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Ergonomics of Office Seating and Postures

  • Jeong, Byung Yong;Yoon, Ara
    • 대한인간공학회지
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    • 제33권2호
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    • pp.167-174
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    • 2014
  • Objective: This research focuses on the working environment of office workers and aims to propose an ideal seating posture and chair design. Background: Generally, office workers having to seat in a fixed posture for long periods of time tend to suffer from an increased rate of musculoskeletal disorders. Method: The measurement and survey of 123 office workers on their working conditions and literature survey will lead to a suggestion of an ideal seating posture and workstation design theory. Results: Work environment satisfaction appeared low for chair and desks. Work-related pain over the last year was experienced among 47.2% of the respondents in shoulder (34.2%), neck (30.9%). Observation of working posture revealed that only 27.6% of workers utilize backrest during work. Conclusion: Office work embodies many situations where risks of musculoskeletal disorders may be high. Thus, the seated workplace must be set up to allow proper seating posture for workers. Application: The results of this study can be applied as baseline data for preventing musculoskeletal disorders of office workers.

업무유형에 따른 유비쿼터스 오피스 계획 방향에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Direction of Ubiquitous Office with a Focus on Work Services)

  • 조명은;채희화;이주현;김미정
    • 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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    • 제21권2호
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    • pp.186-196
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    • 2012
  • Information technology has changed the human life as well as the societal and economic paradigm. New office environments have been proposed to cope with emerging changes and to support working performances by reducing costs of office operation and business. Recently, office environments have adopted ubiquitous computing with a focus on collaboration to promote real-time enterprises. They become equipped with various mobile devices and pervasive technologies in wireless networks. This study aims to propose a direction for the adoption of mobile and pervasive computing on the new office environment. We investigate relate works and analyze new office types including mobile offices, telework centers and home offices. Using a customized questionnaire, the current conditions of the office environments and officers' demands were investigated and analyzed. In the end, we propose the direction for a ubiquitous office environment with a focus on two attributes, ubiquity and mobility. This research will be a basis for the development of ubiquitous offices that support the professionalism of works in practices.

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화학물질관리법상 화학사고 정의에 관한 소고 (A Brief Review of the Legal Definition of Chemical Accident under the Current Chemical Substances Control Act)

  • 박지훈;박선오;박효진;권혜옥
    • 한국환경보건학회지
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    • 제49권4호
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    • pp.179-182
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    • 2023
  • The Chemical Substances Control Act has been legislated to counter the risks posed by chemical substances to public health and the environment, but a number of small- and large-scaled incidents related to hazardous chemicals continue to occur every year. The Korean Ministry of Environment takes legal responsibility for prevention, preparedness, and response to nationwide chemical accidents under the Chemical Substances Control Act. The determination of chemical accidents that occur during hazardous chemical handling processes is based on the Article 2 (Definitions) of the law and the administrative criteria for judgement of chemical accidents. However, there are certain ambiguities in the scientific basis for determining chemical accidents under the current regulations. Whether or not a chemical accident has a direct influence on penalties and administrative measures for a workplace where an accident occurred, it is necessary to find reasonable criteria for determining chemical accident based on legal and scientific evidence.

사무환경에서 아트리움의 환경친화적 특성에 관한 고찰 (Consideration of Environment-friendly Characteristics of Atrium in the Office Environment)

  • 김경남;류호창
    • 한국실내디자인학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국실내디자인학회 2001년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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    • pp.144-148
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    • 2001
  • The structures built carelessly become the origin of a serious environmental problem caused from the urbanization. To solve this problem, I have considered the characteristics of Atrium as an environment-friendly factor to the office environment. The result is that Atrium protects the insiders health and contributes to the energy saving as it enables the use of natural lights and solar heat first. Second, it gives the office environment liveliness, makes a clean environment and helps the insiders health for introduction of green field. Third, it plays a role of a place for rest, a place for meeting, and a small park by attracting people to the organic space where the inside and outside are connected with a huge glass. On the basis of these characteristics, we should try to prepare the complementary relationship between human beings and nature mutually through its active introduction in the space.

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스마트워크 환경이 비서직종사자의 조직유효성에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구: 관심사와 일-생활 균형의 조절효과를 중심으로 (A Study on the Effect of Smartwork Environment on Office Administrators' Organizational Effectiveness: Moderated by Concerns and Work-Life Balance)

  • 김명옥
    • 한국전자거래학회지
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    • 제20권2호
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    • pp.37-71
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    • 2015
  • 조직 성과 및 효과 제고를 위한 인력관리의 핵심인 조직유효성은 오늘 기업사회가 ICT 기술기반 스마트워크 환경으로 진입하면서 그 중요성이 더욱 부각되고 있다. 비정형적 업무와 높은 직무긴장도 및 감정노동 등과 같은 업무특수성을 지닌 비서직 종사자에게 스마트워크 환경의 직무자율성과 정보기술의존성과 같은 특성들은 조직유효성에 더 예민한 영향요인으로 작용할 수 있다. 뿐만 아니라 기업경영 환경이 ICT 기술 기반 스마트워크 환경으로 전환되어갈수록 비서직종사자의 조직유효성은 비서 개인이 가지고 있는 어떤 관심사 그리고 개인이 처해 있는 사적인 상황이나 가정생활 환경(WLB)에 의해 좌우될 수 있는 여지도 함께 상승할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 비서직종사자를 대상으로 스마트워크 환경에 대한 인식수준과 조직유효성(직무만족, 조직몰입, 혁신행동)과의 영향관계와, 개인 관심사와 일-생활 균형 수준의 조절효과를 실증분석 하였다. 정보기술의존성과 조직몰입을 제외한 모든 관계에서 유의한 정적인 영향을, 효과관심사는 모든 조직유효성 요인에 긍정적인 조절효과를, 자기관심사는 조직몰입과 혁신행동에 부정적인 조절효과를, 그리고 WLB는 조직몰입과 혁신행동에 긍정적인 조절효과를 보였다. 본 연구결과를 토대로 스마트워크 환경에서의 비서직종사자를 위한 인적자원관리 시사점과 조직효율성 제고 방안을 제시할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

백화점 지원시설의 심리적 환경에 관한 선호도 연구 - 업무공간과 휴게공간에 대한 독립성과 사회성을 중심으로 - (A Study on the Degree of Preference to the Psychological Environment of Supporting Facilities in Department Stores - Focused on the Privacy and Sociality about Office Space and Rest Space -)

  • 박의정;서지은;서희숙
    • 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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    • 제19권4호
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    • pp.66-73
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to develop the basis data for methods of the plan to make the office space of the psychological environment by survey of preference to users in Department Store. The results are as follows : First, we could know that the space plan has to be considered the privacy and sociality for the psychological environment in office space. Second, we could know that there are efficient methods of space plan to use the cutoff division by partitions, the psychological division by furniture and the sensitive division by material for privacy in office and resting space. For sociality, there are efficient arrangement methods to plan by division type in office space and by opening type in resting space. And it is good method to use by color that is one in esthetical elements. Third, if we considered users, it is good method to use partitions to cutoff from the floor to the ceiling for privacy in office space and to use movable furnitures to cutoff for privacy in resting space. Forth, we could know that there is the difference in methods of space plan to be preferred by user's variables for privacy and sociality in office and resting spaces. Thus, i think that we have to study considering user's variables and types of department store.

업무환경에 대한 이용자의 의식 및 요구에 관한 연구 -부산 및 경남지역 중심으로- (A Study on the Awareness and Needs of Employees in Office Work Environment -Focused on Pusan and Kyoungnam Area-)

  • 손광호
    • 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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    • 제13호
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    • pp.96-101
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the current office work environment and suggest the needs for improvement the quality and efficiency of work. To fulfill this task, information describing various environmental conditions was gathered from generally large offices in Pusan and Major cities in Kyoungnam. Data were collected on questionnaire's general information, lighting, air quality, temperature, health problems, noise and equipment arrangements, and the size fo workspace. The extent to which the attitudes and behaviors of workers were related to these environmental conditions was then examined and scrutinized. According to the development of office automation, the interest in improvement of office environment become increased. Workstation size, individual environmental control, health care, adequate storage space and noise control should be recognized as critical to the worker's environmental satisfactiov. Finally, based on the results of this study, a number ofrecommendations can be made for alleviating some of the problems that have been identified. Designers should be interested in knowing if their environments actually function in the manner in which they were intended.

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Case Study를 통한 Office 빌딩의 친환경적 리모델링 연구 (A Study on Environmentally Friendly Remodeling of Office Building by the Case Study)

  • 박용호;장현숙;최우영;이준욱;이상호;이경희
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • 제4권2호
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    • pp.19-27
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    • 2004
  • The importance of Building Remodeling as a means to create an architectural environment capable of responding to the social, economic changes has increased more than ever. And it has become necessary to consider Environmental performance in Building remodeling. Consideration of converting buildings into Environment-Friendly Remodeling of Office Buildings makes more and more increased in our construction compatibility. This Study is intended to increase the designer' recognition of Environmental Performance Improvement in the feasibility analysis and schematic design of Office Building Remodeling and to provide Planning Data and Guidance. In this context, this study is focused on the "planning Guidance for Environmental Friendly Remodeling". Through this study, the flow of Environmental Design and Construction is elevated reaching the level in developed country.

The Indoor Environmental Quality Improving and Energy Saving Potential of Phase-Change Material Integrated Facades for High-Rise Office Buildings in Shanghai

  • Jin, Qian
    • 국제초고층학회논문집
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    • 제6권2호
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    • pp.197-205
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    • 2017
  • The conflict between indoor environmental quality and energy consumption has become an unneglectable problem for highrise office buildings, where occupants' productivity is highly affected by their working environment. An effective Façade, therefore, should play the role of an active building skin by adapting to the ever-changing external environment and internal requirements. This paper explores the energy-saving and indoor environment-improving potential of a phase-change material (PCM) integrated Façade. Building performance simulations, combined with parametric study and sensitivity analysis, are adopted in this research. The result quantifies the potential of a PCM-integrated Façade with different configurations and PCM properties, taking as an example a south-oriented typical office room in Shanghai. It is found that a melting temperature of around $22^{\circ}C$ for the PCM layer is optimal. Compared to a conventional Façade, a PCM-integrated Façade effectively reduces total energy use, peak heating/cooling load, and operative temperature fluctuation during the periods of May-July and November-December.