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Quality.Environment Management System Evaluation of Machinery and Metal Manufacturing Companies Related to Marine Equipment: a Case Study Using Audit Results (조선기자재 관련 기계금속업체의 품질.환경경영시스템 평가: 인증심사결과 사례연구)

  • Park, Dong-Joon;Kang, Byung-Hwan;Kim, Ho-Gyun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.12-21
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    • 2009
  • Organizations worldwide have implemented quality management system, ISO 9001:2000 and environmental management system, ISO 14001:2004. Researches have been conducted regarding occupational health and safety management system, integration of these management systems, and extension to corporate social responsibility and sustain ability management system, ISO 26000. This paper examines quality and environment management systems for machinery and metal companies using audit results. We perform statistical tests to see if there are any significant differences of minor nonconformities for requirements of ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 based on implementation motive, operating periods, and organization's size. We also present causes and reasons for statistical differences and minor nonconformities to use as references for implementing efficiently quality management system and environment management system.

OHSAS Practices Analysis : A Case Study using Audit Results (안전보건경영시스템 운용분석 : 심사자료 사례연구)

  • Park, Dong-Joon;Kang, Byung-Hwan;Kim, Ho-Gyun
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.79-89
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    • 2015
  • The firms with OHSAS (Occupational Health and Safety Management System) registration should be audited every six months and they have to be reregistered every three years by a third party. In our article audit data were collected from the audit processes of fifty four firms that OHSAS 18001:2007 was implemented and audited by LRQA (Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance). Fifty four firms are largely classified as four categories: civil engineering and construction industry, metal and heavy industry, chemical industry, and other industries including electric, electronic, food, and services. Especially the minor conformity data are analyzed by statistical methods to find out the relationship between four categories of 54 firms and the average number of minor nonconformities. The most frequently appeared minor nonconformities among sub-requirements of OHSAS 18001:2007 are investigated and the reasons for minor nonconformities are specifically explained. The average number of minor nonconformities of firms before and after OHSAS 18001:2007 registration are compared to understand the maturity of OHSAS implementation. Some comments and suggestions are provided for OHSAS to be effectively implemented to the firms if revision is necessary.

BSL2 Audit and Certification Program: An Effort to Harmonize and to Raise Standards in Both Laboratory Infrastructure and Biosafety Practices in Singapore

  • Tin, Tun;Lee, Kien Wah
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.65-74
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    • 2016
  • The critical aspects of biosafety and bio-containment have been increasingly important in recent years. Biological agents involved in biological research projects at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore are usually those with low risks. Biosafety level 2 or BSL 2 laboratories are widely used. However, biosafety measures which refer to the implementation of laboratory practices and procedures, specific construction features of laboratory facilities and safety equipment must be in place to reduce the exposure of laboratory personnel, the public or the environment to potentially infectious agents or other biological hazards. It is also required to pay more attention to laboratory-acquired infections (LAIs) which may occur in research laboratories, clinical laboratories or animal facilities. BSL 2 audit and certification program is implemented as an internal exercise covering laboratories in the university where biological agents are handled or biological research works are carried out. We have put some efforts to raise biosafety standards university-wide in both laboratory infrastructure and laboratory practices to a higher level. Common audit findings are briefly discussed in this presentation.

A Survey on the Current Status of Human Research Protection Program Settlement and Subject Protection Activities in Korea (국내 임상시험 및 대상자 보호프로그램 도입 현황과 안전관 리체계에 대한 설문조사 연구)

  • Park, Sinyoung;Cho, Su Jin;Seo, Kyung Jeong;Kim, Jin Seok
    • The Journal of KAIRB
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.28-36
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess the status of the Human research Protection Program (HRPP) within a hospital or a research institute in Korea. Methods: Survey was conducted during June 12th-21th 2019. Survey was distributed to the members of Korean Association of IRB (KAIRB) through each IRB office. Descriptive statistics were performed using SPSS ver. 26. Results: A total of 86 people responded, and 75 (87.0%) answered that they have perceived the HRPP. Seventy out of 86 respondents (81.4%) were conducting internal audit, several institutions were operated simultaneously the other form of audits such as IRB audit, system audit. Regarding the management of Suspected Unexpected Serious Adverse Reaction (SUSAR), 62.8% answered that they have regulation that can decide to suspend the study when there is a risk to subject safety. Among the respondents, 66.3% performed 'Help desk.' Conclusion: In this study, we assessed the current status of HRPP operation at each research institution based on Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) HRPP guidelines. The HRPP accredited institution operated the subject protection activities according to this program, and even if the HRPP was not officially operated, the related activities were conducted focusing on the cases that could have a significant impact on the safety of research subjects. In order to ensure the quality of domestic clinical trials and to stably establish the HRPP, efforts at the individual institution level will be required.

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A Study on the Enhancement of Maritime Education and Training to cope with IMO Member-state Audit Scheme (IMO 회원국 감사제도 대응을 위한 해기교육 강화방안에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Yun-Cheol;Park, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.203-210
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    • 2013
  • In spite of adoption of various IMO Conventions over the past, the reason why large vessel accidents related to human life and marine environment occur is that the IMO Conventions are not effectively implemented due to contravention of the conventions by flag states. In particular, the implementation of the conventions are not well being performed because some flag states having weak genuine link between them and vessels haven't set up proper personal and structural organizations in charge of maritime safety and marine environment protection. From this background, IMO Resolution A.946(23) on the voluntary IMO Member-state Audit Scheme was adopted at the 23rd Assembly in Nov. 2003 and the Scheme is expected to be executed compulsorily in 2015 through the adoption of the IMO Resolution A.1018(26) in Nov. 2009. Accordingly, this study examined outline of the IMO Member-state Audit Scheme and the Code for the Implementation of Mandatory IMO Instruments used for the audit standards of this scheme. In addition, this study reviewed the member-states' obligations and responsibilities according to the compulsory implementation of the member-state audit scheme in 2015. Based on this, this study suggested the enhancement measures for maritime education and training of maritime education institutions of the Republic of Korea to cope positively with compulsory implementation of the IMO Member-state Audit Scheme.

Implementation of K-LOSA Program (한국형 LOSA 프로그램의 개발 연구)

  • Hong, Seung-Beom;Choi, Youn-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.40-46
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, it has implemented the design for the K-Line Operations Safety Audit(K-LOSA) designed to provide a proactive snapshot of system safety and flight crew performance before an incident and accident. It introduces the a LOSA and ten operating characteristics that have come to define LOSA methodology. According to the LOSA methodology, we explain the conceptual and detail design and implement the prototype for the data collected with LOSA collection tool.

A Ship′s LAN Configuration Method for the Safety and Reliability (안전성과 신뢰성을 위한 선박 LAN 구축 방안)

  • 김영수;조익성;임재홍
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.47-56
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    • 2000
  • As a shipboard dependency for the safety and reliability becomes very important, the need for solid systems providing non-stop workload has been increased. This system is heartbeat that transmits shipboard state, audit and control information to the land. So, this paper describes a ship's LAN configuration method for the safety and reliability. In order to achieve these requirements, network, server and disk fault tolerance techniques are surveyed, and dual network configuration model, cluster server configuration method are presented and tested based on the survey.

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