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Comparing the Effectiveness of Road Safety Features by Spatial Scope of Safety Improvement Project (도로안전개선사업의 공간적 범위에 따른 도로안전시설물의 효과도 비교)

  • Park, Gyu-Yeong;Kim, Tae-Hui;Kim, Seong-Uk;Lee, Su-Beom
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.24 no.4 s.90
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    • pp.31-42
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of road safety features by spatial scope Spot & Section-based safety Improvement project. Empirical data was collected from black-spot study of Jeonbuk and "Traffic Safety Improvement Project on National Highway 17". Evaluation model of effectiveness was developed by using Empirical Bayes (EB) method. And Relative Effectiveness was measured by Odds Ratio. The result indicates that Section-based safety improvement was $7.09{\sim}77.27%$ more effective than the spot-based. It means that section-based improvement projects should be expanded while considering the characteristics of the section in spot based improvement.

Accident Reduction Effectiveness of Safety Management Programs for a Commercial Transport Company (운수업체의 안전관리를 통한 교통사고 감소 효과분석 (천사 2020 프로젝트를 중심으로))

  • Jeong, Sang-Ho;O, Yeong-Tae
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.53-62
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    • 2011
  • This study discusses the effectiveness of safety management programs resulted from examining crash data collected during the period of implementation of the programs by a commercial transport company. For the analysis, two tye of comparison approaches are adopted: 1) a study comparing before-after of the implementation of a safety program, and 2) a study comparing a traffic accident index for various target groups. Technically, the effect of the safety management program is derived by eliminating both the 'regression to the mean' and the changing trend in the traffic accident index. The results show that safety management programs are effective to prevent traffic accidents, whereas company type appears irrelevant. The results also show that the effectiveness is significantly different depending on the intensity of safety management program and company size. In addition, a reciprocal effect is very likely to existamong the combination of these variables. This indicates that in order to improve the accident reduction effectiveness of such programs, the development and application of safety management programs based on both safety management strength and company size are required.

The Effectiveness Test of Improved Wheel Profile by Using Microphones (마이크로폰을 이용한 개선된 차륜답면 효과 시험)

  • Moon Kyeong-Ho;Hur Hyun-Moo;Kim Jae-Chul
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2004.06a
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    • pp.664-669
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    • 2004
  • In rolling stock, wheels are one of the most important components to run on the track in safety. Especially, it is important that wheel profile cause the variation of dynamic characteristics and running safety. The purpose of this paper is to propose the wheel profile and to know the effectiveness of improved wheel profile by using microphones. We also performed analysis of running safety to know application of improved wheel profile before the test. In result, the improved wheel profile was stable in running safety and noise level was reduced.

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Safety and Effectiveness of Food Allergen Immunotherapy (Oral): A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis

  • Mo, Jin-A;Joo, Yea-Il
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: Food Allergen Immunotherapy (Oral) is a form of immunotherapy administered to patients who are allergic to foods such as egg, milk, and peanut. The food allergen is orally administered to the patient in an escalating dose for desensitization or tolerance development. The safety and effectiveness of the therapy were assessed using a systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Methods: For a literature search, 8 national databases and a number of international databases including Ovid-MEDLINE, Ovid-EMBASE, and Cochrane Library were used; and 13 articles (all from international databases) were selected. The target of Food Allergen Immunotherapy (Oral) included patients with food allergy, and the intervention was food allergen immunotherapy without limiting the food type. The safety and effectiveness of Food Allergen Immunotherapy (Oral) were assessed by reviewing all the articles reporting on the therapy. The control group received standard therapies including aversion therapy, no treatment, anti-histamine treatment, and placebo. Safety was assessed through the incidence of complication and emergency medication. Effectiveness was assessed based on therapy success rate, symptomatic improvement, and quality of life. Results: Although Food Allergen Immunotherapy (Oral) was shown to have successful desensitization in patients with food allergy, the safety of the technique has not yet reached an acceptable level; the possible reason is due to the high rate of complication and frequency of emergency medication. Also, each study employed varying protocols while relying on a small number of participants and a short monitoring period. Conclusion: The results of assessment suggest that the level of evidence from current literature review is low and further research is necessitated for the verification of the safety and effectiveness of the therapy (Grade of Recommendation: A; Level of Technology: II-b).

A study on the influence of air traffic controller's leadership characteristics and hazardous attitudes on the team effectiveness (항공교통관제사의 리더십 특성과 위험태도 요인이 팀 유효성에 미치는 영향)

  • Jang, Jung-Ha;Sin, Hyon-Sam
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.39-49
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of air traffic controller's leadership characteristics and hazardous attitudes on the team effectiveness. The effectiveness make use of team efficacy and team commitment. Leadership characteristics and hazardous attitudes make use of the contents of a CRM manual. The study showed following results. 1) Leadership characteristics has a positive influence on the team effectiveness. 2) Hazardous attitudes has a partially bad influence on the team effectiveness. This study was conducted under the auspice of civil and military ATC facilies and by participation of devoting ATC controller's.

A Study on Effectiveness of Technical Consulting System for Accident Prevention in Construction Work (건설업 재해예방 전문지도제도의 실효성 연구)

  • Park Hai-Chun;Park Jun-Ho;Kim Hyun-Woo;Park Jung-Sik;Kim Hun-Soo
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.65-84
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    • 2006
  • This study was to suggest the necessity of depth research in order to enhance the effectiveness of technical consulting system. And the purpose of this study was to decrease the construction accidents to some extent, being on the increase day by day as it takes issue properly and suggest a reform measure. As for research method, it executed the collection of public opinions widely and questionnaire with the bibliography, expert of construction safety, the related institutions, academic world, safety association, and director of construction site. Also, it was to suggest the reform measure by the stage, classifying the problems on the system and operation by 4 stages like a stage of delivery of subscription and supervision, a stage of contract with guidance of technology, a stage of executing the guidance work of technology, and a stage of performance of advice.

A Study on the Improvement of the Effectiveness of Safety and Health Education for Supervisors (관리감독자 대상 안전보건교육의 실효성 증진 방안 연구)

  • Lee, Myeong-Gu;Jeong, Myeong-Jin;Kim, Chang-Wook
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.361-366
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    • 2022
  • Although safety and health education is reported to be very effective in reducing the industrial accident rate, the demand for improvement in safety and health education is also very high. The purpose of this study is to present measures to enhance effectiveness by investigating the effectiveness and demand for safety and health education for supervisors among the safety and health education systems. As a result of the study, it was found that the satisfaction and effectiveness of safety and health education were low. As the most important competency required for supervisors, it was investigated that job competency was the ability to discover harmful risk factors and formulate disaster prevention measures in the work process and work environment, and base competency was communication ability. In addition to designated safety and health education institutions, there was a high demand for recognition as education completion time even when professional education by job was completed by other professional education institutions. Therefore, in safety and health education for supervisors, it is necessary to focus on major items to improve supervisors' job competency and base competency, and to recognize that they have completed education at a wide range of educational institutions. We believe that it can increase the supervisor's capacity for safety management and improve the effectiveness of safety and health education.

Correlational Structure Modelling for Fall Accident Risk Factors of Portable Ladders Using Co-occurrence Keyword Networks (동시 출현 기반 키워드 네트워크 기법을 이용한 이동식 사다리 추락 재해 위험 요인 연관 구조 모델링)

  • Hwang, Jong Moon;Shin, Sung Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.50-59
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    • 2021
  • The main purpose of accident analysis is to identify the causal factors and the mechanisms of those factors leading to the accident. However, current accident analysis techniques focus only on finding the factors related to the accident without providing more insightful results, such as structures or mechanisms. For this reason, preventive actions for safety management are concentrated on the elimination of causal factors rather than blocking the connection or chain of accident processes. This greatly reduces the effectiveness of safety management in practice. In the present study, a technique to model the correlational structure of accident risk factors is proposed by using the co-occurrence keyword network analysis technique. To investigate the effectiveness of the proposed technique, a case study involving a portable ladder fall accident is conducted. The results indicate that the proposed technique can construct the correlational structure model of the risk factors of a portable ladder fall accident. This proves the effectiveness of the proposed technique in modeling the correlational structure of accident risk factors.

On the Performance Management System to Analyse the Effectiveness of Type Approval System for Railway Vehicle

  • Lee, Young Hoon;Lee, Jee Ha;Park, Chan Kyung;Kim, Young Min
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2021
  • The type approval system for railway vehicle has been in effect since 2016 in order to establish a regular safety management system to secure railway safety and enhance the technological competitiveness of the railway industry, abolished the conventional performance test system through the reform of the Railroad Safety Act in 2012. Until now, there has been appreciated it has been making significant contributions to railway safety and industry of operation and manufacturing companies, taking their place in accordance with the implementation of the system. But there has been no case of quantitative analysis on the effectiveness of the actual system. In this study, in order to examine the full-scale performance of the approval system and quantitatively analyze effectiveness, we identified and defined the relationships with the major elements of the type approval system based on system thinking principle and determined the calculated outcomes to relevant stakeholders. A method of establishing a type approval performance management system that can be grasped, utilized, and adjusted from a point of various stakeholders' views was proposed. This is expected to be more helpful in the implementation of the system, such as improving and applying quantitative effects to analysis by closely reviewing the effects and influencing factors of the type approval system based on the data accumulated through continuous performance management and reflecting to system improvement.

A Study on the Improvement of Safety Management at the Construction Stage using Design for Safety Results - Focusing on the Connection between Design for Safety and Safety Management Plan (설계 안전성 검토 결과를 활용한 시공단계 안전관리 업무 개선 - 설계 안전성 검토와 안전관리계획의 연계를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Goon Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.54-60
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    • 2020
  • Recently, the issue of construction safety is growing. In the construction industry, accidents have continued to increase since 2000. In particular, the number of accident deaths at small and medium-sized construction sites accounts for 72.11% of the total number of accident deaths in the construction industry. For construction safety, prior safety evaluation systems such as Design for safety and safety management plan preparation are in place. However, at construction sites, these systems are recognized as formal legal documents, and their effectiveness is greatly reduced. Therefore, in this study, a linkage model that links design safety review information and safety management plan information was presented so that the safety management plan can be efficiently established. In addition, the effectiveness of the proposed process was verified as an example of actual work. The linkage model will contribute to improving the safety management environment at the site by increasing the productivity of safety management work by enabling easy sharing of risk factor information in the construction stage safety management work. The results of this study will be used as basic information for the development of the integrated safety management system.