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Determination of Proper Design Speed at Inter-Change Ramp in a Highway (입체교차로 유.출입 접속부의 적정 설계속도 결정)

  • Choi, Seok-Keun;Lee, Seon-Gyu;Lee, Jae-Kee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.425-431
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    • 2006
  • Recently, the government has adjusted the 4th National Master Plan in an effect to achieve balanced national land development. However, the current traffic accident index ranks among the lowest in OECD countries, ranking 25th out of 29 countries. Therefore, this study is aimed at indicating problems with National Expressway and local roads developing a solution by analyzing the problems and suggesting the most appropriate design speed for inter-changes where the traffic accidents occur frequently. With the results, it is to obtain a design speed decision formula at interchange branch points to prevent traffic accidents, secure safe and optimal road conditions and maximize traffic load capability.

Positive or negative? Public perceptions of nuclear energy in South Korea: Evidence from Big Data

  • Park, Eunil
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.2
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    • pp.626-630
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    • 2019
  • After several significant nuclear accidents, public attitudes toward nuclear energy technologies and facilities are considered to be one of the essential factors in the national energy and electricity policy-making process of several nations that employ nuclear energy as their key energy resource. However, it is difficult to explore and capture such an attitude, because the majority of prior studies analyzed public attitudes with a limited number of respondents and fragmentary opinion polls. In order to supplement this point, this study suggests a big data analyzing method with K-LIWC (Korean-Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count), sentiment and query analysis methods, and investigates public attitudes, positive and negative emotional statements about nuclear energy with the collected data sets of well-known social media and network services in Korea over time. Results show that several events and accidents related to nuclear energy have consistent or temporary effects on the attitude and ratios of the statements, depending on the kind of events and accidents. The presented methodology and the use of big data in relation to the energy industry is suggested as it can be helpful in addressing and exploring public attitudes. Based on the results, implications, limitations, and future research areas are presented.

Root Cause Analysis of Medical Accidents -Using Medical Accident Cases (의료사고의 근본원인 분석: 의료사고 판례문 이용)

  • KIM, Seon-Nyeo;Cho, Duk-Young
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.13-26
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    • 2019
  • Objectives: To investigate whether medical institutions can prevent accidents by analyzing the root cause of a medical accident and identifying the tendencies. Methods: A total of 345 medical cases were used for the RCA(Root Cause Analysis). The root causes were classified using the SHELL model. The suitability of the model was confirmed by SPSS's MDPREF and Euclidean distance. An SPSS20.0 hierarchical regression analysis was used as an influencing factor on the degree of injury resulting from medical accidents. Results: The SHELL model was suitable for classification. The rates of accident causes were LS49%, L34%, LL10.2%, LE3.7%, LH2.3%. The order in which the degree of a patient's injury was affected were: Risk Threshold (${\beta}=.180$), Time (${\beta}=.175$), Surgical stage (${\beta}=-.166$), Do not use procedure (${\beta}=.147$). Conclusions: Health care institutions should remove priorities through system improvement and training. For patients' safety, the five factors of the SHELL model should be managed in harmony.

A Study on the Critical Safety Management Buildings and factors by Analyzing the Actual State of Building Safety Management (건축물 안전관리 실태분석을 통한 중점안전관리 대상 및 요소 설정에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Eun-Hee
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 2019
  • According to the statistical surveys and studies, insufficient maintenance in the use of existing buildings caused fire and collapse accidents. In this respect, I analyzed the data managed by the current building maintenance and inspection system to find out the actual state of safety management and proposed two significant results. First, regarding the state of the buildings, the safety management status of the small-sized ones, where 20 years or more passed after construction, is the worst and a priority improvement plan is required. Second, there are eight deeply concerning factors for the fire incidents and collapse accidents of buildings. In the order of high risk, these factors are structural strength (seismic design), exterior wall finishing material, basement floor, interior finishing materials, other evacuation facilities, corridors stairs entrances, rooftop, fire partition. We need to have more special designs and management plans regarding high-risk factors as a system to prevent accidents in the building.

A Study on the Safety System Improvement for Preventing Fall Accidents during Frame Construction in Apartment Sites (아파트 현장 골조공사 떨어짐 사고 예방을 위한 Safety System 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Chun, Byoung-Jo;Shin, Dongil Peter
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.39-48
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    • 2021
  • In the past, measures for the reduction of industrial accidents has led the safety and health policy of construction sites by the guidance, supervision and the regulation according to 「Occupation Safety and Health Act」 handled by Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL). Nowadays companies realize that due to the factors such as diversification of employment types, outsourcing of hazardous work, new construction method and complicated types of construction, etc., there is a limit on safety management for construction sites as far as it is passively led by the governmental safety management policy and regulation. In this study, in order to practice the autonomous safety management escaping from the government-led safety management, improvement plans are proposed and applied by analyzing the basic cause of the all kinds of fall accidents that could possibly occur in the apartment construction sites and by verifying the hazardous factors and risks by fields.

A Study on the Characteristics of Industrial Accident and Disaster Reduction in Distribution Center (물류센터의 산업재해 특성분석 및 재해감소에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Geun
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.560-565
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: It is intended to prevent similar and similar disasters in advance by classifying the types of industrial accidents by type of distribution center and establishing countermeasures. Method: Development of improvement measures by analyzing in detail the types of occurrences of each type of 5 years in the distribution center. Result: Through the analysis of industrial accidents that occurred in the distribution center, it was possible to find ways to reduce disasters. Conclusion: It is expected to help reduce the disaster rate of the distriution center by presenting a disaster reduction plan through the analysis of industrial accidents in the distribution center.

A study on deriving safety management guidelines through statistical analysis of accident data in university labs (대학 연구실 사고데이터의 통계분석을 통한 안전관리 가이드라인 도출에 대한 연구)

  • Seo, Jaeshin;Kang, Juhyuk;Yoon, Younggeun;Oh, Taekeun
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.323-330
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    • 2022
  • Safety accidents in university laboratories are constantly occurring due to various chemical, physical, and biohazard risk factors. In this study, the trend of accident occurrence and correlations between factors were derived through statistical and cross-analysis of 192 accident cases in university labs between 2016 and 2020. Directions and strategies were prepared from the correlations of major factors, and guidelines for improvement of the laboratory safety management system were suggested by comparing and analyzing existing policy directions for laboratory accidents.

Toxic Concentration(T-LOC) Endpoint Distance Study for Fire Brigade Protection in Response to Chemical Accidents (화학사고 초기대응 소방대 보호를 위한 독성농도(T-LOC) 끝점거리 연구)

  • Jong Chan Yun;Chul Hee Cho;Jeong Hun Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.38 no.6
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    • pp.60-71
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to propose a quantitative toxicity endpoint distance suitable for the initial response of firefighters by comparing and analyzing the commonly applied toxic level of concern (T-LOC), specifically emergency response planning guidelines (ERPG), acute exposure guideline levels (AEGL), and immediately dangerous to life or health (IDLH). This is to protect the fire brigade, which responds to toxic chemical accidents first during the golden time. Using areal locations of hazardous atmospheres, a damage prediction program, the amount of leakage for both acidic and basic substances, along with the endpoint distance, were analyzed for alternative accident and worst-case accident scenarios. The results showed that the toxicity endpoint distance, serving as a compromise between Level-3 and Level-2 of T-LOC, was longer than ERPG-3 and shorter than ERPG-2 with IDLH, while its values were analyzed in the order of ERPG-2, AEGL-2, IDLH, AEGL-3, and ERPG-3. It is suggested that the application of IDLH in an emergency (red card) and ERPG-2 endpoint distance in a non-emergency (non-red card) can be utilized for the initial response of the fire brigade.

A Study on Improvement Plans for Technology Protection of SMEs in Korea (중소기업 기술보호 개선방안에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Jang Hoon;Shin, Wan Seon;Park, Hyun Ju
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.77-84
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this research is to identify and develop technology protection plans for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by analyzing past technology leakage patterns which were experienced by SMEs. We identified factors which affect the technology leakage, and analyzed patterns of the influences using a data mining algorithms. A decision tree analysis showed several significant factors which lead to technology leakage, so we conclude that preemptive actions must be put in place for prevention. We expect that this research will contribute to determining the priority of activities necessary to prevent technology leakage accidents in Korean SMEs. We expect that this research will help SMEs to determine the priority of preemptive actions necessary to prevent technology leakage accidents within their respective companies.

Building a Fusion Information System for Safe Navigation

  • Hong, Taeho
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.105-112
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    • 2014
  • The International Maritime Organization has determined that more than 80% of maritime accidents are caused by human error. A variety of methods have been considered to reduce maritime accidents caused by such human error. Navigators operate by observing surrounding maritime situations and analyzing information using various navigational devices. This study proposes a system to ensure safe navigation by assisting navigators through the delivery of maritime safety information (MSI) between land and sea. In the future, supplementing the system through long-term on-the-ship tests is necessary by defining MSI in relation to maritime service portfolio regions.