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A Study on Securing Objectivity in Small-Scale Environmental Impact Assessments Using Delphi Analysis

  • Dong-Myung CHO;Ju-Yeon LEE;Woo-Taeg KWON
    • Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.73-95
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    • 2024
  • Purpose: Since August 2000, the small-scale environmental impact assessment system has prevented indiscriminate development. However, its qualitative reports lack objectivity and consistency. This study analyzes these issues through literature and expert surveys and proposes improvements. Research Methodology: Samples were selected based on regional consultation numbers. Mitigation measures were categorized into qualitative and quantitative factors. Issues were identified, and improvements suggested. The Delphi method helped select evaluation items and propose a scoring table. Results and Conclusions: The Delphi method selected 14 absolute and 22 relative evaluation items, excluding 3 invalid ones. A 100-point scoring table was created, with points assigned based on element significance. A 1-point bonus was added for top-scoring elements to promote eco-friendly planning.

The Impact of Organizational Safety Culture on the Resilience Ability : Focused on the Construction Industry (조직의 안전문화가 레질리언스 역량에 미치는 영향 : 건설업을 중심으로)

  • Chu, Chan Ho;An, Kang Min;Baek, Dong Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.73-85
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    • 2021
  • The construction industry is considered to be a fatal accident industry, accounting for 28.5% of the total industrial accidents in 2017, as the number of industrial accidents in the construction industry has steadily increased over the past decade. So it is necessary to consider introducing Resilience Engineering, which is actively applied to risky industries around the world, to drastically reduce construction accidents. Although Resilience Engineering, which has emerged as the next-generation safety management centered on Hollnagel since the 2000s, claims the importance of strengthening Resilience abilities considering organizational structure and culture, most studies focus only on developing evaluation indicators. The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of an organization's safety culture on its Resilience abilities in the construction industry. Specifically, it conducted empirical analysis on the impact of safety culture consisting of 'communication, leadership and safety systems' on the Resilience abilities(responding ability, monitoring ability, learning ability, anticipating ability), and the mediation relationship between leadership, communication, and safety system. The survey was conducted on construction workers, and an empirical analysis was conducted on the final 154 responses using SPSS 25 and Smart PLS 3. The results showed that the safety system had a significant impact on all Resilience Abilities, and communication had a significant impact on the remaining three except for anticipating ability among Resilience Abilities. On the other hand, leadership has been shown to have a significant impact on anticipating ability only. In the verifying of the mediation relationship between leadership, communication and safety systems, it was found that leadership affects all Resilience abilities by means of safety systems, but communication can only affect responding ability. This study has practical significance in that it suggests the need for policy-level efforts to introduce and apply Resilience Engineering and then expanded the effective safety management assessment of the construction industry in the future. Moreover, the academic implications are important in that the study attempted to expand the academic scope for a paradigm shift in the future as the safety culture has identified its impact on the Resilience abilities.

Analysis and Improvement for Manual to Protect Mountain Disaster in Urban Area (도심지 토사재해 예방을 위한 기존 매뉴얼 분석과 개선 방안)

  • Song, Byungwoong;Baek, Woohyun;Yoon, Junghwan;Sim, Oubae
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.16 no.7
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    • pp.43-53
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    • 2015
  • More than 70 percent of the Korean territory consists of mountain area so development of mountain district is essential to urbanize continuously. Thus, technological developments for risk factors and standards and manuals must be needed to prevent mountain disaster. Risk Management Manual should be made and operated in government legislation related to national disaster, but there is still no Emergency Management Standard Manual and Emergency Response-Practical Manual to prevent mountain disaster. This study suggests the improvement plans that are legislated but not established cleary in the field of disaster in urban area. The main items are like as 1) adaptable standard and practical manual to prevent mountain disaster in urban area, 2) reinforcement between managing department and interagency vertically and horizontally in central and local government organization, 3) Personal SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) not EOP (Emergency Operation Plan), 4) considering 13 items selected by Ministry of Public Safety and Security, 5) schematization with personal action plan, 6) check list to do in the event of mountain disaster, and 7) regular practice per quarter.

A study on the actual condition of counterplan for product liability in small and medium enterprises (중소기업의 제조물 책임(PL) 대응실태에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Roh-Gook;Lee, Song-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.507-516
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    • 2010
  • Product liability as a process has developed significantly in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The safety of the product becomes one of the most important elements in modern corporate management. The rapid introduction of product liability has recently been a prevalent phenomenon, as global changes arising from rapid development in science and the economy have resulted in a highly interconnected world economy. This thesis was established, based on current literature and business consulting cases in the position of companies, and is one of the operating subjects in a system for legal responsibility in manufactured products.

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Fire & Life Safety Challenges in Sustainable Tall Building Design

  • Li, Fang;Reiss, Martin
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2013
  • The movement towards sustainable building design can result in unique fire protection challenges and concerns, especially with super tall buildings in relationship to traditional prescriptive code compliance. Different countries haves different code requirements as well as local best practices and may cause conflict with the design features when designing green buildings. These include, but not limited to green roofs, sprinkler water quality and testing, fire department access and areas of refuge with direct or indirect impact by the perspective code compliance. The solutions to these prescriptive code challenges and fire safety concerns can range from simple alternatives to more detailed engineering performance-based design analyses with good solid practice.

A Study on the Analysis of System Improvement in Construction Accident Prevention through Technical Guidance on Data Analysis Results Report (중·소건설업체 재해예방 기술지도 결과보고서 자료 분석을 통한 제도 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Gyeong-Bo;Cho, Jae-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2016
  • This study of small & Medium-Sized construction sites construction disaster prevention technology conduction-site visits from the map results report by the inspector on-site advice and technical guidance for the analysis of deficiencies and potential construction of disaster revealed the potential factors causing an accident as follows. As a results, Should not be a once a month visits. Therefore should be changed at least twice a month to help prevent accidents of this system is to be judged.

A study on Noise Generation and Awareness of the Fire Alarm Sound in the Factory (공장소음으로 인한 화재 경보음 인지 영향정도에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Young-Sam
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.97-103
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    • 2015
  • The people who are in the noise factory are difficult to hear and recognize about fire and to evacuate quickly when a fire occurs. This study was conducted to analyze workplace's background noise of 31 factories in Incheon and to know the workplace noise level comparing to fire alarm sound level. The measured average noise level was 96.8dB(A). Noise level of measured result was exceeded as 6.8dB(A) comparing to NFSC (National Fire Safety Code) noise level of 90dB. NFPA suggests that when background noise exceeds 85dB or more than that, other methods should be considered to know alarm sound. Also fire alarm sound should exceed more than 15dB(A) comparing to background noise level. Therefore it was concluded that the design of the fire alarm systems should not be applied to the workplace without considering background noise and it needs to be improved with regulations and the systems.

Suggestions for effective policy improvement through analysis of government policies and certification acquisition cases related to international certification of railway domain products. (철도제품 국제인증관련 정부 정책 및 인증획득 사례 분석을 통한 실효적 정책 개선안에 관한 제언)

  • Choi, Yo Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.106-113
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    • 2021
  • Today, the market and customer requirements for safety-related products in the Railway industry are continuously increasing, and companies that supply these products continue to make related efforts. However, the international standard requirements for making safety-related products are high, so small and medium-sized business companies are having difficulty developing them due to problems in time and cost to achieve them. This study examined government-centered international certificate policies and cases and suggested improvement measures based on the research results. In addition to supporting international certification costs, the government needs to expand technical consulting and expert training for them to solve problems in obtaining an international certificate.

Assessment System of Safety Level of High Voltage Electrical Facilities Considering Environmental Factors (환경영향 요소를 고려한 특고압 전기설비의 안전등급 평가시스템)

  • Kim, Dong-Woo;Lim, Young-Bea;Lee, Ki-Yeon;Moon, Hyun-Wook
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.66 no.1
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    • pp.249-254
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    • 2017
  • This paper presents an assessment system of safety level of 22.9kV grade high voltage electrical facilities considering environmental factors. The assessment system was developed based on the following procedure. Firstly, assessment structure was determined by consulting standards regarding inspection and diagnosis of electrical facilities. Secondly, contents of items and sub items of assessment system were developed. Thirdly, in order to quantify the importance of the assessment system, the weight was calculated using Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP). Lastly, assessment table of safety level was developed including environmental factors such as period of use and load factor. The developed system can evaluate the safety level of high voltage facilities in an objective way. Therefore it can be applicable to electrical safety management system based on Internet of Things(IoT).

Analysis of Safety of the Chemical Facilities by Korea Risk Based-Inspection in the Petrochemical Plant (석유화학공장에서의 한국형 위험기반검사에 의한 화학설비의 안정성 평가)

  • Kim, Tae-Ok;Lee, Hern-Chang;Shin, Pyng-Sik;Choi, Byung-Nam;Jo, Ji-Hoon;Choi, Byung-Young;Park, Sung-Hoo;Kim, Hung-Kun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.35-40
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    • 2007
  • As a way of improving the safety of the chemical facilities, the risk based-inspection(RBI) was executed for the facilities of the applied petrochemical plant using KS-RBI Ver. 3.0 program developed based on the API-581 based resource document(BRD). From an evaluation result of KS-RBI program, we could find the evaluation of the process safety management(PSM) for the applied plant, risk of the applied process, risk of static facilities and pipes, and the demage mechanism of the facilities. Also, we could suggest a proper inspection plan(frequency and method of inspection) using the calculated risk and the status of the facilities. Therefore, the applied plant could be achieved a reduced inspection cost by an extension of inspection frequency, improved productivity, improved reliability of the facilities, and a computerized history management.