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Analysis on Reduction Effect Factors of Occupational Accident Fatalities in Construction Industry - Focusing on Economic and Workforce Factors -

건설업의 산업재해 사고사망자 감소 영향요인 분석 - 경제적 요인 및 노동력 요인을 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 : 2020.02.27
  • Accepted : 2020.04.07
  • Published : 2020.04.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of the economic and workforce factors on the annual number of occupational accident fatalities occurring at the construction sites. The considered variables of the economic factor are the amount of economic losses caused by industrial accidents, the GDP, and the total monthly wage for each economically active population. And, the variables related to the workforce factor are the number of economically active population, the number of female economically active population, and the number of labor union members. The multiple regression analysis was conducted to determine the effect of two factors on the total number of occupational fatalities in the construction industry. The results show that GDP among considered variables in the economic factor had a statistically significant negative relationship with the number of the construction accident fatalities in the construction industry. Among variables related to the workforce factor, economically active population showed a statistically significant negative relationship with the number of the construction accident fatalities.

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