• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.68-78
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• 2010

본 연구의 목적은 소방공무원들이 현장 활동 중에 석면함유 비산먼지로 위협되고 있는 현상에 대한 심각성을 사례 및 설문을 통해 발생 원인을 찾아 현장 활동 중에 석면노출을 효과적으로 예방하는데 있다. 소방관들의 현장 활동과 석면분진의 위험성에 대한 상관관계를 설문조사를 하여 분석하고 석면으로 인해 발생하는 석면폐암, 악성중피종과 같은 질병으로부터 소방공무원을 보호하고, 불합리한 여건들을 변화시킴으로써 조직운영의 최적화와 안전하고 쾌적한 근무여건을 통하여 소방공무원들이 현장 활동에서 치명적인 위해요소를 사전에 제거 하거하고자 한다. 또한 석면노출 기준에 따른 보호 장비 착용으로 철저한 소방 활동을 강화함은 물론, 소방 활동상 유해성인자의 심각성을 인식하고, 질환 피해보상에 대한 법적 제도를 마련하여, 아직까지 인정되고 있지 않은 질병에 대한 공무상 재해인정을 통한 제도적 미비점을 보완하여, 소방공무원의 사기진작 및 근무여건개선으로 대 국민 서비스 향상 등을 기대하고자 한다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.261-262
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• 2022

Globally, it is estimated that the number of people living outside of their country of origin reached 281 million in 2020. The primary drive of those migrants when migrating voluntarily is work to increase their income and provide for their families left behind in their home countries. Those who migrate immediately seek means of income to sustain themselves through a perilous process as currently evidenced in the war in Ukraine and not too long ago in Syria and Venezuela. Unfortunately, migrant workers are globally known to predominantly be working in "4-D jobs"- dirty, dangerous, and difficult and discriminatory; the fourth D was recently added to acknowledge the discriminatory aspect and other social determinants of health migrant workers face in their host country while exposed to precarious work. Consequently, migrant workers are at considerable risk of work-related illnesses and injury but their health needs are critically overlooked in research and policy. Recognizing the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights "Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment", we cannot consider any human life - thus, the life of migrant workers - as dispensable through a structural discriminatory process that undervalues their occupational safety and health, livelihood and the contribution these workers bring to their host countries. This was seen during the preparation for the upcoming world cup in Qatar where migrant workers were exposed to a multiplicity of serious hazards including deadly heat hazards.