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Analysis on Reduction Effect Factors of Occupational Fatalities in Construction Industry - Focusing on Agency Factors -

건설업의 산업재해 사고사망자 감소 영향요인 분석 - 기관 행정요인을 중심으로 -

  • Song, Byungchoon (Department of Safety Engineering, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Won, Jeong-Hun (Department of Safety Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
  • 송병춘 (충북대학교 안전공학과) ;
  • 원정훈 (충북대학교 안전공학과)
  • Received : 2020.02.22
  • Accepted : 2020.04.06
  • Published : 2020.04.30

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the variables of the agency factors affected the number of occupational fatalities in the construction industry in order to determine whether there is a relationship between the number of occupational fatalities occurring at the construction sites and the agency. The considered agencies are KOSHA (Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency) and MOEL (Ministry of Employment and Labor). The variables of two agency factors are classified as follows: the variables of two agency factors are the number of employees, budget amounts, technical support and guidance for construction sites of KOSHA, and the number of labor inspectors, the number of inspection and oversight workplace, the number of criminally punished construction sites and fines levied on them in the industrial accident prevention departments of Regional Employment and Labor Office. The multiple regression analysis was conducted to determine the effect of two agency factors on the total number of occupational fatalities in the construction industry. The policy implications derived from this study are that, in order to reduce the fatalities of construction sites by KOSHA, the appropriate level of increased budget for KOSHA must be secured every year. In addition, the amount of fines levied on construction sites by the labor inspector in the industrial accident prevention departments of Regional Employment and Labor Office reduces the occupational fatalities at the construction sites.

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