• 한국안전학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.132-135
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• 2009

The population over 65 years of age in Korea will be 10.3% of the entire population in 2008 indicating that Korea is already in an aging society. In addition, it is expected that Korea will be in an aged society in 2018 (population over 65 years of age : 14.3%) and that it will be in a post-aged society in 2026 (20.8%). Consequently, aged workers may also increase. It is well-known that the possibility to work longer and to live better is highly related to the work ability of individual. The objective of this study was to evaluate the work ability of each age group using the Work Ability Index(WAI) in the shipbuilding industry, and to assess the effects of social psychological stress, drinking characteristics, smoking characteristics, etc. on the WAI score. The results showed no significant difference on the effects of aging, drinking, and smoking characteristics. Interestingly, a statistical analysis on the effects of social psychological stress revealed a significant difference by stress levels. The difference of the average WAI score between the healthy group and the high risk group was about 10 points. Based on this result, it can be concluded that the stress level is an influential factor on WAI.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.53-62
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• 2023

본 논문은 국내 조선산업의 요양 재해 현황에 나타난 미숙련 기술인력들의 높은 재해 발생률을 낮추기 위한 방안으로 XR(Extended reality) 기술을 활용한 훈련 콘텐츠 도입의 필요성을 윈치를 활용한 케이블 포설을 중심으로 제시하였다. 국내 조선산업의 요양재해율은 타 제조업에 비해 평균 97.4%(2017~2020)나 높았으며, 특히 조선산업요양 재해의 31.8% 이상이 근속 기간 6개월 미만의 근로자들에게 발생하여 이는 신규입사자들이 업무에 대한 정보 부족과 미숙련도 및 작업환경에 익숙하지 못한 것이 그 원인으로 보인다. 최근 조선산업은 경기 회복으로 많은 신규인력이 유입되고 있으며, 이로 인해 재해 발생률이 높아질 가능성이 있다. 이런 점은 단기간에 신규인력들을 작업환경에 익숙해지는 데 도움이 되는 훈련방법을 도입할 필요가 있음을 말해준다. 국내 조선소의 교육훈련은 용접, 도장, 기계설치, 전기설치 등 특정 기술의 숙련에 치우쳐 있으며 작업환경에 익숙해질 수 있는 훈련은 작업용 2D 도면을 이용하여 선박 건조방법 등을 설명하는 단편적인 교육에 머무르고 있다. 이러한 이유로 현장에서는 다시 OJT(On-the-Job Traning)를 반복 실시하고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 XR 기술을 활용한 훈련의 도입을 제안하고 구체적인 예로 Unity로 선박에서 윈치를 활용한 케이블 포설(Pulling) 작업 과정을 XR 기반 훈련 콘텐츠로 구현하였다. 개발된 콘텐츠를 활용하면 신규작업자들이 가상공간에서 시뮬레이션을 통해 실제 작업 과정을 미리 경험하고, 이를 통해 신규인력이 작업환경에 익숙해지는 데 도움을 줄 수 있는 보다 효과적인 훈련 콘텐츠가 될 수 있음을 예증하였다.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.398-412
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the acceleration of vibration by the powered hand tools used in the shipbuilding industry, and to develop the prospective prevalence model for the hand-arm vibration syndrome among the shipbuilding workers.The acceleration levels and frequencies of six types of grinder were measured using the ISO5349 method along with the time of exposure to the vibration from the powered hand tools. Medical examination for 114 workers were performed using the cold provocation test. Comparisons were made between the estimated prevalence of hand-arm vibration syndrome from ISO5349 and the observed values from the medical examinations. By multiple regression, we developed the prospective prevalence model of hand-arm vibration syndrome produced by the hand tools used in the shipbuilding industry. 4 hour-energy-equivalent frequency-weighted accelerations were $6.23m/s^2$ in the grinding job done after welding, and $13.39m/s^2$ in the grinding job done before painting. The mean exposure time while holding powered hand tools was 4.64 hours. Prevalence rates of Raynaud's Phenomenon were 12.04% in the grinding after soldering, and 42.9% in the grinding before painting measured using the ISO5349 method. After exposure to vibration for 10.79 years, about a half of the workers in the grinding after welding could developed Raynaud's Phenomenon. For the workers in the grinding before painting, the latency was 5.02 years. The ISO equation for dose response relationship was not significantly correlated with observed recovery rates of finger skin temperatures, blood flows and amplitudes of nerve conduction velocities. A multiple regression model for dose-response relationship was proposed from the results. Recovery rate of the skin temperatures = -0.668+ 0.337 ${\times}$ 4 hour energy equivalent frequency-weighted accelerations + 0.767 ${\times}$ duration of vibration exposure(years) The validity was proved by multiple regression analysis after correlation transformation and regression results based on model-building data and validation data.

• 월간산업보건
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• 제7호통권243호
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• pp.76-76
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• 2008

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2011

There have been so many studies related to job stress or musculoskeletal disorders(MSDs) in the shipbuilding industry. However, study of employee performance evaluation that reflect on the industrial features of the deckhouse manufacturing industry has not been established. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate workers' job stress and work ability through statistical significance tests according to age, work types, years of service, work forms and sex. For this, the study conducted a job stress test using the Korean Occupational Stress Questionnaire Short Form, and employee performance evaluations using the Work Ability Index(WAI) of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) on 536 workers in the deckhouse manufacturing industry. MINITAB statistics program was used for statistics analysis and significance was verified with the Kruskal-Wallis test, a corporate body of nonparametric statistical analysis. As a result, employee performance had significant differences, depending on age, work types, years of service and sex, and job stress also depended on the number of service year and work form. Additionally, it was found that employee performance decreased more as job stress increased.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.145-157
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• 2009

If industrial disasters happen at workplace, work's desires of workers and business activities may be dispirited. Especially, industrial disasters frequently happen in the field of heavy and chemical industry companies. According to report of the korea occupational safety and health agency(KOSHA), damage due to industrial disasters is more 5 times than losses due to industrial strifes. Thus, in these manufacturing companies, a safety management field for preventing industrial disasters is emerging as an important factor of business activities. This paper proposes an industrial disaster prediction model for safety management and also implements industrial safety management system(after this, is called as u-Safety system) based on the proposed model using ubiquitous computing technologies like USN(ubiquitous sensor networks) which are given much attention among recent information technologies. The implemented system is successfully operating in the shipbuilding division of 'H' companies.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2012

The statistics of industrial accident reported by ministry of Employment and Labor denoted a significant increase of musculoskeletal disorders(MSDs) after 1993, and showed the higher incident rate by 71.3% over the overall worker's disorders. Also, it was expected that Korean society will become the post-aged society in 2026 with 20.8% of elderly who is over 65 years old. The reports suggest possible problems caused by the older worker known to have reduced working ability than the young counterparts. On this basis, the goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between MSDs symptoms and work ability in the shipbuilding industry. To achieve this goal, this study distributed a questionnaire for total 1,244 shipbuilding employers, and used 910 employers' reports which revealed validity for this study. The questionnaire included the MSDs symptoms report developed by the Korean Occupational Safety and Health Association(KOSHA) and the work ability index(WAI) developed by Finnish Institute of Occupational Health(FIOH). Results showed no relationship between MSDs symptoms and age, years of work and exercise. Also, the work ability was increased until 44 years old, but it was decreased after that time because of the reduced physical capacity. Meanwhile, the years of work and exercise have positive correlation with work ability. However, the results revealed significant relationships between WAI and age, years of work, task characteristics and exercise. All together, the MSDs symptoms have a close relationship with the work ability in that the work ability of workers with the MSDs symptoms was reduced. This study may suggest the needs of more efforts and attention on the MSDs prevention to increase the work ability.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.69-93
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• 2018

기업들이 저원가와 높은 품질을 동시에 추구하게 됨에 따라 제품 아키텍처 기반 경쟁은 기업 전략의 중요한 일부가 되었다. 본 연구는 한 중 조선 산업(LNGC)분야 대표기업의 제품 아키텍처와 조직역량을 비교 분석하여 그들이 어떻게 혁신성과를 이루어 냈는지 고찰하였다. 그 결과, 한국기업은 동력계열의 연구개발에 있어 FGSS(Fuel gas supply system), PRS(Partial Re-liquefaction System)와 같이 에너지 효율을 개선하는 장치를 자체 개발하여 기존엔진에 추가하고, 선체 무게를 경량화 하는 등 다양한 미세조정 노력을 통해 우수한 성능을 가지게 하였다. 이는 우수한 연구조직 역량과 현장과의 긴밀한 협업을 통해 실현되었으며, 고부가가치선의 높은 매출로 이어질 수 있었다. 반면 중국 기업은 설계 및 연구개발의 편의성에 집중하여, 기존의 부품에 대한 미세조정 노력을 소홀히 했고 그 결과 동일한 부품을 사용하고도 한국의 선박에 비해 7-10% 낮은 연비 효율을 지닌 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.540-552
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• 2010

This research forms preliminary data for the coordination of environmental color planning in industry through a color analysis of work clothes and the work environment. A digital camera was used to study the work environment of two major shipbuilding companies located in Geoje city and Goseong county. The picture data was analyzed as G (ground: environment) and F (figure: clothes), and analyzed hue, value, and the chroma value through a Muncell conversion 9.0.6 from the color cluster, number of pixel, and RGB value. The results are as follows: First, GY, Y color were mostly used in the shipbuilding environment and work clothes. The color value was used in a relatively wide range but very low chroma (0-3), dark grayish, grayish tone dominated both fields. Second, the use of limited colors cannot be secured for safety in attention of the shipbuilding field. Third, unclear and vogue colors lessened the optical tiredness of workers that helped in the prevention of industrial accidents. Color combination and color selection should be considered for a secure safety color coordination between work clothes and the work environment when it comes to complicated color principles.

• 산업공학
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.267-273
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• 2011

In the shipbuilding industry, since production processes are so complicated that the data collection for decision making cannot be fully automated, most of production planning and controls are based on the information provided only by field workers. Therefore, without sufficient information it is very difficult to manage the whole production process efficiently. Job status is one of the most important information used for evaluating the remaining processing time in production control, specifically, in block assembly shop. Currently, it is checked by a production manager manually and production planning is modified based on that information, which might cause a delay in production control, resulting in performance degradation. Motivated by these remarks, in this paper we propose an efficient algorithm for identifying job status in block assembly shop for shipbuilding. The algorithm is based on the multi-layer perceptron neural network model using two key factors for input parameters. We showed the superiority of the algorithm by using a numerical experiment, based on real data collected from block assembly shop.