• 시스템엔지니어링학술지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2021

This study proposes a systems engineering approach for the development of an advanced planning & scheduling (APS) system for a cosmetic case manufacturing factory. The APS system makes production plans and schedules based on the injection process, which consists of 27 plastic injection machines in parallel to control recommended inventory of products. The system uses machine operation/failure information and defective product/work-in-process tracking information to support intelligent scheduling. Furthermore, a genetic algorithm model is applied to handle the complexity of heuristic rules and machine/quality constraints in this process. As a result of the development, the recommended inventory compliance rate is improved by scheduling the 30-day production plan for 15 main products.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.119-126
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• 2021

Background: During the period 2001 to 2016, the maximum temperatures in Thailand rose from 38-41℃ to 42-44℃. The current occupational heat exposure standard of Thailand issued in 2006 is based on wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) defined for three workload levels without a work-rest regimen. This study examined whether the present standard still protects most workers. Methods: The sample comprised 168 heat acclimatized workers (90 in construction sites, 78 in foundries). Heart rate and auditory canal temperature were recorded continuously for 2 hours. Workplace WBGT, relative humidity, and wind velocity were monitored, and the participants' workloads were estimated. Heat-related symptoms and signs were collected by a questionnaire. Results: Only 55% of the participants worked in workplaces complying with the heat standard. Of them, 79% had auditory canal temperature ≤ 38.5℃, compared with only 58% in noncompliant workplaces. 18% and 43% of the workers in compliant and noncompliant workplaces, respectively, had symptoms from heat stress, the trend being similar across all workload levels. An increase of one degree (C) in WBGT was associated with a 1.85-fold increase (95% confidence interval: 1.44-2.48) in odds for having symptoms. Conclusion: Compliance with the current occupational heat standard protects 4/5 of the workers, whereas noncompliance reduces this proportion to one half. The reasons for noncompliance include the gaps and ambiguities in the law. The law should specify work/rest schedules; outdoor work should be identified as an occupational heat hazard; and the staff should include occupational personnel to manage heat stress in establishments involving heat exposure.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.226-233
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• 2022

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the subjective level of health-related quality of life of Korean healthcare workers using various quality-of-life instruments. Methods: This study included 992 participants, who were doctors and nurses. A survey was conducted between November 28 and December 4, 2019. Data from 954 participants divided into 3 groups (physicians, residents, and nurses) were analyzed. Four measurement tools (29 questions) were used in the survey to evaluate subjective health status and well-being. Results: In the Mayo Well-being Index, burnout during work (88.5%) and emotional difficulties caused by work (84.0%) were frequently cited by the respondents. Regarding questions on burnout and emotional difficulties, residents and nurses had the highest scores (91.0 and 89.6%, respectively). Emotional problems, such as anxiety, depression, and irritability, accounted for a high percentage (73.1%) of the total, while 82.2% of respondents reported that their work schedules interfered with their leisure and family time. There was no significant difference among the groups in subjective health status. However, 10.1% of the residents experienced very low quality of life, which was a higher proportion than that of physicians (2.7%) and nurses (5.2%). Conclusions: The level of well-being that Korean medical workers experienced in relation to work was lower than the results of the United States healthcare workers surveyed using the same tool. This study was unique in that it conducted a subjective quality-of-life survey on Korean healthcare workers.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.116-124
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• 2016

건설현장의 주요 작업인 토공사의 경우, 토공 건설장비를 운용하는 개별 작업자에 의해서 작업의 효율성이 좌우되기 때문에 개별 작업자의 숙련도가 전체적인 공사일정에 큰 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 건설현장에는 그 특성상 현장 내 설치된 구조물이나 장비 혹은 움직이는 작업자들이나 장비 등으로 인해 시야가 가려져서 발생하게 되는 비가시 영역이 필연적으로 존재한다. 이와 같은 작업 관련 시각정보의 부재는 작업자가 건설장비를 효율적으로 운용하는데 있어서 결정적인 저해요소가 된다. 증강현실(AR, Augmented Reality)은 현실세계에 가상물체를 중첩시켜 보여주는 컴퓨터 기술이다. 이 기술의 특성을 이용하면 토공사를 수행하는 과정에서의 시각정보 부재 문제를 해결할 수 있고 이를 통한 건설장비의 작업 효율성 향상이 가능하다. 본 연구의 목적은 이러한 토공사에서의 필요 시각정보를 도출하기 위한 작업-시각정보 맵을 제시하고 굴삭기의 작업들 중 AR기술을 적용하기에 적합한 것을 찾아내는 것이다. 연구의 대상이 되는 건설장비는 굴삭기로 한정하였다. 작업-시각정보 맵은 굴삭기 토공작업의 문제점과 그 문제점을 해결하는데 필요한 시각정보를 기반으로 하여 작성되었다. 이 맵으로부터 굴삭기의 작업 효율성을 향상시킬 수 있고, AR기술을 적용하기에도 적합한 4가지 필요 시각정보가 도출되었다. 연구결과를 바탕으로 하여 추후 건설장비 AR 네비게이터 시스템을 더욱 효과적으로 개발할 수 있을 것이라 기대한다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.111-119
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• 2016

Background: Shift work and/or sleep quality may affect health. We investigated whether shift work and sleep quality, separately and jointly, were associated with abnormal levels of triglycerides, total cholesterol (TC), and low-and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in 360 police officers (27.5% women). Methods: Triglycerides, TC, and high-density lipoprotein were analyzed on the Abbott Architect; low-density lipoprotein was calculated. Shift work was assessed using City of Buffalo payroll work history records. Sleep quality (good, ${\leq}5$; intermediate, 6-8; poor, ${\geq}9$) was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index questionnaire. A shift work + sleep quality variable was created: day plus good sleep; day plus poor sleep; afternoon/night plus good; and poor sleep quality. Mean values of lipid biomarkers were compared across categories of the exposures using analysis of variance/analysis of covariance. Results: Shift work was not significantly associated with lipids. However, as sleep quality worsened, mean levels of triglycerides and TC gradually increased but only among female officers (age- and race-adjusted p = 0.013 and 0.030, respectively). Age significantly modified the association between sleep quality and TC. Among officers ${\geq}40$ years old, those reporting poor sleep quality had a significantly higher mean level of TC ($202.9{\pm}3.7mg/dL$) compared with those reporting good sleep quality ($190.6{\pm}4.0mg/dL$) (gender- and race-adjusted p = 0.010). Female officers who worked the day shift and also reported good sleep quality had the lowest mean level of TC compared with women in the other three categories (p = 0.014). Conclusion: Sleep quality and its combined influence with shift work may play a role in the alteration of some lipid measures.

• 한국인구학
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.27-49
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• 2010

이 연구는 시간압박의 개념을 중심으로 남녀에 따라 지각하는 시간압박수준이 어떻게 차이가 나고, 시간압박에 영향을 미치는 관련요인들에서의 성차가 무엇인지 살펴보고자 하였다. 자료는 2004년 생활시간자료를 활용하였다. 일하는 연령에 해당하는 25-54세의 기혼의 대상자들만을 선별하여 살펴본 분석결과, 첫째, 평균적으로 남성이 여성보다 시간압박을 더 많이 지각하는 것으로 나타났다. 취업여부와 성의 조합형태로 살펴본 교차분석 결과에서는 취업남녀가 유사한 시간압박 수준을 나타내는 가운데 비취업여성, 비취업남성 순으로 시간압박을 지각하는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다. 둘째, 시간압박을 종속으로 하는 순서화 로짓분석결과, 시간압박과 관련 있게 나타난 특성의 구성에서 남녀에 따른 차이점과 공통점이 함께 발견되었다. 남성의 경우 사회인구학적 특성과 직업특성과 관련된 특성 및 시간활용이 그들의 시간압박과 관련이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 여성의 경우에는 시간압박과의 관련요인들이 남성의 경우와 비교해 볼 때 더 다양하였다. 교육수준, 소득, 직종, 근무형태, 요일, 자녀연령을 비롯하여, 임금노동시간, 이동시간, 여가시간을 비롯하여, 돌봄노동시간, 가사노동시간 그리고 전화통화시간까지도 시간부족과 관련이 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국HCI학회 2009년도 학술대회
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• pp.650-653
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• 2009

항해사의 업무수행도 감소는 해양사고 발생의 주요 원인 중의 하나로 자주 언급되고 있다. 인터뷰와 항해 기록 분석을 통한 선원의 작업시간 분석에 대한 연구는 일부를 수행되었으나, 작업부하, 작업교대, 스트레스, 수면 등이 선원의 인지능력에 미치는 영향을 분석한 사례 매우 한정적이다. 항공, 철도와 같은 다른 운송 산업에서는 승무원의 근무 패턴을 관리하기 위한 피로관리 도구를 개발하고 있고 있는데, 이러한 도구들은 선원, 항해사 및 육상관리자의 효율적인 근무일정을 계획하는데 도움을 줄 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 항해사의 인지능력을 평가하기 위해, 해상 충돌상황에서의 종합적 대응능력을 평가할 수 있는 소프트웨어 프로그램을 개발하였다. 항해 전문가를 대상으로 한 실험을 통하여, 평가기준을 개발하였으며, 실습 항해사를 대상으로 하여 시스템에 대한 검증이 이루어졌다. 본 시스템은 선박운항 시 충돌사고를 회피하기 위한 항해사의 인지능력을 평가할 수 있으므로, 당직 전 혹은 승선 전에 짧은 시간 동안의 평가를 통하여 항해사의 전반적 인지능력을 평가하고, 이 결과를 항해사에게 경고메시지 형태로 전달할 수 있다.

• 한국항해학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.23-75
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• 1995

A major change occuring in the workplace is the willingness of union leaders, managers, and workers to experiment with various work schedules and to work toward the improvement in the QWL(quality of work life). In this study, the writer measures the level of QWL, embodies components of QWL, testifies the difference of QWL according to the demographical traits, and develops some scales to measure QWL in merchant ships. To achieve objectives of the paper, 11 hypotheses were established and a questionnaire was used, 894 proper data was obtained from 2, 910 Korean seamen working in merchant ships. Results of analyses are as follows : 1) The components of QWL in merchant ships are job, employee satisfaction, wage, welfare, working condition, supervise, colleague relations, initiative, and organization management. 2) Seamen of merchant ships are satisfied with job, supervise, colleague relations, and organization management. They are dissatisfied employee satisfaction, wage, welfare, and working condition. 3) According to demographical traits, the number of the factors significant difference(P<0.05) among components of QWL are 9 for type of ships, 8 ages of seamen, 7 for married or single, nationality of ships, and education level respectively, 5 for seamen career, for 4 rank on board and trading route of ships respectively, 2 for whether union or not and whether union involvement or not respectively, and 1 for department on board. 4) Results which tested hypotheses are as follows : For the components of QWL, married men are more satisfactory than an unmarried men, officers are more dissatisfactory than ratings, old men are more satisfactory than young men, men in high education level are more dissatisfactory than men in low education level, those who are much careers as a seaman are more satisfactory than those who are little careers as a seaman. There are significant differences in the components of QWL according to nationality and type of ships. There are insignificant differences in the components of QWL according to the shipboard department, whether union is or not, whether union involvement is or not, and trading route of ships.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.69-81
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• 1989

This study is concerned with a job sequencing method using the concept of sampling technique in the case of Job Shop. This is the follow study of Kang and Ro (1988) which examined the possibility of application of sampling technique to determine the Job Sequence in the case of Flow Shop. Not only it is very difficult, but also it takes too much time to develop the appropriate job schedules that satisfy the complex work conditions. The most job sequencing algorithms have been developed to determine the best or good solution under the special conditions or assumptions. The application areas of these algorithms are also very narrow, so it is very hard to find the appropriate algorithm which satisfy the complex work conditions. In this case it is very desirable to develop a simple job sequencing method which can select the optimal job sequence or near optimal job sequence with a little effort. This study is to examine the effect of sampling job sequencing which can select the good job of 0.01%~5% upper good group. The result shows that there is the sets of 0.05%~23% job sequence group which has the same amount of performance measure with the optimal job sequence in the case of experiment of N/M/G/$F_{max}$. This indicates that the sampling job sequencing method is a useful job sequencing method to find the optimal or good job sequence with consuming a small amount of time. The results of ANOVA show that the only one factor, number of machines is the significant factor for determining the job sequence at ${\alpha}=0.01$. It takes about 10 minutes to compare the number of 10,000 samples of job sequence by personal computer and it is proved that the selection rate of the same job sequence with optimal job sequence is 23.0%, 3.9% and 0.065% in the case of 2 machines, 3 machines and 4 machines, respectively. The area of application can readily be extended to the other work condition.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.71-88
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to look into how married working men with a child younger than six years old spent their weekend time either alone or with their wives on housework, family care, and leisure activities, and to find out whether different types of time use brought about different levels of satisfaction to their use of time on weekends. Factors associated with each type were also explored. We analyzed 857 weekend time diaries of married men with a preschooler and men who worked more than 40 hours a week. This data came from the 2009 Time Use Survey conducted by Statistics Korea. Descriptive statistics and cluster analysis results showed that weekend time distribution to those three activities was classified into four different types, namely, 'nonparticipation', 'personal leisure centered', 'couple leisure centered', and 'family centered'. Time use satisfaction for 'couple leisure centered' and 'family centered' types which involved wife and child was significantly higher than the other two types. Age and traditional gender role attitude were associated with the personal leisure and couple leisure centered types, while work related factors such as work hours, regular day off, employment status, and occupation functioned as determinants of the nonparticipation type. Findings from this study suggest that weekend time spent together with family could be the source of satisfaction, but almost half of the respondents were deprived of their weekend family time due to work schedules on weekends. This study supports the need for organizational and policy efforts to ensure non-working weekends for fathers and husbands.