• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.418-424
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• 2020

Background: According to the previous studies, the work-related accident rate decreased in Korea after the introduction of occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS), but there were several disasters in Korea such as subway worker's death at Guui station in 2016 and the Taean thermal power plant accident in 2018, which escalated the social demand for safety. In 2018, OHSMS became an international standard, as ISO45001 was announced. Methods: A survey was conducted to research the implementation status of OHSMS and changes in people's perception, and the results were compared with those of a past survey. Results: Enhanced social demand and various stakeholders' (not only buyer) needs, and social responsibility are perceived as the motivation for the introduction of OHSMS rather than legal compliance or customer demand. In the questionnaire about problems with the implementation of OHSMS, the factors with higher response rate in 2018 than 2004 were "excessive cost" and "complicated documentation management." In the questionnaire about how to promote OHSMS in organizations, most people answered "reduction of workers' compensation insurance rate" in 2004, but most people answered "exemption from health and safety supervision" in 2018. Conclusion: For the effective implementation of ISO45001, emphasis is placed on social demand, training to recognize health and safety as a part of management, and the reduction of certification and consulting costs to promote the introduction of OHSMS. Incentives such as insurance premium cuts and exemptions from health and safety supervision are needed.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.13-17
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• 2005

This paper presents an information system of noise and vibration caused by people as a major source of the environmental problem in residential areas with which people are dissatisfied. Therefore, it is important to monitor the influence of noise and vibration in residential areas. Generally, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) play an important role in noise and vibration mapping. The purpose of this paper is to investigate noise and vibration effects in an urban area and develop a new information network in GIS. Noise and vibration measurements were carried out at a road randomly chosen near INJE University. The obtained values are graphically represented with GIS. Therefore, it is possible to predict noise and vibration in GIS when establishing effective urban plans.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권12호
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• pp.4150-4157
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• 2021

The supervision mode, monitoring basis and monitoring scheme of radiation environment monitoring concerning typical research reactors in China were investigated in this study. Summary and analysis were concluded of the present situation of supervised monitoring of radiation environment, such as monitoring objects, points, frequency and so on, based on the relevant data of monitoring points of four typical research reactors in China. Some experiences and existing problems were analyzed concerning the supervised monitoring of China's research reactors. Tips on topics related to strengthen the monitoring of radiation environment around the research reactors has noted.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2017

Recently, for safety of people, there are proposed so many technologies which detect density of people at the specific place or space. The representative technology for crowd density estimation was using image analysis method from CCTV images. However, this method had a weakness which could not be used and which's accuracy was lower at the dark or smog space. Therefore, in this paper, to solve this problem, we proposed a user density estimation system at closed space using high frequency and smart device. The system send inaudible high frequencies to smart devices and it count the smart devices which detect the high frequencies on the space. We tested real-time user density with the proposed system and ten smart devices to evaluate performance. According to the testing results, we confirmed that the proposed system's accuracy was 95% and it was very useful. Thus, because the proposed system could estimate about user density at specific space exactly, it could be useful technology for safety of people and measurement of space use state at indoor space.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제30권B호
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• pp.55-59
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• 2010

The number of elderly people living alone increases with the trend of nuclear family in recent aging society and advances of health and medical technologies, where the safety of the elderly people becomes a big social issue. One of the safety system for them these days is that security guards regularly visit homes of the elderly living alone to check their safety. However, it is an inefficient system since it costs a great deal. So, a new efficient system with low cost using modern advanced technologies needs to be developed. In this paper, we implement a monitoring system for elderly living alone using ubiquitous sensor and zigbeX. The system can remotely determine the health status of elderly people and report to their hospitals. Since the system can be implemented with low cost and do the same job as security guards do, we expect that it should replace the existing expensive monitoring system.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1453-1454
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• 2007

A street light is an electrical equipment to improve the traffic safety and the security for people in night. However, many accidents due to electric shock have happened in recent, people were interested in the safety of electrical facilities. And people want to know the danger by touch and step voltages. When the electric power lines fall down on the ground, the fault current flows to ground rod and the potential near the ground rod is increased to induce the high touch and step voltages. In this paper, we installed different ground rods with a street light and investigated the electrical potential according to ground methods and the types of ground rod. Finally, we examined the electrical facilities with the experimental result and present the improved technical data for the safety from electric shock

• 재활복지공학회논문지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.29-37
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• 2013

본 연구는 문헌조사와 인터넷 자료검색을 통해 국내외 장애인 복지차 시장현황에 대한 잠재수요를 파악하고, 장애유형을 따른 복지차 사용 용도별 국내외 기술현황을 통해 한국형 장애인 복지차 발전 로드맵을 제시하고자 한다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 장애인 복지차 관련 기술 개발 뿐만 아니라 장애인 자동차의 안전기준 역시 아직 선진국에 비해 미약한 상황이다. 일본, 미국 등과 같이 장애인 복지차 관련 설치, 규격, 기능 및 안전에 대한 기준 및 제도를 마련되어야 할 것이다. 둘째, 미국의 ADA법, 영국의 장애인 차별 금지법, 일본의 Barrier Free법과 같이 장애인에게 지원에 관해 포괄적인 법의 효력을 가짐으로써, 장애인들의 여행과 교통, 고용 기회, 교육, 차량 개조 지원금 등 복지증진하기 위한 조치가 증대됨에 따라 장애인 개조 차량이 더욱 더 늘어난 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 국내외 복지차 시장현황과 수요예측에 대한 비교분석을 통해 장애인 개조 차량구입과 밀접한 요소로써, 가장 주목해야 할 점은 장애인 고용율과 월평균 소득이 중요한 것으로 나타났다. 이를 위해 정부 각 부처 및 산업전반에 걸쳐 현 장애인 복지법 하위법령개정이나 장애인 복지차 관련법 세부 안전지침에 대한 특별법 제정을 통하여 포괄적인 협력이 필요할 것으로 사료된다. 향후 국내 장애인 복지차 관련 제도/사회 등의 변화를 통해 연간 1만대 이상 복지차 수요가 예상될 것이다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.236-238
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• 2018

Sleep deprivation may cause accidents, and it has deteriorating effects on health. A measurement of postural steadiness by a portable and affordable Nintendo Wii Fit balance board can be used to quantify a person's alertness. At work, people are under the influence of their environment-often other peopl-dthat may affect their alertness. This work investigates whether sleep deprivation among people is "contagious," as quantified by sway measures. We measured 21 volunteers' postural steadiness while alert and sleep deprived. During the measurements, a screen placed in front of the participants showed a footage of either alert or sleep-deprived faces. We found a significant difference between the day time and night time steadiness, but found no effect resulting from watching footage of sleep-deprived people. This finding shows that a posturographic sleepiness tester quantifies physiological sleep deprivation, and is insensitive to the influence of social factors.

• 한국엔터테인먼트산업학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.341-351
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• 2019

이 연구는 노화로 인해 나타날 수 있는 다양한 문제들 중 노인의 주거안전에 영향을 미치는 주거 요인이 무엇인지 알아보고자 실시되었다. 연구 진행은 첫 번째 단계로, 실제 65세 이상 노인 6명을 대상으로 포커스 그룹 인터뷰를 진행하였으며, 두 번째 단계로는, 국 내외 문헌고찰을 통해 확인된 노인 주거 안전에 영향을 미치는 요인과 포커스 그룹 인터뷰를 통해 확인된 요인을 바탕으로 설문을 구성하여 전문가에게 델파이 조사를 시행하였다. 델파이 조사에서는 전문가들의 의견을 수집하여 주거안전에 영향을 미치는 구성 요인에 대해 확인하는 과정을 반복하였으며, 구성된 요인에 대해 내용타당도 지수(Content Validity Index: CVI)를 통해 검증하도록 하였다. 연구 결과, 노인의 주거안전에 영향을 미치는 요인은 실외, 현관, 실내, 거실, 침실, 부엌, 욕실 및 화장실 총 7개 영역에 23개 하위 요인을 확인 및 추출할 수 있었다. 이 중 가장 많은 언급과 중요도를 보인 요인으로는 실내-외 영역의 계단 유무, 안전한 바닥, 실내 영역의 문턱 요인으로 나타났다. 따라서 노인이 기존의 주거지에서 안전하게 생활하기 위해서는 위의 요인들의 확인이 필수적이라고 할 수 있다.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.1146-1153
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• 2022

As the population is aging, accidents involving elderly people are also increasing (2014:11,667 persons; 2018: 11,797 persons). In the case of the elderly population, falling accidents are the primary direct or indirect causes of death; in particular, they face an elevated risk of staircase falls. This study proposes a method of evaluating the safety of staircases using Building Information Modeling (BIM)-based virtual simulation. By making a virtual user with the behavioral characteristics of the elderly respond to a staircase in a BIM model, its safety performance can be evaluated. The evaluation criteria were derived from regulations, elements, and characteristics relevant to the safety of staircases. To validate the proposed method, safety evaluation tests were simulated on actual staircases. The evaluation result of the test simulation shows the safety scores of 1.97 points for the elderly user and 2.95 points for the average male adult user against a required safety score of a minimum of 2 points. That is, safety is relative to users as the safety of the same staircase can be different depending upon the different behavioral characteristics of users. The study suggests that the risk of staircase-related fall accidents to the elderly can be reduced by improving staircase designs through the proposed method.