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A Study on Accidents for the Aged (노인에게 발생하는 안전사고에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Sang-Sub
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.41-49
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    • 2006
  • Purpose: It can be said that the aged belong to the group vulnerable to safety accidents. The purpose of this study was to investigate safety accidents to old people and provide basic data to prevent them from being in a safety accident. Result : 1. The number of the aged of traffic accident fatalities per 100,000 persons was 57.8, which was significantly higher than other OECD countries. 2. trauma for the aged, falling accounted for 60.6%, which was relatively higher than other wounds, probably because of decreased capacity of movement and reduced faculty of sensation. 3. accidents to the aged at home, 43.9% occurred in a room, which shows great risk of safety accidents to the aged in a room. 4. the aged generally showed negative awareness of social safety. Suggestion : 1. it is necessary to provide regular education about accidents through the mass media and at social welfare facilities in order for aged people to consolidate safety consciousness repeatedly. 2. it is necessary to make a brief and clear guide to prevention of accidents. 3. the Ministry of Construction and Transportation and the Ministry of Health and Welfare should give priority to designing a building for aged people and authorize construction according to the standards for establishing safety facilities for the aged. 4. it is necessary to change social consciousness. since transportation accidents can be caused not by aged people's insufficient safety consciousness but by that of all the people, it is necessary to provide society-wide education programs against dangerous driving in order to guarantee aged people's safety. 5. legal procedure to secure aged people's safety should be strengthened to reinforce legal protection for them.

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Perception Survey of Firefighters on Application of Emergency Vehicle Exemption during Return to Station Accidents (긴급자동차 복귀 중 교통사고 특례에 대한 소방공무원의 인식조사)

  • Young-Jin, Reem;Deok-Jin Jang;Ha-Sung Kong
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.139-151
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    • 2023
  • This study aims to understand the current status of exemptions for traffic accidents during the return of emergency vehicles and to provide suggestions for improvement. A survey was conducted on 3,500 firefighters to investigate the perception of traffic accidents during the return of emergency vehicles, and responses from 505 participants were analyzed. Based On the demographic characteristics and perception of the participants, frequency analysis and variance analysis were used as research methods to analyze basic statistics and the current situation. The results showed that firefighters have concerns and anxieties about traffic accidents during the return of emergency vehicles, and the need for applying exemptions and enacting explicit legal provisions was statistically confirmed. Based on these results, we suggest a policy for exemptions to improve the preparation for re-deployment and to alleviate the concerns and anxieties of firefighters.

Business Cycle and Occupational Accidents in Korea

  • Kim, Dong Koo;Park, Sunyoung
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.314-321
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    • 2020
  • Background: Occupational accidents occur for a variety of reasons, such as unsafe behaviors of workers and insufficient safety equipment at the workplace, but there are also various economic and social factors that can impact working conditions and working environment. This study analyzed the relationship between changes in economic factors and the occurrence of occupational accidents in Korea. Methods: Multilinear regression analysis was used as the analysis model. The general to specific method was also used, which consecutively removes statistically insignificant variables from a general model that includes dependent variables and lagged variables of dependent variables. Results: The frequency of occupational accidents was found to have a statistically significant relationship to economic indicators. The monthly number of cases of occupational injury and disease and fatal occupational injuries were found to be closely related to manufacturing capacity utilization, differences in the production index in the services sector, and commencements of building construction. The increase in equipment investment indicators was found to reduce fatal occupational injuries. Conclusion: The results of this study may be used to develop occupational accident trends or leading indicators, which in turn can be used by organizations that manage and monitor occupational accidents toward taking administrative action designed to reduce occupational accidents. The results also imply that short-term and mid- to long-term economic and social changes that can impact workers, workplaces and working conditions, and workplace organizations must be taken into account if more effective government policies are to be established and implemented toward further prevention of occupational accidents.

A Study on the Development of Safety Management Checklist Using Accident Case adjacent to Railway Operation (철도운행선 인접공사 사고분석과 체계적인 체크리스트 개발 등 안전대책 수립에 관한 연구)

  • Ryu, Sang-Hwan;Yum, Byeoung-Soo;Gal, Won-Mo
    • The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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    • v.9 no.10
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    • pp.63-72
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    • 2018
  • Purpose - This thesis is to develop a management plan and checklist by analyzing the prevention of accidents in advance by presenting the management plan for the major causes of railway accidents. Research design, data and methodology - In recent 5 years, we have analyzed the cases of railway accident, presented the management plan for the accident, and made a practical safety checklist focusing on the main measures according to the management plan. Results - The analysis of the cases of near-railway accidents suggests more concrete and practical safety management measures because the similar accidents are continuously occurring due to formal safety management. Conclusions - It is more valuable to apply to the adjacent construction of the railway line by creating a detailed checklist based on cases rather than the existing checklist. This study is written only as a human factor. For future real - time safety management, it is necessary to study more precisely cause analysis and safety equipment as a big data - based safety control system for more systematic safety management.

Development of an Expert System for Prevention of Industrial Accidents in Manufacturing Industries (제조업에서의 산업재해 예방을 위한 전문가 시스템 개발)

  • Leem Young-Moon;Choi Yo-Han
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.53-64
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    • 2006
  • Many researches and analyses have been focused on industrial accidents in order to predict and reduce them. As a similar endeavor, this paper is to develop an expert system for prevention of industrial accidents. Although various previous studies have been performed to prevent industrial accidents, these studies only provide managerial and educational policies using frequency analysis and comparative analysis based on data from past industrial accidents. As an initial step for the purpose of this study, this paper provides a comparative analysis of 4 kinds of algorithms including CHAID, CART, C4.5, and QUEST. Decision tree algorithm is utilized to predict results using objective and quantified data as a typical technique of data mining. Enterprise Miner of SAS and Answer Tree of SPSS will be used to evaluate the validity of the results of the four algorithms. The sample for this work was chosen from 10,536 data related to manufacturing industries during three years$(2002\sim2004)$ in korea. The initial sample includes a range of different businesses including the construction and manufacturing industries, which are typically vulnerable to industrial accidents.

The Characteristics of Occupational Injury in Small Manufacturing Factory (소규모 사업장의 산업재해 특성과 예방대책에 대한 연구)

  • 김유창
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.145-150
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    • 1998
  • The production activity by human is accompanied by various accidents which resulted in human and property loss. If information on these industrial accidents could be collected and analyzed for the purpose of preventing industrial accidents, we would be able to get rid of industrial accidents. The accidents which involved absence from work at least 4 days in small manufacturing factories were considered in this study. 84 accidents which occurred in 1995 were investigated. These accidents were analyzed in terms of employment sector, work period, cause of accident and form of accident. The accidents of small manufacturing factories are numerous and are often serious and worthy of greater attention than they have received. Successful strategies for accident prevention depend on effective analysis.

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A Study on Development of Vocational Education Program for Safety Manager (안전관리자 양성을 위한 직업교육 프로그램 개발에 관한 연구 -2년제 대학 교육과정을 중심으로-)

  • Yang, Kwang-Mo;Park, Shi-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2013
  • As people make efforts on accident prevention, the number of accidents has decreased over the years, however the number of fatal major industry accidents has rather increased, which resulted in the increase of the number of deaths in total. Under these conditions, there is an attempt to introduce and perform the safety vocational education system as a means for preventing major industry accidents. Therefore, in this paper, we analyse vocational education of manufacturing industry from the safety's point of view and suggest the efficient techniques measuring and managing each safety management. Proposed techniques show that the specification on safety determines weight through the managers of firms and each process is suggested by using SN ratio.

A Study on Development of Vacational Education Program for Safety Manager (안전관리 직무에 대한 대학의 교육 과정 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Yang, Gwang-Mo;Park, Si-Hyeon
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2013.04a
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    • pp.255-261
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    • 2013
  • As people make efforts on accident prevention, the number of accidents is decreasing, fatal major industry accidents are rather than increasing so that the number of deaths has not decreased. Under these conditions, there is an attempt to introduce and perform the safety vacational education system as a means for keeping from major industry accidents. Therefore, in this paper, we analysis vacational education of manufacturing industry in safety point of view and suggest the technique efficiently measuring and managing each safety management. Proposed the technique shows that the specification on safety determines weight through the managers of firms and each process is suggested by using SN Ratio.

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Accident Prevention for the Elevator and Escalator by the Accident Type Analysis (사고유형 분석에 의한 승강기 및 에스컬레이터 재해예방)

  • Jeong, Ok Nam;Yun, Yu Seong;Kwon, Oh Heon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.15-21
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    • 2016
  • The elevator is an essential part of the transportation means in modern society. It has become the convenient movement means of vertical and horizontal mobilities for vulnerable citizens including the disabled or elderly in skyscrapers and the multi-purposes facilities. After the 1990s, the number of newly installed elevators have increased because of the establishment of large scale public houses which need an increase of means of transportation. Thus, the safety accident in the elevator has been currently in an increasing trend as years passed by because that the elevator is always exposed to the risk of accident. Most of the elevator accidents occur in the escalator and moving walkway. This study investigated the current usage situations of users at multi-purpose shopping spaces, the sub way, and the airport about the escalator including moving walkway. Moreover the accident types were analyzed for the escalator based on 10 years of statistics. And the methods for the accident prevention were proposed on the equipment, management and user side.