• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2004

A safety assessment code, called SAGE (Safety Assessment Groundwater Evaluation), has been developed to describe post-closure radionuclide releases and potential radiological doses for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste (LILW) disposal in an engineered vault facility in Korea. The conceptual model implemented in the code is focused on the release of radionuclide from a gradually degrading engineered barrier system to an underlying unsaturated zone, thence to a saturated groundwater zone. The radionuclide transport equations are solved by spatially discretizing the disposal system into a series of compartments. Mass transfer between compartments is by diffusion/dispersion and advection. In all compartments, radionuclides ate decayed either as a single-member chain or as multi-member chains. The biosphere is represented as a set of steady-state, radionuclide-specific pathway dose conversion factors that are multiplied by the appropriate release rate from the far field for each pathway. The code has the capability to treat input parameters either deterministically or probabilistically. Parameter input is achieved through a user-friendly Graphical User Interface. An application is presented, which is compared against safety assessment results from the other computer codes, to benchmark the reliability of system-level conceptual modeling of the code.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.407-422
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• 2014

Objective: The purpose of the study is to develop quantitative usability evaluation criteria for senior-friendly autonomous transportation robot. Background: The Republic of Korea has become the most rapidly aging society, and is anticipated to enter the post-aged society in 2026. To raise the quality of life of a senior with limited mobility and to reduce the burden of caregivers, many high-tech assistive products with information technologies are developed nowadays. The senior-friendly autonomous transportation robot is one person robot vehicle to move a senior to the destination for hospitals, nursing homes or silver town complex. With built-in navigation system and environmental monitoring censors, it automatically seeks the path to the destination and avoids collision to obstacles and pedestrians on the way. Due to the early stage of the product, few usability studies in this field have been done, mostly on general service robots to assist seniors, power wheelchairs and delivery robots. ISO and KS standards for the service robots are focused on safety. Method: Based on the reference usability index, the early draft of the usability evaluation questionnaires was developed. After small group tests and interviews, the experts modified the initial draft to the Usability Evaluation Criteria for Senior-Friendly Autonomous Transportation Robot (UEC-SFATR). Result: UEC-SFATR consisted of 4 subscales - Safety, Controllability, Efficiency and Satisfaction. All of the 4 subscales of UEC-SFATR were passed the reliability criteria by 4 groups of seniors, divided by gender and familiarity of smart-devices. Conclusion: UEC-SFATR covers wider area of user experiences of the SFATR and is a good measurement tool to help both the users and developers of the robot. Application: This study provides guide to the future product development and product competitiveness evaluation by quantifying user experiences for the SFATR.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.297-304
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• 2021

국내 공공시설물의 유지관리체계는 시설물의 안전을 유지하기 위한 진단 및 보수 개념에서 시설물의 성능을 평가하여 유지관리하는 성능평가 방법으로 전환되고 있다. 그러나 국내에서는 시설물의 유지관리를 위한 성능평가 방법이 정립되지 않아 성능평가가 적절하게 이루어지고 있지 못하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 현재 시설물의 안전관리 위주로 한 단순 유지관리전략을 보완하기 위해 성능평가 개념을 도입한 자산관리 모델을 제안한다. 본 모델은 시설물의 유지관리 정보를 수집하는 방법으로 WBS를 활용하는 방법을 제안하여 기존 모델과의 차별화를 이루었다. 또한, 본 모델에는 시설물의 성능평가에서 가장 중요한 서비스 수준 평가방법과 성능척도 요소를 제안하였으며, 사례분석을 하여 본 모델의 적절성을 평가하였다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.56-61
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• 2022

In this study, a systematic survey was employed to investigate managers' awareness on the safety culture project in small- to medium-sized industries. The existing regulatory and technology-oriented disaster prevention strategy has been implemented to reduce industrial accidents within a short timeframe, but it is essential to reduce fundamental accidents as well by improving the organizational safety culture or software elements, such as safety awareness. Questionnaires and interviews were conducted to examine the managers' awareness about safety culture, consisting of 17 questions related to safety consulting and with the participation of 191 executives and safety managers. The results showed a significant difference in the self-pay rate of safety consulting depending on the size of the workplace under evaluation. Based on the results, the safety-consulting business focused on providing differentiated consulting support and realistic improvement plans according to the workplace size. The study concluded that it is possible to reduce fundamental human errors and improve organizations' safety awareness or safety culture by employing safety consulting differentiated by workplace size.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.31-45
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• 2017

철도 분야에서의 최근 수년간의 사고 통계에 의하면, 관련 기술 발전과 안전정보 관리시스템의 구축으로 사고발생 빈도가 현저히 줄고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 운영 및 유지보수에서의 오류와 안전설계에서의 결함으로 인한 사고는 지속적으로 발생하고 있다. 이에 따라 철도사고를 예방하기 위해, 철도차량 개발 시 안전성을 고려하는 설계 및 제작을 위한 지침이 작성되었고, 이와 더불어 안전 설계에 대한 독립적인 안전성평가의 수행에 대한 요구가 제시되었다. 이를 충족시키기 위해 철도시스템 개발업체는 안전성 활동 산출물인 Safety Case를 작성해야 한다. 이에 따라 Safety Case의 주요 항목 중 하나인 안전성 적용조건 (SRAC: Safety-Related Application Conditions)의 도출 및 관리에 대한 중요성이 커지고 있다. 지금까지 보고된 SRAC에 관한 연구 결과에서는 도출 절차의 간략성과 설계단계에서의 특정 안전성 활동 분석 방법에만 초점을 맞추고 있다. 이러한 방법은SRAC 항목 들을 빠르게 도출 할 수 있는 장점이 있지만, 안전성 측면에서 고려되어야 할 중요한 항목들이 누락될 위험이 존재한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 시스템 수명주기 전반에 걸쳐 안전성 설계 및 안전성 평가 활동을 수행하고 이를 기반으로 SRAC의 도출방법의 개선 방안을 제안한다. 이렇게 함으로써 SRAC를 보다 체계적으로 도출 및 관리를 수행할 수 있는데, 특히 설계 초기단계에서부터 SRAC를 고려함으로써 안전성 요구사항을 최대한 반영한 안전설계가 가능하다. 또한 철도신호시스템에 대한 적용사례 연구를 통하여 본 논문에서 제시하는 방법이 시스템 수명주기 전체에 걸쳐 SRAC를 고려함으로써 중요한 안전성 관련 항목들의 누락이 줄어들 수 있음을 보여준다.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.192-200
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• 2016

This study aims to design user-oriented children's hospital by examining the user needs, especially the mothers of child inpatients and the nurses. The subjects participated in a questionnaire survey including the user's characteristics, awareness of patient's room, the preference on ward size, demands, satisfaction and hospital environment assessment. The survey was conducted of the mothers of child inpatients and the nurses in A children's hospital, and the data were analyzed by the SPSS WIN 18.0 Version software. A total of 115 copies of the questionnaire were finally analyzed. The results and conclusions are as follows. 1) The mothers' demand on family-centered space and private spaces were higher than the nurses. 2) The mothers preferred 1-bed-room to 4-bed-room due to safety and privacy. 3) The items of hospital environment assessment was categorized into four factors; 'Aesthetics', 'Accessibility', 'Comfort', and 'Lighting'. The most positive factor was 'Aesthetics', whereas 'Comfort' was the negative factor. 4) The mother's satisfaction was lower than the nurse's. The most influential factors on the satisfaction was 'Accessibility'. To improve the satisfaction of the mothers of child inpatients and the nurses, safety, privacy, accessibility should be considered.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.209-218
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• 2008

The growth in services has focused issues of service quality both for commercial enterprises and across a range of public services and government institutions. The education sector, in particular, has undergone radical change to meet the needs of its varied constituents. This paper examines key issues in internal service, customer satisfaction, service quality, relational commitment as they apply in one particular education sector. The purpose of this study is to analyze effect of internal service on customer satisfaction, educational service quality. First, In the dimension of internal service, many factors affect internal customer's evaluation for overall satisfaction. They are categorized as five factors; tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy. The results of this study supported the proposed conceptual framework overall. Therefore, we identified that internal service quality is the antecedent of an internal customer satisfaction, and the consequent variables of an internal customer satisfaction are educational service quality, external customer satisfaction. The major findings of this study are summarized as follows. First, some factors(tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy) affected positively internal customer satisfaction. Second, external service quality affected positively educational service quality, external satisfaction. In other words, the more internal customers have experienced internal service, the higher internal service quality deliver educational service quality.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.71-83
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• 2008

Most researches on the corporate credit rating are generally classified into the area of bankruptcy prediction and bond rating. The studies on bankruptcy prediction have focused on improving the performance in binary classification problem, since the criterion variable is categorical, bankrupt or non-bankrupt. The other studies on bond rating have predicted the credit ratings, which was already evaluated by bond rating experts. The financial institute, however, should perform effective loan evaluation and risk management by employing the corporate credit rating model, which is able to determine the credit of corporations. Therefore, in this study we present a medium sized corporate credit rating system by using Artificial Neural Network(ANN) and Analytical Hierarchy Process(AHP). Also, we developed AHP model for credit rating using non-financial information. For the purpose of completed credit rating model, we integrated the ANN and AHP model using both financial information and non-financial information. Finally, the credit ratings of each firm are assigned by the proposed method.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.103-111
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• 2012

PURPOSES : Effective speed management is necessary for preventing traffic crashes on the road. Speed hump is known as an effective tool for managing speed. Unlike existing studies which are mainly focused on humps for vehicles, this study proposed a novel method to determine design parameters for bicycle speed humps based on a multi-criteria decision making process. METHODS : Three objectives including the effectiveness of speed reduction, bicycle safety, and user's comfortability were incorporated into the proposed evaluation framework for determining design parameters. A multi-criteria value function was also derived and utilized as a part of the proposed method. RESULTS : Extensive simulations and statistical tests show that an integrated bike-box way is identified as the best in terms of operational efficiency and safety. CONCLUSIONS : It is expected that the outcomes of this study can be a valuable precursor for developing design guidelines for bicycle road and facility.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.81-88
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• 2007

This study deals with the overall meta-cognitive aspects of ATC-Pilot miscommunications pertinent to cognitive human errors based on the previous literature research which it has been focused on the issue of the global aviation English use in regard with aircraft accident and incident. Especially, it addresses the concern over the ICAO aviation English language proficiency evaluation program which will be implemented globally in March, 2008. In addition, It presents the analysis related to the on-going English language proficiency level four test conducted for Korean civil airlines pilots and air traffic controllers.