• Journal of health informatics and statistics
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.267-273
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• 2018

Objectives: An increase in the number of caregivers is necessary to provide services to the elderly, but more importantly, it is qualitative management for them. The purpose of this study was to identify occupational stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment and to explore the impact of occupational stress on job satisfaction and organizational commitment among caregivers employed in health service centers for the elderly. Methods: This descriptive survey was a cross-sectional correlational design of 118 caregivers. The questionnaire included occupational stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. Stepwise multiple regression was applied. Results: Job satisfaction and organization commitment of caregivers were found to be above the average. There was a high level of job stress due to lack of job autonomy, job demands, and inadequate compensation. It has been found that the inappropriate compensation, organization system, work culture, and lack of job autonomy affected job satisfaction of caregivers. The factors affecting organizational commitment were inadequate compensation, job insecurity, and work culture. Conclusions: Efforts should be made to assess and complement the appropriateness of compensation and work culture that are taken to relieve job stress to enhance the job satisfaction and organizational commitment of caregivers.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.400-408
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• 2019

The "fourth industrial revolution" (FIR) is an age of advanced technology based on information and communication. FIR has a more powerful impact on the economy than in the past. However, the prospects for the labor environment are uncertain. The purpose of this study is to anticipate and prepare for occupational health and safety (OHS) issues. In FIR, nonstandard employment will be common. As a result, it is difficult to receive OHS services and compensation. Excessive trust in new technologies can lead to large-scale or new forms of accidents. Global business networks will cause destruction of workers' biorhythms, some cancers, overwork, and task complexity. The social disconnection because of an independent work will be a risk for worker's mental health. The union bonds will weaken, and it will be difficult to apply standardized OHS regulations to multinational enterprises. To cope with the new OHS issues, we need to establish new concepts of "decent work" and standardize regulations, which apply to enterprises in each country, develop public health as an OHS service, monitor emerging OHS events and networks among independent workers, and nurture experts who are responsible for new OHS issues.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.809-844
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• 1995

산업보건관리영역의 범위를 정하고 이를 분류하기 위해 우선적으로 저자들이 정의한 산업보건관리영역의 범위에 따라 분류하고 이에 대하여 설문조사를 실시한 후 의견수렴과정을 거쳐 재분류하였다. 이를 토대로 해방 이후 우리나라의 산업보건관리문헌을 분류하여 연구동향을 파악하고자 정기간행물기사색인에 수록된 21종의 문헌을 분석하였으며 산업보건관리내용에 대한 우선순위 및 향후 산업보건관리 연구 방향을 조명함으로써 앞으로 산업보건관리의 방향설정에 대한 기초자료를 제공하고자 하였으며 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1 대부분의 응답자들이 산업보건을 전공하고(71.6%) 있었고, 대학에서 근무하고 있었으며(68.3%), 남자가 많았고 연령은 40세 이상이었다. 산업보건관리영역의 분류에 대찬 의견으로는 분류가 필요하다는 찬성의견이 70.0%였고 반대의견은 100.0%였다. 2. 응답자들의 의견수렴을 거쳐 재분류한 산업보건 관리영역을 크게 산업보건사법과 산업보건사업을 지지해 주는 산업보건관리체계 및 이를 평가하는데 도움을 주는 여러 가지 방법론들로 구분하였다. 3. 산업보건관리 문헌 총 510편을 연도별로 살펴본 결과 연도별로 서서히 증가하다가 1986년 이후에 급격 히 증가하고 있었으며, 학술지별 분포는 대한산업의학회지(18.2%), 한국의 산업의학(15.1%), 예방의학회지(15.1%) 순으로 나타났다. 연구 내용별로는 산업보건관리체계에 대한 연구는 33편(6.5%)에 지나지 않았으며 산업보건사업에 대한 연구가 477편(93.5%)으로 주를 이루고 있었다. 산업보건관리체계에 대한 연구는 산업보건자원체계에 대한 연구가 15편(45.5%), 산업보건재원조달체계 8편(24.2%), 산업보건관리운영체계 6편(18.2%), 산업보건조직체계 3편(9.1%), 산업보건서비스전달체계 1편 (3.0%)의 순이었으며 산업보건사업에 대한 연구는 질병관리 269편(57.2%),보건관리 116편(24.7%),작업환경관리 85편(18.1%)으로 질병관리에 관한 연구가 가장 많았다. 연구대상별로는 일반근로자 대상이 185편(71.1%)으로 가장 많았으며 여성근로자, 전문직, 서비스근로자 순이었다. 4. 산업보건관리내용의 우선순위에 대한 의견으로는 산업장근로자들에 대한 건강관리, 작업환경관리, 보건교육 등의 산업보건사업이 가장 필요하다고 하였고 다음으로는 산업보건인력에 대한 교육훈련 및 직무내용, 성인병 및 직업병 의뢰체계, 산업보건조직 등에 관한 산업보건의료체계에 관한 분석 등을 순위로 제시하였다. 5. 산업보건관리영역의 향후 연구방향에 대하여 병의 응답자가 48건의 의견을 제시하였으며 산업보건사업에 관한 실제적인 연구가 31.3%로 가장 많았으나 조직, 체계에 대한 연구(27.1%), 정보망구축에 관한 연구(8.3%) 등 산업보건체계에 관한 연구도 필요하다고 하였다. 건강진단에 대한 비용-편익분석 (10.4%), 산업보건사업평가(4.2%), 유해물질폭로평가(2.1%), 노동조건에 관한 연구(6.2%)등 다양한 새로운 분야의 연구에 대한 의견을 제시하였다. 본 연구에서 해방 이후 우리나라의 산업보건관리에 관한 연구는 1945년부터 서서히 증가하다가 1986년 이후부터 활발히 진행되어졌고, 대부분의 연구가 산업보건사업에 치중되어 있으며 산업보건관리체계에 대한 연구는 미약함을 알 수 있었다 산업보건사업에 관한 연구의 대부분도 직업병 실태와 건강관련행태 및 실태를 파악하는 수준에 머무르고 있으며 산업보건관리체계의 경우도 대부분 인력의 실태 파악에 그치고 있어 산업장에서 실제로 활용할 수 있는 연구가 절실히 필요하다고 여겨진다. 따라서 우리나라의 현실에 비추어볼 때 산업보건사업에 관한 연구는 계속적으로 활발히 이루어져야 하며, 이와 더불어 산업보건관리체계 및 근로자참여, 경제성분석, 보건사업 후 평가, 연구방법론(역학연구)등의 연구들도 산업보건관리의 중요한 부분으로서 향후 보다 더 적극적으로 연구되어져야 할 것이다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2010

Industrial Safety and Health Law (ISH Law) of Japan requires abnormalities identified in evaluations of worker health and working environments are reported to occupational physicians, and employers are advised of measures to ensure appropriate accommodations in working environments and work procedures. Since the 1980s, notions of a risk assessment and occupational safety and health management system were expected to further prevent industrial accidents. In 2005, ISH Law stipulated workplace risk assessment using the wording "employers shall endeavor." Following the amendment, multiple documents and guidelines for risk assessment for different work procedures were developed. They require ISH Laws to be implemented fully and workplaces to plan and execute measures to reduce risks, ranking them from those addressing potential hazards to those requiring workers to wear protective articles. A governmental survey in 2005 found the performance of risk assessment was 20.4% and common reasons for not implementing risk assessments were lack of adequate personnel or knowledge. ISH Law specifies criminal penalties for both individuals and organizations. Moreover, under the Labor Contract Law promulgated in 2007, employers are obliged to make reasonable efforts to ensure employee health for foreseeable and avoidable risks. Therefore, enterprises neglecting even the non-binding provisions of guidelines are likely to suffer significant business impact if judged to be responsible for industrial accidents or occupational disease. To promote risk assessment, we must strengthen technical, financial, and physical support from public-service organizations, encourage the dissemination of good practices to reduce risks, and consider additional employer incentives, including relaxed mandatory regulations.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.110-122
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• 2003

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to make a systemic assessment on the level of self-efficacy, social support, and accessibility to medical services, health status, health promoting behaviors, and the quality of life of workers in small scale enterprises. RECEDE model developed by Green and Kreuter for the purpose of a comprehensive assessment research was used. Method: The number of subjects was 199 workers in small scale enterprises at Youngdeungpo-gu and Sungdonggu, Seoul. Data were collected between October and December, 200 through a self-reported questionnaire. And data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, and F-test. Result: 1. The level of quality of life was 3.08, and general health status was 2.75. There was no significant difference by sex, age, marital status, job, and perceived health status. 2. The level of health promotion life style was 2.09. There was no significant difference by sex, age, marital status, and job. But there was significant difference by perceived health status. 3. The level of self-efficacy, social support and accessibility to medical services were 3.04, 2.85, and 1.45. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that it is necessary to develop the systematic health promotion programs that can strengthen self-efficacy and health status, and supplement social support and accessibility to medical services, and to encourage health promoting behavior in order to improve quality of life for workers in small scale enterprise.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.64-72
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• 2021

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze occupational accident compensation insurance coverage and occupational accidents incidence for special-type delivery workers. Methods: The data for occupational accident compensation insurance coverage and occupational accidents from 2012 to 2017 were analyzed through descriptive statistics. Results: Rates of occupational accident compensation insurance coverage of special-type delivery workers decreased gradually from 43.4% in 2012 to 28.5% in 2016, and 29.0% in 2017. Rates of occupational illnesses death per ten thousand workers increased gradually from 2.1‱ in 2013 to 3.1‱ in 2016, and 8.6‱ in 2017. All occupational illness deaths were due to cerebro-cardiovascular diseases. Road traffic accidents and slips accounted for the largest proportion of occupational accidents. Conclusion: Special-type delivery workers have a high risk of industrial accidents, so it is necessary to raise industrial accident insurance coverage and provide professional and systematic occupational safety and health services.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.112-118
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• 2016

The labor force has moved to services industry. An industrial accidents of service industry is three people on 10 persons in 2013. This research conducted questionnaire surveys of 1:1 directly person interviews with a structured questionnaire intended for 150 service workplaces, in order to improve occupational safety and health in very small service workplace with less than 5 employee. The survey contents is employment type, safety and health management system, safety and health training, activities. In the results, working with non-regular(informal) workers is two people on 10 persons 27.1% and female workers is about five people on 10 persons with 58.1%, and that 67.9% of non-regular workers who are mainly engaged in the production line appeared. And the work-related injury and accident experience was 3.3% and the occupational injury rate was 1.02%, especially occupational injury rate of female workers was 0.88%. Workplace risk assessment carried out in response that it was very low as 10.0% of the total. Also the safety & health education and activities was very low. Thus the safety consciousness and education is urgently required in order to prevent the industrial accidents.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.1-16
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• 1995

This study was conducted to propose a model for nursing performance in group occupational health service. To achieve such a goal, the writer choose and analysed two kinds of journals which were thought to be the most suitable for that purpose and authoritative on community health nursing: The Journal of Korean Community Nursing and the Journal of Korean Academic Society of Industrial Nursing. The total number of the articles analysed in this study was 16 and in the analysis of them the writer was specially concerned with the following questions: 1) Have there been any different performances in occupational health management between staying nurses and visiting ones? 2) What are the levels of knowledge, attitude, and practice of workers and how can we, on the basis of them, develop the program that workers are able to participate positively in ? the obtained conclusions are as follows. 1) Different performances are revealed between staying nurses and visiting ones: Common symptom management frequently appeared in staying nurses. Counseling, health education and follow-up care after medical examination were more frequently revealed in visiting nurses. 2) As for the lovel of knowledge, attitude, and practice of occupational health, workers have average one respectively. The major factors influencing the level of KAP of workers were area, age, sex and status. Counseling, health education, follow-up care after medical examination, and health promotion should be reinforced as core programs in group occupational health services. And for the part of visiting nurses, it is necessary to put more emphasis on efficiency training using the method of nursing process.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.112-123
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• 2010

The paper gives an overview of the problems to be tackled nowadays by occupational health with regards to shift work as well as the main guidelines at organizational and medical levels on how to protect workers' health and well-being. Working time organization is becoming a key factor on account of new technologies, market globalization, economic competition, and extension of social services to general populations, all of which involve more and more people in continuous assistance and control of work processes over the 24 hours in a day. The large increase of epidemiological and clinical studies on this issue document the severity of this risk factor on human health and well being, at both social and psychophysical levels, starting from a disruption of biological circadian rhythms and sleep/wake cycle and ending in several psychosomatic troubles and disorders, likely also including cancer, and extending to impairment of performance efficiency as well as family and social life. Appropriate interventions on the organization of shift schedules according to ergonomic criteria and careful health surveillance and social support for shift workers are important preventive and corrective measures that allow people to keep working without significant health impairment.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.108-120
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• 2002

This study analyzed the managerial efficiency of 11 organizations, the branch centers of a occupational health service organization in Korea, using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. The DEA is a good method for evaluating health services since it can handle multiple inputs and outputs simultaneously, and also identify the sources and amount of inefficiency. The author approached this study using two efficient models: the monetary value model and the real value model. The DEA method based on the monetary value model included cost factors, while the real value model excluded cost factors. The input variables used were manpower of physicians, medical technicians, nurses, industrial hygienists and administrators; labor, maintenance, and material expenses. The output variables used were the number of medical examinations, workplace evaluations, group health management services and income from each service. The major results were as follows: First, in the monetary value model, 6 out of 11 organizations (54.6%) showed an efficiency score of 1.0, which means that they have been operating in very efficient ways. However, 5 organizations (46.4%) showed themselves to be relatively inefficient. Second, in the real value model, 7 out of 11 organizations (63.4%) showed an efficiency score of 1.0, which means they have been operating efficiently, while 4 organizations (46.4%) showed themselves to be relatively inefficient. Third, the reliability of DEA method were analyzed by comparing the results of the monetary value model and real value model. The results of 8 out of 11 organizations were same in terms of being efficient or not. Thus, the DEA could be a valid application method for occupational health service organizations. Fourth, the organizations that displayed common inefficiency in both the monetary value model and in the real value model 3, 9, and 10, were also considered to be managed inefficiency from expertise opinion. In summary, this study evaluated the efficiency of occupational health service organizations applying the DEA method with different variables, and found that the results of analysis could be valid in terms of both modeling and expert sense. In the future, the DEA method will be used as a useful tool to identify and evaluate the efficiency of occupational health service organizations through more applications and refinements.