• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2006.11b
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• pp.1053-1058
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• 2006

Many railway safety measures reduce railway fatalities into half for last 10 years. But more improvement in railway safety is required to meet the social need after railway fire accident in Daegue. Reasonable railway safety index is needed to find out the weak point and efficiencies of various safety measures. But we still have only 2 kinds of safety index which are set for 10 years ago. In order to derive guideline for setting up safety index, we analyze accident cause, previous studies for railway safety improvement in Korea, and other countries safety plan. As a result some proposal for safety index was driven in this study.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.143-162
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• 2003

The governance structure of corporate is very important to raise the nation's economic efficiency and the operation result of firm. However, the innovation of corporate governance structure is a important problem to improve international confidence in our country, since most large corporate in our country has a promodern governance structure to be influenced in decision making of corporate group by minority governance-shareholder. Therefore, in our country the improvement of corporate governance structure is very urgent. This study examine the improvement device of corporate governance structure to be introduced in our country, and present the improvement direction to be suitable to our country's economic circumstance.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.58-62
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• 2017

In this paper, we studied the structural design for safety improvement of the winch mount of the armored recovery vehicle. From the finite element analysis using the safety factor of the original winch mount, the results determined that the safety factor was very low, namely 1.14 at $-15^{\circ}$ when towing the maximum force. For considering the usage and safety, the safety factor needs to increase to between 1.4 and 1.6. To improve the safety factor, a re-design, such as shape modification and strengthening the welded zone, was performed. After the improvement of the structural design, the safety factor of the improved mount was calculated at 1.78, an increase of about 56.1% from that of the original mount.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.490-497
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• 2023

Purpose: Since the 1990s, Korea has been making various efforts to prevent serious industrial accidents, such as implementing a hazardous risk prevention plan and implementing a process safety management system, but a series of recent major industrial accidents have shown its limitations. Therefore, this study aims to present measures to improve safety management of PSM target workplaces. Method: Investigate previous studies and cases on improving safety management at workplaces subject to PSM, seek ways to improve safety management at workplaces subject to PSM based on existing safety management, and evaluate safety management system one of the causes of accidents. Therefore, a safety education program is established to increase employees' safety awareness and understanding, and to improve the safety level. Result: Measures such as establishing an organizational culture to improve safety management of PSM target workplaces, responding to disasters, systematic safety management, replacing and strengthening old facilities, and strengthening management's firm commitment to safety were presented. Conclusion: Through this study, it is meaningful to present a systematic plan to secure safety to reduce precious lives and damage, and it is expected to be useful in considering the direction of PSM improvement for each workplace.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.83-89
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• 2007

This study is perform to improve the current point at issue of the non-regular employees, comparing the safety and health consciousness of between the regular employees and non-regular employees in manufacturing factory. The investigation is carried out using the statistical analysis. The study presents that most of the non-regular employees answer in the negative the current job satisfaction, work load, work risk, concern on the safety and health, education, occupational safety and health system than the regular employees. For the improvement of these problems, the government's safety and health policy should be changed and acknowledgement of the employer and employee on the safety and health should be improved.

• Journal of Korea Ship Safrty Technology Authority
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• s.22
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• pp.4-18
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to improve the fire safety characteristic of the FRP vessel. In this study, we analyzed the fire accidents of FRP vessel and investigated the ruels of domestic and other country for the structural fire protection standard of FRP vessel. We suggested the fire-retardent resin quality standard, and the improvement program for fire safety of FRP vessel.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.229-234
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• 2003

In this paper, the elemental components and improving purpose in advanced safety management system are reviewed to cope with a railway fire accident. And a considering procedure(V-cycle) of long-term plan for railway fire safety improvement is proposed. For the purpose of preventing recurrence of accident, items which have to be considered in the course of accident investigation and cause analysis are presented according to the stage of investigation activity.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.119-132
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• 1997

According to the construction environmental changes due to the trend of large scale and complicated building construction, many construction methods(such as : TOPDOWN )are more often used. However, it is pointed out that occupational pulmonary diseases, reduction of the machinery lifetime and productivity caused to be narrow visual field and collision between the workers. Therefore, this study is mainly dealing with the views of productivity and safety improvement in order to improve work efficiency and to insure the safety in underground construction environment.

• Quality Improvement in Health Care
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.105-119
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• 2024

Purpose: This study aimed to develop a survey instrument to assess the Patient Safety Culture in Korean hospitals and evaluate its validity and reliability. Methods: A preliminary instrument was developed through a literature review, focus group interviews, content validity testing, and pretesting for face validity. A total of 467 hospital employees participated in the psychometric testing. Validity and reliability assessments included content validity, construct validity, criterion-related validity, and internal consistency. Results: The Korean Patient Safety Culture Survey Instrument comprised 35 items across seven factors: leadership, patient safety policy and procedure, patient safety improvement system, teamwork, non-punitive environment, patient safety knowledge and attitudes, and patient safety priority. These seven factors contributed 60.98% of the variance of the total scale. Cronbach's alpha for internal consistency was .93; the seven factors ranged from .66 to .91. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the Korean Patient Safety Culture Survey Instrument is reliable, valid, and suitable for measuring patient safety culture in Korean hospitals.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Construction Safety
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.16-21
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• 2021

Recently, as part of an effort to reduce the high accident rate in the construction industry, the smart construction safety technology is being introduced, and some institutional improvements are being made simultaneously. This study has been carried out to identify the effectiveness of such an improved institution and to draw additional opinions for improvement to spread the field application of smart safety technology. A survey was conducted for participants in the construction industry, and awareness of the improved institution and additional requirements for spreading smart safety technology in the construction site were investigated. As a result of the investigation, high interest in the field application of smart construction safety technology has been confirmed, and some issues such as safety management costs and duplication of on-site safety paperwork have been raised. The opinions derived through this study will be used as baseline data for future institutional improvements for the introduction and diffusion of smart construction safety technology in the construction site.