• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.415-421
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• 2012

The purposes of this thesis are to grasp the aspect of injuries by violence which is the recent social issue, analyze the relationship with socioeconomic factors and provide it as the basic material of policy development and prevention. With the specimen in-depth investigation materials of injured patients of emergency room which is injuries examination system based on medical institution, this thesis compared injuries by violence with aspect of other injuries and conducted logistic regression analysis after controlling gender, age, educational level and occupation mutually. Women showed more danger to be exposed to injuries by violence than men. The less the age was, the more danger by violence was. The more academic background was, the less rate to be exposed to violence was. For occupations, there were dangerous in order of service workers, shop and market sales workers, unemployed, elementary occupations. In conclusion, Some differences of socioeconomic factors made an effect on the danger of injuries by violence victim.

• Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.178-188
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• 2023

Objective: Self perceived health status dose not only reflects an individual's perception of their overall well-being but is also known to be influenced by various aspects of life. Rural areas tend to have relatively lower quality of life compared to urban areas. Therefore, this study aims to investigate factors related to Self perceived health status among farmers. Methods: In the subjective health status questionnaire, responses of "very healthy" and "healthy" are classified as 'good', whereas "average", "unhealthy" or "very unhealthy" are classified as indicative of a 'poor' subjective health status. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to calculate odds ratios(OR), aiming to investigate factors related to self perceived health status. Results: The OR for self perceived health status as poor was statistically significant for females at 2.32(95% CI 1.47-3.67), for individuals working in greenhouses at 1.43(95% CI 1.01-1.98), for current smoker at 1.50(95% CI 1.02-2.08), and for those who experienced symptoms after pesticide exposure at 1.74(95% CI 1.13-2.67). An annual income of 50 million won or more had a statistically significant OR of 0.51(95% CI 0.28-0.91), education level of high school and above had an OR of 0.45(95% CI 0.32-0.63), and engaging in physical exercise had an OR of 0.61(95% CI 0.42-0.89). Conclusions: The factors related to self perceived health status were identified as sex, smoking, cultivation type, presence of symptoms after pesticide exposure, annual income, education level, and exercise status. The significance of this study lies in providing foundational data for the development of health management programs for farmers.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.121-122
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• 2002

중금속은 산업화 이후 오늘날까지 개발도상국뿐만 아니라 선진국에서도 지속적인 모니터링을 하며 관리하고 있는 환경오염물질이다. 납(Pb)과 카드뮴(Cd)은 산업화된 도시의 대기, 수질 및 토양의 모든 환경 매체에 분포하고 있는 환경오염물질이다(Lopez-Artiguez et al., 1993; Buchet et al., 1983). 특히, 환경중의 카드뮴 노출은 생물학적 반감기가 길기 때문에 특별히 더 중요한 의미를 가지는 잘 알려진 유독성의 물질이며(Buchet et al., 1983; Muller and Anke, 1994; Ikeda et al., 1989, 1995), 장기간의 직업상의 노출과 환경노출에 기인하는 독성의 영향도 최근 연구되어지고 있다(Jarup et al., 1998). (중략)

• Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.22-30
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• 2024

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the occupational injuries experienced by operating room nurses and investigate the relationship between these injuries and safety climate. Methods: The study involved 198 operating room nurses working in general and tertiary hospitals with more than 300 beds. Results: Among the four sub-factors of occupational injuries experienced by operating room nurses, risks due to ergonomic hazards were the most prevalent and those due to physical hazards were the least. The scores related to occupational injury showed a significantly negative correlation with the safety climate. Conclusions: The findings indicate that higher operating room nurses' awareness of the safety climate is associated with lower rates of occupational injury. Therefore, organizational efforts and interventions are imperative to improve the safety climate within hospitals. Additionally, in order to investigate the safety of operating room nurses more in-depth, it is necessary to expand not only the sample size but also the geographic scope.

• 월간산업보건
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• s.300
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• pp.4-7
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• 2013

m-Phenylenediamine의 직업적 노출기준 TLV-TWA $0.1mg/m^3$은 간 손상을 최소화하기 위하여 권고하였다. 또한 이 수준은 피부 자극이나 피부염을 예방하기 위한 기준이다. 흰쥐와 생쥐에게 m-phenylenediamine을 처치한 후의 발암성이 음성적이거나 명확하지 않은 결과로 A4(Not Classifiable as a Human Carcinogen, 사람에게 발암성으로 분류되지 않음)로 권고하였다 m-Phenylenediamine을 생산하는 근로자들에서 피부 알레르기반응이 있었다는 제한적인 자료도 있었지만 피부(Skin)와 감작제(SEN)의 경고주석 그리고 TLV-STEL을 권고하기에는 유용한 자료가 충분하지는 않다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.416-424
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• 2018

Objective: The objective of this study was to estimate the numbers of employees occupationally exposed to noise according to their industry and size. Methods: A Delphi panel consisting of 15 occupational health experts estimated the exposure prevalence of noise in workplace. Data on Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance provided from Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute were combined to produce the exposure population. Results: In Korea, 16.0% of employees, 2,539,890 out of 15,838,926, was estimated to exposed to noise occupationally. The rate was 32.7% and 10.3% in manufacturing sector and non-manufacturing sector, respectively. The highest rate, 52.5%, was found in manufacturing industries of wood and of products of wood and cork(except furniture) and of other transport equipment. Sorted by their size of business, the rate was higher as the number of employee was larger in manufacturing sector. Conclusions: Compared to the same rate estimated in the US, 17.2%, the result of this study seems to be in a resonable range.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.46-48
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• 2011

선원들은 '배'라는 한정된 생활공간에서 공동생활을 하면서 선원만의 특수한 생활형태를 형성하고 있다. 즉 선원근로자들은 선상작업을 통하여 통일적이고 협동적인 과업수행을 요구 받으며, 바다라는 고립적 환경에서 장기간 단조로운 집단생활로 인하여 상당한 스트레스에 노출되어 있을 것으로 예상된다. 또한 선내의 환경은 운항에 따른 높은 수준의 소음과 선체의 동요, 한랭과 폭염, 습도 등에 노출되어 있으며, 장시간 격리된 채 바다에서 생활함으로써 가족, 친구 등과의 교류의 기회가 제약됨으로써 이러한 요인들 또한 스트레스로 작용할 가능성이 높은 직업군이다. 본 연구에서는 선상환경에서 선원들의 스트레스 요인과 그 대처방안을 모색하고자 그 기초조사로써 예부선 선원근로자의 직무스트레스와 직무만족도 조사를 실시하였다.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.75-110
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• 2003

It is urgent to systematically understand vocational training and qualification systems in advanced nations in order to evaluate and reform the Korean counterparts. In the British case, the system has been transformed from the market-led one to the state-led one while the German system is still classified as a corporatistic one. This structural difference is crucial to understand their performances and the German one won a relatively more positive evaluation in its performance. However, the structure and function of the German system has lately revealed numerous limitations in face of the political unification and long duration of economic recessions. This study shows that those differences in structural and functional features and recent developments of the systems in two nations are closely associated with their differences in educational philosophies and occupational cultures, roles of the state and employers, and operation mechanisms of training courses and vocational qualifications systems. Understanding those national differences raises a fundamental question on the hasty prescription of some domestic studies that a few policies in the foreign systems must be implanted to reform the Korean counterpart without understanding the fundamental difference between the domestic and those foreign systems.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.433-434
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• 2003

급속한 산업 발전과 더불어 산업전반에 걸쳐 환경문제가 심각해지면서 생활의 질적 향상에 따른 쾌적 환경을 추구하기 위해 실내와 작업장 내에 떠 있는 먼지나 유해가스 등의 오염물질로 인한 직업성 질병에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다 실내ㆍ외를 불문하고 환경오염이 인체 건강 및 위생에 미치는 영향은 오염물에 대한 노출시간에 관계하기 때문에 하루의 대부분의 시간을 실내에서 생활하는 현대인에게 실내 환경의 질은 아주 중요하다. 질의 물리적 특성에 따른 가스상, 입자상의 거동 및 농도분포에 대한 수치 해석적 연구는 매우 미흡한 실정이다. (중략)

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.243-247
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• 2014

Formaldehyde is defined as carcinogen causing leukaemia, lymphoma or nasopharyngeal carcinoma at high level of exposure. Furniture-manufacturing workers can be exposed to formaldehyde, which implies serious impact on health of the workers. The authors carried out ambient monitoring of formaldehyde in the field, and identified the source of formaldehyde generated during the working process by testing the condition in the laboratory settings. After sampling formaldehyde in the air with 2,4-DNPH (2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine) coated silica gel, we extracted formaldehyde derivative with acetonitrile and analyzed the extract using HPLC with UV detector at 360 nm. Formaldehyde was separated by ACQUITY UPLC BEH $C_{18}$ column at a flow rate of 0.5 mL/min using 45% acetonitrile as mobile phase. The workers were exposed to higher level of formaldehyde than normal air. Formaldehyde up to 0.31 ppm was detected in the process of veneer attachment, which exceeded 0.3 ppm, the ceiling value of ACGIH standard. The laboratory test of measuring formaldehyde generated from the glue and veneer used in the attachment process resulted in more formaldehyde generation as the temperature increased, and more from the veneer. Heating the veneer to $100-150^{\circ}C$ following the real condition of the manufacturing site generated 1.14-2.70 ppm of formaldehyde from the sample, which was 2-5 times higher level than Korean limit of exposure (0.5 ppm). As the workers handling and processing the veneer which was produced by wet process had high possibility to be exposed to formaldehyde, urgent improvement and management of working environment of furniture manufacturer is demanded.