• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2008

The purpose of this survey was to identify ergonomic risk factors of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) and understand the current MSD risk status in the wholesale/retail industry. The field survey was conducted at 120 wholesale/retail establishments, and the cause of MSD occurred from the national industrial accident statistics by the Ministry of Labor in 2006 was analyzed in terms of company size, a term of work, job title, and cause of occurrence. The numbers of disasters on MSD were 602 which were included 432 disasters who met with low back pain by incident. A checklist was developed by KOSHA to use for the field survey. A total of 419 tasks were identified at the 120 establishments surveyed. The highest frequency was Task 2(45%) which was mostly observed in repetitive work (e.g. displaying, scanning, cutting or wrapping of goods). The second and third were Task 9(34%) and Task 8(14%) which were identified in manual materials handling (e.g. lifting, lowering, carrying or stocking of goods). The results suggest that the three Tasks should be first considered for the control in wholesale/retail industry and that exposure to MSD risk factors in those Tasks should be primarily addressed in order to reduce MSD risk in that industry.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.75-86
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• 2011

This paper describes several current research activities and the field techniques for the prevention of human errors during the operation of nuclear power plants(NPPs). The human aspects such as 'fitness for the duties', 'job competence and suitability', 'types of communication', 'behaviors of field workers', 'teamwork of main control room crews', 'task procedures', etc. have been investigated for improving the performance of operating personnel in NPPs. We decide to develop a set of the complementary techniques for the reduction of human errors. The set of techniques developed includes teamwork criteria, jobs fitness analysis, procedure enhancement guide, 3-way communication, campaign posters, a behavior based safety program, a procedure guideline, and a task hazard identification method for the field practitioners in NPPs. These can offer a set of significant human error countermeasures to be considered for analyzing and reducing human error in NPPs as well as other fields of industry.

• Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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• 제35권
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• pp.48.1-48.13
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• 2023

Background: This study was conducted to identify the success rate for smoking cessation over time after participation in a therapeutic smoking cessation camp, and to identify how participant characteristics, including a supportive workplace environment for smoking cessation (SWESC), affect the success rate for smoking cessation. Methods: In all, 296 participants at smoking cessation camps in Ulsan between 2015 and 2020 were investigated. The success rates of smoking cessation after weeks 4, 6, 12, and 24 at camp were investigated. The participants were grouped as workers with an SWESC, and workers without an SWESC, and variables (age, education, household income, marital status, drinking, exercise, body mass index, morbidity, job, number of counseling sessions, cigarettes smoked per day and smoking initiation age) were investigated. Multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted at each time point. In addition, Cox regression analysis was performed to evaluate the variables affecting the success rate for smoking cessation over time. Results: The smoking cessation success rate of workers with an SWESC at week 24 (90.7%) was higher than that for workers without an SWESC (60.5%). Multiple logistic regression was performed to determine the relationship between each variable and the success rates for smoking cessation at week 6, 12, and 24. SWESC was confirmed as significant (p < 0.05) variables for increased success rate for smoking cessation at all 3 time points. After adjusting for all variables, the Cox proportional hazards survival analysis showed a hazard ratio of 6.17 for SWESC (p < 0.001,; 95% confidence interval: 3.08-12.38). Conclusions: At a professional treatment smoking cessation camp, participants with an SWESC showed a significantly higher success rate for smoking cessation. Supportive workplace environment for workers' health is expected to be an important factor for smoking cessation projects as well as other health promotion projects at workplace.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.64-70
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• 2017

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the raise of cigarette prices by KRW 2,000 at the beginning of 2015 on the change in smoking behavior among male office workers, and to analyze the correlation of various factors including their work behaviors and socio-economic factors with their smoking rate. Methods: In this research, a follow-up observation panel was constituted with 420 smokers as targets from among male office workers at a bank located in Daegu, South Korea. A cross-analysis and ANOVA analysis were carried out in order to examine whether changes in smoking status, amount of smoking, stop-smoking motivation, and reasons for smoking cessation failure after the passage of time since the cigarette price hike were statistically significant. The level of statistical significance was P < 0.05. Results: After the cigarette price hike, among the 420 smokers who were the target of the panel the rate of smoking cessation declined at the time-point of the survey to 15.5%, 12.4%, 8.5%, and 5.7% after one month, three months, six months, and 12 months, respectively. As a result of a follow-up observation of 65 smokers who stopped smoking immediately after the price hike, the actual non-smoking rate declined to 15.5%, 8.3%, 4.4%, and 3.1% after one month, three months, six months, and 12 months, respectively. One (1) year after the cigarette price hike, the non-smoking rate among the 420 smokers reached as low as 3.1% (13 persons). The most important reason for the failure of the attempts to quit smoking was stress for more than 60% of the smokers who attempted to stop. Conclusions: It seems that a powerful anti-smoking policy by the state targeting the nation's workers is necessary. For companies, mediation for workers' job stress can become a strategy for the success of non-smoking attempts. The government seems to require a practical policy to reduce the smoking rate by actively carrying out social, economic, and scientific research to come up with a reduction method for the cigarette hazard, an effective price hike policy, and other non-price policies.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제57권3호
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• pp.223-249
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• 2005

1990년대 후반 경제위기를 경험하며, 우리나라에서 실업의 문제에 대한 사회적 관심과 더불어 실업자의 재취업 가능성에 대한 연구가 지속되고 있다. 재취업과 관련된 기존의 연구들은 인적자본이론을 토대로 연구를 진행해 왔는데, 본 연구는 기존의 연구와는 다르게 Sen에 의해 제시된 인간능력관점을 기초로 하면서 이러한 요인의 실업자 재취업에의 영향력을 인적자본론 요인과 비교론적 차원에서 분석을 시도해 보았다. 아울러, 본 연구는 인간능력관점에서 논하는 사회적 능력 요인 중 핵심적 요인으로 간주되는 성별 차이라는 요인에 주목하면서 성별에 따라 인적자본요인과 인간능력요인이 재취업에 어떠한 영향을 주는가를 비교 검토하였다. 본 연구는 한국노동패널 5차년도 자료 중 연구목적에 적합한 1,871사례를 대상으로 선정하여 재취업의 위험도를 콕스회귀분석을 통해 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 학력, 기술수준 적합도, 근속기간 등의 인적자본이론 요인들은 기대와는 다르게 재취업의 가능성에 부적인 영향을 갖는 것으로 나타난 반면, 기초교육능력, 의료보험가입과 사회보험수혜 및 수도권거주여부 등의 인간능력요인들은 기대한 바에 일치하며 재취업에 정적인 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 성별에 따른 분석결과를 보면, 성별에 따라 각 요인들이 상이하게 재취업에 영향을 주는데 그러한 경향성이 인간능력요인에서 더욱 부각되는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과는 재취업에 있어서 인적자본관점에서 제시되는 요인들에 대한 고려도 중요하지만, 동시에 인간능력관점에서 강조하는 사회 제도적 요인이 역시 매우 중요한 역할을 할 수 있음을 시사해 준다. 그리고 성별에 따른 비교연구 결과는 재취업 현상에 대해서 인간능력관점과 더불어 성분절적 노동시장구조에 대한 관점과 함께 이에 대해서 다양한 접근이 필요함을 시사해 준다. 본 연구는 기존 연구에서 실증적으로는 주로 국가단위에서 분석되었던 인간능력관점을 개인단위차원에서 분석하면서 재취업에의 영향력을 다각적인 시각에서 검증하여 인간능력개발과 관련된 사회복지적 개입의 의미를 제고시킨다는 점에서 연구의 의의를 갖는다.