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A Study on the Safety Consciousness of Resident for the Environmental Factors in Apartments (공동주택 환경요인에 대한 거주자의 안전의식 조사 연구)

  • Park, Hyeon-Ku;Song, Hyuk;Go, Seong-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.20 no.4 s.72
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    • pp.106-113
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    • 2005
  • The housing is a human's basic space and the comfort and the safety are the most basic conditions. According to the flow of age for Well-Being since the 21th, the suppliers and the users of apartment are making best effort now for the embossment of green environmental quality of apartment, and outstretch their hands for marketing strategic purposes in a side of indoor and outdoor environment with distinctive elements. But these supply and use are on progress competitively with the simple distinction, it is thought that indoor and outdoor environment are must be promoted according to the survey of residents' consciousness. So this study aims to provide basic materials with residents for the promotion of comfortable dwelling environment by solving the basic safety problem and also aims to survey and analyze the residents' safety consciousness in object of physical and non-physical environmental quality of indoor and outdoor of apartment by analyzing indoor air quality pollution, the feeling of being victimize caused by air pollution and safety consciousness according to physical environment elements.

Nurses' Safety in the Hospital Environment: Evolutionary Concept Analysis

  • Park, Jin Hee;Lee, Eun Nam
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.406-414
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the concept of nurses' safety within the context of the hospital environment. Methods: We used Rodgers' method of evolutionary concept analysis and reviewed the relevant literature and noted and categorized characteristics that appeared frequently. Results: Nurses' safety was defined as safe status and safe activity among nurses. Three key defining attributes were identified as: (a) the minimization of actual or perceived risk, (b) personal duties and rights, and (c) ensuring within a safe working environment. Antecedents of nurses' safety were categorized into three dimensions: (a) individual, including vigilance and knowledge gained through education and training; (b) institutional, including safety provision in the organizations; and (c) national, including legislation. The outcomes of nurses' safety included the following: (a) continued competence in nurses' work; (b) enhancement of the quality of patient care; and (c) reductions in nurses' turnover rates. Conclusion: Nurses' safety ensures that qualified nurses are able to continue to perform their duties and provide good patient care. The findings of this study could contribute to future research examining nurses' safety. In addition, appropriate tools must be developed to measure the concept.

International Code of Safety Regulation for High Speed Craft - as compared with Fire Safety Regulation- (고속선의 새로운 국제안전규칙 -화재안전규칙에 대하여-)

  • 박영규;신영식
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.111-123
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    • 1997
  • The application of all regulations during building phase, plus constant vigilance in operation is essential to reducing the risk of fire aboard. A Safety by design approach is increasingly important. Fire safety regulation can solve problems which are hard to be solved by HSC code(International Code of Safety for High Speed Craft). Recently HSC code is applied for ship design development or guidance to the designer and demonstrates many advantages. In this pages, ship fire Safety are realistically modeled as ship design and the shipboard fires & muster stations are analyzed using HSC Code.

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A Study on the Variation of Hazardous Pollutant Emissions in Korea from 2006 to 2015 (2006~2015년 동안 국내 유해화학물질 배출량 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Im, JiYoung;Kim, HyunJi;Kim, MinSun;Lee, JiHo;Lee, SangMok;Lee, ChungSoo
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.15-23
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    • 2018
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the changes in hazardous pollutant emissions in Korea over the period of 2006-2015. Methods: A survey of hazardous pollutant emissions was conducted through the homepage for 2006-2015. The emission of hazardous chemicals and the health effect was examined using the Annual Report of Air Quality in Korea (2016) and National Health Statistics (2015) as references. Results: Hazardous pollutant emissions increased by 1.1 times over the past decade, and the circulation amount of chemicals was 15% compared to the previous year. $PM_{10}$ concentrations showed a tendency to decrease, but emissions have not declined. In addition, asthma and atopic dermatitis correlated with similar emissions, but allergic disease showed no connection. Conclusion: These results on hazardous pollutant emissions indicate that they have increased. However, no association between emissions and health effects was shown, so more research is needed.

A Systematic Review of Clinical Nurses' Patient Safety Culture for Improving Nursing Work Environment (간호사의 근로환경 개선을 위한 환자안전문화의 체계적 문헌 분석)

  • Kim, Jong Kyung
    • Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.67-79
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    • 2014
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to review the articles and theses on the patient safety culture of clinical nurses for identifying overall research trends regarding patient safety culture among hospital nurses, and to suggest strategies for improving nursing work environment related to patient safety culture. Methods: The subjects for this study were 17 articles selected according to inclusion criteria from five databases in Korea. Results: Seven articles were collected from nursing journals and ten from master's theses. The studies on the 17 articles were conducted at 66 hospitals from seven regions of Korea. The tools for patient safety culture were selected among the three tools from AHRQ and two Korean translation tools. The mean score of patient safety culture was 3.43. Conclusion: The findings from the article review indicate that, in order to improve nursing work environment for patient safety culture, the hospital and nursing manager should emphasize the education for patient safety, communication and open-minded reporting, and cooperation among the departments of hospital.

The survey study on working conditions and industrial safety & health of foreign workers (외국인근로자의 근로환경 및 안전보건실태 조사 연구)

  • Yi, Kwan-Hyung;Cho, Hm-Hak
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.53-63
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to grasp foreign worker's industrial safety and health state, which find out the improvement to secure the basic safety net for foreign workers. We have investigated 2,050 workers through direct interviews during the period from April 12, 2010 to May 31, 2010. And the result of analysis, foreign worker's daily average working time is 10.6 hours(40.8% workers in total work 10~12 hours), the extent of exposure to harmful and dangerous working environment is 'the position which cause pain in neck, waist, hands, shoulders, legs'(69.3%), 'repetitive hands and arms movement'(66.1%). It showed 'experience of accident damage or disease related work'(27.3%), 'never apply for industrial accident compensation' is revealed high at 73%. As a result of completing a safety health education for a year, it showed 'never educated'(40.2%), 'the institute that foreign workers have used for help and advice is the foreign worker's support center'(61.9%) Thus, hiring foreign workers in the company are small in site, the environment is too harmful and dangerous. In addition, no safety and health managers, legally blind spot located in the health and safety, because it is an urgent meet for these measures to improve.

A Study on Legislation for the Improvement of the Marine Environment and Safety Act for Deep Sea Drilling (심해 시추와 관련된 국내 해양 환경 및 안전 관련법 개선에 대한 입법론적 연구)

  • Hong, Sung-Hwa;Lee, Chang-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.73-82
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    • 2017
  • This study is focused on concepts and types of drilling investigating the scope of activity and problems the application of marine environment and safety acts related to deep-sea drilling for the development of the continental shelf in Korea. For the systemic development of subsea mineral resources, this study suggest a legislative proposal for the establishment of a separate law based on the UK Offshore Installation (Safety Case) regulation and improvement of the marine environment management act, maritime safety act and oil & mining safety regulation. Specially, this study emphasized on the necessity of establishing education, training and evaluation system according to the international certification training for the domestic work force based on accident cases related to overseas offshore plants.

A Study on Application to Quality Function Deployment for Environment Evaluation (환경 평가를 위한 QFD 시스템 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Yang, Kwang-Mo;Choi, Seung-Hee;Park, Jae-Hyun;Song, Soo-Jung
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.276-280
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    • 2005
  • Industrial processes and operations can not be accomplished independently but are connected with each others through suppliers and customer, and these ideas are fundamental notions of Life Cycle Assessment(LCA). This paper will introduce Life Cycle Assessment(LCA) in environment which is rising, and would like to build environmental management system using approach of Quality Function Deployment(QFD) and Safety Function Deployment(SFD) belonging to the assessment method.

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Development of Dam Earthquake Monioring System and Application of Earthquake Records for Dam Safety Management against Earthquake (지진대비 댐안전관리를 위한 지진감시시스템 구축 및 계측기록 활용)

  • Ha, Ik-Soo;Lee, Jong-Wook;Cho, Sung-Eun;Oh, Byung-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.1389-1396
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    • 2008
  • The recent Sichuan earthquake(2008) in China and Iwate-Miyazaki earthquake(2008) in Japan give Korea peninsula warning that it is no more safety zone against damage by earthquake events. So, rapid and appropriate countermeasures for dam operation and management against earthquake are needed. In Korea earthquake design standard(MOCT, 1997) has been revised after Kobe earthquake. Installation of seismometer and monitoring of earthquake for special class dams is requlated in dam aseismic design standard(MOCT, 2001). Accelerometer installation project for existing dams has been carrying out by K-water to establish an earthquake network for dam safety. Real-time dam earthquake monitoring network has also been developed to detect an earthquake efficiently and to warn to dam administrators as soon as possible. In this study, dam real-time earthquake monitoring system developed by K-water was introduced and applicability of real earthquake record measured by this system to dam safety management was illustrated.

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Status of Illegal Hazardous Information for Chemical on Internet - Monitoring Cases of Chemical Cyber Surveillance - (인터넷 상 화학물질 불법 유해정보 현황 고찰 - 화학물질 사이버감시단 신고 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Hwang, Man Sik;Im, Ji Young;Jeon, Da Young;Song, Ki Bong;Lee, Sang Mok;Ryu, Ji Sung;Lee, Ji Ho
    • Korean Journal of Hazardous Materials
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.13-22
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    • 2018
  • Recently, social crimes using chemicals at home and abroad are increasing. These chemicals are readily available in the internet. Therefore, the NICS(national institute of chemical safety) runs a 'Chemical Cyber Surveillance' to help the public take control of the internet and create a healthy cyberspace through voluntary participation of the public. The study analyzed more than 1,000 sites suspected illegal hazardous information or blocked among cyber surveillance 3,500 case reports in the past yeas. And, the number of illegal hazardous information reported in the past three years is analyzed by type and substance. They want to examine the characteristics of hazardous chemical information on the internet and use it as a basic data to establish illegal information management measures that spread over cyberspace.