• 한국안전학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.75-86
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• 2024

Hydrogen has been selected as one of the key technologies for reducing CO₂ emissions to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. However, hydrogen safety issues should be fully guaranteed before the commercial and widespread utilization of hydrogen. Here, a bow-tie risk assessment is conducted for the hydrogen fuel supply system in a gas turbine power plant, which can be a mass consumption application of hydrogen. The bow-tie program is utilized for a qualitative risk assessment, allowing the analysis of the causes and consequences according to the stages of accidents. This study proposed an advanced bow-tie method, which includes the barrier criticality matrix and visualized maps of quantitative risk reduction. It is based on evaluating the importance of numerous barriers for the extent of their impact. In addition, it emphasizes the prioritization and concentrated management of high-importance barriers. The radar chart of a bow tie allows the visual comparison of risk levels before/after the application of barriers (safety measures). The risk reduction methods are semi-quantitatively analyzed utilizing the criticality matrix and radar chart, and risk factors from multiple aspects are derived. For establishing a secure hydrogen fuel storage system, the improvements suggested by the bow-tie risk assessment results, such as 'Ergonomic equipment design to prevent human error' and 'Emergency shutdown system,' will enhance the safety level. It attempts to contribute to the development and enhancement of an efficient safety management system by suggesting a method of calculating the importance of barriers based on the bow-tie risk assessment.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.33-38
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• 2013

화학공장은 다량의 화학물질을 사용하기 때문에 사고가 발생하면, 많은 피해가 발생한다. 따라서 사고를 예방하기 위하여 위험성평가를 실시하고 있다. 화학공정은 HAZOP 기법을 이용하여 위험성평가를 실시하고 그 결과를 많이 활용하고 있다. 이 연구에서는 HAZOP 기법과 Bow-Tie 기법을 분석하고, Bow-Tie 위험성평가를 수행하였으며, 그 결과 다른 위험성평가에서 발견할 수 없었던 위험성이 도출되었고, 그 위험성을 제거하기 위한 14개의 개선사항이 도출되었다. Bow-Tie 위험성평가가 현장의 적용성과 위험요인을 도출하고 개선대책을 수립하는데 적합하다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.145-157
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• 2022

Due to the global epidemic of infectious diseases, it has become important for all industries to respond to the risk of infectious diseases. Ports in each country are also responding to the risk of infectious diseases, but the occurrence of infectious diseases in ports of various countries is causing a lot of damage to the logistics of ports. Korea is in the same situation, and cases of infectious diseases in ports are steadily being announced. Therefore, this paper conducted semi-quantitative Bow-Tie risk assessment by substituting measures to cope with infectious disease risks in Korean ports into actual cases of port infectious diseases in Korea, deriving improvements and suggesting directions. As a result, it was concluded that it was necessary to standardize some of the countermeasures against infectious diseases and develop more countermeasures.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.379-391
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• 2015

Several risk assessment techniques have been presented and investigated in previous research, focusing mainly on the failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA). FMEA can be employed to determine where failures can occur within industrial systems and to assess the impact of such failures. This research proposes a novel methodology for hazard analysis and risk assessments that integrates FMEA with the bow-tie model. The proposed method has been applied and evaluated in a real industrial process, illustrating the effectiveness of the proposed method. Specifically, the bowtie diagram of the critical equipment in the adopted plant in the case study was built. Safety critical barriers are identified and each of these is assigned to industrial process with an individual responsible. The detection rating to the failure mode and the values of risk priority number (RPN) are calculated. The analysis shows the high values of RPN are 500 and 490 in this process. A global corrective actions are suggested to improve the RPN measure. Further managerial insights have been provided.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.57-72
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• 2022

최근 국제 교역량 증가와 비대면 사회 기조에 따른 물동량 폭증은 항만물류산업 내 위험 노출 및 안전사고 증가로 이어지고 있다. 이와 함께 사회 전반에 걸쳐 안전을 중시하는 분위기와 공감대가 확산되면서 산업별로 안전을 보호하는 각종 법안들이 제정되고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 고용노동부의 산업재해 현황분석에 따르면 2015년부터 2019년 동안 연평균 재해자수는 11.1%, 사망자수는 4.0%씩 증가하였다. 이는 미래 발생 가능한 리스크에 대한 각별한 관심을 기울이고 주요 사고원인에 대한 예방대책을 세워야 한다는 것을 의미한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 2016년부터 2020년까지 5년간 한국산업안전보건공단에서 집계된 사고사례 5,028건을 바탕으로 위험성 평가를 진행하여 산업별 주요 위험요인을 도출한 뒤, Bow-Tie 분석기법을 진행하여 유해위험요인으로부터 발생원인과 예방대책을 도출하고자 하였다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2024

산업 및 과학기술의 고도화로 인해 신규 화학물질 수와 사용량은 꾸준히 증가하고 있으며 이에 따른 화학물질 안전관리의 중요성이 사회적으로 부각됨에 따라 국민적 요구가 높아지고 있다. 정부적인 차원에서 화학물질의 안전관리에 대해 부처별로 역할을 구분하여 관리하고 있으나 시설 노후화 및 취급 부주의 등의 문제로 매년 화학물질로 인한 사고가 빈번하게 발생되고 있는 실정이다. 국내에서 발생한 화학물질 관련 사고사례를 바탕으로 사고 유형을 분석한 결과, 누출·폭발·화재·기타 등의 순으로 사고가 발생하고 있으며 사고의 원인은 시설결함, 안전관리 미준수로 순으로 분석되었다. 본 연구에서는 화학물질 중 불산을 취급하고 있는 사업장을 대상으로 HAZOP을 통해 취급공정에 대한 유해위험요인을 파악하여 Bow-Tie를 활용한 위험성평가를 수행하였다. 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 동종·유사 사업장의 화학사고 예방을 위한 안전관리 계획을 개선할 수 있을 것이며 이를 통해 화학사고를 사전에 예방할 수 있는 화학안전관리 체계의 선진화에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.261-285
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• 2019

Nowadays in offshore industry there are emerging hazards with vague property such as act of terrorism, act of war, unforeseen natural disasters such as tsunami, etc. Therefore industry professionals such as offshore energy insurers, safety engineers and risk managers in order to determine the failure rates and frequencies for the potential hazards where there is no data available, they need to use an appropriate method to overcome this difficulty. Furthermore in conventional risk based analysis models such as when using a fault tree analysis, hazards with vague properties are normally waived and ignored. In other word in previous situations only a traditional probability based fault tree analysis could be implemented. To overcome this shortcoming fuzzy set theory is applied to fault tree analysis to combine the known and unknown data in which the pre-combined result will be determined under a fuzzy environment. This has been fulfilled by integration of a generic bow-tie based risk analysis model into the risk assessment phase of the Risk Management (RM) cycles as a backbone of the phase. For this reason Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA) are used to analyse one of the significant risk factors associated in offshore terminals. This process will eventually help the insurers and risk managers in marine and offshore industries to investigate the potential hazards more in detail if there is vagueness. For this purpose a case study of offshore terminal while coinciding with the nature of the Caspian Sea was decided to be examined.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.66-74
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• 2024

This study addresses the escalating issue of worldwide hydrogen gas accidents, which has seen a significant increase in occurrences. To comprehensively evaluate the risks associated with hydrogen, a two approach was employed in this study. Firstly, a qualitative risk assessment was conducted using the bow-tie method. Secondly, a quantitative consequence analysis was carried out utilizing the areal locations of hazardous atmospheres (ALOHA) model. The study applied this method to two incidents, the hydrogen explosion accident occurred at the Muskingum River power plant in Ohio, USA, 2007 and the hydrogen storage tank explosion accident occurred at the K Technopark water electrolysis system in Korea, 2019. The results of the risk assessments revealed critical issues such as deterioration of gas pipe, human errors in incident response and the omission of important gas cleaning facility. By analyzing the cause of accidents and assessing risks quantitatively, the effective accident response plans are proposed and the effectiveness is evaluated by comparing the effective distance obtained by ALOHA simulation. Notably, the implementation of these measures led to a significant 54.5% reduction in the risk degree of potential explosions compared to the existing risk levels.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.400-408
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• 2022

Maritime transportation is one of the most complicated and hazardous business fileds. Maritime accidents still occur despite several precautions since maritime is exposed to natural factors more than any other industries. In this harsh environment as a part of their job, marine pilots often embark/disembark to/ from vessels and confront life-endangering personal accidents. In the maritime field, several risk assessments are applied. However, all of them could not evaluate occupational accident risk for maritime pilot specifically. This paper performs specific risk analysis using the bow-tie method based on past accident records. This paper aims to qualify root causes and quantify root causes by importance level according to occurrence probability. As a result of analysis, occupational accident occurrence probability is found to be 14%, indicating that accident occurrence rate is significantly high. Hence, the probability of root causes triggering accidents and accident occurrence probability can be ascertained so that preventive measurements can be implemented. Besides theoretical achievement, this paper provides safety awareness to marine pilots, Marine Pilot Organizations, and ship crew who play a key role during marine pilots' transfer.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2019

부산항 'A' 터미널에서 발생한 지난 3년간의 사고 데이터를 분석하여 어떤 장비가 가장 많이 사고를 발생하였고 어떤 위험점이 가장 높은지를 위험성 평가기법으로 알아보고, 이러한 사고를 미연에 방지하기 위한 방안을 보우타이 기법을 활용하여 제시하고자 한다. 실증자료를 분석한 결과 터미널 내의 이동장비 중 야드 트랙터의 충돌사고가 가장 높은 것으로 나타났다. 안전한 부산항을 만들기 위하여 우리는 가장 먼저 야드 트랙터의 충돌사고 예방법 (Control measure)과 사고 발생 시 대처방안 (Recovery measure)을 철저히 준비하여 사고를 미연에 방지하여야 할 것이다. 본 연구의 결과는 관련 실무에 다양한 시사점을 제공하였다.