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Association Between Communication for Chemical Hazards Information and Characteristics of Occupational Safety and Health manager (산업안전보건관리자 특성과 화학물질 유해성 정보전달의 관련성)

  • Kim, Ki-Woong;Park, Jin Woo;Jeong, Mu Soo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.156-163
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    • 2012
  • Objectives: The aim of the present study was undertaken to investigate the association between communication for chemical hazard information and characteristics of occupational safety and health managers. Subjects and Methods: We surveyed 78 occupational safety and health managers(64 male and 14 female) in 78 chemical manufacturing plants. Data were obtained using a self-reported questionnaire about size and type of company, products, communication system for chemicals and work-related characteristics of occupational safety and health managers. All analyses in this study were performed using SPSS program 12.0. Results: 64.1% of the study participants were occupational health managers aged 39.3 years on average and were graduated from college and university around 90%. 30.0% and of them were majoring in chemistry (engineering chemistry), 18.0% occupational health, 16% nursing and 30.0% others. Occupational safety managers were aged 39.4 years on average, 42.9% of them were majoring in chemistry (engineering chemistry), 21.4% environmental engineering, 10.7% occupational safety and 25% others. 86% of occupational health managers and 71.4% of occupational safety managers were classified as office job. Over 94% of the hazards information for chemicals were delivered by occupational safety and health managers, but about 28.2% workers preferred outside experts who have a profound knowledge about occupational safety and health and understandable. Occupational safety and health managers and workers had difficulties in understanding toxicological information, hazards identification, stability/reactivity, composition/information on ingredients, physical/chemical properties and ecological information. On multiple logistic regression analysis for the 16 heading of material safety data sheet, content of material safety data sheet was significantly associated with education level (odds ratio=0.286, 95% confidence interval=0.105-0.780). The hazard identification (odds ratio=3.947, 95% confidence interval=1.092-14.271) and toxicological information (odds ratio=0.841, 95% confidence interval=0.705-0.998) were significantly associated with type of occupation. Conclusions: This finding implies that the education level, type of occupation and speciality of occupational safety and health managers may affects hazards information delivery.

A Study on Maritime Digital Forensic with Necessity (해상 디지털 포렌식의 필요성에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Gyu-An
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.204-209
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    • 2008
  • Marine accidents show various causes and effects in Korea where 3 sides of the country are surrounded by the ocean. Every year, 600 to 700 marine accidents occur mostly by small fishing boats. There are repeated accidents which involve crashes of coastal ships with fishing boats, which produce casualties and massive environmental hazard and the need for underwater search for shipwrecks. From the beginning of 21st century, the decrease of large ships with large number of crews led to the emergence of digitalvessels and the digital data storage of the installed equipments on the vessels, marine digital forensic - the extraction and analysis of the stored digital data within digital vessels - became necessary. This article is intended to suggest marine digital forensics as a solution of collecting evidence for discovering the causes, liabilities and compensations of marine accidents.

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A study on importance of MSDS education (MSDS 교육의 중요성에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Sung-Jai
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.209-215
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    • 2015
  • Following the semiconductor industry's growing, various types of toxic gases and caustic chemicals, HF(Hydrofluoric acid), HCI (Hydochloric acid), $H_2O_2$ (Hydrogen peroxide), $H_2SO_4$ (Sulfuric acid), and Piranha, were using on the semiconductor manufacturing process. Therefore many gas leakage accidents that produce huge losses of lives were caused by the processes. This research deeply considers two basic solutions that the necessity of MSDS education on university for reducing damage of lives and protecting life from chemical leak accidents such as a HF accident in Gumi, Korea and the use of GHS, REACH and the comprehension of propriety about using MSDS for keeping safety from conflagrations by released poison chemical materials.

The Research about a Control Data Duplication Transmission Technique (제어데이터 중복전송기법에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Young-Ju;Kang, Soon-Duk
    • The Journal of Information Technology
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.57-63
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    • 2006
  • The intelligent elder brother groove network robot service the new broadband presence line is conversionce application service. Robot control data transmission hazard UDP packet of the remote control data which stands duplication necessary to transmit. TCP the error ratio to be high qualitative recording transmission pattern it of the transmission unit and is irregular the distance is distant to show and also the transmission lag is visible increases. The recording packet drop whose UDP degree error ratio will be high is frequent and does not arrive packet little by little increases is a possibility of knowing in the transmission unit. The technique which it proposes with traffic pattern of the transmission unit is visible the transfer characteristic of the same shape from 1% packet error ratio degree. The effective transmission technique of the robot control data which puts a base in UDP protocols was proposed from the present paper. Following research it leads and it follows the duplication transmission number of time in error rate of radio link and it was thought all that controls petty the research of the mechanism which progresses is necessary.

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Landslide Detection using Wireless Sensor Networks (사면방재를 위한 무선센서 네트워크 기술연구)

  • Kim, Hyung-Woo;Lee, Bum-Gyo
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02a
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    • pp.369-372
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    • 2008
  • Recently, landslides have frequently occurred on natural slopes during periods of intense rainfall. With a rapidly increasing population on or near steep terrain in Korea, landslides have become one of the most significant natural hazards. Thus, it is necessary to protect people from landslides and to minimize the damage of houses, roads and other facilities. To accomplish this goal, many landslide prediction methods have been developed in the world. In this study, a simple landslide prediction system that enables people to escape the endangered area is introduced. The system is focused to debris flows which happen frequently during periods of intense rainfall. The system is based on the wireless sensor network (WSN) that is composed of sensor nodes, gateway, and server system. Sensor nodes comprising a sensing part and a communication part are developed to detect ground movement. Sensing part is designed to measure inclination angle and acceleration accurately, and communication part is deployed with Bluetooth (IEEE 802.15.1) module to transmit the data to the gateway. To verify the feasibility of this landslide prediction system, a series of experimental studies was performed at a small-scale earth slope equipped with an artificial rainfall dropping device. It is found that sensing nodes installed at slope can detect the ground motion when the slope starts to move. It is expected that the landslide prediction system by wireless senor network can provide early warnings when landslides such as debris flow occurs.

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On the Ensuring Safety and Reliability through the Application of ISO/PAS 21448 Analysis and STPA Methodology to Autonomous Vehicle

  • Kim, Min Joong;Choi, Kyoung Lak;Kim, Joo Uk;Kim, Tong Hyun;Kim, Young Min
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.169-177
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    • 2021
  • Recently, the use of electric and electronic control systems is increasing in the automobile industry. This increase in the electric and electronic control system greatly increases the complexity of designing a vehicle, which leads to an increase in the malfunction of the system, and a safety problem due to the malfunction is becoming an issue. Based on IEC 61508 relating to the functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronics, the ISO 26262 standard specific to the automotive sector was first established in 2011, and a revision was published in 2018. Malfunctions due to system failure are covered by ISO 26262, but ISO/PAS 21448 is proposed to deal with unintended malfunctions caused by changes in the surrounding environment. ISO 26262 sets out safety-related requirements for the entire life cycle. Functional safety analysis includes FTA (Fault Tree Analysis), FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis), and HAZOP (Hazard and Operability). These analysis have limitations in dealing with failures or errors caused by complex interrelationships because it is assumed that a failure or error affecting the risk occurs by a specific component. In order to overcome this limitation, it is necessary to apply the STPA (System Theoretic Process Analysis) technique.

Identification of Hazard for Securing the Safety of Unmanned Parcel Storage Device System Using Robot Technology

  • Park, Jae Min;Kim, Young Min
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.132-139
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    • 2022
  • The development of the fourth industrial revolution and logistics 4.0 related technology, the growth of the e-commerce market, and the transition to a non-face to face society due to the pandemic are accelerating the growth of the logistics industry. Due to the growth of the logistics industry, various services are emerging to meet the requirements of the market, and research and technology development related to the parcel storage, which is an important element of the last mile service, is also underway. In the past, if it was difficult to deliver the goods directly to the recipient, the parcel storage installed near the delivery location was used, but the usability was not good and the storage of the goods was limited. In addition, the existing parcel storage has a lot of functional limitations compared to the advanced logistics technology, so it is necessary to develop a device that improves it. Therefore, this study conducted to secure safety for unmanned parcel storage devices with robot technology to improve usability and functionality in line with the advanced logistics industry. Based on ISO 10218, an industrial robot related standard, risk identification studies were conducted to derive results that contribute to the development of devices under development.

A Study on an Impedance Matching Technique for Rail Power Line Communication (레일 전력선통신을 위한 임피던스 정합방안 연구)

  • Seo, Ill-Kwon;Ahn, Seung-Ho;Kim, Chul-Su
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.11
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    • pp.202-207
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    • 2016
  • An auxiliary real-time train communications system among drivers, train-traffic controllers and field workers is necessary to share hazard information (i.e. rockfall detection, track maintenance) in low visibility zones (long tunnels and steep curved track). To develop the appropriate communication system, this paper proposes a new way of power line communication using the rail track (Rail - PLC), which has little noise and distortion of attenuation. Therefore, it is important to measure the impedance of the rail and to apply an impedance matching technique to increase the transmission characteristic of the Rail - PLC. This study would evaluate the reflection and the transmission characteristics of the rail using a network analyzer and an impedance matching transformer. The suitable impedance matching ratio was 1:3.28 from the result of back-to-back testing. The results confirmed that the transformer can improve the performance of the transmission signal in Rail - PLC using an impedance matching technique.

Research Activities and Techniques for the Prevention of Human Errors during the Operation of Nuclear Power Plants (가동 중 원자력발전소의 인적 오류 예방 기술 개발)

  • Lee, Yong-Hee;Jang, Tong-Il;Lee, Yong-Hee;Oh, Yeon-Ju;Kang, Seok-Ho;Yun, Jong-Hun
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.75-86
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    • 2011
  • This paper describes several current research activities and the field techniques for the prevention of human errors during the operation of nuclear power plants(NPPs). The human aspects such as 'fitness for the duties', 'job competence and suitability', 'types of communication', 'behaviors of field workers', 'teamwork of main control room crews', 'task procedures', etc. have been investigated for improving the performance of operating personnel in NPPs. We decide to develop a set of the complementary techniques for the reduction of human errors. The set of techniques developed includes teamwork criteria, jobs fitness analysis, procedure enhancement guide, 3-way communication, campaign posters, a behavior based safety program, a procedure guideline, and a task hazard identification method for the field practitioners in NPPs. These can offer a set of significant human error countermeasures to be considered for analyzing and reducing human error in NPPs as well as other fields of industry.

A Study on the Information Security Control and Management Process in Mobile Banking Systems

  • Kim, So Young;Kim, Myong Hee;Park, Man-Gon
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.218-232
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    • 2015
  • According to the development of information processing technology and mobile communication technology, the utilization of mobile banking systems is drastically increasing in banking system. In the foreseeable future, it is expected to increase rapidly the demands of mobile banking in bank systems with the prevalence of smart devices and technologies. However, the keeping 'security' is very important in banking systems that handles personal information and financial assets. But it is very difficult to improve the security of banking systems only with the vulnerabilities and faults analysis methods of information security. Hence, in this paper, we accomplish the analysis of security risk factor and security vulnerability that occur in mobile banking system. With analyzed results, we propose the information security control and management processes for assessing and improving security based on the mechanisms which composes mobile banking system.