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A Policy Intervention Study to Identify High-Risk Groups to Prevent Industrial Accidents in Republic of Korea

  • Yi, Kwan Hyung;Lee, Seung Soo
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.213-217
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    • 2016
  • Background: The objective of this study is to identify high-risk groups for industrial accidents by setting up 2003 as the base year and conducting an in-depth analysis of the trends of major industrial accident indexes the index of industrial accident rate, the index of occupational injury rate, the index of occupational illness and disease rate per 10,000 people, and the index of occupational injury fatality rate per 10,000 people for the past 10 years. Methods: This study selected industrial accident victims, who died or received more than 4 days of medical care benefits, due to occupational accidents and diseases occurring at workplaces, subject to the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act, as the study population. Results: According to the trends of four major indexes by workplace characteristics, the whole industry has shown a decreasing tendency in all four major indexes since the base year (2003); as of 2012, the index of industrial accident rate was 67, while the index of occupational injury fatality rate per 10,000 people was 59. Conclusion: The manufacturing industry, age over 50 years and workplaces with more than 50 employees showed a high severity level of occupational accidents. Male workers showed a higher severity level of occupational accidents than female workers. The employment period of < 3 years and newly hired workers with a relatively shorter working period are likely to have more occupational accidents than others. Overall, an industrial accident prevention policy must be established by concentrating all available resources and capacities of these high-risk groups.

Estimation of Occupational Accident Rate about Start-up Establishment and Analysis of Characteristics about Occurrence (신생사업장 재해율 및 재해발생형태 분석)

  • Kim, Young Sun;Koo, Kwon Ho;Choe, Seong Weon;Kwon, Oh Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.83-89
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    • 2012
  • In order for start-up establishment to enter the business market, it has to get over the first mover advantage of the existing establishment. As a result, its working condition deteriorates and a great deal of occupational accidents take place. Based on 2009 standard, the occupational accident rate of start-up establishment is 1.28%, which is two times higher than existing establishment and the gap between manufacturing and service industry has been getting wide. For the characteristic of injured person in start-up establishment, it is showed that the occupancy rate of women and people with less than 30 age starting out in a career is high and the occupancy rate of occupational accident for holiday and night work is high. Therefore, the act for occupational accident prevention is needed in the early period of business and underprivileged group for occupational accident.

The Status of Safety Accident and Safety Health Education and Risk Factors of Safety Accident among the selected High School Students (일부 고등학생들의 안전보건교육 및 안전사고 실태와 관련요인)

  • 한성현
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2002
  • In this study, it is aimed to clarify the status of safety accident and safety health education and risk factors on safety accidents among the selected high school students. The study is accomplished by the survey which includes a total of 558 students sampled from the six high school. The survey took for 10 days from the date of 3th July 2000 to 13th July 2000 and the results were as follows; 1. The rate of experience of safety health education during last one year was 26.4% and the rate of accident during last one month was 20.6%. 2. The risk factors of safety accident during last one year were understanding degree of safety health education(R.R.=2.81), experience of smoking(R.R.=2.55), educational level of mother (R.R=l.63) From the results of this study, we are to propose as follow; Because the purpose of safety health education is the practice, it is important to induce changing the recognition and behavior. Therefore the government have to build up experience place, to bring up professional teacher of safety health education. It need to develope a reference of each subject and to utilize various media. Especially it need to take of education comprehensive health and environmental inducing safety health subject.

A Study on Analysis of Accident Rate and the Latent Condition of Accident for Helicopters in Korea (국내 회전익 항공기 사고율 분석 및 사고의 잠재적 조건에 관한 연구)

  • Yu, Tae-Jung;Kim, Chil-Young;Lim, Se-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.56-64
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    • 2014
  • There were a total of 65 accidents of helicopers between 1990 and 2013. The overall accidents rate has remained around 8 accidents per 100,000 flight hours, and the fatal rate has stayed at about 8 accidents per 100,000 flight hours. In this study, we conduct a series of statistical analyses to investigate the significance of latent failure of groups that operate the helicopter. Analysis of variance demonstrated significant differences in the latent condition score for the 3 groups, with the lower accidents rate groups reporting better scores of latent condition. Results indicated that there are the significant differences of latent condition in accidents between groups of high accidents rate and groups of low accidents rate.

Accident Analysis and Discussion of Circular Intersections based on Land Use and Vehicle Type (토지이용과 차종에 근거한 원형교차로 사고분석 및 논의)

  • Lee, Min Yeong;Park, Byung Ho
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.75-85
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    • 2018
  • PURPOSES : This study aimed to analyze traffic accidents at circular intersections, and discuss accident reduction strategies based on land use and vehicle type. METHODS : Traffic accident data from 2010 to 2014 were collected from the "traffic accident analysis system" (TAAS) data set of the Road Traffic Authority. To develop the accident rate model, a multiple linear regression model was used. Explanatory variables such as geometry and traffic volume were used to develop the models. RESULTS : The main results of the study are as follows. First, it was found that the null hypotheses that land use and vehicle type do not affect the accident rate should be rejected. Second, 16 accident rate models, which are statistically significant (with high $R^2$ values), were developed. Finally, the area of the central island, number of speed humps, entry lane width, circulatory roadway width, bus stops, and pedestrian crossings were analyzed to determine their effect on accidents according to the type of land use and vehicle. CONCLUSIONS : Through the developed accident rate models, it was revealed that the accident factors at circular intersections changed depending on land use and vehicle type. Thus, selecting the appropriate location of bus stops for trucks, widening entry lanes for cars, and installing splitter islands and optimal lighting for motorcycles were determined to be important for reducing the accident rate. Additionally, the evaluation showed that commercial and mixed land use had a weaker effect on accidents than residential land use.

An analysis of the accident rate to develop factors for improving industrial accident prevention methods for the projects with sub-contract (도급에 따른 산업재해 예방조치 개선요소 도출을 위한 재해율 분석)

  • Kim, Sung-eun;Lim, Hyoung-chul
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2022.04a
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    • pp.216-217
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    • 2022
  • After the financial crisis, the spread of indirect employment, which is an outsourcing method, is gradually becoming common in our society, and the risk of harm is relatively high or the proportion of simple jobs is high. Simple workers have a higher proportion of non-manufacturing industries such as the service industry, and production workers are intensively used in the manufacturing industry. In Article 63 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, contractors must take necessary safety and health measures. In addition, due to the expansion of the scope of contracts under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, it is necessary to review the appropriateness of industrial accident prevention measures and implementation standards.

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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‰.

The Problem Analysis and Improvement of Technical Guidance On Construction Accident Prevention (건설재해예방 기술지도의 문제점 분석 및 개선방안)

  • Oh, Heui-Keun;Kim, Yong-Su
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.19-27
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    • 2016
  • Safety accident rate of small-medium construction site is high. because of lack of safety management system, lack of safety management capacity, lack of investment for safety, Owner's insufficient awareness about safety. In order to improve this, Currently in Occupational Safety and Health Act, Construction site of amounts more than 300 million won less than 120 billion (architectural),150 billion won(civil) mandatory subject to the technical guidance on construction accident prevention. Context of construction accident causes with construction accident rate relationship analysis and case analysis of technical guidance, through a survey of stakeholders in the technical guidance drawn the problems of the construction accident prevention technical guidance system and ways to improve on this.

Modeling and Discussing the Accident Rate Model of Rotary and Roundabout by Type of Land Use (토지이용별 로터리 및 회전교차로 사고율 모형개발 및 논의)

  • Lee, Min Yeong;Park, Byung Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.135-141
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    • 2018
  • Rotary that causes traffic delays and safety issues by high-speed entry vehicles is currently being improved to roundabout. The operational difference between rotary and roundabout can cause driver's confusion and traffic accident. The purpose of this study is to develop the accident rate models which explain the factors related to the accidents by land use and intersection type. The main results are as follows. First, the null hypotheses that the type of land use and two intersections do not affect the accident rate are rejected. Second, the conflicting factors such as the number of crosswalk and bicycle lane should be carefully considered to reduce traffic accident at rotary. In the case of roundabout, greater than 3.5 m in circulatory lane width and two circulatory lane are analyzed to be important to prevent the accidents. Finally, the commercial and mixed areas are evaluated to be weak to traffic accidents than residential area.

Analysis of Seasonal Variation Effect of the Traffic Accidents on Freeway (고속도로 교통사고의 계절성 검증과 요인분석 (중부고속도로 사례를 중심으로))

  • 이용택;김양지;김대현;임강원
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 2000
  • This paper is focused on verifying time-space repetition of the highway accident and finding the their causes and deterrents. We classify all months into several seasonal groups, develop the model for each seasonal group and analyze the results of these models for Joong-bu highway. The existence of seasonal effect is verified by the analysis or self-organizing map and the accident indices. Agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis which is used to decide the seasonal groups in accordance with accident patterns, winter group, spring-fall group. and summer group. The accident features of winter group are that the accident rate is high but the severity rate is low. while those of summer group are that the accident rate is low but the severity rate is high. Also, the regression model which is developed to identify the accident Pattern or each seasonal group represents that the season-related factors, such as the amount of rainfall, the amount of snowfall, days of rainfall, days of snowfall etc. are strongly related to the accident pattern of evert seasonal group and among these factors the traffic volume, amount of rainfall. the amount of snowfall and days of freezing importantly affect the local accident Pattern. So, seasonal effect should be considered to the identification of high-risk road section. the development of descriptive and Predictive accident model, the resource allocation model of accident in order to make safety management plan efficient.

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