Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence (한국산업융합학회 논문집)

The Korean Society of Industry Convergence (한국산업융합학회)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

Research on Improvement Measures for Chemical Risk Assessment for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

중소규모 사업장을 위한 화학물질 위험성평가 개선방안 연구

  • Ji Ung Choi (Chemical Safety Management Group, Daegu Regional Environment Office, Ministry of Environment) ;
  • Woo Sub Shim (Chemical Accident Prevention Division, Occupational Safety and Health Headquarter, Ministry of Employment and Labor)
  • 최지웅 (환경부 대구지방환경청 화학안전관리단) ;
  • 심우섭 (고용노동부 산업안전보건본부 화학사고예방과)
  • Received : 2023.08.28
  • Accepted : 2023.09.22
  • Published : 2023.10.31
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced a roadmap for reducing serious accidents to create a "safe and healthy workplace, happy Korea" and ordered a risk assessment for all work processes in all workplaces on November 30, 2022. Accordingly, even workplaces that handle new chemicals must conduct risk assessment when introducing new chemicals, but the risk assessment techniques currently proposed by the government focus on preventing conventional accidents such as falls, getting caught, and bumping. Currently, there is a Chemical Hazard Risk Management (CHARM) technique that is most commonly used for chemical risk assessment, but in small and medium-sized businesses that lack professional manpower related to chemical substances, there are many technical terms in the technique and it is difficult to interpret, so its utilization is very low. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to present a method that can make risk assessment easier and simpler before handling new chemicals so that it can be used well in small and medium-sized businesses that lack professional manpower related to chemical substances. Through actual cases, the method of using CHARM was confirmed step by step, and based on this, risk reduction establishment and execution methods were derived. Based on the results of this study, it is expected that it will be used as the best tool for preventing accidents such as acute poisoning when handling chemicals in small and medium-sized workplaces that lack professional manpower related to chemical substances and make every effort to protect workers' health.

Keywords

References

  1. Ministry of Employment and Labor, Announcement of Severe Accident Reduction Roadmap to leap forward as an industrial safety advanced country, [Accessed on 24 August 2023] Available from: URL: https://www.moel.go.kr/news/enews/report/enewsView.do?news_seq=14301
  2. Ministry of Employment and Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Act Article 36(Implementation of risk assessment), [Accessed on 22 August 2023] Available from: URL: https://www.moel.go.kr/news/enews/report/enewsView.do?news_seq=14301
  3. H. Choi, C. Kim, "Risk Assessment for Disaster Reduction in Small-Scale Construction Sites", Journal of The Korean Society of Disaster Information, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 395-404, (2022).
  4. S.-T. Kim, C. Kim, "A Study on the Improvement of Risk Assessment Method in Laboratory", Journal of The Korean Society of Disaster Information, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 444-456, (2022).
  5. J.-W. Lee, C. Kim, "A Study on the Risk Assessment for Strengthening Management Safety of Hydrogen Fueling Station", Journal of The Korean Society of Disaster Information, vol. 18, no. 3, 520-531, (2022).
  6. J.-B. Lee, "Analysis of operation system establishment cases for efficient use of risk assessment at construction sites - H Focusing on construction Company cases", Journal of The Korean Society of Disaster Information, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 828-838, (2022).
  7. Y.H. Cho, D.Y. Kim, "An analysis of the Characteristics of Workplaces with Fatal Accidents: Focusing on the effective labor inspection", Research Report(2022-Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute-776), (2022).
  8. Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, The key to the Severe Accident Punishment Act is risk assessment, [Accessed on 20 August 2023] Available from: URL: https://www.korcham.net/nCham/Service/Economy/appl/KcciReportDetail.asp?SEQ_NO_C010=20120936373&CHAM_CD=B001
  9. Ministry of Employment and Labor, Reorganization of "risk assessment", a key tool of the self-discipline prevention system, to make it easy and convenient and to emphasize participation, [Accessed on 19 August 2023] Available from: URL: https://www.moel.go.kr/news/enews/report/enewsView.do?news_seq=14751
  10. H.-A. Park, S.-Y. Choi, I. Wu, D. Lee, "Assessment of Risk of Exposure to Chemicals in the Analysis Centers of Organizations for measuring the Working Environment, using CHARM", Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 660-668, (2017). https://doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2017.18.4.660
  11. J. Cho, T.-H. Jeong, "Risk Assessment of exposure to the extinguishing agents using CHARM", Journal of The Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 35-41, (2017).
  12. J. Cho, "Study on the Safe use of the Chemical Extinguishing Agent", Fire Science and Engineering, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 118-129, (2018). https://doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2018.32.2.118
  13. Ministry of Employment and Labor, Guidelines for the evaluation of workplaces(Ministry of Employment and Labor Notification No. 2023-19), [Accessed on 24 August 2023] Available from: URL: https://www.law.go.kr/admRulSc.do?menuId=5&subMenuId=41&tabMenuId=183&query=%EC%9C%84%ED%97%98%EC%84%B1%ED%8F%89%EA%B0%80#liBgcolor2
  14. Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, Guidelines for Workplace Safety Checks and Inspections, KOSHA Guide Z -6-2022, pp. 1-27