• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.138-145
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• 2019

With the application of digital technology to safety-critical infrastructures, cyber-attacks have emerged as one of the new dangerous threats. In safety-critical infrastructures such as a nuclear power plant (NPP), a cyber-attack could have serious consequences by initiating dangerous events or rendering important safety systems unavailable. Since a cyber-attack is conducted intentionally, numerous possible cases should be considered for developing a cyber security system, such as the attack paths, methods, and potential target systems. Therefore, prior to developing a risk-informed cyber security strategy, the importance of cyber-attacks and significant critical digital assets (CDAs) should be analyzed. In this work, an importance analysis method for cyber-attacks on an NPP was proposed using the probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) method. To develop an importance analysis framework for cyber-attacks, possible cyber-attacks were identified with failure modes, and a PSA model for cyber-attacks was developed. For case studies, the quantitative evaluations of cyber-attack scenarios were performed using the proposed method. By using quantitative importance of cyber-attacks and identifying significant CDAs that must be defended against cyber-attacks, it is possible to develop an efficient and reliable defense strategy against cyber-attacks on NPPs.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.125-137
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• 2013

Objective: The aim of this study was to comprehend major concepts and flows that penetrate international guides or standards for developing a quantitative possibility measure of human errors that can be committed or omitted in nuclear power plants. Background: For a few past decades, lots of researchers have studied the effect of stress and/or fatigue which can result in human errors. Thus, this study was carried out on the assumption that much of them were summarized as an international guidelines or manuals, if any, for human error prevention. Method: A literal survey was conducted with materials and documentation published by international organizations related with safety and standardization, such as ISO, OSHA, NIOSH, NASA, and so on with special reference to human error prevention through management of work stress and fatigue as major Performance Shaping Factors. Results: International guides or management manuals on stress or fatigue management for human error prevention hardly were found, and most researches seemed to concentrate on one of them individually. Conclusion: There was few vestige of research that studied both concurrently. However, it was verified that not a few researches have been tried to develop quantitative measures to estimate probability or job characteristics for human error prevention and/or performance downgrading. Application: The results of this study would help to develop a causal model of human errors due to work stress and fatigue that can result in unexpected accidents in nuclear power plant.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.910-918
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• 2015

Purpose: Safety of humans is an important factor that affects health overall, and injuries are one of the major public-health problems in the world. The purposes of this study were to describe the International safe Community movement which contributes to the injury prevention and safety promotion all over the world, and to identify out the application and developmental strategies for Korea. Methods: A review was done of previous research, reviews, and reports on the history, concepts, basic principles, and recommendations for actions of the Safe Community. Results: For this study, the application strategies of the International Safe Community movement in Korea were examined to deduce the strengths of the safe Community program. Community-based injury prevention work according to the International Safe Community model is a successful and cost-effective way of reducing injuries in the community. Conclusion: Through the International Safe Community program, communities are able to realize a healthy community and achieve improved quality of lives for the people, which is the ultimate objective of the Safe Community model. In addition, it will contribute to the economic vitalization and gain through energy and enhancement of productivity of people.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.46-52
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• 2002

기업의 경영범위가 확대되고 경영패러다임이 글로벌 경영으로 전환되면서 기업의 가치평가도 제품 및 서비스 위주 평가뿐만 아니라 작업장내에서 발생하는 각종 사고에 대한 평가까지도 포함시키는 포괄적인 기업경영평가로 확대되고 있다. 그래서 기업들도 안전보건에 대한 관리에서 실패할 경우, 기업의 이미지 저하는 물론 사고처리비용이 많이 들기 때문에 각 기업은 안전보건에 대해 지속적인 투자와 많은 관심을 가져야 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 산업현장에서 안전관리를 하는데 있어서 문제점을 살펴보고, 그리고 재해예방전문기관의 설립 전과 설립 후에 대한 재해통계자료를 Duane의 신뢰성 성장모델을 이용하여 분석해 보고, 모델의 적합성을 검증해 보고자 한다. 이러한 분석을 위해서 재해발생 수는 포아송 분포로, 그리고 분포의 평균값은 시간에 따라 변화하는 NHPP로 가정하였다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.180-186
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• 2022

Background: In occupational studies, it is a known situation that technical and organizational attempts are used to prevent occupational accidents. Especially in the mining sector, if these attempts cannot prevent occupational accidents, personal protective equipment (PPE) becomes a necessity. Thus, in this study, the main objective is to examine the effects of the variables on the use of PPE and identify important factors. Methods: A questionnaire was implemented and structural equation modeling was conducted to ascertain the significant factors affecting the PPE use of mining employees. The model includes the factors that ergonomics, the efficiency of PPE and employee training, and PPE usage habit. Results: The results indicate that ergonomics and employee training have no significant effect (p > 0.05) on the use of PPE. The efficiency of PPE has a statistically meaningful effect (p < 0.05) on the use of PPE. Various variables have been evaluated in previous studies. However, none of them examined the variables simultaneously. Conclusion: The developed model in the study enables to better focus on ergonomics and employee training in the PPE usage. The effectiveness of a PPE makes its use unavoidable. Emphasizing PPE effectiveness in OHS training and even showing them in practice will increase employees' PPE usage. The fact that a PPE with high effectiveness is also ergonomic means that it will be used at high rates by the employee.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.309-316
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• 2023

Background: Job performance is known as an essential reflection of nursing quality. Colleague solidarity, positive emotion, and turnover intention play effective roles in a clinical working environment, but their impacts on job performance are unclear. Investigating the association between nurses' colleague solidarity and job performance may be valuable, both directly and through the mediating roles of positive emotion and turnover intention. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a total of 324 Chinese nurses were recruited by convenience sampling method from July 2016 to January 2017. Descriptive analysis, Spearman's correlation analysis, and the structural equation model were applied for analysis by SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 24.0. Results: A total of 49.69% of participants were under 30 years old, and 90.12% of participants were female. Colleague solidarity and positive emotion were positively connected with job performance. The results indicated the mediating effects of positive emotion and turnover intention in this relationship, respectively, as well as the chain mediating effect of positive emotion and turnover intention. Conclusions: In conclusion, dynamic and multiple supportive strategies are needed for nurse managers to ameliorate nursing job performance by improving colleague solidarity and positive emotion and decreasing turnover intention based on the job demand-resource model.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.89-98
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• 2011

The traffic accidents at a construction site, which happen due to construction vehicles' frequent access to a construction site, its subsequent conflicts with ordinary vehicles and pedestrians, and inappropriate installation & management of traffic security facilities, have not many proportions in all traffic accidents, but obviously, the accident damage is quite serious when comparing the level of the fatal per one accident. This research conducted an analysis of traffic accident injury severity using Ordered Probit Model in relation to 241 traffic accident cases that occurred caused by construction sites among the traffic accidents that took place in Seoul and Gyeoggi-do region for two years from 2006 until 2007. As a result, the significant variables enough to explain traffic accident injury severity were analyzed to be the state of road surface, linear shape of an accident spot & whether the damaging car belongs to the vehicle for construction, and whether vehicles have access to a construction site at the time of an accident. Through this, this research found out some fact as follows: first, there need to be more aggressive management of the vehicles for construction and a year-round placement of the manpower who can control vehicular access to a construction site. Second, it is necessary to get drivers to recognize the fact that there exists a construction site on the construction section which is on the border of curved roads in advance to prevent a traffic accident, helping to reduce socioeconomic loss & costs incurred by a traffic accident.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.299-310
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 3-piece 마찰 웨지 화차의 주행성능을 예측하기 위해 ADAMS/View에서 독립하중 마찰 웨지 모델을 개발하였다. 마찰 웨지 모델은 볼스터의 좌우, 수직방향에 따른 마찰을 각각 구현해줄 수 있다. 개발된 마찰 웨지 모델은 ADAMS/Rail 차량 모델에 적용하여 동역학 해석 결과를 얻었다. 대상차량은 임계속도 210km/h를 가진다. 직선 안정성 해석에서 UIC518에 근거해 차체의 횡, 수직방향 한계 가속도에 만족하는 것을 확인하였다. 300R 곡선에서 해석 적용 속도는 70km/h로 UIC518에 근거해 차체, 대차의 한계 가속도에 만족하였다. 또한 "철도차량 안전기준에 관한 규칙"의 윤중감소율, 횡압, 탈선계수에 만족하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 5th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.163-168
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• 2013

A construction workspace is considered as a critical factor to secure constructability and safety of a project. Specially, optimized size of each workspace helps to minimize any conflicts between workspaces, works and resources within a workspace in the construction site. However, since an existing method for making a decision workspace's size depends on generally experiences of managers and work conditions of activity, it is difficult to perform safe works considering feasible workspace size. The workspace size is changed according to the quantity of resources allocated into each activity as time progresses. Accordingly, it is desirable that optimized workspace size considering input size of resources is determined. To solve these issues, this study configures an optimized model for deciding standard size of workspaces by simple regression analysis and develops a visualized scenario model for simulating the optimized workspace shape in order to support BIM (Building Information Modeling) environment. For this, this study determines an optimized resource shape size considering maximum working radius of each resource and constructs its visual model. Subsequently, input size of resources for each activity is estimated considering safety execution area of resources and workspaces. Based on this, an optimized 3D workspace shape is generated as a VR simulation model of a BIM system based on the suggested methodologies. Moreover, operational feasibility of the developed system is evaluated through a case study for a bride project. Therefore, this study provides a visualized framework so that project managers can establish an efficient workspace planning in BIM environment. Besides, it is expected that constructability, productivity and safety of the project will be improved by minimizing conflicts between workspace and congestions between resources within a workspace in the construction phase.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.12-20
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• 2021

안전하지 못한 환경은 작업속도를 지연시키고, 사고 발생 시 대응에 많은 시간을 소요하게 하여 건설공사의 생산성을 크게 저하시킨다. 반면, 지나친 안전관리를 오히려 생산성 저해 요인으로 지적하는 연구도 존재한다. 따라서 건설공사의 생산성을 저해하지 않는 적절한 안전관리는 성공적 공사 수행에 매우 중요한 요인이나, 안전관리와 생산성 상호 간 미치는 영향이 복잡하기에 이에 대한 연구가 부족한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구는 시스템 다이내믹스를 활용하여 안전 관리와 생산성 영향 요인 간의 인과 모델을 구축하고, 효율성 지표를 통한 생산성 측정 및 분석을 진행한다. 이를 통해 과다 인원 투입으로 인한 현장 혼잡도 증가, 비정기적 안전 조치 및 비효율적 초과근무가 실제 작업에 투입되는 시간에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 안전관리와 생산성의 상호 영향성에 대한 기초 연구인 본 연구의 결과물은, 적정 생산성 확보 가능한 안전관리 방안 수립의 기반으로서 건설산업 경쟁력 제고에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.