• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.93-104
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• 2008

A successful fire risk assessment is depends on identification of risk, the analytical process of potential risk, on estimation of likelihood and the width and depth of consequence. Take the influence on enterprise into consideration, Fire risk assessment could carry out along the evaluation of the risk importance, the risk level and the risk acceptance. A large part of the limitation of choosing the risk assessment techniques impose restrictions on expense and time. If it is unnecessary high level risk assessment or Probabilistic Risk Assessment of buildings, in compliance with the Relative Ranking Method, Fire risk indexing and assessing is possible. As working-level technique, AHP method is useful with practical technique.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.58-63
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• 1993

Recently, a large amount of flammable or explosive materials have been handled or stored in chemical industries. H the equipments fail or the materials release in consequence of operation errors, fire and explosion could occur to them. Thus, risk assessment using quantification of risks is very important when design of processes and modifications of installed processes are performed. The purpose of this study is to develop the program for fire and explosion index in order to quantify the expected damage of fire and explosion incidents in chemical plants, to identify equipment that would be likely to contribute to the creation or escalation of an incident, to comunicate the potential fire and explosion risk to management and to account of damage cost.

• Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.1-13
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• 2023

As interest in urban safety has increased since COVID-19, various institutions have developed and used indicators that evaluate the safety city model. Yongsan-gu was ranked No. 1 in 2021 by Social Safety Index evaluation and was selected as the safest city in Korea. However, the Itaewon disaster in Yongsan-gu in 2022 caused many casualties. The study of indicators for evaluating cities' safety was necessary. This study aims to examine domestic and foreign safe city models and review the differences between each model and the indicators used to evaluate safe cities. As a result of collecting 11 safe city models and analyzing each evaluation index, safe city models can be classified into program-based safe city models, such as the World Health Organization's International safe community and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction's International Safe city. Considering the diversification of threats to safety, it is reasonable to comprehensively consider digital security, health safety, infrastructure safety, personal safety, environmental safety, traffic safety, fire safety, crime safety, life safety, suicide, and infectious diseases when evaluating safe cities as evaluation parameters.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.105-113
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• 2019

This study investigates the toxicity characteristics of two Non-Class 1E Cables (For security reasons, we refer to company A and company B) used in nuclear power plants according to the accelerated deterioration period. In accordance with NES 713 test equipment and standards, tests were carried out on non-aged cables and the cables subjected to 20- and 40-year-accelerated-deterioration; each of the cables was further classified into sheath and insulation. The test results showed that the toxicity indices of 20- and 40-year-accelerated-aged cables were higher than those for the non-aged cables, and 20-year-aged cables of both A and B companies showed the highest toxicity indices. This is attributed to the extensive emissions of carbon monoxide and halide gases such as hydrogen chloride and hydrogen bromide. Furthermore, to analyze the toxicity indices of sheath and insulation in detail, the US Department of Defense standard (MIL-DTL) was applied to determine whether the Toxicity index (T.I.) allowance was exceeded, and the results showed that the insulating materials emitted considerably more than the allowable limit.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.1-7
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• 2011

In this study, standards and test methods for building materials of domestic and foreign countries were compared and analyzed to propose evaluation methods for the fire-retardant performance of HANOK components (Traditional house). IBC and NFPA codes recently have been adopted in the US, and the properties such as critical heat flux, fire spread index and smoke density are being used as an evaluation reference. In Europe, the unified Euroclass has been adopted and the surface flammability, prototype fire test or cone calorimeter test are conducted for the performance test. Japan has the similar system as Korea where the class is classified into 3 grades. We tried to study a quantitative evaluation method of fire retardant performance for the HANOK components based on the analysis results of the several countries' standards and test methods for building materials.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.7-16
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• 2000

In the study, three criteria(toxicity, fire & explosion, environment) and damage prediction method for each case was set up, and all these criteria were applied to the subject substance that was selected as hazardous level by integrating all criteria through Algorithm. Particularly, the environment criterion is a comprehensive concept, environment index modeling by combining USCG(United State Coast Guard) & MSDS(Material Safety Data Sheet) environment criteria classifications and the environment part of MFPA's health hazardousnes(Nh). And for damage prediction method of each criterion were adopted and they were applied to hazardous chemical substances in use or stored by chemical substance related enterprises located in each region that made possible to set up total hazard level of used substances(inflammability, poisonousness and counteraction on a unit substance, and hazard level & display modeling on environment) & damage prediction in case of accident & solidity setup(CPQRA: Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Assessment, IAEA: International Atomic Energy Agency, VZ eq: Vulnerable Zone) risk counter. Thus it is deemed that it can be applied to toxic substance leakage that can happen during any chemical processing & storage, application as a tool for prior safety evaluation through potential dangerousness computation of fire & explosion.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.127-134
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• 2012

This study analyzed the present status of services by fire-suppression mobilization time of fire station where is located in Jinju city, by using network analysis of GIS targeting fire station(five 119 safety centers, one 119 division) in Jinju city area. As a result, it was indicated to be 15.9% in the ratio with less than 5 minutes of mobilization time, 34.7% in the ratio with less than 8 minutes, 94% in the ratio with less than 20 minutes out of the whole fire service area in Jinju city. Even districts with more than 20 minutes were analyzed to reach 6%. Especially, to solve vulnerability to approach the fire service in uptown districts(Jinseong, Jisu, Sabong, Ilbanseong, the whole area of Ibanseong), the 119 division is installed more to be operated. However, accessibility is still remaining in low level. Also, in case of 119 safety center of Cheonjeon, the national industrial complex and the general industrial complex are being formed on a large scale. However, analyzing the fire service level in the corresponding area, the districts with more than 8 minutes and less than 20 minutes were existing broadly. In consequence of analyzing the fire service area in Jinju city with the fire-suppression mobilization time as the above, the fire service level is failing to escape largely from the status prior to the urban-rural consolidation compared to what the jurisdictional area was largely expanded by which the administrative districts were integrated by the urban-rural consolidation in locally small-and medium-sized city. Thus, there is a need of a measure for improving this.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.138-143
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• 2011

Growing attention of a society to protecting weak people leads an increase of various social welfare facilities. Therefore, safety of the occupants at emergency situations, such as fire, must be considered as an important factor during the design and operation of those facilities. In this paper an exploratory study is carried out on a method quantitatively assessing the human evacuation safety of social welfare facilities. A evacuation simulation method, being routinely used in the evacuation analysis of passenger ships deriving 'Evacuability' as a quantity of safety, is applied to assess the human safety of a facility for single-moms. Based on the simulation results, the main factors that must be considered while carrying out the evacuation simulation for the human safety assessment of the facility are investigated.

• 월간 기계설비
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• s.121
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• pp.84-91
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• 2000

산업재해예방은 사고로 인해 발생되는 인적손실과 물적손실을 방지할 뿐만 아니라 기계$\cdot$설비의 운전중지에 따른 감소를 방지하게 한다. 산업재해로 인한 경제손실액은 1998년도 한해만 7조2천5백억원으로 100억짜리 공장을 725개를 세울 수 있는 엄청난 금액이고 국민 총생산액의 1.9$\%$에 해당한다. 특히 건설업의 재해율은 1995년도에는 전국 평균 재해율을 상회하였으나, 매년 꾸준히 감소 추세를 보여 1999년도에는 0.6$\%$로 전체 0.71$\%$보다 낮게 나타났다. 1999년 건설업의 총 재해지수는 1만955명으로 발생형태별로 분류한 결과 주요 재해발생요인은 추락 3천145명(28.7$\%$), 전도 1천832명(16.7$\%$), 협착 1천461명(13.3$\%$), 낙하$\cdot$비례 1천305명(11.9$\%$), 충돌 866명(7.90$\%$), 감전 281명(2.56$\%$, 화재$\cdot$폭발 152명(1.39$\%$), 기타 1천913명(17.5$\%$)으로 나타났다. 본고는 설비공사와 관련 그동안 발생된 중대재해사례를 게재한 것이다.

• 월간 기계설비
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• s.123
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• pp.82-87
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• 2000

산업재해예방은 사고로 인해 발생되는 인적손실과 물적손실을 방지할 뿐만 아니라 기계$\cdot$설비의 운전중지에 따른 감소를 방지하게 한다. 산업재해로 인한 경제손실액은 1998년도 한해만 7조2천5백억원으로 100억짜리 공장을 725개를 세울 수 있는 엄청난 금액이고 국민 총생산액의 1.9$\%$에 해당한다. 특히 건설업의 재해율은 1995년도에는 전국 평균 재해율을 상회하였으나, 매년 꾸준히 감소 추세를 보여 1999년도에는 0.6$\%$로 전체 0.71$\%$보다 낮게 나타났다. 1999년 건설업의 총 재해지수는 1만955명으로 발생형태별로 분류한 결과 주요 재해발생요인은 추락 3천145명(28.7$\%$), 전도 1천832명(16.7$\%$), 협착 1천461명(13.3$\%$), 낙하$\cdot$비례 1천305명(11.9$\%$), 충돌 866명(7.90$\%$), 감전 281명(2.56$\%$, 화재$\cdot$폭발 152명(1.39$\%$), 기타 1천913명(17.5$\%$)으로 나타났다. 본고는 지난 8월호부터 연재되었으며, 설비공사와 관련 그동안 발생된 중대재해사례를 게재한 것이다.