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Environmental Hazardous Assessment on Wood Panel Manufacturing Process (목재판넬 제조공정의 환경위험성평가)

  • Lee, Su-Gil;Lee, Nae-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.22 no.3 s.81
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    • pp.13-21
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    • 2007
  • Personal and static sampling for formaldehyde, wood dust and noise monitoring, in accordance to the equipment running on the day, were carried out throughout wood panel manufacturing process. Even though the exposure level of formaldehyde and wood dust were below than exposure criteria, but the personal protective equipment(PPE) for those should be worn to everyone in the process because of its potential characteristics like carcinogenicity. Also a few local air extraction system above the cutting, grinding sections and organic blending room should be required. Most of the exposures of noise exposure were exceeded permitted exposure criteria, in case of Hopper operators, exposed to maximally 94dB(A) as LAeq 8hr, therefore active controls like PPE, monitoring, isolation etc. are necessary. The main sources of noise were caused on compressed air of the machinery, radio sound and operation noise like running machines, conveying, cutting, sawing, moving vehicles, storing and so on. For the comparison of control criteria in each country, the permitted exposure standards for above hazardous materials and noise in Korea, ACGIH and Australia were discussed. We have recognized that the Korean criteria should be discussed urgently to give the right information to employee and modified, if it is necessary.

An Experimental Investigation on Fire Characteristics of Light Oil & Methanol for Spilled Surface (경유와 메탄올의 유출표면에 따른 화재특성에 관한 실험적 고찰)

  • Lee, Jung-Yon;Jung, Ki-Chang;Kim, Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.103-108
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    • 2010
  • In this study, tank truck incidents of road transport of hazardous materials to experimental investigated the potential fire hazard. Real scale fire was to perform experiments for on this qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis. Particularly affected by radiant heat from the flames caused and damage estimates range investigated accordingly. Flame temperature, internal temperature of tank and emitted radiation from the flames was investigated. The flame of light oil spill caused a fire at a temperature of about $300^{\circ}C$ high in comparison with the methanol by combustion of diesel and methanol, according to the difference, the flame duration changes varies depending on the Burning rate, amount of radiant heat flux from light oil fire was 4 times increases compared with fire of methanol. Depending on spill locations(kinds of road surfaces, absorbing rate) and the longer the duration of the flame important factors for the internal temperature of tank truck rise was found. Dirt roads than paved road accident in a fire caused by leakage of hazardous was could the higher the damaged. Therefor, Fire suppression activities should be required in particular to be around.

PDA Sensors for the Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria and Hazardous Substances (병원성미생물 및 유해물질 검출을 위한 PDA 센서)

  • Lim, Min-Cheol;Kim, Young-Rok
    • Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.43-49
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    • 2011
  • The increasing number of analytes in concern and the alarming health and environmental consequences have required effective means of monitoring for safety control. Biosensors offer advantages as alternatives to conventional analytical methods because of their inherent specificity, simplicity, and quick response. Colorimetric biosensor, one of biosensor group, is one of the easiest and the most convenient methods because detection can be done using naked eye. Recently, a novel method for rapid detection and read-out of specific immunoassays with naked eye using polydiacetylene (PDA) was developed. Polydiacetylene has recently been in the limelight as a transducing materials because of its special features that allow optical transduction of sensory signals and inherent simplicity and ease of use in supramolecular chemistry. Various forms of PDA are used as a sensor platform for detection of various biological analytes such as viruses, DNA, proteins, bacteria and hazardous molecules.

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The "Warm Zone" Cases: Environmental Monitoring Immediately Outside the Fire Incident Response Arena by Firefighters

  • Caban-Martinez, Alberto J.;Kropa, Bob;Niemczyk, Neal;Moore, Kevin J.;Baum, Jeramy;Solle, Natasha Schaefer;Sterling, David A.;Kobetz, Erin N.
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.352-355
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    • 2018
  • Hazardous work zones (i.e., hot, warm, and cold) are typically established by emergency response teams during hazardous materials (HAZMAT) calls but less consistently for fire responses to segment personnel and response activities in the immediate geographic area around the fire. Despite national guidelines, studies have documented the inconsistent use of respiratory protective equipment by firefighters at the fire scene. In this case-series report, we describe warm zone gas levels using multigas detectors across five independent fire incident responses all occurring in a large South Florida fire department. Multigas detector data collected at each fire response indicate the presence of sustained levels of volatile organic compounds in the "warm zone" of each fire event. These cases suggest that firefighters should not only implement strategies for multigas detector use within the warm zone but also include respiratory protection to provide adequate safety from toxic exposures in the warm zone.

Shear Strength Comparison of Passive Component Using the Environmental-Friendly Lead-Free Solder (친환경 무연솔더를 적용한 수동부품의 솔더 접합부 전단강도 비교)

  • Song, Byeong-Suk;Cho, Jai-Rip
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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    • 2006.04a
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    • pp.375-380
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    • 2006
  • Recently European Council(EU) published the RoHS(restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment) which is prohibit the use of Pb, Hg, Cd, $Cr^{+6}$, PBB or PBDE in the electrical and electronic equipments. So EU member States shall ensure that, from 1 July 2006, new electrical and electronic equipment put on the market does not contain 6 hazardous substances. So many kinds of projects is proceeding to ensure the reliability of Pb-free electronics in the worlds. Especially it is necessary to evaluate of Pb-free solder joints in electronics. Therefore, on this paper, we compared with solder joint strength of chip components, respectively SnPb, Pb-free solder as follows reliability test methods. We also measured the shear strength of solder joint and also compared the effects of environmental test methods. In this results, we analyzed and compared the shear strength variation as follows solder materials and reliability test conditions.

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Development of Environment-friendly Board in Construction Materials (친환경 건설 성형판재 개발을 위한 기초적 연구)

  • Seo, Deok-Hyun;Kim, Seong-Sik;Jeong, Yong-Sik;Im, Nam-Ki;Lee, Sang-Beom
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.5 no.1 s.15
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    • pp.69-74
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    • 2005
  • The construction of house in Korea firstly has been made up quantitative supply and margin of confined land until the latest. But, residents interest of living environment, demand of high-quality has varied with the latest elevation of life quality Specially, the interest for environment-friendly architecture is increased by the recent well-being trend in 2002, So, construction company and construction materials manufacturing industry are trying to offer more healthy and agreeable indoor aerial environment. Related circles do their best to commercialize and develop environment-friendly finish materials which influence indoor aerial environment. Therefore, in this study, that developing raw material and productive system that can minimize hazardous article quality discharge with formaldehyde in development of correction of deformities board such as plywood that is used mainly by a environment-friendly materials indoor finish, and examines application possibility of construction correction of deformities board through properties of matter examination by purpose, do.

A Study on the Improvement of Creative Environment to Reduce the Incurable Disease of Artists (아티스트의 난치병 발병 저감을 위한 창작 환경 개선방안 연구)

  • Joh, Myung-Gye
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.3-13
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: The human body is a chemical laboratory. Artists are exposed to a variety of chemicals in art studio space and the art materials used in the creation contain toxic ingredients, exposing them to a variety of incurable diseases, including cancer. It aims to analyze the problems of the studio space environment and the risks of art materials, which are fundamental causes of the outbreak of incurable diseases, and to derive the direction of specific practices that can reduce the occurrence of incurable diseases by artists. Method: The harmfulness of an artist's creative space is the cause of a disease outbreak, and two primary factors cause it. One is the environmental hazards caused by the use of tools, air pollution, and chemical hazards caused by art materials in the architectural space environment of the studio. Necessary measures are put forward to control disease outbreaks by identifying the status and cause of intractable diseases caused by studies. Result: The plan is urgent for the establishment of safety rules and regular pre-trainthese two factors and analyzing the results of prior research and implementation investigationing, the legal provisions of studio architecture design and the introduction of labelling rules to control the distribution of harmful art materials.

Adsorption of Metal Ions on Synthetic Resin with Styrene Hazardous Materials in Water Fire Extinguishing Agent (물 소화약제에서 스타이렌 위험물을 포함한 합성수지에 의한 금속 이온들의 흡착)

  • Lee, Chi-Young;Kim, Joon-Tae
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.142-147
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    • 2010
  • Cryptand resins have been synthesized from 1-aza-18-crown-6 macrocyclic ligand attached to styrene (2th petroleum in 4th class hazardous materials) divinylbenzene copolymer with crosslinkage of 1%, 2%, 10%, and 18% by substitution reaction. The synthesis of these resins was confirmed by the content of chlorine, element analysis, surface area (BET), and IR-spectroscopy. The effects of pH, time and crosslinkage on adsorption of metal ion from water fire extinguishing agentby synthetic resin adsorbent were investigated. Metal ions showed a great adsorption over pH 3 and adsorption equilibriumof metal ions was about two hours. The adsorption selectivity determined in water was in the increasing order of sodium ($Na^{1+}$) > zinc ($Zn^{2+}$) > chromium ($Cr^{3+}$) ion. The adsorption was in the order of 1%, 2%, 10%, and 18% crosslinkage resin.

Task-Specific Hazardous Chemicals Used by Nail Shop Technicians (네일 샵 종사자들의 직무 형태별 취급 유해화학물질)

  • Choi, Sangjun;Park, Sung-Ae;Yoon, Chungsik;Kim, Sunju
    • Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.446-464
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    • 2015
  • Objectives: This study was conducted to evaluate the task-specific hazards of chemicals used by nail technicians in Daegu Metropolitan City. Materials: A total of 30 nail shops located in Daegu City were surveyed to investigate the major tasks and practices performed by nail technicians and the ingredients listed in nail care products used in shops. We also collected instructions for use and material safety data sheets(MSDSs) of nail care products and compared CAS Nos. of ingredients with the lists of chemicals regulated by the Industrial Safety and Health Act(ISHA) and Chemical Substances Control Act(CSCA). Results: A total of 125 chemical ingredients were found in 468 nail care products used at the 30 nail shops. The most frequently found ingredients were ethyl acetate(72%), followed by n-butyl acetate(71.8%), isopropanol(56%), benzophenone(51.1%), nitrocellulose(46.4%) and ethanol(45.3%). Comparing six tasks, the task of manicuring used the most products at 222 products containing 91 ingredients. Among the 125 ingredients, there are 31 chemicals with occupational exposure limits(OEL) designated by the Ministry of Employment and Labor(MoEL), eight categorized as carcinogens, one mutagen and two reproductive toxic chemicals. In terms of carcinogens, formaldehyde was identified as the only confirmed human carcinogen(1A). We found that there was one chemical with a permissible limit, one special management substance, 18 workplace monitoring substances and ten special health diagnosis substances regulated by ISHA. For CSCA, nine poisonous substances, six substances requiring preparation for accidents and one restricted substance were identified. Conclusions: Based on these findings, formaldehyde was identified as one of the chemicals that should most strictly be controlled for the protection of the health of nail technicians and customers. At the same time, it is necessary to distribute materials with detailed hazardous information of nail care products for nail shop technicians.

Consequence Analysis of the Fire & Explosion on the Flammable Liquid Handling Facility and LPG Station (제 4류 위험물 취급소 및 LPG 충전소의 화재$\cdot$폭발 피해 영향분석)

  • Lee Su-Kyung;Lee Chang-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.3 no.2 s.7
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    • pp.77-84
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    • 1999
  • The XX company that is handling the class IV hazardous materials, located in Bu-Chon City and the LPG station in front of the XX company which is about 20 meters apart, was chosen as the standard model for this study In carrying out the consequence analysis, PHAST and Super-Chems were used for the study and utilizing the output of the simulation, we have evaluated the consequences throughout the probit analysis and explosion overpressure analysis. In case of Acetone, the effect distance of the damage on facilities-that is the result of radiation heat flux of $37.5kW/m^2$ by TNO model-is 68.51m by PHAST model and 40.93m by Super-Chem model. The risk assessment of the LPG station which is based on the explosion resulted as the analysis of the fire ball showed the diameter 125.2m, the height 206.2m and the duration 11.28sec and the effect distance for the radiant heat flux $37.5kW/m^2$ was 137.0m.

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