위험물질을 개별법에 따라 관리함으로써 중복된 위험물질 분류 및 관리의 문제가 있으며, 위험물질 분류에 있어서 위험물질에 따라 수송수단이 상이함에도 불구하고 수송수단별(도로, 철도, 해운, 항공) 위험물질에 대한 세분화된 자료가 부족하다. 따라서 수송관점에서 표준화된 위험물 물질정보의 분류와 코드화 방안개발이 필요하다. 본 연구는 국내 외 문헌 검토 및 위험물에 관련된 법제도 비교를 통하여 위험물 수송관리체계 정비방안과 위험물 수송사고의 문제점을 도출하고 기존의 위험물 분류체계에서 운송관점에서의 위험물 매칭테이블을 구축하고 신속한 사고대응을 위한 위험물질별 코드화 방안을 제안하도록 하겠다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.91-97
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• 2009

Hazardous material (HazMat) is the material or substance that poses an unreasonable risk to human safety and health, and to property when transported in gases, solids, and liquids of all sizes. When HazMats are improperly released, they have potential to harm humans, property, or the environment to be considered hazardous, resulting in human-caused disasters. As the Korean economy has advanced, the use of HazMats has increased. And, the total number and the impacts of HazMat incidents have grown up. It increases the risk of HazMat incidents. When many goods of HazMats are transported from supply points to demand places, it is important to know what the types and characteristics of HazMat incidents are in terms of disaster management. The objectives of this research are: (1) to investigate types and characteristics of HazMats that generate HazMat incidents in Korea, and (2) to analyze time-series trends of HazMat incidents in terms of facilities and/or transportation. Statistical analysis methods including frequency analysis or analysis of category data are applied to examine the significance of difference in HazMat incidents.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.129-134
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• 2000

가연성가스나 액체는 화학공업의 원료, 중간제품 그리고 완제품으로 화학공정의 광범위한 분야에서 사용되고 있을 뿐만 아니라, 가정에서도 널리 사용되고 있다. 이들 물질의 취급함에 있어 밸브의 조작실수, 배관접합부파손, 저장 및 수송의 부주의로 인해 주위에 공기와 혼합되면 화재 및 폭발이 발생할 수도 있고 유해물질이 유출되는 경우도 있다.(중략)

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.643-672
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• 2006

This study has assessed the industrial human toxicity index by means of toxic substances emissions in South Korean industry. The data used in analysis are the 146 kinds of the toxic chemicals emissions and final demands, total outputs in the input-output table. As a results, human carcinogenic index was $11.86198{\times}10^3$ for overall industries, and $0.26360{\times}10^3$ for average. The industries of higher human toxicity index can be ranked as follows: Mother vehicles and parts (7.85033) > Pig iron and crude steel(4.57409) > Primary iron and steel products(4.36668) > Other transportation equipments and parts(3.43293) > Inorganic basic chemical products(2.64379), etc. Such result can be considered as the priority order of regulation based on industrial characteristics, when the demand and industrial policies should be carried out for the deduction fof toxic substances.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.79-88
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• 2002

As a part of NERI:;, Truck Shipment Safety Information is divided into Optimal Route Guidance system and Emergency Response system. This study which is for developing of Truck Shipment Incident Emergency Response System intends to prevent or early response damage caused by incidents through realtime monitoring about the position and the state of Hazard material transport truck. For this, we divide it into three scenarios; realtime monitoring, management of incidents, information provision to related organizations and present functional requirements and architecture coming with each scenario. As a result of the first step among total three steps, it would able to not only realtime management of trucks but also guide for auto-enforcement or management about illegal act like dumping scrapped material. It is now under examination about position of detection and technology of communication to application. From now on, it is expect to test in the range of Metropolitan after selecting appropriate technology.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.51-56
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• 2009

Safety and quality assessment systems are very important in manufacture, storage, transportation, and handling of hazardous materials(hazmat) to prevent hazmat disasters. At present, hazardous materials exist everywhere in our daily lives with various forms of plastics, household products of cleaning and washing detergents, fertilizers or petroleum-related products. However, hazardous materials are dangerous substances when they are released to human or environment. Hazardous materials become very widely used substances in the age of oil-based industrial economy. The Korean Ministry of Environment (KMOE) describes about one hundred thousand types of chemicals are produced and used worldwide. Over four hundred new chemicals are introduced in every year. A crucial question for the Korean hazardous material management may have been raised: Will you be safe from hazardous material incidents? The gas leak disaster at Union Carbide's Bhopal, India in 1984 that made over 6,400 people killed and 30,000 to 40,000 people seriously injured is the representative case for the safety of hazmat. Korea becomes vulnerable to hazmat disaster due to the development of high-tech industry. Thus, the risk assessment system is required to Korea for transferring abandoned hazmat management systems to self-correcting safety systems. This research analyzed characteristics of various hazmat incidents applying statistical analysis methods including frequency analysis or analysis of category data to hazmat incidents for ten years. All of three analyses of category data indicate the significance of causality between hazmat incident site groups and seasons, regional groups, and incident casualty groups.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.149-151
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• 1999

우리 나라의 경우에 산업화가 가속화되면서 유해 독성 기체상 물질의 누출사고 위험성이 점점 높아져 가고 있는 실정이다. 우리 나라는 특히 산업인력의 조달과 지방경제 발달을 목적으로 중소도시 근방에 대규모 공단이 건설되어 있는 경우가 많다. 이러한 공단에는 위험물을 취급하는 공장과 위험물이 수송 및 이동되는 사례가 매우 많을 것으로 추정되며 이러한 경로를 통하여 유독가스 누출사고가 발생 할 경우 바로 인근 주민 및 작업 인원들의 생명을 위협할 수 있다.(중략)

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.87-97
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• 2015

Accidents of HAZMAT transport vehicle are generally dealt by unskilled firefighters. As a result, firefighters became 2nd victims of accidents in some case because of this reason, and it is required to prepare an accident response guidelines against HAZMAT transport vehicle accidents. In this study, risk assessment methods and making methods of guidelines were investigated to make accident response guidelines of HAZMAT transport vehicle accidents. and It identifies hazards and combines with guideword for making guideline items. At last, we determine criteria or detailed methods by referring survey regulations and existed methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.371-372
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• 2003

서울의 지하철은 하루 450만 명 정도를 수송하는 중요한 대중교통 수단이다. 지하철 역사 내의 실내 환경에 대한 실내공기질 관리는 실내공기 오염의 대상물질에 대한 특정유해물질과 같은 단일 물질에 대한 지표에 의해 관리되고 있다. 그러나 공기중 입자상 물질의 특성은 복합적이기 때문에 공기질에 대한 관리는 여러 제한점을 가지고 있다. 또한 역구내의 먼지에 대한 단순 측정ㆍ분석만이 이뤄지고 있을 뿐 그 먼지의 생물학적 영향에 대한 연구는 미흡한 실정이다 본 연구에서는 지하철역 구내에서 포집한 미세먼지가 돌연변이원을 함유하고 있는 지를 여름과 겨울철에 대한 비교 평가하였다. (중략)