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A Study on the Improvement of Safety Awareness through Process Safety Management of Biogas Plant

  • Hong, Eun Ju;Jeong, Myeong Jin
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.104-110
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    • 2019
  • Since 1986, domestic sewage treatment plants have installed and operated biogas plants that produce biogas (digested gas) using food, livestock manure and sewage sludge as part of the use of alternative energy for energy independence. Despite concerns about safety accidents and risks of large-scale accidents due to the continuous expansion of biogas plants, the Ministry of Environment has managed and supervised biogas plants to be environmental plants, focusing on environmental management. There is a lack of safety awareness of workers' processes. Only recently has the process safety management (PSM) system been implemented in biogas plants, but workers' perceptions of process safety have changed. As there is a difference in the degree of safety process management and safety awareness among workers, it is necessary to establish clear and systematic safety management standards. Therefore, The purpose of this study is to examine whether the application of the plant safety management (PSM) system to biogas plants is effective for workers' safety awareness in order to ensure safe operation of biogas plants and prevent workers' safety accidents in advance.

Effect of attitude and practice of PSM and clinical practice satisfaction in nursing students. (간호대학생의 환자안전문화 태도와 환자안전관리 실천이 임상실습 만족도에 미치는 효과)

  • Lee, Joo-Young;Lee, Song-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.125-132
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study was to assess the correlation between attitude of Patient Safety Management(PSM) and practice of PSM and clinical practice satisfaction of nursing students, also identified how these factors attitude and practice of PSM influence on clinical practice satisfaction, eventually aimed to develop education programs to strengthen practice of PSM in nursing students. A descriptive design was used in the study. The multiple regression was used for the study to prove the factors how the attitude and practice of PSM were affected to the clinical practice satisfaction. The study subjects were 226 nursing students. The results show that attitude of PSM mean was 3.71, practice of PSM mean 3.97, the clinical practice satisfaction mean 3.31. Among the general characteristics, clinical practice satisfaction showed significant differences in satisfaction of major(F=5.10, p=.001), the existence of role model(t=2.64, p=.009). Significant positive correlation was found between attitude of PSM, practice of PSM and the clinical practice satisfaction. Practice of PSM(${\beta}=.39$) was shown as the most important factor to affect on the Satisfaction on clinical practice, also the explanation power of value for this study was found 41.1%. Consequently, this study indicates to develop the education program to strengthen practice of PSM. Also process the additional study for the nursing students in other areas.

A Study on the Development of Safety Performance Index in Chemical Industry (화학산업에서의 안전성능지수 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Mee-Jin;Lee, Young-Soon;Kwon, Hyuck-Myun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.57-61
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    • 2008
  • In order to maintain the continual safety management in a company, it needs to evaluate and monitor its implementation of safety management. Because the number of major-accidents is not an effective method of indicating company's safety performance, various efforts to develop more reasonable indicators have been made in world wide. After Korean government has legally required the PSM report, PSM compliance audit has been developed and made by the authorities concerned since 2005. However, this audit consists of complicate procedures difficult to utilize as companies' own audit program and corresponds to only a conformity check that confirms whether the PSM be operated and maintained properly. So a new index by which to measure easily the level of safety performance and self-monitor the implementation of safety management is needed. We have studied a new method that may quantitatively evaluate the performance of safety management by investigating application cases in foreign countries and doing the domestic survey of lots of companies subject to PSM regulation in Korea. This study proposes three of safety performance indices(SPI) together with the several prerequisite preconditions and the timing for application of each index. Although the first draft of SPI needs further legal support, it might help to evaluate every company's safety level. The second draft of SPI is a voluntarily evaluating method based on web-site online program. The last draft of SPI consists of a series of simple questions about 12 elements of PSM. Also each of 3 indices has differences in evaluation methodology and application area and, therefore, they may be used concurrently.

A Study on the Improvement of Safety Management in Process Safety Management (PSM) Handling Workplaces (공정안전관리(PSM) 취급사업장의 안전관리 개선 연구 )

  • Jong-hun Park
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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    • 2023.11a
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    • pp.133-134
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    • 2023
  • 유해위험한 물질을 다루는 사업장 내에서는 폭발·화재·누출 등의 사고가 발생할 가능성이 상시 존재하므로 사고를 미리 예방하고 위험성을 파악하여 발생할 수 있는 사고를 예방하고 대처하는 안전관리가 필요하다. 우리나라는 1990년대 이후 중대산업사고 예방을 위해 유해 위험방지계획서 시행, 공정 안전관리 제도 시행 등 여러모로 노력해 오고 있으나 최근의 일련의 중대 산업사고는 그 한계를 보여주고 있다. 그래서 본 연구는 PSM 취급사업장의 안전관리 개선을 위한 대책을제시하게 되었고 PSM 취급사업장의 안전관리 개선을 위해 철저한 안전 수칙 준수를 통해 중대 재해 발생을 방지하는 안전관리 개선에 대한 방안을 도출하였다.

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A Study On Development of Safety Inspection Evaluation Method in the Construction Using PSM Method (PSM 제도를 활용한 건설업 안전점검 평가방법 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 양광모;전현정;강경식
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.24-30
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    • 2003
  • As domestic buildings have been large-scaled, diversified and high-rise, there have been a consistent demand for design, development of construction technology and accident prevention activity as well as quality enhancement. In spite of governmental and related institutions' efforts for reducing national losses which come from numerous accidents, there have been endless small and large accidents on the construction site and thus, it is urgent to conduct empirical researches in this area. Currently safety supervision system in construction industry has enforced harm and danger prevention planning system, however it merely stick to other existing materials. In addition, it is difficult to put it into practice in that it requires bearing too much burden to draw out the planning itself in a case of large construction work. Consequently in this paper we select evaluation criteria by construction progress, classify into several categories, and regard potential danger which often occurs, as a evaluation criterion. Further step is to allow workers or collaborated companies to express their expert opinions or experiences and to encourage quality and process control and autonomous safety control by applying PSM(Process Safety Management) method using AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) and to development of PSM evaluation method in the construction. The reason why PSM method should be quantitative and substantial progress is because it contributes Korean constructing companies to enhancing their safety control ability and to taking an equal stance just like developed countries, thereby strengthening their competitive edges. Boost of safety control system by PSM method could make an enormous contribution to preventing construction accidents on the site by establishing and securing an autonomous safety control system.

A Study on Using PSM Policy for the Serious Accident Prevention of Construction (건설업 중대재해 예방을 위한 PSM 제도 활용에 관한 연구)

  • 정범모;양광모;강경식
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2002
  • As domestic buildings have been large-scaled, diversified and high-rise, there have been a consistent demand for design, development of construction technology and accident prevention activity as well as quality enhancement. In spite of governmental and related institutions' efforts for reducing national losses which come from numerous accidents, there have been endless small and large accidents on the construction site and thus, it is urgent to conduct empirical researches in this area. Currently safety supervision system in construction industry has enforced harm and danger prevention planning system, however it merely stick to other existing materials. In addition, it is difficult to put it into practice in that it requires bearing too much burden to draw out the planning itself in a case of large construction work. Consequently in this paper we select evaluation criteria by construction progress, classify into several categories, and regard potential danger which often occurs, as a evaluation criterion. Further step is to allow workers or collaborated companies to express their expert opinions or experiences and to encourage quality and process control and autonomous safety control by applying PSM method. The reason why PSM method should be quantitative and substantial progress is because it contributes Korean constructing companies to enhancing their safety control ability and to taking an equal stance just like developed countries,' thereby strengthening there competitive edges. Boost of safety control system by PSM method will make an enormous contribution to preventing construction accidents on the site by establishing and securing an autonomous safety control system.

A Study on Development of Risk Assessment System for Industry Facilities Using DataBase (데이터베이스를 이용한 산업시설의 위험성평가시스템 구축에 관한 연구)

  • 엄성인;김성빈;김윤화;김기수;백종배;고재욱
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.98-104
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    • 1998
  • Recently, industrial accidents have occurred in various patterns due to the diversity of industries and the integration of facilities. Especially, the major accidents affect broad area and result in huge loss of lives and properties. Domestic researches on techniques for keeping away from such hazardous danger have been actively performed but their activities are limited in some institutes and universities. In advanced countries, integrated management systems like Seveso Directive of EU and OSHA(Occupational Safety and Health Act) of U.S.A. have been legislated along with the systematic research activities. In Korea, the integrated safety management systems called SMS(Safety Management System) and PSM(Process Safety Management) have been applied to major industries. These systems made chemical industries manage the process safety information by collecting and arranging safety data by themselves. In order to implement the system successfully, it is urgently required to prepare a tool for searching and accumulating process safety data systematically. In this study, a computerized prototype of Risk Assessment System which is essential to SMS and PSM was developed as a main system and data base as subsystem to handle safety information.

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A Study on Improvement of Process Safety Management System in Threshold Quantity Site (규정수량사업장의 공정안전관리제도 개선)

  • Jung, Jong-Soo;Kim, Yeon-Hee;Kim, Dong-Jin;Yi, Yun-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.1289-1299
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    • 2007
  • As higher on the industrialization of chemical factories in Korea, it shows a tendency that safety accident happens more times and is bigger on its size. For preventing from and decreasing such accident, PSM(Process Safety Management) system has used in chemical factories. Though it is recognized that PSM is sutable and effective for only a intensive system technically, it could be difficult to apply to all of factories, actually. This study was proceeded for investigating the effect and problems on the application and performanance of PSM into the threshold quantity site and suggesting how fur improvement. The results are as followed; PSM system was not used effectively in the threshold quantity site of medium and small-sized enterprises because of the shortage of experts and the decrease of interest as a deregulation. As the effective performanace of PSM for preventing from industrial accident in threshold quantity site and for sattling as self-system easily, it was concluded to get an active support from the concerned government. First of all, new progrems to improve PSM should be developed continually and the progrems should be educated extensively.

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A Study on the Establishment of Process Safety Management (PSM) System for Small and Medium Size Chemical Plants (중소화학공장의 공정안전관리(PSM)시스템 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Baek Jong-Bae;Ko Jae-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 1999
  • The article 49-2 of Industrial Safety Law requires that all the owners of industrial plants which contains dangerous facilities perform the process safety management. That is, this law requires the owners of industrial plants to take necessary measures to prevent fire, harmful gas leaking, explosion, and other serious accidents that could cause demage and injuries to the employees. So far, domestic chemical plants have tried to invest money and time in safety management. But, such efforts have been made only in chemical plants that were subsidiaries of large business groups. Moreover, since the economic crisis of Korea which is symbolized by the IMF bailout, small and medium size companies could not afford to invest in safety management. Their major concern is to increase productivity and thereby, survive in this crisis. The goal of this research is to develop the process safety management system that can help small and medium size companies to positively secure the process safety management. So, in developing the process safety management system, the financial and practical difficulties of such companies are fully taken into consideration.

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