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A Study on Improvement Plans for Flight and Cabin Crew Fatigue Management System after COVID-19 Pandemic (코로나19 팬데믹 이후 승무원 피로관리시스템 개선방안 연구)

  • Je-Hyung Jeon;Hwayoung Sung;Sua Chon;Geun-Hwa Jeong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.43-56
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    • 2023
  • The aviation industry has continued to grow despite the influence of external environmental factors such as SARS and MERS. However, this growth has led to a sharp decrease in air traffic and a crisis of flight suspension due to the collapse of the global value chain and the decline of the world economy as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the decrease in the number of international flights, aviation workers such as pilots and cabin crew were exposed to high psychological stress and fatigue, such as large-scale layoffs, job instability, decrease in income, and increased risk of infection during. Recently, the international community has eased immigration restrictions through quarantine activities, and airlines are taking a step further to recover existing air demand. However, during the crisis period, a significant number of professional workers have been turned off or fired, and the physical and mental fatigue of those who can perform their duties is increasing. Therefore, this paper intends to examine the direction of policy improvement and the identification of problems in aviation safety and fatigue management after the pandemic.

Effects of Alcohol Exposure on Ship Operational Ability (알코올이 선박운항능력에 미치는 영향에 관한 기초연구(I))

  • Kim, Hong-Tae;Yang, Chan-Soo;Yang, Young-Hoon;Lee, Bong-Wang;Lee, Chang-Min;Lee, Jae-Hwan
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.42 no.5 s.143
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    • pp.516-527
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    • 2005
  • It has been estimated that up to $80\%$ of all marine accidents have human elements as a cause. Out of these, human elements of crew fatigue is one of the main causes of marine accident. Crew fatigue involves sleep, schedule, workload, off-time, alcohol, health and stress. With a ship handling simulator, the effect of alcohol on ship operational performance is studied for each 0.05 and 0.08 $\%$ blood alcohol concentrations(BAC). The main effect of alcohol was found that ship operational performance was significantly impaired by alcohol compared to that in the non-alcohol condition. The results of this research can be used as basic data to minimize marine accidents.

A Study on the Duty Hour Structure for Railway Crews (철도 동력차 승무원 사업시간 산정방법의 개선에 관한 연구)

  • 김지표;김동희;하태웅
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.350-355
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    • 2004
  • Because the wage of railway crews is based on the duty hour rather than the working hour, most researches have focused on the balance of duty hour for the crews. In this paper, the structure of duty hour and its relationship to the crew wage are analyzed and some issues are identified. The duty hour consists of several different jobs which are weighed equally in calculating the crew's wage. Also, the difference between the working hour and duty hour is inconsistent with the train routes; i.e., the difference of a long distance train is larger than that of a small or medium distance train. To solve the problems, possible ways to link the duty hour to the wage better are proposed and exemplified

Editorial for Vol. 31, No. 2 (편집자 주: 31권 2호)

  • Kim, Young Hyo
    • Korean journal of aerospace and environmental medicine
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.31-32
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    • 2021
  • In Vol. 31, No. 2, our journal prepared a review article, two original papers, and three case reports. First, autonomous systems are increasingly being introduced in aircraft systems. Therefore, it is crucial that flight crews are trained to adapt and handle these autonomous systems better. Consequently, we discussed crew resource management for handling autonomous systems. The fatigue of aviation workers is one of the biggest threats to aviation safety. Therefore, we analyzed the degree of fatigue in commercial aircraft pilots and evaluated the relationship between fatigue and their workload and the effect of fatigue on sleep. Since obesity has a significant impact on the health of aviation workers, we also comparatively analyzed the prevalence of obesity in Korea and Japan based on the data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We defined cases that are difficult for aviation medical examiners to evaluate. This issue included cases of peripheral dizziness and tinnitus, cases of atopic dermatitis treated with biological agents, and cases of malignant tumors.

Motion Effects of the Ship on Crew Performance

  • Kim, Hongtae;Ha, Wook Hyun;Jang, Jun-Hyuk;Fang, Tae Hyun;Oh, Seungbin
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.333-340
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    • 2013
  • Objective: The aim of this study is to provide a current knowledge of the multiple issues regarding motion effects on crew performance. Background: The motions of the ship may create motion sickness, nausea and vomit. Also, these motions also disturb the balance of crew members, increase the energy expenditure of crew for shipboard work, and result in increased levels of injury and fatigue. However, the motion effects of the ship on crew performance has not been thoroughly investigated. Method: Participants(N=10) were engaged in an experiment in 2 experimental environments(training ship and ship handling simulator) and 2 navigational conditions(day and night). The COP(Center of Pressure) data were recorded as an objective measure of postural balance control and the SSQ(Simulator Sickness Questionnaire) was used as a subjective measure of sickness. Results: The results showed that COP has a no significant difference based on experimental environments, but significant effect on SSQ. Conclusion: During the virtual simulator navigation, subjects showed significant SSQ level changes, which included decreased SSQ data. But, there is no significant difference of COP between training ship and ship handling simulator. Application: The results of this study could be applied to the next generation of ship design to decrease effect of motion at sea and to increase performance of ship crew.

Analysis on the Results of Fatigue Survey for Marine Officers (해기사의 피로도 현황에 대한 조사 분석)

  • Yang, Won-Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.551-556
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    • 2012
  • Fatigue is known to detrimentally affect a person's performance. Also, fatigue may reduce effectiveness and efficiency of marine officers and crew members. The purpose of this research is to understand on the status of the marine officers' fatigue. In this study, we carried out the questionnaire survey which is related to the marine officers' fatigue factors such as work, sleep and rest hour or period, sleepiness, casual factor, fatigue symptom, etc. The questionnaire contained 25 questions and it was distributed among 1,033 marine officers(deck officers 607 and engineers 426). The results of this survey show that marine officers' fatigue is a casual factor in marine accidents such as collisions, groundings and there was a fatigue difference between deck officers and engineers.

Fatigue Analysis according to Flight Conditions of Airline Crew Members (항공사 승무원의 운항조건에 따른 피로도 및 피로요인 분석)

  • Young-Hyo Kim;Jun-Seok Kim;Byung-Heum Song
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.126-132
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    • 2023
  • During the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been many changes in the aviation industry as a whole. Passenger traffic has decreased, but on the contrary, the international transport demand for cargo planes has never been higher. Due to their geopolitical location when flying to major cities around the world, Korea's international pilots are bound to have relatively more jet lag-causing routes than their American or European-based pilots. Through this study, we tried to analyze the degree of fatigue and fatigue weighting factors according to operating conditions for domestic pilots. As a result of the study, the following conclusions were drawn. Despite the variety of models, routes, and fatigue between individuals, it was found that the 3 Pilot operation route was concentrated as a representative fatigue route. Most of the individual fatigue improvement request sections showed higher fatigue as the night flight section was longer among the 3Pilot routes for more than 12 hours, and 43 out of 90 participants (Korean Air pilots) focused on 3Pilot (two captains and one pilot) as fatigue-intensive operating conditions. Therefore, it proposes an improvement in the system of applying 12-hour unification standards according to Korea's geopolitical international operating conditions and time difference standards.

A study on development of spacer fabric air mattress for marine vessels and off shore living room by ILO Convention (국제노동기구협약(ILO)에 의한 선박과 해양시설용 침실의 공기 매트리스의 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Ki-Saeng;Nam, Cheol-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.700-707
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    • 2005
  • The human being continued the processing of improvement for well being life according to scientific results The other hand, All the seaman life take the rest and sleep in ship's office and living room. In this case, many crew took the pain of back spain or deposit the his fatigue, This will be decrease the productivity owing to crew's back spain or fatigue etc. In this study researched the problem of ship's bed mattress and the principle of Well being air mattress in technical standard etc. Specially decreased some kinds of bacillus, germ and many kinds of bacteria by using of tourmaline which emitted the far red light and negative ion from surface of the mattress. We developed and applied the ship's Well being air mattress to off shore and various kind of ship by International Labour Organization convention 192.

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Investigation into Occupational Disease of Fishing Crew (어선원들의 질병 실태 조사)

  • Kim Jae-Ho;Jeong Eun-Seok;Moon Serng-Bae;Kim Jeong-Gon;Lee Sang-Woo
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.30 no.5 s.111
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    • pp.405-414
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to find out morbidity rate and pattern of occupational disease and affect of variables related disease of Fishing crew The subjects this study were 624 Fishing crew who took education course in Korea Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Technology. This questionnaire was focused on finding the basic data for prevention of occupational disease and promotion health on the Fishing crew The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, Chi-square, cross tab by SPSS package. The result of this study are as follow. 1)The morbidity rate within recent 12 months was 70.2%. there were significant differences of occurred disease in age, rank, perceived health status, fatigue symptoms, rest time, workload, overtime duration 2) the more aging(p<0.01), perceived fatigue(p<0.01), workload(p<0.01), overtime(p<0.05) and the less perceived health status(p<0.01), rest time(p<0.01), the higher morbidity rate 3) Considering disease unable to work more than 4 hour, the number of those who had musculoskeletal disease were 20.9%, which revealed the highest rate, digestive disease 14.3%, traumatic disease 13.5%.