• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.357-365
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• 2015

Folk medicine is traditionally passed down to cure disease, and adverse events (AEs) of folk medicine are any unfavorable and unintended discomforts temporally associated with the use of folk medicine. The aim of this study was to analyze AEs types and risks of folk medicine through the internet news articles. Included in this analysis are all articles on the topic of folk medicine and AE reported in the top 3 online news websites (NAVER, DAUM and NATE) determined by InternetTrend$^{TM}$(www.internettrend.co.kr). It was searched in the last five years (between 1 January 2009 and 28 February 2014). In total, 18 AEs articles of 973 news articles met our inclusion criteria. A total of 27 people were experienced AEs associated with use of folk medicine. Age was from 4 months to 76 years old, and it was occurred in both men and women. Folk medicine that caused AEs in twice or more was therapy that patient taking the dictamnus or aconitum of toxic herbal medicines, vinegar therapy of external use to topical skin, and cupping or bee sting therapy by practitioners. Death as a kind of serious AEs was 11 people, and 10 people were died after treatment by unqualified practitioner. Folk medicine that is popular and widely used in Korea is actively interacted with information on the internet, so it apt to misuse and abuse without guidance of health professionals. Aspects of health care system, we point out that the need for government and medical society establish not only correct health information plan and promotion of risk but also system as reporting and monitoring of AEs by folk medicine.

• Environmental engineer
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• v.18 s.194
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• pp.72-73
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• 2002

우리 환경인들의 삶의 터전인 현장에는 많은 유해$\cdot$위험요인들이 상존하고 있으나 이를 간과하거나 무시하고 지나쳐버림으로써 돌이킬 수 없는 중대재해가 빈번히 발생하고 있습니다. 이에 본지는 최근 발생된 환경오염방지시설관련 재해사례를 알려드림으로써 발생가능한 재해를 사전예방하고 회원 여러분들의 소중한 생명을 보호코자 합니다.

• Environmental engineer
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• v.19 s.199
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• pp.52-53
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• 2003

우리 환경인들의 삶의 터전인 현장에는 많은 유해$\cdot$위험요인들이 상존하고 있으나 이를 간과하거나 무시하고 지나쳐버림으로써 돌이킬 수 없는 중대재해가 빈번히 발생하고 있습니다. 이에 본지는 산업현장에서 발생된 재해사례를 알려드림으로써, 발생가능한 재해를 사전예방하고 회원 여러분들의 소중한 생명을 보호코자 합니다.

• KOREAN ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSES
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.21-33
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• 2011

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.344-346
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• 2013

최근 농작물이나 과수는 멧돼지, 고라니, 꿩 등과 같은 유해동물로부터 피해를 입는 사례가 늘고 있다. 특히 멧돼지는 현재 별다른 천적이 없어 개체수가 급격히 증가하고 산간지역을 넘어 도심지역까지 출몰하고 있어 농가에 큰 근심거리가 된다. 종래에는 농장이나 과수원에 허수아비를 세우거나 목책을 치는 소극적인 수단에서부터, 경계를 따라 전기울타리를 설치하거나 야간점멸 조명 기를 설치하는 등의 적극적인 수단을 강구하였으나, 야생동물들이 이들 대책수단에 적응하게 되면서 큰 효과를 거두지 못하고 있으며 확실한 대책이 없이 피해는 점점 더 늘어만 가고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 시스템은 무인로봇을 이용한 유해동물 감시 시스템으로, 특히 유해동물을 감지하고 무인로봇을 유해동물로 이동시켜 소리 또는 물질을 방출하도록 하고 유해동물에 대한 관련정보를 관리자단말 및 유관기관서버로 전송하도록 하는 유해동물 감시 시스템 설계 및 개발 관한 것이다.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.90-98
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• 2014

Lately accidents of harmful chemical substance in korea were repeatedly replaying. We studied problems and preparation plan in 2008 years~2014 years through analysis cases of harmful chemical substance. Leakage of chemical substance's accident situation shows that leakage in the workplace is the most 10 cases, accounting for 58.6% is the largest proportion in 2009. Leakage according to explosion accounting for 50% (5 cases) in 2004, 25% (4 cases) in 2007 and 33.3% (4 cases) in 2011 has very irregular change. Therefore, A major cause of accidents is lack of safety management. Harmful chemical substance showed various aspects, high residual substance and non-visible characteristic so response and recovery was easy. And the second damage to move a distance causes environment pollution. So a mutual-assistance system and integrated system of related organization have to build and expert of chemical incident response and therapist of chemical substance response have to establish to do efficient and rapid response.

• 월간산업보건
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• s.351
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• pp.22-27
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• 2017

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.51-56
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• 2009

Safety and quality assessment systems are very important in manufacture, storage, transportation, and handling of hazardous materials(hazmat) to prevent hazmat disasters. At present, hazardous materials exist everywhere in our daily lives with various forms of plastics, household products of cleaning and washing detergents, fertilizers or petroleum-related products. However, hazardous materials are dangerous substances when they are released to human or environment. Hazardous materials become very widely used substances in the age of oil-based industrial economy. The Korean Ministry of Environment (KMOE) describes about one hundred thousand types of chemicals are produced and used worldwide. Over four hundred new chemicals are introduced in every year. A crucial question for the Korean hazardous material management may have been raised: Will you be safe from hazardous material incidents? The gas leak disaster at Union Carbide's Bhopal, India in 1984 that made over 6,400 people killed and 30,000 to 40,000 people seriously injured is the representative case for the safety of hazmat. Korea becomes vulnerable to hazmat disaster due to the development of high-tech industry. Thus, the risk assessment system is required to Korea for transferring abandoned hazmat management systems to self-correcting safety systems. This research analyzed characteristics of various hazmat incidents applying statistical analysis methods including frequency analysis or analysis of category data to hazmat incidents for ten years. All of three analyses of category data indicate the significance of causality between hazmat incident site groups and seasons, regional groups, and incident casualty groups.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.616-625
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• 2019

Health impact assessment is implemented within the Environmental impact assessment for the purpose of minimizing health damage by predicting the impact on human health following implementation of the development project. In health impact assessment, manual revision is required due to the lack of consistency in the method of estimating hazardous air pollutants emissions. This study estimated the emissions by calculating the emissions of hazardous air pollutants based on the actual industrial complex development cases and completed health impact assessments. As a result of risk assessment based on exposure concentration using CALPUFF model, the risk assessment results were different for each of the emission estimation methods, and manual improvement on the emission estimation method is needed.

• Magazine of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.22-30
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• 2007