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A Study on Marine Application of Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment (WAVE) Communication Technology (차량용 무선통신기술(WAVE)의 해상적용에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Won-Sik;Jeon, Soon-Bae;Kim, Young-Du
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.445-450
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    • 2018
  • AIS is the most important navigation equipment for the identification of other ships, etc. However, the AIS overload problem has been raised recently due to an increase in AIS equipped vessels. The government is planning to introduce the wireless LTE network at 100 km offshore as part of the SMART-Navigation project. Continuous development and dissemination of the services available through such platforms will be necessary to achieve major goals such as marine accident prevention and environmental protection. In this study, we applied a WAVE communication system, which could be the basis for the development of such services. As a result, reliable data transmission was confirmed for a range of communication of approx. 5 miles, although the service was limited to 1 km in road traffic. Therefore, it is expected that WAVE communication technology will be used to prevent marine accidents through such efforts as collision avoidance and the transfer of marine safety information between ships.

An Empirical Analysis on Labor Unions and Occupational Safety and Health Committees' Activity, and Their Relation to the Changes in Occupational Injury and Illness Rate

  • Yi, Kwan-Hyung;Cho, Hm-Hak;Kim, Ji-Yun
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.321-327
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    • 2011
  • Objectives: To find out from an analysis of empirical data the levels of influence, which a labor union (LU) and Occupational Safety and Health Committee (OSHC) have in reducing the occupational injury and illness rate (OIIR) through their accident prevention activities in manufacturing industries with five or more employees. Methods: The empirical data used in this study are the Occupational Safety and Health Tendency survey data, Occupational Accident Compensation data and labor productivity and sales data for the years 2003 to 2007. By matching these three sources of data, a final data set (n = 280) was developed and analyzed using SPSS version 18 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Results: It was found that a workplace with a LU has a lower OIIR than one without a LU. In manufacturing industries with five or more employees in 2007, the OIIR of the workplaces without a LU was 0.87%, while that of workplaces with a LU was much lower at 0.45%. In addition, workplaces with an established OSHC had a lower OIIR than those without an OSHC. Conclusion: It was found that the OIIR of workplaces with a LU is lower than those without a LU. Moreover, those with the OSHC usually had a lower OIIR than those without. The workplace OIIR may have an impact on management performance because the rate is negatively correlated with labor productivity and sales. In the long run, the OIIR of workplaces will be reduced when workers and employers join forces and recognize that the safety and health activities of the workplace are necessary, not only for securing the health rights of the workers, but also for raising labor productivity.

International Cases and Their Implications on School Safety in Korea (학교안전의 국제적 프로그램 사례와 국내적 함의)

  • Kim, Eun-Joo
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.12 no.9
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    • pp.261-271
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    • 2021
  • Recent accidents in school environment involving violence, and bullying indicate that school safety is exposed to a serious threat to community well-being. Such incidents come as big problem because various policies and programs have widely long been implemented in order to protect the school environment. Thus, it is critical for the local community and goverment to develop measures for prevention. However, some of the incidents are misrepresented because school environment still remains as one of the safest settings. The current study discusses successful case studies of education, policies and projects regarding school violence and safety that are enforced in many other nations. One of the most practical and concrete means of pursuing an improved level of school safety is for the local community to be actively involved in the process. And one of the key factors for the success of international programs was that it was very much an integrative approach involving a joint effort with the local communities, accompanying a strong tie between the school and its surrounding context.

Dynamic Traffic Information Provision and Dismissal Strategy for Before and After Traffic Incident (교통사고 전후 동적 정보 제공 및 해제 전략)

  • Jeon, Gyo-Seok;Kim, Tae-Wan;Lee, Hyun-Mi;Jang, Jeong-Ah
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.867-878
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    • 2021
  • Recently, there has been active research on smart street lamps that can collect real-time traffic data and provide traffic information by attaching images and radars to road lighting facilities. Smart street light technology can detect, identify, and provide dense information compared to existing technologies. In order to effectively utilize the smart streetlight as a high-resolution information delivery medium, a branch-type operation strategy that is different from the existing centralized operation strategy is required. This study presents dynamic information delivery strategies, release strategies, and their criteria for various purposes in a spatial range, separated by the context before and after the occurrence of smart street lights-based accidents. Through this, it is expected that smart road lighting facilities can be used more effectively.

Infection Control in Parenteral Nutrition Preparation and Compounding (정맥영양의 조제와 감염관리)

  • Choe, Ji Hyeong;Baek, Jin Hee;Jo, Yun Hee;Cho, Yoon Sook
    • Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.31-37
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    • 2018
  • Recently, in Korea, the importance of preparation and use of injectable drugs has been emphasized due to successive fatal accidents caused by injection infections. Parenteral nutrition (PN) has also been identified as a cause of infection. Cases of infection due to PN have been reported not only in Korea, but also abroad, and contamination occurs mainly during the preparation of PN. Because sterile preparation and compounding of injections are very important for infection control and patient safety, this article reviews the major guidelines outlined thus far. The Korea Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in 2006 published guidelines and the KSHP (Korean Society of Health-System Pharmacists) recently issued guidelines for the aseptic preparation of injections. In addition, as US guidelines, the ASHP (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) guidelines and United States Pharmacopeia (USP) <797> are also reviewed. The recent guidelines published by the KSHP have significance in that they were adopted in accordance with the domestic reality, even though they conform to foreign guidelines, and are expected to be guidelines for hospital pharmacists performing aseptic preparation work. In addition, the Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare is considering appropriate guidelines for the safe management of medications, training staff for infection prevention and strengthening staff capacity. Furthermore, the gradual expansion of aseptic compounding facilities and human resources, as well as the provision of adequate medical costs are also considered. Based on the establishment and standardization of injectable drugs compounding guidelines for Korean hospitals, it is believed that if human resources and facilities are supported and medical charges are improved, it will be possible to expect the safer preparation and use of injections.

A classification of electrical component failures and their human error types in South Korean NPPs during last 10 years

  • Cho, Won Chul;Ahn, Tae Ho
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.3
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    • pp.709-718
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    • 2019
  • The international nuclear industry has undergone a lot of changes since the Fukushima, Chernobyl and TMI nuclear power plant accidents. However, there are still large and small component deficiencies at nuclear power plants in the world. There are many causes of electrical equipment defects. There are also factors that cause component failures due to human errors. This paper analyzed the root causes of failure and types of human error in 300 cases of electrical component failures. We analyzed the operating experience of electrical components by methods of root causes in K-HPES (Korean-version of Human Performance Enhancement System) and by methods of human error types in HuRAM+ (Human error-Related event root cause Analysis Method Plus). As a result of analysis, the most electrical component failures appeared as circuit breakers and emergency generators. The major causes of failure showed deterioration and contact failure of electrical components by human error of operations management. The causes of direct failure were due to aged components. Types of human error affecting the causes of electrical equipment failure are as follows. The human error type group I showed that errors of commission (EOC) were 97%, the human error type group II showed that slip/lapse errors were 74%, and the human error type group III showed that latent errors were 95%. This paper is meaningful in that we have approached the causes of electrical equipment failures from a comprehensive human error perspective and found a countermeasure against the root cause. This study will help human performance enhancement in nuclear power plants. However, this paper has done a lot of research on improving human performance in the maintenance field rather than in the design and construction stages. In the future, continuous research on types of human error and prevention measures in the design and construction sector will be required.

Improved System for Establishing a Culture to Wear Personal Protective Gear (개인보호구 착용문화 정착을 위한 제도개선)

  • Jeung, Sueng Hyo;Lee, Yong-Soo;Kim, ChangEun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Construction Safety
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.16-20
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    • 2019
  • About 50% of disasters occurring at domestic construction sites are caused by the accidents not wearing personal protective equipment. Under the current statutes, employers are required to provide personal protective equipment and workers are required to wear personal protective equipment. However, there is insufficient compliance with wearing personal protective equipment on site. This study is about the measure of improving the system to the way of purchasing, wearing and managing personal protective equipment by individual workers, and refunding the cost of personal protective equipment to workers. It is expected that this thesis will improve the system of personal protective equipment effectively, and contribute to the prevention of disasters by settling the culture of wearing personal protective equipment.

A Study on the Safety Monitoring of Bridge Facilities based on Smart Sensors (스마트 센서 기반의 교량 시설물 안전 모니터링 기법 연구)

  • YEON, Sang-Ho;KIM, Joon-Soo;YEON, Chun-Hum
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.97-106
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    • 2019
  • Today, many smart sensor's measurement instruments are used to check the safety situation of various medium and large bridge structures that should be maintained in the construction facilities, but most of them use the method of measuring and confirming the displacement behavior of the bridge at regular intervals. In order to continuously check the safety situation, various measuring instruments are used, but most of them are not able to measure and measure the displacement and behavior of main construction structures at regular intervals. In this study, GNSS and environment smart sensors and drone's image data are transmitted to wireless network so that risk of many bridge's structures can be detected beforehand. As a result, by diagnosing the fine displacement of the bridge in real time and its condition, reinforcement, repair and disaster prevention measures for the structural parts of the bridges, which are expected to be dangerous, and various disasters and accidents can be prevented, and disaster can be prevented could suggest a new alternative.

A Study on the Improvement of Technical Guidance Fee for Preventing Accidents at Small-Medium Construction Sites (중·소규모 건설현장 재해예방 기술지도 대가 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Lim, Se-Jong;Shin, Seung-Hyeon;Won, Jeong-Hun;Yoon, Young-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.469-481
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    • 2021
  • Under Korean law, small-to-medium-sized construction projects with budgets of more than 100 million won and less than 12 billion won must receive technical guidance by a visiting technician belonging to a specialized institution. This study proposed a method for calculating the technical guidance fee to prevent the potential inadequacy of technical guidance when the responsibility providing the technical guidance fee is changed from a contractor to a client. The method simplified the construction works which should receive technical guidance into four sections according to the construction amount. For each section, the number of instances of technical guidance per day provided by the visiting technician and the minimum technical grade of the visiting technician were limited, and the guideline for estimating engineering services fees was applied to calculate the fee per instance of technical guidance. The results show that the proposed method can be applied to the establishment of a technical guidance fee guideline since it well reflects the current fee distribution and K2B analysis results.

A Study on Vulnerability Factors of The Smart Home Service ('스마트홈 서비스'의 보안취약요인에 관한 연구)

  • Jeon, Jeong Hoon
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.169-176
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    • 2020
  • Recently, the era in which various services using smart devices are used is sometimes referred to as the so-called "smart era". Among these, Smart Home Service' have not only brought about significant changes in the residential environment and culture, but are evolving very rapidly. and The 'Smart Home Service' provides more convenient services to users through communication between various electronic products in general homes, and has a bright future in the future. In particular,'Smart Home Service' provides various services combined based on IoT(Internet of Things) technology and wired/wireless communication in connection between various devices. However, such a "smart home service" inherits the security vulnerabilities of the underlying technologies such as the Internet of Things and wired and wireless communication technologies, and accidents that lead to the leakage of personal information and invasion of privacy continue to occur. So, it is necessary to prepare a countermeasure and prevention against the weak factors of the underlying technologies. Therefore, this paper is expected to be used as basic data for future application technology development and countermeasure technology by examining various security vulnerability factors of 'Smart Home Service'.