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A Disaster precaution and efficiency improve of labor by promotion of Emotional Safety Culture of laborer (근로자의 감성안전문화조성에 의한 작업능률 향상 및 재해 예방)

  • Kim, Joon-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.473-477
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    • 2006
  • In domestic construction site, convenient facilities for worker are much lacking up to now. These things exert negative influences in the occurrence of construction disaster because a safety-aware of worker-self is been lacking ultimately, and 3D(Dirty Dangerous Difficult) evasion phenomenon for construction site spreads more to workers and actuality that is going through manpower problems may be heavier. This research applied sensitivity safety cultural institutions that make aware of worker's sensitivity in spot to search solution way of these problems from resource of human original nature. By the result, there were affirmative sides that sensitivity safety cultures facilities make created a safety-aware during work to worker-self. Also, these facilities gave as member of a constituent by workers, it examined that become many helps in operation efficiency.

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Difference of Human Error between Japanese and Indonesian Workers at Pipeline Construction

  • Yamada, Takahisa
    • International Journal of Safety
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.30-34
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    • 2010
  • A big difference is seen in the perception of self-responsibility concerning safety, as a result of my survey on the safety measures taken in the pipeline construction at workers level between Japan and Indonesia. Specifically, when an accident occurs, a worker in Indonesia will think that the responsibility depends on the person who causes it. However a worker in Japan will think that safety is can only be protected by law and regulations. There is also another difference in the understanding of construction period. It is alright in Indonesia to take 5 times longer period than it takes in Japan if the cost is less. The idea of punctual delivery is very strong in Japan. Through this survey, points which construction industry in Japan could learn from Indonesia came to surface. In addition, over the recent years, several nasty accidents at Japanese sites were caused due to human error to disregard the law. Japanese should arouse the awareness of self-responsibility in this regard. Risk management should be upon self-recognition of each individual worker in both countries. What is important is the "work attitude education", "to grow sense of self-responsibility by thinking on one's own for one's self" in the education curriculum of man to man learning as in technical educational program.

An Empirical Study on the Safety Climate and Worker's Safe Work Behavior in Semiconductor Industry Related Work Site in Korea (한국 반도체관련 산업의 사업장 안전 분위기와 근로자들의 안전행동에 관한 실증적 연구)

  • Chung, Nak-Kyung;Kim, Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.57-64
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    • 2008
  • The Semiconductor industry in Korea has achieved a great contribution to the growth of its economy for the last 20 years with its product export ranked to #1 nowadays. However, the working environment in semiconductor industry is always exposed to a potential risk of critical safety issue for workers with many kinds of utilities used such as toxic chemicals, gases, high vacuum and high voltages of electricity. This study is focused on empirical research to find out the factors on safety climate and to examine the relationships of safety climate and safe work behaviour in the work site of Korea semiconductor industry. As a result of simulation, a strong positive relationships and safe work behaviour have been identified in this study. Its result and implications has been discussed and suggested further studies on its limitation from this study.

Analysis on Worker's Consciousness and Precautionary Measures for Prevention of an Occupational Disease (직업병 예방을 위한 근로자 의식조사 및 예방대책)

  • 임영문;최요한
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2002
  • There are many and various problems due to an occupational disease. These problems result in serious social problems such as individual and family problem, economical loses of company. The objective of this study is to analyze the worker's consciousness and provide the precautionary measures for prevention of an occupational disease. The samples for this study are chosen from the companies with less than 300 employees under charge of the Kangnung Ministry of Labor during three months (2002. 3. 2 ∼ 2002. 5. 31).

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A Study on the Awareness of Safety and Health for Practical Application of Risk Assessment in Construction Industries -Focused on Worker- (건설업 위험성평가 실무적 적용을 위한 안전보건 인식도 조사 연구 -근로자를 중심으로-)

  • Choi, Soo Hwan;Oh, Tae Keun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.60-65
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    • 2013
  • On the basis of the guideline "2012-104(2012.9.26.)" notified by the ministry of employment and labor, this paper provided the baseline data and the improvement proposal in applying risk assessment to a construction site by group interview & survey of construction workers. The worker's awareness and action plan of safety and health were investigated by numerical analysis. From the result of group interview and the survey of construction workers, it was found that most of construction workers feel the danger during the work. The results also shows that risk assessment can help to change & raise the awareness of safety and to reduce the industrial disaster. In addition, simple safety management activity such as TBM & active education of safety will be necessary for safe workspace and the active TBT(tool box talk) which combines TBM & the education of safety will be also effective.

Applying psychosocial approach in industrial safety research (산업안전 연구에 대한 사회심리적 접근의 통합)

  • Ahn, Kwan-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.13-21
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    • 2012
  • This paper tried to apply psychosocial factors in industrial safety research. Since Zohar's(1980) publication of safety climate in the field of safety research, this approach have been done by many researchers. Here, this paper reviewed the relationship between safety climate factors(safety rule, prevention, superior attitude, social support) and safety compliance, and the moderating effects of work condition, required skill and age. Based on the responses from 233 employees in Kangwon province industry, hierarchical regressional analysis showed that all safety climate factors(safety rule, prevention, superior attitude, social support) have positive relationship with safety compliance. Safety rule appeared to be more positively related with safety compliance, while work condition is more favorable and worker is older. But social support appeared to be more positively with safety compliance, while work condition is more unfavorable, and also prevention appeared to be more positively with safety compliance, while worker is more younger.

A Study on Fault Tree Construction for Track Worker's Risk Assessment (선로 작업자 위험도 예측을 위한 고장수목 구성 연구)

  • Kwak Sang-Log;Wang Jong-Bae;Park Chan-Woo;Cho Yuen-Ok
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.123-126
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    • 2005
  • Recently many accidents have been occurred on track workers, these accidents have strong relationship with increase of train speed, electrification and multiple track portion. As a first step for the safety management, domestic and abroad track worker accidents data are analysed for the risk estimation of track worker. Analysis results shows that contact between track worker and train is the dormant reason. In order to reduce dormant reason fault trees are constructed in this study.

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Factors that Impact Construction Workers' Hazard Recognition Ability and their Technological Solutions

  • Shrestha, Bandana;Park, JeeWoong;Shrestha, Pramen
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.458-464
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    • 2022
  • Hazard recognition is considered as one of the pre-requisites for effective hazard management and injury prevention. However, in complex and changing environments, construction workers are often unable to identify all possible hazards that can occur in the jobsite. Therefore, identification of factors that impact hazard recognition in the work environment is necessary to reduce safety incidents as well as to develop strategies that can improve worker's hazard recognition performance. This study identified factors/problems that impact worker's hazard recognition abilities and suggested some potential technologies that can mitigate such problems. Literature reviews of journal articles and published reports related to hazard recognition studies were conducted to identify the factors. The study found out that the major factor responsible for affecting worker's hazard recognition abilities were human-related. Industry factors, Organizational factors and Physical factors of the site were the other factors identified from the study that impact worker's hazard recognition performances. The findings from the study can help site personnel recognize areas where effective measures can be directed towards worksite safety of workers while working in complex construction environments.

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Exposure Assessment to Asbestos and Diesel Engine Exhaust Particulate Matter in Urban Bus Garage (버스 정비 작업자에 대한 석면 및 디젤 엔진 배출물질 노출 평가)

  • Lee, Naroo;Yi, Gwangyong
    • Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.219-224
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    • 2016
  • Objectives: Lung cancer occurred with worker working in an urban bus garage. A survey was conducted to investigate whether lung cancer had causal relationship with work. Exposure to asbestos and diesel engine exhaust were suspected. Methods: Airborne asbestos was sampled on membrane filter and analyzed using phase-contrast microscopy. Airborne diesel exhaust was sampled using quartz filter and analyzed with thermal-optical analyzer. Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons was sampled using PTFE filter and XAD-2 tube and analyzed with gas chromatography-mass selective detector. Results: Airborne asbestos concentration was under 0.01 fiber/cc. Worker who warmed up an engine of urban bus for 2 hours was exposed to elemental carbon concentration, $15.5{\mu}g/m^3$. Only naphtalene among polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons was detected. Conclusions: It was difficult to conclude about worker exposure to asbestos because working hour related asbestos was too short. In reviewing papers, the exposure to asbestos over 0.01 fiber/cc during exchange brake lining was found. It was identified that worker's occupational exposure to diesel exhaust based on elemental carbon was higher than the other occupational exposure to diesel exhaust.

The practice and it's effects of "The safety trainbing program for 'IKIIKI(Vivid)' five senses"

  • Wataru, Masada
    • Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.1-3
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    • 1997
  • We suggested and began to develop an entirely new safety program "The Safety Training Program for 'KIKIIKI' (Vivid) Five Senses". The purpose of this program is to enhance worker's consciousness for safety, especially in working places. The work 'IKIIKI' of the program title is Japanese worlds. It means 'vivid' in English.

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