• 간호행정학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.455-465
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• 2010

Purpose: To determine the impact of the Patient Safety Program on the safety culture of nursing department. Methods: Patient Safety Program focused on medication safety was launched by QI team and patient safety committee. Patient Safety Program was composed of the establishment of improved reporting system as s way to learn from error, 'Patient Safety Guard' movement, and continuous education for medication safety. With one group pretest-posttest design, nurses' perception of the safety culture were measured with self-administered questionnaire. Subjects were all nurses and managers in nursing department of a tertiary teaching hospital in Seoul. Collected data from survey was statistically analyzed using t-test. Results: Patient Safety Program had been continued for 20 months in participation of all nurses and managers. Safety culture was improved (pretest=2.84, posttest=2.90, p<.001; 4 point scale). Conclusions: This study indicates that there has been a statistically significant increase in the nurses' perception of safety culture. These findings suggest that Patient Safety Program had made great contribution toward system wide safety culture in the hospital. To improve safety culture, leadership supports and flexibility to apply tailored interventions to the hospital were required necessarily.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.169-177
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• 2011

In this paper, the author devised new decision recommendation ordering method of items attributed by age to improve accuracy of recommender system. In conventional recommendation system, recommendation order is decided by high order of preference prediction. However, in this paper, recommendation accuracy is improved by decision recommendation order method that reflect age attribute of target customer and neighborhood in preference prediction. By applying decision recommendation order method to recommender system, recommendation accuracy is improved more than conventional ordering method of recommendation.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.212-221
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• 2006

This paper examines the outcomes and tasks of U rail privatization especially focusing on the rail safety. Earlier research which focused on the rail safety had little knowledge of the explanations for recent changes of safety scheme. Moreover, they had difficulty making a direct comparison of safety between national rail and the privatized rail. Therefore we are left without a good explanation which has a comprehensive perspective. I attempt to show the outcomes of safety in the rail privatization process and its tasks focusing on the recent fatal accident. This paper argues that the UK's rail safety has a framework which is too complicated with overlapping responsibilities that brought about inefficiency, increasing costs. Especially infrastructure enterprise did not come to play an appropriate role. However, after 2000, the government took charge of setting the strategy for railway safety, and the Office of Rail Regulation covered safety, performance and cost. I explain that these changes present a good opportunity to solve the problem of passing the buck for rail accident. Through the analysis, I find that outcomes of rail privatization in safety are improved comparing the national rail. However, safety performance, for example the collision of structures of cars and looseness of rail should be improved. In future, the problems of fatal accident and a bit of duplicate safe system should be addressed.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.95-101
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• 2021

The Korea's safety standards for vehicle have been strengthened to reduce casualties from traffic accidents since 1962. The standards have a rather complicated structure. The safety standards are composed of the main text and asterisks, and the safety standard implementation rules are composed of the main text, asterisks and appendices, and items of the same name are stipulated in other chapters within the safety standards. This study is to suggest improvement measures such as simplifying the structure of these safety standards and integrating safety standard items with the same name. Through this, users' understanding of the standards will be improved, and it is expected that the system will be more efficient such as securing safety quickly through harmonization with international standards following the development of rapidly changing new technologies such as automated vehicles.

• 한국건축시공학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.339-349
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• 2015

A large-scale research project to develop a robot-based automated building construction system for steel structures was successfully conducted in South Korea. This paper discusses the results of the real-scale test and the key lessons gained from the testing process. The system was assessed in terms of system productivity, construction cost, quality control, and safety improvements. While the productivity of the automated system showed an improvement of about 9.5%, the construction cost was about six times higher than that of the conventional method. The field test also indicated that the automated system requires more on-site quality control measures. However, because the system can eliminate the causes of various safety accidents, safety levels might be expected to be improved significantly. It is expected that this paper will provide knowledge and insight for developing new systems, and the results of the real-scale test might be useful for other researchers and similar research projects in the future.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.591-599
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• 2024

This paper presents the configuration and characteristic analysis of the protection system to improve the safety of the building integrated photovoltaic(BIPV) system. BIPV is a solar power system installed in buildings. Since the BIPV system is installed in buildings, there is a high risk of electric shock and fire accidents. Therefore, in order to improve the safety of BIPV, a protective system is required to block or quickly detect risk factors. In this paper, as a protection system to improve the safety of the BIPV system, it is composed of a rapid shutdown (RSD) that can quickly separate the PV system to prevent fire and electric shock accidents and a system to detect Arc faults that cause PV system fires. RSD and Arc Fault Detector analyzed the operating characteristics according to each condition and confirmed that the safety of the BIPV system can be improved through this.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.31-45
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• 2017

철도 분야에서의 최근 수년간의 사고 통계에 의하면, 관련 기술 발전과 안전정보 관리시스템의 구축으로 사고발생 빈도가 현저히 줄고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 운영 및 유지보수에서의 오류와 안전설계에서의 결함으로 인한 사고는 지속적으로 발생하고 있다. 이에 따라 철도사고를 예방하기 위해, 철도차량 개발 시 안전성을 고려하는 설계 및 제작을 위한 지침이 작성되었고, 이와 더불어 안전 설계에 대한 독립적인 안전성평가의 수행에 대한 요구가 제시되었다. 이를 충족시키기 위해 철도시스템 개발업체는 안전성 활동 산출물인 Safety Case를 작성해야 한다. 이에 따라 Safety Case의 주요 항목 중 하나인 안전성 적용조건 (SRAC: Safety-Related Application Conditions)의 도출 및 관리에 대한 중요성이 커지고 있다. 지금까지 보고된 SRAC에 관한 연구 결과에서는 도출 절차의 간략성과 설계단계에서의 특정 안전성 활동 분석 방법에만 초점을 맞추고 있다. 이러한 방법은SRAC 항목 들을 빠르게 도출 할 수 있는 장점이 있지만, 안전성 측면에서 고려되어야 할 중요한 항목들이 누락될 위험이 존재한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 시스템 수명주기 전반에 걸쳐 안전성 설계 및 안전성 평가 활동을 수행하고 이를 기반으로 SRAC의 도출방법의 개선 방안을 제안한다. 이렇게 함으로써 SRAC를 보다 체계적으로 도출 및 관리를 수행할 수 있는데, 특히 설계 초기단계에서부터 SRAC를 고려함으로써 안전성 요구사항을 최대한 반영한 안전설계가 가능하다. 또한 철도신호시스템에 대한 적용사례 연구를 통하여 본 논문에서 제시하는 방법이 시스템 수명주기 전체에 걸쳐 SRAC를 고려함으로써 중요한 안전성 관련 항목들의 누락이 줄어들 수 있음을 보여준다.

• 대한설비관리학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.29-38
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• 2018

Through process quality information, the time required for process quality analysis has been drastically shortened, the process defect rate has been reduced, and the manufacturing lead time has been shortened and the on-time delivery rate has been improved. Therefore, The purpose of this study is to develop a quality information analysis system model that effectively shortens the time required for process quality analysis in automobile safety belt parts manufacturing process. As a result of experiments on communication operation between manufacturing execution system (MES) quality server, injection machine control computer, injection machine programmable logic controller (PLC) and terminal, in analyzing quality information, the conventional handwriting input method took an average of 20 minutes, but the new multi-network method took about 2 minutes on average. In addition, the process defect rate was reduced by 13% and the manufacturing lead time was shortened from 28 hours to 20 hours. The delivery compliance rate improved from 96 to 99%.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.29-35
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• 2020

Car inspection systems are regularly carried out by the state to ensure the safety and emission status of cars, thereby improving the safety and quality of life by reducing fine dust and greenhouse gases that are the main culprits of vehicle defects and air pollution. These automobile inspections are largely divided into either regular or comprehensive inspections. This study analyzed the smoke measuring probes used in the lug - down 3 mode. In the previously issued paper "Improvement of Soot Probe Efficiency for Automotive Emission Measurement," an improved smoke measurement probe(B) improved on the problems that arise from the current smoke measurement probe (A). In this study, a technique that can improve the probe's inhalation efficiency over the improved (B) probes was applied to probes (C). Probe (C) involves a structure designed close to the center of the circumference of the exhaust pipe, and the suction efficiency was improved by adding a variable center unit.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.189-197
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• 2017

Background: Despite the recent efforts to prevent industrial accidents in the Republic of Korea, the industrial accident rate has not improved much. Industrial safety policies and safety management are also known to be inefficient. This study focused on dynamic characteristics of industrial safety systems and their effects on safety performance in the Republic of Korea. Such dynamic characteristics are particularly important for restructuring of the industrial safety system. Methods: The effects of damping and elastic characteristics of the industrial safety system model on safety performance were examined and feedback control performance was explained in view of cost and benefit. The implications on safety policies of restructuring the industrial safety system were also explored. Results: A strong correlation between the safety budget and the industrial accident rate enabled modeling of an industrial safety system with these variables as the input and the output, respectively. A more effective and efficient industrial safety system could be realized by having weaker elastic characteristics and stronger damping characteristics in it. A substantial decrease in total social cost is expected as the industrial safety system is restructured accordingly. Conclusion: A simple feedback control with proportional-integral action is effective in prevention of industrial accidents. Securing a lower level of elastic industrial accident-driving energy appears to have dominant effects on the control performance compared with the damping effort to dissipate such energy. More attention needs to be directed towards physical and social feedbacks that have prolonged cumulative effects. Suggestions for further improvement of the safety system including physical and social feedbacks are also made.