• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제57권3호
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• pp.351-357
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• 2019

2018년 울산에서 Flexible hose의 파단으로 발생한 염소 누출사고를 분석하여 국내 설계 및 관리 기준을 제시하기 위한 연구를 수행하였다. 누출 사고가 발생한데는 다양한 원인이 있지만, 본 논문에서는 직접적 원인인 Flexible hose의 파단을 분석하는데 초점을 맞추었다. 분석 결과, 사고가 발생한 사업장에서 염소 이송에 사용하는 Flexible hose 는 재질 및 사용 두께 측면에서 부적절 했고, 사용 전 압력 테스트도 운전압력 이하에서 하는 등 문제가 있었다. 설문조사를 통하여 염소를 취급하는 울산지역의 다섯 곳의 사업장을 확인한 결과, 한 곳을 제외하고 염소 이송에 부적절한 Flexible hose를 사용하고 있었다. 현재 염소 이송용 Flexible hose의 설계에 대한 국내 기준이 없어 사용하는 Flexible hose의 적정성을 검토하는데 어려움이 있다. 본 연구를 통하여 국내에 적용할 수 있는 염소 이송용 Flexible hose의 설계 기준을 제시하였다. 본 논문에서 제시한 기준을 설계 및 검토에 적용한다면 염소 이송 시 발생할 수 있는 Flexible hose 파단의 위험성을 경감시키는데 기여할 것이다.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.845-853
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• 2023

The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced a roadmap for reducing serious accidents to create a "safe and healthy workplace, happy Korea" and ordered a risk assessment for all work processes in all workplaces on November 30, 2022. Accordingly, even workplaces that handle new chemicals must conduct risk assessment when introducing new chemicals, but the risk assessment techniques currently proposed by the government focus on preventing conventional accidents such as falls, getting caught, and bumping. Currently, there is a Chemical Hazard Risk Management (CHARM) technique that is most commonly used for chemical risk assessment, but in small and medium-sized businesses that lack professional manpower related to chemical substances, there are many technical terms in the technique and it is difficult to interpret, so its utilization is very low. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to present a method that can make risk assessment easier and simpler before handling new chemicals so that it can be used well in small and medium-sized businesses that lack professional manpower related to chemical substances. Through actual cases, the method of using CHARM was confirmed step by step, and based on this, risk reduction establishment and execution methods were derived. Based on the results of this study, it is expected that it will be used as the best tool for preventing accidents such as acute poisoning when handling chemicals in small and medium-sized workplaces that lack professional manpower related to chemical substances and make every effort to protect workers' health.

• 화약ㆍ발파
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.32-41
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• 1994

The specific characters in recent Chemical processing and industrial plants are the handling of severe limit conditions such as high pressure, high and low temperature, high speed production and transportation plant automation and appearance of many new hazardous materials in numbers and quantity. The possibilities of these characters causing the accident and environmental pollution in industrial activities become very high. This paper describes the concrete policy In prevent the explosion accident out of the many accidents which are the safety of the safety engineering.

• 기술사
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.19-22
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• 2005

Since 1996, like other countries the PSM(Process Safety Management) System has been applied into chemical plant in Korea in accordance with the Occupational Safety & Health Law section 49 paragraph 2. This report is to point out the status and the area of concern, further suggest alternative measures along with the wide and in-depth idea of improvement and recommendation to prevent from industrial accident.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.40-46
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• 2013

In the chemical process industries, accidents have a high potential and large effects on catastrophic results. Therefore the safety management for accident prevention plays a crucial role to guarantee the process safety. For these reasons, many systematic methods for safety management system have been widely employed in the fields of chemical processes. PSM (Process safety management) is one of most representative methods. The audit system, which is one of PSM system components, evaluates the performance of PMS system. However, most existing safety audit systems are not systematic and these are performed based on knowledges and experiences of various specialist. Moreover, the safety audit is only performed based on each independent technical component. So, the results of safety audit are not a quantitative index but only a series of commentaries. Finally, it is very difficult to obtain the comparison with other plants or industries. In this study, the novel systematic method and index-based accident database of auditing safety management systems for quantitative assessment are proposed. First, the elements of safety audit replace technical methods to categories of accident database. The F-N curve of each category for accident database is employed to derive the index for quantitative assessment. The Accidental Factor Risk Index (AFRI) is suggested for evaluating the effect of each element in accident database and safety audit system. The safety audit can be modified according to the proposed index.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.725-733
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• 2024

본 연구는 환경부 산하 화학물질안전원에서 제공하는 2014년 1월부터 2024년 1월까지의 화학물질 사고 현황 및 사례 데이터 865건을 활용하여 인공지능 기반 사고 원인 예측 모델을 개발하는 것을 목표로 한다. 본 연구에서는 6개의 인공지능 모델을 사용해 데이터를 학습시키고, 평가지표로는 정확도(Accuracy), 정밀도(Precision), 재현율(Recall), F1 스코어(F1 Score)를 비교 분석하였다. 2020년부터 2024년까지의 화학물질 사고 사례 데이터 356건을 바탕으로, 2021년부터 2022년까지 화학물질안전원에서 제시한 화학사고 원인 조사 및 유사 사고 재발 방지 방안을 추가로 학습 데이터셋에 적용했다. 다층 퍼셉트론(Multi-Layer Perceptron) 모델의 경우 정확도 0.6590, 정밀도 0.6821로 분석되었고, 로지스틱 회귀(Logistic Regression) 모델은 정확도는 0.6647에서 0.7778로, 정밀도는 0.6790에서 0.7992로 향상되어 로지스틱 회귀 모델이 화학사고 원인 예측에 가장 효과적임을 확인하였다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2018

화학물질을 취급하는 중 소업체의 경우 누출 사고 시 자동화 시스템이 갖춰진 안전장치에 의한 방재체계가 아닌 근로자에 의한 긴급 방재가 주로 이루어져 인명 환경피해 등의 발생 가능성이 높다. 본 연구는 이러한 한계점을 개선하기 위해 화학물질 취급공정 중 누출 사고 발생 빈도에 따라 누출 예상지점에 선별적으로 쉽게 탈 부착이 가능한 긴급 확산방재시스템에 대해 연구하였다. 이를 통해 사고대응이 상대적으로 취약한 중소기업의 화학사고를 시스템적으로 예방하여 화학물질 누출사고에 의한 인명, 환경피해를 방지할 수 있다.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.265-272
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• 2023

Objectives: Since the material safety data sheets(MSDS) submission and non-disclosure review system was introduced in January 2021, the implementation status of MSDS for chemical manufacturing and importing workplaces being supervised for the first time. Methods: A supervisory team consisting of two labor inspectors and one from the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency directly visited the selected workplaces to check compliance with the MSDS system as a whole. Results: As a result of supervising 214 chemical substance manufacturing/importing workplaces, a total of 241 violations of the law were found in 121 workplaces, or 57% of them. In response, the Ministry of Employment and Labor took legal action on 8 cases in 6 locations, imposed a fines totaling of 249.69 million won on 120 chemical handling workplaces, and took action to correct the violations immediately. Conclusions: Major violations were in the order of non-request for warning signs, non-submission of MSDS, non-execution of MSDS training, and non-posting of MSDS. This shows the reality that employers who handle chemical substances are sufficiently communicating chemical information to workers. In the future, the government will actively implement preparation and submission support and system guidance for the implementation of the MSDS system, while making efforts to ensure that the MSDS system works well in the field through thorough on-site supervision in the future.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.365-374
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• 2023

Objectives: After the MSDS submission and non-disclosure review system was introduced in January 2021, there were compliance difficulties in the field. Accordingly, for the establishment of the MSDS system, the government intends to investigate what has been improved and what urgently needs to be improved in the future, and to suggest detailed improvement plans. Methods: The background and problems of urgent difficulties in the field handling chemicals were investigated, and realistic improvement plans were derived through review of other laws related to the MSDS system and overseas cases. Results: In order to guarantee the safety of the public while at the same time promoting corporate R&D, it is necessary to alleviate the non-disclosure screening system for chemical substances for R&D, and to improve the irrationality of failing to implement the non-disclosure screening system due to information on unclassified substances being circulated. For this reason, it seems necessary to ease the requirement to submit all ingredients. In addition, it is necessary to strengthen punishment to raise awareness so that health problems do not occur due to the harmfulness and danger of hidden substances among workers who handle chemical substances and downstream users due to false descriptions in MSDS. Conclusions: All members of our society, including chemical manufacturers/importers and handling companies, academia, civil society, and the government, each subject of chemicals, should take an interest in the entire process from production to disposal of chemicals and work together to prevent harm to the public.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.42-49
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• 2019

This study statistically analyzed the laboratory accidents by investigating 806 laboratory accident survey reports which were officially submitted to government from 2013 to June 2017. After comparing domestic and foreign accident classification criteria, the laboratory accidents were classified using KCD7(Korean Standard Classification of Diseases) and OIICS(Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System) criteria. For the type and part of injury, KCD7 classification criteria was adopted. And, for the cause and occurrence type of accidents, OIICS was adopted to analyze the laboratory accidents. Most of injuries happened to the wrist and hand caused by sharp materials or chemical materials. The analysis of accident cause showed that accidents resulted in medical practice and accidents from handtools and chemical materials such as acid and alkali frequently occurred. The major occurrence types of laboratory accidents was body exposure to the chemical materials such as hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid. In addition, the accidents resulted in destroy of grasped object or falling object were frequently reported.