• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.158-160
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• 2014

Investigation and analysis of accidents are critical elements of safety management. The over-riding purpose of an organization in carrying out an accident investigation is to prevent similar accidents, as well as seek a general improvement in the management of health and safety. Hundreds of workers have suffered injuries while installing, maintaining, or servicing machinery and equipment due to sudden re-energization of power lines. This study presents and analyzes two electrical accidents (1 fatal injury and 1 serious injury) that occurred because the power supply was reconnected inadvertently or by mistake.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.14-19
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• 2011

Conveyors cause a high serious and fatal injuries in the industry. Every year people are hurt or killed as a result of accidents on conveyors. Most accidents occur during operation and maintenance when employees are working on moving, unguarded conveyors or when the conveyors starts unexpectedly. In 2008 there were 486 reported injures ranging from fatalities to injures. Of these 486 reported accidents, 8 were fatalities, 66.9%(325) of reported accidents occurred in manufacturing company and 43.8%(213) occurred at the belt conveyors. The objective of this study was to invent the remote emergency stop device because industrial accidents mainly occur at blind spots where usually do not have any safety guard or device rather than the normal working places. In principle, this new device will use with the existing safety system. Then, it will be powerful safety system for preventing injuries related with conveyors.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.143-154
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• 2014

PURPOSES : This study drew factors affecting motorcycle accidents in Seoul by severity using an ordered probit model and aimed to analyze and verify the drawn influence factors. METHODS : As the severity of the accidents could be classified into three types (fatal injury, serious injury and minor injury), this study drew the factors affecting accidents by a comparative analysis employing an ordered probit model, removed the variables that would not secure significance sequentially to construct a model with high explanatory power regarding the factors affecting the severity of motorcycle accidents, and calculated the marginal effect of each factor to understand the degree of each factor's impact on the severity. First, Model 1 put in all variables; Model 2 was constructed by removing the variables of the road surface conditions that could not meet the level of significance (p=0.608); Model 3 was constructed by removing gender variable (p=0.423); and Model 4 was constructed finally by removing age variable (p=0.320). RESULTS : As a result of an analysis, statistically significant variables were time of occurrence, type of accident, road alignment and motorcycle displacement, and it turned out that the impacts on the severity were in the following order: a road alignment of left downhill, the type of motorcycle-to-vehicle accidents and a road alignment of a flatland on the left. The significance of the models was tested using the likelihood ratio, the level of significance and suitability statistics about them, and as a result of the test, the significance level and suitability of the constructed models were all excellent. In addition, the model accuracy indicating the accuracy of a predicted value compared to that of the value actually observed was 70.3% for minor injury; 70.1% for serious injury; and 68.6% for fatal injury, and the overall accuracy was 70.2%, which was very high. CONCLUSIONS : As a result of an analysis of motorcycle accidents in Seoul through the ordered probit model and the marginal effect, it turned out that their severity increased in nighttime accidents as compared to daytime ones and gradually increased in the order of motorcycle-to-vehicle accidents, motorcycle-to-person ones and the ones involving motorcycle only. As a result of an analysis, the severity of accidents in road alignments of left downhill, left flatland and straight downhill increased as compared to those in a road alignment of straight flatland and that the severity of accidents of motorcycles with a displacement larger than 50cc was higher than that of those with a displacement smaller than 50cc.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.111-118
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• 2009

As the construction project gets bigger in scale, the actual construction itself is becoming more complex. The construction accidents occupy 26.18 percent of total death disaster according to the accidents report in 2007. It is the highest figure among the entire industry, and it shows how serious the construction accident is. In order to reduce accidents occurred in the construction industry, we should find the accident characteristics of construction workers by age. In this study, we investigated 589 cases of fatal accidents, and classified them by trades, type of works, the things that caused the accident, how they occurred, and size. We then identified accident characteristics for each group by analysing them in accordance with workers age. The result of analysis showed that in carpenter and common laborer, the number of death accidents increased as the workers age increased. Another characteristics were that the number of death accidents increased as the age increased in finishing work and reinforced concrete construction and in a smaller-scale businesses, respectively. Common labor was the trade with the highest number of death accidents and the laborers of 50 age or higher in age in finishing working type were the most vulnerable to death accidents.

• 수면정신생리
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.68-75
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• 1994

저자들은 각성도의 일주기 리듬이 교통사고 발생에 어떤 영향을 미치는가를 알아보기 위해 교통량을 고려한 시간대별 교통사고 현황과 시간대별 전체사고에 대한 사망사고의 상대적 빈도를 조사하여 주관적 각성도의 일주기 리듬과 비교하여 보았다. 그 결과 일주기 리듬 상 각성도가 가장 떨어지는 시기라 알려져 있는 오전 $3{\sim}4$시 전후 시간대에 교통사고 발생율과 치명적인 사고 발생율이 상대적으로 가장 높게 나타나고, 주관적 각성도와의 상관관계를 살펴본 결과도 통계적으로 유의한 수준의 역상관관계를 보여 주관적 각성도의 일주기 리듬이 교통사고 발생에 유의한 영향을 미칠 것으로 시사되었다. 교통사고 발생에는 이런 운전자의 생리적 요인 이외에도 운전환경에 해당되는 여러 가지 다른 요인들도 복합적으로 관련되게 마련이므로 본 연구결과만으로 주관적 각성도의 일주기 리듬이 교통사고 발생에 얼마만큼이나 직접적인 영향을 미치는지 정확하게 평가하기는 어렵다. 하지만 교통사고 발생의 원인을 생리적인 현상인 각성도의 일주기 리듬이란 관점에서 조명하여 이들 사이의 상관관계를 살펴봤다는 점에서 본 연구의 의의를 찾을 수 있겠다. 앞으로 양자간의 좀더 구체적인 인과관계를 입증하기 위해서는 교통사고 발생에 영향을 줄 수 있는 여러 가지 교란변인들을 가능한 최소화시킨 잘 통제된 연구가 필요하리라 생각된다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.273-277
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• 2014

Subcontracting business than the contracting business in shipbuilding industry is a lot of hazardous job and highly accident because of highly work intensity. In order to prevent the accidents, there is a need to analyze characteristic. of shipbuilding, to apply measures of risk assessment. In this paper, I suggested an improvement of the risk assessment through the actual condition research in shipbuilding industry. In the research method, I analysed accidents occurred until 2011-2013. Carried out the actual site survey while two weeks in May 2014. As a result, 1) The main pattern were caught-in or between, fall on the high level according to analyzed accidents. 2) To apply the weight show clear of magnitude for risk assessment. 3) Risk estimation of risk assessment is desirable to be quantization by accidents analysis, and to be greater than or equal to 4 steps.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2016

A confined space means places where the risk of damage to health caused by lack of oxygen or hazardous gases in inadequate ventilation conditions and the risk of fire and explosion caused by flammable substances. Asphyxiation accidents in a confined space occured every year and also occurred more than two people at the same time. In this study, we surveyed the domestic statistical data occurred the lack of oxygen in confined space for the last 10 years(2006-2015) and, analyzed the accident by industries sector, workplace size etc. 17 fatal work accidents that occurred in confined spaces in Korea between 2013 and 2015 were investigated and analyzed using the database of the KOSHA and suggested interventions to minimize asphyxiation accidents in confined spaces. This paper is expected to be used to establish interventions planning and training as a preventive measures in workplace having confined spaces.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.16-22
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• 1993

Accidents, especially fatal accidents in construction work are being not reduced, but increased, despite of more concerns of related authority and companies themselves. It is investigated that major reasons of which these accident increase are caused to set up wrong temporary structures : scaffolding with insufficient components or safety guards. Approximately 50% of falling accident, one of three major accidents； falling collapsing of structures or soil, accidents from heavy equipments, are due to defects of temporary structures. Therefore, technical standards for these temporary structures made by the ministry of labour in 1984, should be promptly revised because of its insufficient considerations for structural concepts. A method to effectively ensure the construction safety are shown through an experimental method, mathematical analysis structural planning against overturning and collapsing of scaffold-ing components, consideration of safety factor in loading, formulations of safety structure against falling or dropping from schaffolding.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.68-74
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• 2007

지금까지 건설재해를 예방하기 위한 건설공사의 안전관리는 시공단계에서만 활발히 수행되어 왔다. 하지만 사망재해의 15%가 작업자 안전에 부정적인 영향을 미치는 부적절한 설계에 의해 발생하였다는 점을 감안할 때, 설계(안)에 존재하는 안전 위험성을 조기에 발굴 및 평가하여 제거 및 최소할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 '안전을 위한 설계(Design for Safety)' 개념을 활용하여 설계(안)에 존재하는 안전 위험요소를 발굴 및 평가할 수 있는 체크리스트의 개발을 목적으로 하고 있다 이를 위해 영국 산업안전보건청(Health and Safety Executives)에서 활용하고 있는 설계단계 안전 위험성 평가 체크리스트의 구조, 활용절차 및 문제점에 관한 문헌연구를 수행하였다. 이를 통해 공간, 부위 및 공종별 안전 위험요소와 원인의 분류, 안전수준의 정량적 평가, 안전위험요소의 제거 및 최소화를 위한 안전설계지침 및 관련 안전기준을 반영한 새로운 안전 위험성 평가 체크리스트를 제안하였다. 설계단계 안전 위험성 평가 체크리스트는 건축공사 전반에서 발생할 수 있는 재해를 조기 예방하는데 있어 유용한 도구로 사용될 수 있다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.266-274
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• 2020

Background: From only frequency rate of industrial accidents, it is difficult to define the industry composition of accident statistics in a nation. This study aims to propose and develop a new index for measuring the degree of concentration of industrial accidents using the concept of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index in the case of European countries. Methods: Using the concept of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, the concentration index of accidents in the country is developed, and the conditions of European countries are compared using indexes of frequency rate and concentration ratio. Results: The frequency rate and concentration ratio of fatal and nonfatal accidents in European countries are compared. According to the economic condition and geographical position, different patterns of accidents concentration are presented in terms of frequency rate and concentration ratio. Conclusion: We develop the concentration index of industrial and occupational accidents that identifies the industrial ratio of accident occurrence, and the differentiated strategy can be formulated such as approaches to reducing frequency and prioritizing target industries.