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A Study on the Relationship between School Foodservice Employees' Attitudes toward Food Hygiene Education and Hygiene Practices

  • Heo, Ja Gyung;Lee, Jee Hye
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.323-328
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    • 2015
  • In order to provide efficient information ensuring school food safety, this current study investigated the relationship between general characteristics of food service operation and food hygiene practices and employee's attitudes toward food hygiene education and food hygiene practices. Data were collected from a total of 185 school food service employees in the GyeongSangNam-do area. As for the differences in the overall the evaluation of sanitary practice level in accordance with the general characteristics about the school food service employees, there were significant differences in the type of school food service and times of serving food per day. Also, hygiene practices in solo foodservice were better than in joint foodservice. The respondents who had positive attitudes toward food safety education showed better food safety practices. It is recommended that consistent food safety education based on various methods can contribute to appropriate food safety performance.

Assessment of Food Safety Management Performance for School Food Service in the Seoul Area (서울지역 학교급식 위생관리 수행수준 평가)

  • Lee, Ji-Hyun;Goh, Yu-Kyoung;Park, Ki-Hwan;Ryu, Kyung
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.310-321
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    • 2007
  • Effective and systematic sanitation management programs are necessary to prevent foodborne disease outbreaks in school foodservice operations. The purpose of this study was to identify the elements to improve in order to ensure the safety of school food service by evaluating sanitation management practices implemented under HACCP-based programs. The survey was designed to assess the level of hygiene practices of school food service by using an inspection checklist of food hygiene and safety. Fifty-four school foodservice establishments considered as poor sanitation practice groups from two year inspections by Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education were surveyed from September to December in 2005. Inspection checklists consisted of seven categories with 50 checkpoints; facilities and equipment management, personal hygiene, ingredient control, process control, environmental sanitation management, HACCP system and safety management. Surveyed schools scored $68.0{\pm}12.42$ points out of 100 on average. The average score (% of compliance) of each field was 10.7/20 (53.3%) for facilities and equipment management, 7.4/11 (67.2%) for personal hygiene, 7.4/11 (74.1%) for ingredient control, 22.4/32 (69.8%) for process control, 8.9/12 (73.8%) for environmental sanitation management, 4.2/7 (59.7%) for HACCP systems management, and 7.2/8 (89.7%) for safety management, respectively. The field to be improved first was the sanitation control of facilities and equipment. The elements to improve this category were unprofessional consultation for kitchen layout, improper compartment of the kitchen area, lacks of pest control, inadequate water supply, poor ventilation system, and insufficient hand-washing facilities. To elevate the overall performance level of sanitation management, prerequisite programs prior to HACCP plan implementation should be stressed on the school officials, specifically principals, for the integration of the system.

Impact of Coping and Communication Skills Program on Physician Burnout, Quality of Life, and Emotional Flooding

  • Penberthy, Jennifer K.;Chhabra, Dinesh;Ducar, Dallas M.;Avitabile, Nina;Lynch, Morgan;Khanna, Surbhi;Xu, Yiqin;Ait-Daoud, Nassima;Schorling, John
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.381-387
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    • 2018
  • Background: Physician behaviors that undermine a culture of safety have gained increasing attention as health-care organizations strive to create a culture of safety and reduce medical errors. We developed, implemented, and assessed a course to teach physicians skills regarding effective coping and interpersonal communication skills and present our results regarding outcomes. Methods: We examined a professional development program specifically designed to address unprofessional or distressed behaviors of physicians, and we evaluated the impact on burnout, quality of life, and emotional flooding scores of the physicians. Assessments of burnout, quality of life, and emotional flooding were assessed preintervention and postintervention. Results: Results demonstrated statistically significant reductions over time in physicians' emotional flooding and emotional exhaustion (EE). Specifically, using a Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test, results revealed that flooding scores at follow-up were statistically significantly lower than at baseline, V = 590, p < 0.05, and EE and personal accomplishment distributions were found to significantly deviate from normal as indicated by Shapiroe-Wilks tests (p < 0.05). A Wilcoxon signed-rank test indicated that EE scores were significantly higher at baseline compared to follow-up 1, V = 285, p < 0.05. Conclusion: We conclude that the physician participants who enrolled in the educational skills training program improved scores on emotional flooding and EE and that this may be indicative of improved skills related to their experiences and learning in the program. These improved skills in physicians may have a positive impact on the overall culture of safety in the health system setting.

EPC Sensor Network-based Product and Process Traceability System in the Food Supply Chain

  • Chun, Jung-Woo;Oh, Ji-Sung;Rho, Jae-Jueng;Lee, Jung-Wook
    • 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.184-189
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    • 2007
  • Concerns about food safety continue to rise and under this situation, governments of some countries have reinforced their regulations more strictly for food safety. In order to prevent food safety incidents or, at least to minimize the impact, the preparedness is very important. As a consequence of this, traceability system has become an essential tool for food safety. Recently, it requires more prevention-based food safety control system. One of the most generally used systems for food safety control is Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP). Both traceability and HACCP systems can be integrated through Electronic Product Code (EPC) Sensor Network technologies which have four value propositions. In this paper, we will introduce the concept of product and process traceability system (P2TS) through the integration of three systems to improve food safety management. The final aim is to find out the added values of the P2TS.

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A Study on Toxicity Evaluation of Combustion Gases Released from the Residental Container Fire - Efficiency Test for the Fire Gas Mask Filters (주거용 컨테이너 화재시 발생되는 연소가스의 독성 평가에 관한 연구 - 화재용 방독면 filter의 성능평가를 중심으로)

  • Lee Jung Yun;Kim Jeong Hun;Kim Youn-Hi;Jung Ki Chang
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.19 no.4 s.68
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    • pp.48-54
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    • 2004
  • The recent Ire incident in an elementary school of Chonan city causes the media focus on the fire safety of residential container buildings. In this study, real fire tests were conducted in this kind of buildings. Combustion products including $O_2,\; CO_2,\;CO,\;NOx,\;SOx,\;HCI,\;HCN$ were measured, and blood samples of lab rats were analyzed in terms of Co-Hb, Glucose, AST(GOT), ALT(GPT), in order to investigate the hazard-reduction effects of employing gas mask protected with filter during the fire emergency of residential container buildings. According to the test results, whether or not employing the filter showed a sheer difference in the toxicity of the fire-induced gases, and then the importance of wearing a gas mask was evidently demonstrated.

Design for Smart Safety Management System: from Worker and Mobile Equipment Perspectives (시스템엔지니어링 기반의 스마트 안전관리 시스템설계: 작업자와 이동 장비를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Hyoung Min;Yoon, Sung Jae;Hong, Dae Guen;Suh, Suk-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.41-49
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    • 2015
  • Industrial safety is one of the crucial agenda for Government as well as Manufacturing Industry. To cope with the needs, a great deal of policies and technical implementation have been proposed and implemented. With a great increasing attention on the Industry 4.0 and Smart Factory, industrial safety has received as a crucial agenda by the manufacturing industry in particular. Up until now, almost all of them have been made from the environmental aspects, rather than operator or workers. In this paper, we present our research results how to increase the workers' safety via smart factory technology, such as IoT and CPS. Our approach has been to see the problem from SE perspectives, to draw the real issues from the various stakeholders, and define how to solve the problem based on the emerging technologies. The developed systems can give conceptual framework for the 'smart' industrial safety system by providing solution architecture for how to monitor the location of workers, and moving equipments, and generate solutions how to avoid safety problems between them if detected.

A Study on Accidents Occurred in Primary Schools and on the Experimental Test of the Safety of Building Floors (초등학교의 시설물 관련 안전사고 실태분석 및 실내바닥의 거주안전성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Choi, Soo-Kyung;Park, Chan-Joo;Kim, Soo-Gil
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.21-32
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the improvement of the slipperiness of building floors and to test the safety in accidental collision in the primary schools. To perform this purpose effectively, the actual 20,202 cases of accident on the year 2000-2009 which had been dealt by Seoul School Safety and Insurance Association were analysed in several aspects. And to test the current slipperiness and hardness of building floors, 3 primary schools whose construction year differed were examined. This study found that among the indoor accidents of 2,646 cases on the year 2000-2002, 70.7% accidents of them were caused by slipperiness. It was also found that the building floors of the primary schools could not be safe from the result of examining the slipperiness and hardness of the building floors. As the result of this study, it showed that the desirable efficient criterion of slipperiness would be more than C.S.R 0.4, and that of safety in accidental collision would be less than Gs 100G for the safety of primary school students.

A Study on Characteristics of Fire Temperature and Concentration of Toxic Gases while the Door Opening or Closed on Multi-layered Construction (복층건물의 출입문 개방여부에 따른 화재온도분포 및 독성가스 농도 변화특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jungyun;Kim, Jeonghun;Kim, Eungsik;Kim, Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.72-77
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    • 2017
  • In S. Korea, recently, building fire accidents of residential accommodations or recreational facilities have taken place more frequently than before. Among various building constructions, Multi-layered structure, such as office-residential complex, are mostly made in S. korea. $O_2$, $CO_2$, CO, $NO_x$, $SO_x$, and HCl, these gases has toxic hazard and harmful for human body. And it is predicted that different concentration of released gases from diesel pool fire with upper and lower layer. Therefore, this study reports the fire characteristics of Multi-layered structure by analyzing the fire behavior and concentration of combustion gases of a experimental compartment via real scale fire experiment, in order to predict risks and secure safety for similar fire accidents.

Customized Safety Information Delivery System for Unskilled Construction Worker Training

  • Jo, Junhyeon;Baik, Sangeun;Pedro, Akeem;Lee, Doyeop;Park, Chansik
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.525-532
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    • 2022
  • Accidents at construction sites in Korea account for more than half of all industrial accidents. To solve this problem, a policy to strengthen safety education was implemented to ensure the safety of workers. However, it was analyzed that there is a high possibility of accidents because workers did not receive proper safety information for each risk factor due to general lecture-style education. In addition, statistics show that the accident status of workers with fewer years of period is high, indicating that a customized information delivery method needs to be proposed for unskilled workers with fewer years of period. Research on the importance of education has been conducted, but no information delivery method has been identified. For unskilled workers to effectively receive safety information, appropriate delivery formats (text, photos, illustrations, 4D-BIM, 360-based panorama, video, animation) were analyzed, and a new method of education was proposed. If customized safety information is provided according to this proposal, effective information delivery to unskilled workers will be possible, and it is expected to be verified in various ways.

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A Study on the Educational Effect of Safety Education Facilities through case study and interview with experts (교육 효과 제고를 위한 안전체험시설 전문가 의식 조사)

    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.3-11
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    • 2022
  • This is a qualitative case study conducted for the purpose of enhancing educational effect of safety education facilities. Recently, the Ministry of Education (MoE) has proclaimed the 7 standards for school safety education, and has established safety education facilities to implement experience-based safety education. This study attempted to explore ways to enhance educational effect of safety education facilities through participatory observation and interview conducted with personnel of several facilities. The findings of the study were as follows: it was necessary to secure and maintain facilities for the implementation of substantial safety education, to develop and distribute standardized curriculum and materials, and to improve quality of professional instructors. The study suggested implications and future tasks to improve the education effect of safety education facilities in various dimensions.