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An Empirical Study on the Safety Consciousness of Experimental Researchers in University Laboratories

대학 실험·실습활동 종사자의 안전의식 실증분석 연구

  • 이영재 (동국대학교 경영정보학과) ;
  • 강성경 (동국대학교 경영정보학과) ;
  • 이병호 (교육시설재난공제회 안전관리부)
  • Received : 2017.02.14
  • Accepted : 2018.01.06
  • Published : 2018.02.28

Abstract

The study aims present data collection on the current state of safety and safety consciousness in universities' laboratories to verify the relation between investigation factors and further draw implications. The first finding is that laboratories with high risk level do not have better safety management performance than those with lower risk level. Secondly, labs that experienced accidents has a higher level of control than those without any. Regarding to the university's acceptance of safety requirements, the group with a high level of risk awareness or accidents were concerned that their universities did not provide sufficient support in safety management. It means that safety is low on the list of priorities in Universities' overall agenda and individual labs are responsible of their own safety. Most of the causes of accidents in the labs are man-made than physical errors. It requires that continuous safety educations and measures through safe research activities are means to eliminate and reduce the individual's safety frigidity. Through the survey, it is known that current education's system and contents are too generalized to reflect the characteristics of each laboratory. Thus, it is difficult to recognize various risk situations and to actually prevent safety accidents. Therefore, it is necessary to shift to customized curriculum and system for various major fields.

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