• 한국안전학회지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.196-202
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• 2012

An industrial safety helmet primarily intended to protect the wearer's head. It is to prevent or reduce the danger due to flying or dropping objects, falling and prevent the danger due to an electric shock given to the head. However, thermal discomfort of the head is one of the main complaints in the case of wearing safety helmet. Ventilation holes are not allowed in safety helmets on domestic regulations except for industrial safety helmets which are to protect wearer's head against flying or dropping objects. This paper is to produce the need for enlargement of allowing on ventilation holes' regulation to class B. This study reviewed foreign standards' regulations on ventilation holes of safety helmets. Some standards recommend that ventilation may be improved when fresh air is able to enter the helmet around its lower edge and to exit via holes in the helmet located in the upper one third of the helmet. And in the experiments, relationships of ventilation holes and the temperature over the head are analyzed. The experimental results show that the cooling effect of ventilation holes in the upper one third of the helmet is meaningful.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2019

The industrial safety helmets are personal protective equipment (PPE), used to protect the head against falls from a height. This study indicated the necessity of wearing a safety helmet while working at heights below 4 m, through analysis of fall accidents occurring in the industrial field. The stress, displacement, and strain of the safety helmet shell structure have been analyzed using the finite element method with various thicknesses, engineering plastics, and designs. It was preferred that the safety helmet shell structure had a reinforcement frame of uniform thickness in terms of increased impact strength and strain energy absorption rate. The thickness can be reduced to lighten the total weight for workers wearing safety helmets.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.149-162
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• 2015

This study was conducted on young children safety helmet to prevent risk of head injuries from external shock. Young children helmet shall be easy to wear and use comfortably. But the young children helmet market in domestic has imported dependently and widely variations in quality because the euro product of high priced and the east asia product of low priced are selling at the same time. Therefore, this study surveyed children under 13 years of age and Married people and studies their actual state of wearing. Furthermore, this study is going to propese the improving wearing of helmet and the major points of quality of helmet and the problem by comparing and reviewing regulations of domestic and foreign.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.85-92
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• 2023

A safety helmet is considered the last gear to protect workers from harmful and dangerous events occurring on industrial sites. Recently, interest in the importance of personal protective equipment design reflecting individual characteristics has been emphasized to improve usability and convenience. However, it has been found that if it is inconvenient to wear or has poor work efficiency, it will not be used well or will be used incorrectly. In this study, an investigation was performed with 35 questions, direct observation, and intensive interviews of construction workers to determine the inconvenience and problems of wearing safety helmets. Moreover, managers of 9 construction sites in 6 cities were asked about the performance and design of safety helmets. As a positive answer, it was found that the brim (awning) of the safety helmet was shortened to give the safety glasses a light-shielding function. In addition, an upward adjustment all-in-one type safety helmet was requested. On the other hand, it was revealed that negative answers felt uncomfortable due to the brim (awning) on the front of the helmet. Based on the survey results, a new helmet model suitable for construction site activities was presented, and wearability improvement determinants were discovered through performance and design improvement.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.96-101
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• 2022

The Occupational Safety and Health Act holds that industrial safety helmets can be used as protective equipment to prevent the risk of injury in fall accidents. To better understand the importance given to PPE for the head, we analyzed the relevant regulations and guidelines in developed countries and reviewed the guidelines on testing safety helmets. The PPE regulations in Korea were notably different from those in other countries. First, except in Korea and Japan, safety helmets were used for protection against falling objects, flying objects, impact, or electric shock. However, the regulations did not recognize safety helmets as a PPE against fall hazards. Second, the impact energy applied on the helmet was within the range 50-100 J, and the helmet could protect only the upper part of the head against hazards such as the impact of falling objects, flying objects, etc. Third, in Korean regulations, the term "fall" was used in relation to the parts where the safety helmet was specified as a fall hazard PPE, unlike in other countries. We propose that the term "fall" should be revised to "shock" in Korean regulations for the safety helmet.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.83-89
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• 2013

Occupational Safety and Health Act provides that industrial safety helmets are personal protective equipment(PPE) to protect heads against falls from a height. Relevant domestic regulations are distinguished and different from other countries' cases. This study investigated industrial safety helmet's protective purposes and characteristics related to falls and the notion of fall prevention. A comparative analysis of regulations on safety helmets and fall prevention as well as standards on safety helmet's impact test requirements is followed by a literature review. It is also suggested that the term "fall" related to safety helmets should be changed to "impact on the upper part of head" in domestic regulations and standards.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.302-309
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• 2022

Occupational safety accidents are caused by various factors, and it is difficult to predict when and why they occur, and it is directly related to the lives of workers, so the interest in safety accidents is increasing every year. Therefore, in order to reduce safety accidents at industrial fields, workers are required to wear personal protective equipment. In this paper, we proposes a method to automatically check whether workers are wearing safety helmets among the protective equipment in the industrial field. It detects whether or not the helmet is worn using YOLOv5, a computer vision-based deep learning object detection algorithm. We transfer learning the s model among Yolov5 models with different learning rates and epochs, evaluate the performance, and select the optimal model. The selected model showed a performance of 0.959 mAP.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.771-781
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• 2017

The helmet is an imperative personal protective equipment. This protective device must be able to guard the human head against potential risks. Helmets are classified according into the purpose of use; therefore, the required performance and specifications depend on the type of products. Military helmets are intended to protect the wearer's head from bullets and shrapnel. Generally, lightweight super fibers and fiber reinforced composite materials are used as helmet shell materials, and NIJ STD of U.S. Department of Justice is most widely used as international standard related to bulletproof helmets. Safety helmets are widely used for industrial application and sports leisure. In general, the performance of shock absorption must be ensured, and various lining systems are applied in material, design, and combination methods. Evaluation standards have also been classified and strictly controlled for each purpose; therefore, it is difficult to certify with the existing standards such as the recently developed convergence helmets. However, it is possible to launch the product through a separate national integrated certification procedure.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.5-14
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• 1991

본 논문에서는 산업안전 공학의 중요부분의 하나인 산업안전모와 화재진압시 소방관들이 쓰는 방수모의 안전도가 어느 정도인가를 각종 실험장치를 50cm. 100cm, 120cm, 높이의 변화를 주어 가면서 같은 중량으로 낙하시켜 물체에 의한 낙하시 충격에 견디는 힘의 상태. 주파수 분석기에 의한 강도 및 bend의 응답신호 등을 연구하였다. 그 결과 안전모와 스프링상수와 관계, 두뇌부분과 지면사이에서의 충격흡수력. 탄성력 등이 어느 정도인가를 수식 및 실험을 통해 알아봤을 때 산업현장에서 사용하는 안전모보다는 방수모의 탄성력과 강도력이 컸으며 또한 충격흡수력도 양호하다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 그러나 Goldsmith, W.의 “Response of a realistic human head-neck model to impact” Vol.100. 1978. pp.25-52의 실험연구결과 기준치를 보면 인간두뇌에 충격물체로 부터 전달되는 충격파의 흡수력은 뇌파의 신경을 파손시키지 않으려면 최소한도의 주파수범위가 400Hz, 증폭화 0.00310 이하 이여야 된다고 역설하였다. 그러나 우리나라의 방수모 강도의 안전성 및 bend의 충격흡수력은 410-810Hz의 주파수치가 나타났다. 고층에서 일정중량의 물체로 충격을 받았을 때 어느 정도로 흡수력을 방수모 bend에서 받아들어야만 두뇌신경에 충격적인 영향을 끼치지 않나 하는 우리 실정에 맞는 기준치가 설정되어야만 할 것으로 안다. Goldsmith ,W. 박사의 연구결과에 의한다면 국내에서 생산되는 산업안전모보다는 강도 및 충격흡수력이 양호하나 국제수준에는 못미치고 있었다. 이제 우리 방수모도 강도뿐만 아니라 방수모 내부의 bend 즉, 방수모와 두부 사이에 충격흡수력 장치를 좀더 과학적인 실험방법으로 개선되어 화재 진압시 물체낙하로 인한 두부보호에 좀더 노력을 기울일 필요가 있어야 될 것이다. 한편 방열복을 입은 상태에서 불길에 뛰어 들었을시 내부의 온도변화, 인체에 미치는 영향 등은 실험장치 불족으로 많은 문제점이 발생, 보다 심층의 연구가 필요할 것을 인식하였으나 뒤로 미룬채 마무리 지었다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.163-165
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• 2018

대부분의 건설 재해는 공사장 안전수칙을 지키지 않거나 복장 및 보호장비 미착용, 안전 불감증 및 근로자의 건강 등의 인재로 분석된다. 이러한 건설 재해 예방을 위해서는 현장관리직이 근로자의 건강을 점검할 필요성이 있으나 매 시간 근로자의 상태를 확인하기는 어려운 실정이다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 단순한 보호구 기능에서 벗어나 근로자의 산소포화도와 맥박 수를 체크하여 자동으로 건강 상태를 파악할 수 있는 디지털 안전모의 설계를 제안하였다.