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Development on Full Drop Type Aluminium Form System (완전 드롭형 알폼 시스템 개발)

  • Lim, Nam-Gi
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2021.11a
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    • pp.14-15
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    • 2021
  • Even though the Al. form system, which was developed to replace the Euro-form, has been used as the slab lower formwork for almost all concrete structures based on the light weight and high conversion rate, the low-noise Drop method has been developed and used in order to overcome the limitations of the Al. Form system such as noise pollution and safety accidents caused by free fall during the demolding. However, as the low-noise drop method is still insufficient, Safety Full Drop Al. Form method is expected to be in the spotlight in the construction market based on its excellent advantages compared to the developed methods. In addition, we plan to conduct research to further contribute to securing the quality of the overall structure through continuous improvement and supplementation by introducing an automation system to the very construction method.

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A basic research on risk control measure for reducing the fishermen's occupational accident in offshore and coastal fishing vessel (연근해 어선원 재해 현황과 저감 대책 마련을 위한 기초 연구)

  • Kim, Wook-Sung;Cho, Young-Bok;Kim, Seok-Jae;Ryu, Kyong-Jin;Lee, Yoo-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.614-622
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    • 2014
  • The aim of this study is to research attributes of fishermen's occupational accidents for investigating the measure of risk control on situational condition in the Korean offshore and coastal fishing vessel. Using data of fishermen's occupational accidents are from National federation of fisheries cooperatives for 2013. The results were as belows; Occupational accident occurrence rate was 29.5‰, slips & trips and struck by object and contact with gear were shown severe occurrence pattern. Occupational accident occurrence rate of offshore fisheries was 130.2‰, coastal was 16.9‰, specially the risk rates were severely high in several type of danish seine, stow net and offshore trap. Death rate by accidents was 10.6‰ and by fall into the water in occurrence pattern was 5.5‰.

A Study on the Prevention of Train Accidents Caused by Heavy Rains (폭우로 인한 열차사고 예방에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Ki-Young;Seo, Gyu-Suk;Choi, Byung-Gie;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2009
  • The specific feature of trains as a means of transportation is that, on one side, at once they can carry big loads but, at the same time, if an accident occurs, it potentially leads to many human casualties or big material losses. Especially, train accidents caused by bad weather conditions result in many fatal losses of human lives and property. In Korea many railways run either in mountainous areas or along rivers thus making them especially susceptible to natural hazards. The types of damages inflicted by heavy rains resulting from rapidly changing meteorological conditions are diverse; and not only their scope is big but also they repeat regularly. Consequently, this study analyses the reasons why such effects of heavy rains on the railway conditions, damage to the railways caused by heavy rains or cases of stone fall as well as other types of accidents are not avoided. Study also, on the basis of laws related to movement in poor weather conditions and specifics of train braking, identifies systematic and technical problems and suggests and emphasizes new complex measures on their prevention.

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A Study on the Prevention of Train Accidents Caused by Heavy Rains (폭우로 인한 열차사고 예방에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Ki-Young;Seo, Gyu-Suk;Choi, Byung-Gie;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2009
  • The specific feature of trains as a means of transportation is that, on one side, at once they can carry big loads but, at the same time, if an accident occurs, it potentially leads to many human casualties or big material losses. Especially, train accidents caused by bad weather conditions result in many fatal losses of human lives and property. In Korea many railways run either in mountainous areas or along rivers thus making them especially susceptible to natural hazards. The types of damages inflicted by heavy rains resulting from rapidly changing meteorological conditions are diverse; and not only their scope is big but also they repeat regularly. Consequently, this study analyses the reasons why such effects of heavy rains on the railway conditions, damage to the railways caused by heavy rains or cases of stone fall as well as other types of accidents are not avoided. Study also, on the basis of laws related to movement in poor weather conditions and specifics of train braking, identifies systematic and technical problems and suggests and emphasizes new complex measures on their prevention.

Child Injury and Attitude, Knowledge, and Practice on Safety of Mothers With Infants and Toddlers (영유아 사고실태와 영유아 어머니의 안전관련 태도, 지식 및 실천)

  • Bang Kyung Sook
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.30-40
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    • 2005
  • Objectives: To describe the rate of injuries among infants and toddlers. and to investigate the attitude. knowledge. and practice on safety of their mothers. Methods: The total sample consisted of 308 mothers with infants or toddlers from two public health centers in two cities in Kyunggi Province. A questionnaire was used to collect data. which was analyzed with SPSS 11.5 Win program. Results: Thirty-eight percent of the subjects had experienced home accidents. Fall. burn. and laceration were the most frequently occurred home injuries. Most of the mothers were anxious for child accidents, and $59.4\%$ of mothers thought of safety as a primary concern. The mean score of knowledge on safety was 7.63. and the mean score of practice on safety was 34.76. Safety knowledge was significantly higher in mothers with higher education. higher income. and experience of having information on safety. but safety practice was not different depending on these factors. There was a negative correlation between safety practice and child rearing burden. Conclusions: The rate of injuries among infants and toddlers was still high compared to other developed countries. This study provided basic data about the accidents of infants and toddlers. and the level of safety knowledge and safety practice of their mothers. The related factors found in this study should be considered when providing anticipatory guidance or developing injury prevention programs for mothers.

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A Clinical Study of Accidental Pediatric Patients (사고 환아에 대한 임상적 고찰)

  • Kim Shin Jeong;Lee Jung Eun
    • Child Health Nursing Research
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.131-141
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study was to propose for protection of childhood injury or accident and to provide safety measures. Data was collected from 2,052 who visited emergency room of E University Hospital during 1 year period from January to December, 1996. The results were as follows : 1. The most common type of accident was fall down (53.4%). 2. Male patients outnumbered female by the ratio of 1.68 : 1. 3. The highest incidence rate of accidents were observed in children between 1-3 years age group(34.9%). 4. Accidents were seasonally more frequent in spring(28.2%). 5. Accidents mainly took place at home (63%). 6. The time of accidental occurrence appeared to be predominantly high during a day 8 : 00 PM to 0 : 00 AM (35.l%). 7. The most frequent involved part of body was head and face (74%). 8. Most patients discharged from the hospital in good condition(85.4%). Through clinical analysis, in the relation to accident, there were statistically significant difference in sex, age, season, injury place(all p=0.000).

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The Levels of Impacts of Events, Depression and Anxiety among Injured Workers (산업재해 근로자의 사건충격, 불안 및 우울)

  • Chang, Chong-Mi;Choi, Nam-Hee;Kang, Hyun-Sook;Park, Sun-Hee
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.234-242
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    • 2009
  • Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of accidental events, depression, and anxiety among workers with industrial accidents in South Korea. Methods: The participants were 510 workers with industrial accidents. Data were collected by personal interviews with structured questionnaires for three months from August to October in 2005. For analyses, frequencies and means were utilized. Results: The participants' average age was 44.9 years, and about 91%of them were male. Also, they had a greater risk of poverty after being injured. The most frequent cause of accidents was fall (32.2%), and the most frequent injured body area was extremities (73.9%). For around a half of the participants, the treatment period was 12 months or shorter. The participants were at great risk of experiencing a negative impact due to events, depression, and anxiety. Conclusion: It is necessary to develop: (a) strategies for injured workers to be financially stable during recuperation; and (b) supporting systems for them not to suffer and exacerbate mental health problems after being injured.

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Medical Dispute and the Proper Guideline for Medical Practice in Korean Medicine (한방 의료분쟁과 한의사의 적절한 진료 가이드라인에 대한 고찰)

  • Lee, Hai-Woong;Kim, Hoon
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.1749-1762
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    • 2006
  • Medical disputes are increasing year by year in korean medical institutions as the frequency of patient's visiting korean medical institutions goes high and the reliability relations between korean medical doctors and patients are getting worse than the past. Frequently occurring accidents in korean medical acts fall into some categories such as medical treatment of acupuncture${\cdot}$moxibustion${\cdot}$cupping, korean herbal medication, korean medical physical therapy, wrong diagnosis. Frequently occurring accidents include these cases. Infection due to improper treatment process of acupunctrue or wet-cupping ; skin-burns caused by moxibustion, infrared therapy or haet therapy ;toxic hepatitis or kidney dysfunction induced by herbal medication ; progression of disease or missing of opportunity of timely transfer because of wrong diagnosis. It will prevent medical accidents to a great extent for korean medical doctors to have scientific diagnostic techniques and lab. test results at hand in korean medical institutions.

Evaluating Staircase Safety Using BIM-based Virtual Simulation: Focusing on the Elderly in the Republic of Korea

  • Yang, Hyuncheul;Jeong, Kwangbok;Kim, Sohyun;Lee, Jaewook
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.1146-1153
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    • 2022
  • As the population is aging, accidents involving elderly people are also increasing (2014:11,667 persons; 2018: 11,797 persons). In the case of the elderly population, falling accidents are the primary direct or indirect causes of death; in particular, they face an elevated risk of staircase falls. This study proposes a method of evaluating the safety of staircases using Building Information Modeling (BIM)-based virtual simulation. By making a virtual user with the behavioral characteristics of the elderly respond to a staircase in a BIM model, its safety performance can be evaluated. The evaluation criteria were derived from regulations, elements, and characteristics relevant to the safety of staircases. To validate the proposed method, safety evaluation tests were simulated on actual staircases. The evaluation result of the test simulation shows the safety scores of 1.97 points for the elderly user and 2.95 points for the average male adult user against a required safety score of a minimum of 2 points. That is, safety is relative to users as the safety of the same staircase can be different depending upon the different behavioral characteristics of users. The study suggests that the risk of staircase-related fall accidents to the elderly can be reduced by improving staircase designs through the proposed method.

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A Study on Analysis of Causes for Fatal Accidents (사망재해의 원인분석에 관한 연구)

  • 백종배;민경일;이영섭
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.56-62
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    • 1990
  • This study is conducted to analyze exact causes of occupational fatalities and results are as follows : 1) The number of fatalities in establislment which employed less than 50 workers is 605(40.1% ). Age of sixties and seventies is occupied by 10 percent with there being old-aged trend. Fatal workers who were employed less than 3 months are 39.5 percent and fatal workers who were employed more than 10 years are 11.9 percent. Safety training is necessary for newly recruited and long employed workers. 2) Accident type is, in sequence, fall from elevation, traffic accident, disease, contact with electric current, and hazardous condition is, in order, inadequate guard, hazardous method or procedure, public hazard, and agency of accident is, in sequence, temporary structure/building/structure, powered transport vehicle, passenger vehicle, hoisting or lifting apparatus, and unsafe act is, in order, driving error, failure to secure or warn. 3) The results of cross-tabulation for hazardous condition and accident type is, in sequence, traffic accident by public hazard, fall from elevation by hazardous method or procedure, fall from elevation as well as contact with elctric current by inadequate guard. The result of cross-tabulation for agency of accident and accident type is, in order, fall from elevation by temporary structure/building/structure, traffic accident of passenger vehicle and powered transport vehicle, contact with electric apparatus. The result of cross-tabulation for agency of accident and hazardous condition is, in sequence, public hazard of passenger vehicle, hazardous method or procedure of temporary structure/building/structure, publit hazard of powered transport vehicle, inadequate guard of temporary structure/building/structure. The result of cross-tabulation for unsafe act and accident type is, in sequence, traffic accident by driving error, fall from elevation by inattention to footing or surrounding, contact with electric current by secure or warn.

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