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Indian Railways: Recent Trends in Control Accidents and Safety Measures for Passengers

  • Kumar, Katta Ashok
    • East Asian Journal of Business Economics (EAJBE)
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.48-55
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    • 2014
  • Indian railways has been regularly in the news albeit for the wrong reasons. The frequency with which train accidents have been taking place has led to serious doubts in the public mind about the safety of rail travel and also the health of the network. Against this background, an attempt is made in this paper to assess the trends in railway accidents for the period from 2000-01 to 2009-10. The paper also highlighted the various measures taken by IR to prevent accidents to ensure safety to the public.

The Present Status and Future of Disaster Safety Communication Network (재난안전통신망의 현황과 미래)

  • Hong, Sung-Hwa;Lee, Seong-Real
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.115-120
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    • 2020
  • PS-LTE, which is mentioned as a next-generation disaster network technology, is a communication technology that supports communication between terminals and group communication necessary for public safety communication based on LTE technology. Currently, Korea is establishing a PS-LTE network construction plan and installing a PS-LTE system. The world is currently making a lot of efforts to build a disaster network system using PS-LTE. However, due to the characteristics of the closed network that only the related persons can access, it can not be operated like the existing commercial network, so it is necessary to build a new network. And it is expected that many periods and costs will be required. In order to establish a disaster safety communication network efficiently, it is necessary to consider the linkage of PS-LTE network, which is newly constructed by complementing the problems such as security and access priority to existing LTE network rather than unconditional new construction.

Cardiac Arrest Management in the Workplace: Improving but Not Enough?

  • Alexis Descatha;Francois Morin;Marc Fadel;Thomas Bizouard;Romain Mermillod-Blondin;Julien Turk;Alexandre Armaingaud;Helene Duhem;Dominique Savary
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.131-134
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    • 2023
  • The aim was to describe out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) occurring in the workplace of a large emergency network, and compare the evolution of their management in the last 15 years. A retrospective study based on data from the Northern Alps Emergency Network compared characteristics of OHCA between cases in and out the workplace, and between cases occurring from January 2004 to December 2010 and from January 2011 to December 2017. Among the 15,320 OHCA cases included, 320 occurred in the workplace (2.1%). They were more often in younger men, and happened more frequently in an area with access to public defibrillation, had more often a shockable rhythm, had a cardiopulmonary resuscitation started by a bystander more frequently, and had a better outcome. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation started by a bystander was the only chain of survival link that improved for cases occurring after December 2010. Workplace OHCA seems to be managed more effectively than others; however, only a slight survival improvement was observed, suggesting that progress is still needed.

Social Network Analysis by Utilizing Disaster Risk Big Data (재난 위험신고 빅데이터를 활용한 사회연결망 분석)

  • Han, Ji-Ah;Jeong, Duk-Hoon
    • The Journal of Bigdata
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.45-63
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    • 2016
  • According to changes of recent climate social structures, frequency of occurrence new or complex disasters are increasing. So the importance of disaster prevention is increasing. To provide useful information of disaster prevention activities, We use the "Safety Sinmungo" main processing practices included Facility safety management in Ministry of Public Safety and Security. Facility safety management is the most and common disaster prevention activities. We identified the keywords in the risk report and facilities to residents report and analyzed the seasonal and inter-regional facilities report distribution process. We also utilized social network analysis techniques to configure a 1-mode, 2-mode facilities around the keyword for differences.

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An Integrated Emergency Call System based on Public Switched Telephone Network for Elevators

  • Lee, Guisun;Ryu, Hyunmi;Park, Sunggon;Cho, Sungguk;Jeon, Byungkook
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.69-77
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    • 2019
  • Today, most of elevators have an emergency call facility for emergency situations. However, if the network installed in the elevator is also out of power, it cannot be used for the elevator remote monitoring and management. So, we develop an integrated and unified emergency call system, which can transmit not only telephone call but also data signals using PSTN(Public Switched Telephone Network) in order to remote monitoring and management of elevators, even though a power outage occurs. The proposed integrated emergency call system to process multiple data such as voice and operational information is a multi-channel board system which is composed of an emergency phone signal processing module and an operational information processing module in the control box of elevator. In addition, the RMS(remote management server) systems based on the Web consist of a dial-up server and a remote monitoring server where manages the elevator's operating information, status records, and operational faults received via the proposed integrated and unified emergency call system in real time. So even if there's a catastrophic emergency, the proposed RMS systems shall ensure and maintain the safety of passengers inside the elevator. Also, remote control of the elevator by this system should be more efficient and secure. In near future, all elevator emergency call system need to support multifunctional capabilities to transmit operational data as well as phone calls for the safety of passengers. In addition, for safer elevators, it is necessary to improve them more efficiently by combining them with high-tech technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence.

Overview of Legal Measures for Managing Workplace COVID-19 Infection Risk in Several Asia-Pacific Countries

  • Derek, Miller;Tsai, Feng-Jen;Kim, Jiwon;Tejamaya, Mila;Putri, Vilandi;Muto, Go;Reginald, Alex;Phanprasit, Wantanee;Granadillos, Nelia;Farid, Marina Bt Zainal;Capule, Carmela Q.;Lin, Yu-Wen;Park, Jihoon;Chen, Ruey-Yu;Lee, Kyong Hui;Park, Jeongim;Hashimoto, Haruo;Yoon, Chungsik;Padungtod, Chantana;Park, Dong-Uk
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.530-535
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    • 2021
  • Background: Despite the lack of official COVID-19 statistics, various workplaces and occupations have been at the center of COVID-19 outbreaks. We aimed to compare legal measures and governance established for managing COVID-19 infection risks at workplaces in nine Asia and Pacific countries and to recommend key administrative measures. Methods: We collected information on legal measures and governance from both general citizens and workers regarding infection risks such as COVID-19 from industrial hygiene professionals in nine countries (Indonesia, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Republic of the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand) using a structured questionnaire. Results: A governmental body overseeing public health and welfare was in charge of containing the spread and occurrence of infectious diseases under an infectious disease control and prevention act or another special act, although the name of the pertinent organizations and legislation vary among countries. Unlike in the case of other traditional hazards, there have been no specific articles or clauses describing the means of mitigating virus risk in the workplace that are legally required of employers, making it difficult to define the responsibilities of the employer. Each country maintains own legal systems regarding access to the duration, administration, and financing of paid sick leave. Many workers may not have access to paid sick leave even if it is legally guaranteed.

Study on Smart Office Functionality Utilizing KEPCO Gateway (한전 Gateway를 활용한 Smart Office 기능 연구)

  • Nam, Kang-Hyun
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.11 no.11
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    • pp.1107-1112
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    • 2016
  • This study is the Smart Office features that take advantage of KEPCO eIoT(: energy Internet of Thing) platform, and it's Network configuration is composed of sensing device, gateway, platform, and the service server. The key features are parts for processing protocol data between the gateway and the device using LoRa(: Long Range) technology, Intelligent applications and public safety data connected to the PS-LTE(: Public Safety-Long-Term Evolution) system. And the resource tree provided Smart Office for the service, which commonly used in the application server and the device.

Functional Analysis between LTE-Railway and Public Safety-LTE (LTE 기반 철도통합망(LTE-R)과 재난통신망(PS-LTE)의 기능 분석)

  • Kim, Yong-Kyu;Yoon, Yong-Gi;Kim, Ju-Youp;Song, Yong-Soo;Choi, Sang-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.20-30
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    • 2017
  • Due to the evolution of wireless communications technology, Long Term Evolution (LTE), which is a $4^{th}$ generation mobile communications system, has been adopted as a railway communications system. This LTE Railway (LTE-R) system is composed of various elemental functions, which are largely categorized into public safety and wireless communications for train control. Research on the public safety functions of railway communications have their roots in TRS based national public safety communication systems, and research on wireless communications functions for train control have their roots GSM-R, which is utilized by the ETCS in Europe. Based on these circumstances, this paper first analyzes the requirements for developing public safety technology in LTE-R, and compares those requirements with the functions of public safety LTE (PS-LTE), which is being deployed for the first time in the world by the South Korean government. Based on an analysis of the common and specific functions of LTE-R and PS-LTE, we conclude that there is little problem in integrating LTE-R and PS-LTE from the perspective of functionality. Second, this paper provides a comparison of the LTE-R requirements for the Quality of Service (QoS) with those of GSM-R utilized by the ETCS. This offers a guideline to allow LTE-R to be applied to a 500km/h train control system.

Video Data Collection Scheme From Vehicle Black Box Using Time and Location Information for Public Safety (사회 안전망 구축을 위한 시간과 위치 정보 기반의 차량 블랙박스 영상물 수집 기법)

  • Choi, Jae-Duck;Chae, Kang-Suk;Jung, Sou-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.771-783
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    • 2012
  • This paper proposes a scheme to collect video data of the vehicle black box in order to strengthen the public safety. The existing schemes, such as surveillance system with the fixed CCTV and car black box, have privacy issues, network traffic overhead and the storage space problems because all video data are sent to the central server. In this paper, the central server only collects the video data related to the accident or the criminal offense using the GPS information and time in order to investigation of the accident or the criminal offense. The proposed scheme addresses the privacy issues and reduces network traffic overhead and the storage space of the central server since the central server collects the video data only related to the accident and the criminal offense. The implementation and experiment shows that our service is feasible. The proposed service can be used as a component of remote surveillance system to prevent the criminal offense and to investigate the criminal offense.

Public Interest Test of Broadcasting Services in Korea : Focused on US and UK (한국의 방송서비스 공익성심사에 관한 고찰 : 미국 및 영국의 사례를 중심으로)

  • Lie, Han-Young
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.179-202
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    • 2010
  • Broadcasting services sector has been facing strong public pressure to shift gears from regulation to deregulation since mid-1990s, where a triggering role was played particularly by rapid development of IT technology and content digitization. Major agenda was how to reduce regulatory divides between more liberal telecommunication sector and less liberal broadcasting. After all, common solution package worldwide was for the latter to switch over from network-dependent(vertical) to network-independent(horizontal) regulation, and to facilitate more open and competitive transmission with content market kept protected. This is no other than decoupling content provision from broadcasting and promoting market access towards the latter. Policy experiences of US and UK show that there exists a complementary relationship between quantitative and qualitative restrictions in implementing such deregulation. While mitigating quantitative ownership regulations in broadcasting, they also sought to systematize, so-called, PIT(public interest test) as a qualitative safety device to cope with the risk of losing fundamental public values accordingly in broadcasting. Recent domestic progress in broadcasting legislation in 2009, however, seems to overlook the growing importance of PIT in the process of deregulation. Bearing this motivation in mind and taking account of the relevant WTO disciplines, this paper is to address policy issues and suggestions for PIT in Korea's broadcasting services sector.

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