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A Study on Placement, Management, and Utilization Improvement of the Automatic External Defibrillator in Ships (선박 내 자동심장충격기 설치 및 관리와 활용개선에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Jeong-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.26 no.7
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    • pp.820-829
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    • 2020
  • Because ships have limited support from land, it is necessary to equip them with automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in preparation for the incidences of cardiac arrest patients and to properly place and manage AEDs. The seafarer must have the ability to use the AEDs. This is a study to identify the placement and management of AEDs in order to increase the utilization of AEDs in ships, analyze the ability of seafarers to use AEDs and their intention to use it, and suggest improvement plans. The study was conducted from September 9, 2019, to February 20, 2020, and a total of 244 ships and 244 seafarers were surveyed. The data were analyzed by the frequency, percentage, and chi-square test using SPSS WIN 23.0 program. As a result, most of the ships with one AED number were identified, and some ships with insufficient AED placement and management were also identified. A total of 142 seafarers (58.2 %) had experience in participating in AED education; 136 seafarers (55.7 %) had intention to use AEDs; and the most barrier factor was "I don't know how to use" (63.0 %). The intention to use AEDs was high among seafarers in the position of the captain, navigator, and deck department personnel, and when they had an experience in AED training and the training period was less than six months, they were active in using AEDs. In addition, efforts to raise an awareness and education of AEDs are required for occupational groups other than navigators who are not willing to use AEDs in ships, and it is necessary to review appropriate retraining cycles through an evaluation of the seafarer's ability to use AEDs.

A Study on Health Status and Occupational Stress of Seafarer (선원의 직업성 스트레스 및 건강도에 관한 연구)

  • Moon Serng-Bae;Jung Un-Seok;Ha Hae-Dong;Jun Seung-Hwan;Kim Jae-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2006.06b
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 2006
  • It is naturally to be expected that the stress of seafarers has some specific characters compared to other workers who are labouring on land. Because the physical rigors of working and living at sea has been endured as a part of job. The excessive stress caused by shipboard life, their jobs, can weaken the health status and court the work related accidents. Also it will be the immediate causes of marine accidents such as collision, sinking etc. In this paper, a questionnaire survey was undertaken to find out the approximate quantity and source of seafarer's occupational stress. And the heart rate of deck officers on duty was measured to develop a profile of correlation between the stress and the work.

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A Survey Study on the Outline of Chinese Seafarers' Education System and the Mechanism of Chinese Overseas Seafarers' Employment (중국의 선원교육제도의 개요와 선원송출조직에 관한 조사연구)

  • 신명남;이태우
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.75-87
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    • 1997
  • Chinese seafarers have begun to be employed by foreign shipowners since 14979. Recognizing the benefits of overseas seafarers employment , Chinese goverment has implemented policy for seafarers' education and supply. Over the past two decades, the goverment has expanded and improved seafarer training facilities. As a result a number of seafarers have been educated, who are now available for employment on Chinese and foreign flag vessels. In 1995, about 20,000 Chinese seafarers served on foregin shipowner's vessels and the total foreign currency they earned was approximately US $300 million. This paper aims to describe the education system for Chinese seafarers and the mechanism of Chinese overseas seafarers employment and to highlight main problems occurred in the mechanism of their overseas employment. It takes the fact-finding research method with literature survey and interview.

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A Study on the improvement for Basic·Advance Safety Training Course - Focusing on the Crew's Fire Fighting Training - (기초·상급안전교육과정 개선방안에 대한 연구 -선원 소화교육 중심-)

  • CHO, Jang-Won;LEE, Chang-Hee
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.417-427
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    • 2016
  • It is provided that the seaman should be educated and trained by basic fire-fighting to save the life and protect asset at sea by the STCW(The International Convention on Standard for Training, Certification and Watchkeeping). The designated seaman's safety educational institution which is specified in the nation has held a basic and advanced fire-fighting education for the seaman. The interest of safety at sea has been increasing due to recent huge maritime disaster and there is a tendency to strengthen the safety education for the seaman in the nation. For the effective fire-fighting education for the seaman, the appropriate educational content and facilities are required. Moreover, It is necessary to apply an effective education and training methods for achieving the goal. Unfortunately, this paper has not perfectly been conducted to improve effective safety training in the designated educational institutions which held the seaman's maritime safety educations. From now on, we should consider the effective educational ways for the seaman. The purpose of this paper is to develop the education and training model of STCW seaman's fire-fighting education through the reviewing the status of safety education in the nation.

A Study on Development of Gap Competency Matrix for Offshore Workforce -Focusing on the Job Transportation for Seafarers- (해양플랜트 인력양성을 위한 직무능력향상 매트릭스 개발에 관한 연구 -해기사의 직업전환을 중심-)

  • LEE, Jin-Woo;LEE, Chang-Hee
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.407-416
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    • 2016
  • The offshore plant industry has basically functioned with a rigid teamwork culture and many operations are managed by ship's crew, shifts and affiliates together. The marine sector of offshore plant has much similarity with ship's environment. So a person who had experienced on board will have advantages to work for offshore industry. But in spite of all that, only a few korean seafarers are able to join in the offshore industry due to lack of information about the offshore environment. This study analyze the employee's wage structure, nature of employment contract, requirements of job qualifications. Therefore, this study will assist for seafarers to set up how to get their work and also suggest to develop relevant offshore training courses by researching the gap competency matrix.

A Study on Collection and Usage of Panel Data on On-board Job Taking and Separation of Korean Seafarers (한국선원의 승선과 이직에 대한 패널자료 구축과 활용방안)

  • Park, Yong-An
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.149-163
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    • 2016
  • Seafarers are an essential resource in maritime industries, which provide navigation skills, vessel maneuvering skills and fishing skills in the fishery industry. They also work as a driving force in pilotage, port operation, vessel traffic service, and marine safety. Other areas in maritime services, which rely on seafarer include safety management of ships, supervisory activities, and maritime accident assessment. In these ways, Korean seafarers have contributed to the growth of Korean economy. However, there have been issues of high separation rate, shortage of supply, multi-nationality, multiplicity of culture caused by employment of foreign seafarers, and aging. The present paper finds that maritime officers and fishery officers demonstrate differences in the statistics of on-board job taking and separation: the separation rate of fishery officers is higher than that of maritime officers. The existing data and statistics by the Korea Seafarer's Welfare & Employment Center could be improved by changing its structure from time series to panel data. The Korea Seafarer's Welfare & Employment Center is the ideal institution for collecting the panel data, as it has already accumulated and published relevant statistics regarding seafarer. The basic design method of the panel data is to adopt and improve it by including the information on ratings of maritime and fishery industries, ranks in a ship, personal information, family life, and career goal. Panel data are useful in short- and long-term forecasts of supply of Korean seafarers; demand evaluation of education, training, and reeducation of the seafarers; demographical dynamic analysis on Korean seafarers; inducement policy of long-term on board job taking in harmony with man-power demands in marine industries such as pilotage service; implementation of job attractiveness policy on Korean seafarers; and employment stabilization of Korean seafarers.

Development of Safe Navigation Contents for Aging Seafarer in Tug-barge Transportation (고령 예부선 운항자를 위한 안전운항 교육 콘텐츠의 개발)

  • Kim, Hong-Tae;Chang, Hea-Jung;Kim, Hye-Jin
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.351-358
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    • 2011
  • Recently, tugs and barges have become larger in size and increased in number. Also, most of tugs and barges are more than ten-years old. Total number of marine accident has been decreased, whereas that of accidental happening in tug-barge transportation has not been decreased. The statistics of marine accidents in 2010 shows that tug-barge accidents increased rapidly compared with those of 2009. The cause of accidental happening in tug-barge transportation is a quality of tug-barge operator the labour serious shortage of crew. This study is to give or suggest the various educational contents considering old age of crew and navigational environment for safe navigation in tug-barge transportation.

A Study of the Comparison of Cognition between Seafarer and Shipping Operations Manager on Human Factors of Ship Accident (선박사고의 인적요인에 대한 선원과 운항관리자 간의 인식 비교에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dae-hyeon;Park, Ho;Kim, Sang-youl
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.105-124
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to identify human factors that directly or indirectly cause ship accidents and to suggest implications based on the derived human factors. In particular, we conducted a survey on the basis of the human factors derived from the literature survey and interviews, and applied the revised importance-performance analysis (IPA) to develop implications from a comparison of two groups: seafarers and shipping operations managers. Data were collected from 159 practitioners in the Korean shipping industry. The analysis structure consisted of five major factors with 20 components, including unique factors related to ship and shipping management companies, personal competence, in-vessel organization, and personnel's health, as well as social factors. The result of the IPA analysis indicates that in-vessel organization is the most urgent and major factor for improvement. Some differences exist in the components that should be improved between the two groups. For the seafarer group, an increase in unskilled onboard crew affected sustainable safety activities, thus implying an area of preferential improvement regarding the in-vessel organization factor. However, for the shipping operations managers group, the difference in recognizing safety standards among the crew members on board and the ability to communicate with other crew members should be improved first relative to in-vessel organization factors. The personnel's health factor was identified to be of low importance in both groups. Finally, the importance of improving the safety consciousness level according to the safety education and training implementation for seafarers on board was different for the two groups.

A Study on the Development of a Human Resource Management Program for Commissioned On-board Trainees (위탁승선실습생의 인적자원관리 프로그램 개발 연구)

  • Park, Jun-Mo;Jung, Chang-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2019
  • This study investigated the purpose of commissioned on-board training and the legal basis for the management of commissioned on-board trainees, focusing on the seafarer educational institution belonging to the Ministry of Education, which cultivates merchant mariners. A program was developed based on this research. Despite the legal basis for the management of commissioned on-board trainees, satisfaction with on-board training management has not been high, and the on-board trainee management system of the university was poor. As a result safety accidents among commissioned on-board trainees occurred on ships, and a few students abandoned on-board training. An I.M.S.A.R. model has been developed for safe and systematic management of commissioned on-board trainees, and a base for a human resource management program for commissioned on-board trainees has also been developed. This study is meaningful in that it derived a practical plan for the management of commissioned on-board trainees.

Determinants of Seafarers' Employment Stability (외항선원 고용형태 결정요인에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Tae-Hwee
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.44 no.6
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    • pp.534-540
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    • 2020
  • Like most developed countries, South Korea is experiencing a severe lack of seafarers. Because young people's demands for a high quality of life has led them to seek shore-based careers. The wage difference between seafaring and shore-based careers has been decreasing gradually, however South Korea's unique Boarding Service Reserve System Policy has helped recruit and retain young sailors and, since 2017, the government has focused on creating new jobs and stabilizing the status of irregular workers in both private and public sectors. It specifically established the Economic, Social & Labor Council to carefully analyze seafarers' employment stability, which previously had been overlooked in the country. This research used the Binary Logit Model (BLM) to analyze the determinants of seafarers' employment stability in both permanent and non-permanent positions. We found that seafarers' employment stability correlated highly with their education level. This means that seafarers who graduated from the above mentioned two maritime universities would have more job stablity than those who graduated from maritime high schools or general universities. Other independent variables, such as the shipping company, vessel, hip management companies, work assignment, rank, and license had no significant impact on employment stability.