• The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.67-86
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• 2007

This study is about the drunken drivers' accident patterns and behavior and aims at providing basic data for developing measures to secure safety against accidents by drunken drivers and programs to cultivate good drinking habits. For this purpose, this study conducted a questionnaire of 800 persons over 20 years of age in the selected 20 companies with more than 30 employees in the 4 regions(Daegu, Masan, Changwon, and Jinhae) and analysed the 653 sheets except invalid ones among the returned 673 survey sheets in total(return rate 84.13%), and the researcher conducted a man-to-man interview with each subject from June 20th to July 31st 2006. The result are as the following. As the experience of causing an accident by drinking, the 79.1% of them had the experience, and in case of the subjects with excessive drinking over 4 times a year, the rate of the accident by drinking showed as high as 90.5%. As the patterns of accidents, in male subjects, violence(38.5%) and traffic accidents(37.1%) showed high, while in the female, hurts from falls and fall accidents(40.2%) were found be high. In case of the traffic accidents among the accidents by drinking, the rate of causing serious damage to the life was found to be 89.3%, so it showed that the traffic accidents caused by drinking were influencing on the life much. In conclusion, the drinking problem may be controlled by each individual's will, but without change of social environment and system around people, the problem can not be eradicated. Therefore there should be social infrastructure which can help people to actively live their life with exercises and hobbies, and in order to prevent the reoccurrence of a drink accident, and social structure in which there are education programs for drink accident causers and one can change the perception about drinking culture, should be formed.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.49-57
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to explore how adolescents' psychological characteristics affect their sense of life safety according to gender. To this end, a survey was conducted on male and female high school students in six schools in the C area, and a total of 1,048 data were used for analysis. Differences in major variables according to gender were verified, and the effect of psychological characteristics on living safety awareness was analyzed through hierarchical multiple regression analysis. As a result of the analysis, depression, anxiety, type A characteristics, and the presence or absence of experience in accidents did not significantly affect life safety awareness in the male student group. On the other hand, in the female student group, anxiety and type A characteristics had a significant effect on life safety awareness. Anxiety negatively affects living safety awareness, and type A characteristics have been shown to have a positive effect on living safety awareness. The presence or absence of depression and accident experience did not significantly affect life safety awareness. The results of these studies suggest that gender differences should be considered in education to prevent life safety awareness and that education that reflects the psychological characteristics of adolescents is necessary.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.1-5
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• 2013

Employee suffered by industrial accident will face more economically disadvantaged and mentally tough life than life of employee before industrial disaster. however, in this study, we will study for welfare and reasonable compensation about how a country or society helps disaster victims in the industry put a little more unhappy because of the disaster of the injustice. I am to look into the rational compensation and welfare of the industrial accident disabled in terms of linking and expanding into social corporation and preparing policies of selecting major companies and prizing policies that can help the disabled if not in direct and monetary ways.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.193-204
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• 2016

Objective: This study carried out base research to build an agricultural safety monitoring system through ICT convergence to reduce safety accidents and enhance welfare in life in the agricultural field. Background: The functions and values of rural villages as the space of living are recognized anew, but occupational accident rate due to farm work accidents is on the rise each year. Therefore, the seriousness of such a problem emerges. The convergence technology combining ICT is recently applied to industries overall, and therefore better services are offered. However, studies on ICT convergence has not yet been applied to the agricultural safety field. Method: This study identified ICT convergence service technology trends and representative serious accident types mainly occurring in agricultural activities. This study defined the major factors of farm work accidents and ICT to solve those accident factors including the sensor technology, wired/wireless communication technology and location information service, and applied them to prototype PCB for the development of an agricultural safety monitoring system. Results: This study proposed an emergency monitoring system for farmers and a harmful environment monitoring system. The ICT technology to prevent farm work accidents can be summarized as sensing technology, ICT and network technology and user interface technology. This study also designed PCB module configuration and situation judgment algorithm as basic research for proposed monitoring system development. Conclusion: The ICT-based agricultural safety monitoring research proposed in this study is expected to become the basis to build a future real time monitoring system, and also is expected to contribute to social safety and welfare service improvement for farmers. Application: The ICT convergence farmer accident prevention system will make contributions to the prevention of serious farm work accidents.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.813-817
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• 2003

There have a lot of marine accident due to the increasing transportation by sea in accordance with economy growth. Accordingly, We are fully aware of the importance of the development of safety control system so that may prevent the sacrifice of life and disasters on the sea. The objective of this research in to investigate the more effective system by establishing the prevention of safety accident and marine information system as a national project.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.451-462
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• 2015

Safety is the first priority in civil aviation, and so the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has introduced and mandated the use of Safety Management Systems (SMS) by airlines, airports, air traffic services, aircraft maintenance organizations, and training organizations. The aircraft manufacturing industry is the last for which ICAO has mandated the implementation of SMS. Since SMS is a somewhat newer approach for most manufacturers in the aviation industry, they hardly believe in the value of implementing SMS. The management of safety risk characteristics that occur during early aircraft development stages and the systematic linkage that the safety risk has to do with an aircraft in service could have a significant influence on the safe operation and life cycle of the aircraft. This paper conducts a case analysis of the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 accident/incident to identify the root causes and safety risk levels, and also verified why aircraft manufacturing industry should begin to adopt SMS in order to prevent aircraft accident.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.136-147
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to analyze four cases of firefighter burns in various fire scenes and to find prevention measures to decrease firefighter injuries. Among the analysis reports prepared by the National Fire Research Institute of Korea from 2016 to 2020, four burn-related accidents are summarized and the main causes are conveyed. The four accidents include second-degree burns from using extinguishers during containment of fires; nine firefighters burned due to re-ignition in the LPG car repair shop; two firefighters injured with third-degree burns from using fire extinguishers during life-saving events in residential housing; and injuries from the radiant heat of the tank BLEVE near the factory fire. These cases are comprehensively investigated in their respective scenes and analyzed based on the fire site investigation reports from the fire department and related theoretical explanations of risk for each accident scene. In the third case study, some experimental research is conducted to evaluate the risk involved with the use of safety gloves. This is evaluated by reviewing Fire Tactics and Standard Operational Procedures (SOP) to determine improvements and recommendations for an efficient firefighting response. Results show that the main causes of burn accidents are the insufficient use of personal protective equipment (PPE), such as safety gloves, and the failure to follow firefighting tactics or SOPs. Through the accident investigation and assessment, it is concluded that to reduce the frequency of burn accidents, the performance of firefighting equipment, SOPs, protection tactics, and safety policy systems require improvement.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Construction Safety
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2019

Recently, as development of building construction technology, height of building continues increase. But, there is no clear ground of service life of tower crane. So, accident in the tower crane continues to occur. In addition to Korea, there is no clear ground for the serive life of tower cranes overseas. For this reason, this study aims to establish the maximum service life of tower crane. Accidents in tower cranes continues to increase, and the cause of the accident is that there are no ground of limitations for service life of tower cranes. Therefore, in this study, the maximum service life of the tower crane was calculated by using the information of the hoisting case of the tower crane to limit the model year of the tower crane. The results of this study are as follows; As the number and time of the hoisting work increases, the maximum service life of the tower crane decreases. In addition, since this study refers to European standards, it is necessary to establish standards for domestic situations. Result of this study, we expect decrease accidents in tower crane. And it is expected that the service life of tower crane will be more clear if this study is developed.

• Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2021

Although the working environment has changed significantly compared to the past, such as the implementation of the five-day work week and the aging of the population, it is not reflected in the current industrial accident index calculation such as frequency rate, severity rate, and safe T-score. In this study, statistical data were used to understand time-series trends such as increase in life expectancy, working age, shortening of working hours, and average age of death by accident. As a result of time series trend analysis of statistical data, life expectancy increased to 83.3 years, and the legal working age was raised to 65 years due to the aging of the population. Also, with the advent of the 5-day work week since 2001, the average annual working hours decreased to 2008.1 hours. It can be confirmed through statistical data that these phenomena are applied to the current working environment due to a complex action, and these environmental changes affect the calculation results of the industrial accident index.

• Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.164-170
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to Identify the amount of ability of daily living, depression and quality of life and to examin the relationship among ability of daily living, depression and quality of life of the Indestrial Accident Disabled. Three hundred and forty five industrial accident disabled were randomly selected among who have stayed in Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi area and who were confirmed as the disabled classified according to its severity from the first to fourteenth grade between January, 1998 to December, 2000. Data were collected for one month between August 1, 2001 to August 31, 2001. Each study team was consisted of two members of researcher among 20 members and interviewed the disabled individually by visiting their home. Collected data were analyzed from the frequency, percentages, Correlation, etc. The mean score of ability of daily living was 136.3 out of possible 147. The mean score of depression was 31.5 out of possible 64. The mean score of quality of life was 20.1 out of possible 32. The relationship between ability of daily living and depression was significantly correlated and between depression and quality of life was significantly correlated and between ability of daily living and quality of life was significantly correlated. The industrial accident disabled had been in bad health or faced by difficulties in daily activities even after the completion of therapy for the disability. Especially, they are depressed and perceive lowly their quality of life. So, the rehabilitation program for the disabled should be psychosocial oriented program and a comprehensive service.