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A Study on the Importance of Uninsured (Indirect) Cost Item of Workplace Accidents

  • Jung, Cecil;Baek, Jong-Bae
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.55 no.4
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    • pp.497-502
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    • 2017
  • Estimation of accident cost is a sound and great safety indicator on determining accurate occupational safety and health prevention. Just like in Korea, Heinrich ratio analysis of (1:4) between direct and indirect costs has been become widely used in safety management because of its simplicity. In this study four major categories of uninsured (indirect) cost items and 18 sub-categories of uninsured (indirect) cost items were identified. To determine and validate the importance and necessity of the results of a literature review an expert or professional surveyed had been analyses using the SPSS 18.0, where in the participants whose expertize is in the field of compensation and safety. Based on the results of survey all participants all uninsured (indirect) cost items classified was important and necessary when accidents occurred. Despite recognition of expert on the classification of uninsured (indirect) cost items, it is quite difficult to make generalization for all kind of costs in occupational accident case due to different nature of business for each industry.

Improvement of Application Criteria of Pull Code Switch for Conveyor Accident Prevention (컨베이어 사고 예방을 위한 풀 코드 스위치 적용기준 개선)

  • Seo, Jae Min;Park, Ji Hoon;Baek, Jong-Bae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.153-158
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    • 2019
  • It is estimated that about 2,515 persons have been injured by conveyor for the past five years(2013 ~ 2017). Conveyors used in various industrial sites for transporting iron ore, coal, courier goods, etc., have various incidents such as a worker putting on or pulling a part of the body or work clothes on the driving part during maintenance. It is necessary for preventing similar accidents to conduct various researches. In order to propose the basis for revising laws and standards for the safety standards of the full cord switch to prevent conveyor accidents, this study compares Korea's Industrial Safety and Health Law (KISHL) with those of IEC, EN, Canada, and Australia. In addition, surveys of conveyor use plant and full cord switch domestic and foreign manufacturers was conducted. In this study, domestic and overseas related laws and technical standards compare and analyze to prevent conveyor accidents. In addition, we propose extension of safety certification for full code switch, establishment of safety inspection standard, and improvement of working method regulation through actual working condition investigation. It can be used as a basis for revising the occupational safety and health regulation and related notices, and thus contributing to enhancing the safe atmosphere of the conveyor business and improving the safety consciousness of the concerned persons.

Domestic Helicopter Accident Analysis using HFACS & Dirty Dozen

  • Kim, Su-Ro;Cho, Young-Jin;Song, Byung-Heym
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2020
  • Safety can be defined as being maintained or reduced to a level below which the possibility of human or physical harm can be tolerated through continuous identification of risks and safety risk management. FAA, EASA, IATA and Boeing, major organizations that conduct research and analysis for aviation safety around the world, report that about 70 percent of aviation accidents are caused by human factors, which have led to a surge in interest in human factors-induced accident prevention activities around the world. As part of this purpose, the FAA in the U.S. is raising awareness among aviation workers by publicizing the 12 human errors (Boeing, 2016), which account for the largest part of aviation accidents under the theme of Dirty Dozen, to prevent aviation accidents. Therefore, based on the domestic helicopter accidents reported to the Air Railroad Accident Investigation Committee from 2007 until recently, this study aims to use HFACS to extract human factors for the six recent helicopter accidents in Korea, analyze the extracted human factors in conjunction with the Dirty Dozen concept, and then present measures to prevent accidents by item.

Evaluation of staircase accidents using 3D virtual simulation based on behavioral characteristics of the elderly (가상공간 시뮬레이션을 활용한 고령자 행동특성 기반 계단 낙상사고 평가)

  • Yang, Hyun-Cheul;Na, Sun-Cheol;Kim, Dong-Hyun;Lee, Jae-Wook
    • Journal of KIBIM
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.21-30
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    • 2017
  • Due to the rapidly aging population, the death rate of elderly people by safety accidents has been increasing. In particular, precautions are needed for falls prevention because they either directly or indirectly cause death. In the case of elderly people, most of the fall accidents occur in dense residential areas, and particularly, the staircase poses a risk of falling. Therefore, a safety assessment should be performed from the design phase. However, in general, staircases are designed using existing stair data or only aims to satisfy the installation criteria. Laws and regulations only define minimum requirements for safety, so it is not possible to prevent fall accidents even if they satisfy the requirements. Therefore, this study proposes a simulation-based method for evaluating the safety of staircases. The behavioral characteristics of the elderly are implemented to an virtual user in a virtual space including staircases, and fall accidents are evaluated by the evaluation logic related to the behavioral characteristics. The result shows that the safety of staircases can be preevaluated and reflected on the design to reduce the possibility of fall accidents of the elderly.

Theoretical Model for Accident Prevention Based on Root Cause Analysis With Graph Theory

  • Molan, Gregor;Molan, Marija
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.42-50
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    • 2021
  • Introduction: Despite huge investments in new technology and transportation infrastructure, terrible accidents still remain a reality of traffic. Methods: Severe traffic accidents were analyzed from four prevailing modes of today's transportations: sea, air, railway, and road. Main root causes of all four accidents were defined with implementation of the approach, based on Flanagan's critical incident technique. In accordance with Molan's Availability Humanization model (AH model), possible preventive or humanization interventions were defined with the focus on technology, environment, organization, and human factors. Results: According to our analyses, there are significant similarities between accidents. Root causes of accidents, human behavioral patterns, and possible humanization measures were presented with rooted graphs. It is possible to create a generalized model graph, which is similar to rooted graphs, for identification of possible humanization measures, intended to prevent similar accidents in the future. Majority of proposed humanization interventions are focused on organization. Organizational interventions are effective in assurance of adequate and safe behavior. Conclusions: Formalization of root cause analysis with rooted graphs in a model offers possibility for implementation of presented methods in analysis of particular events. Implementation of proposed humanization measures in a particular analyzed situation is the basis for creation of safety culture.

Influences of Safety-Practice and Cognitive Failure on Safety Accident among Middle Students (중학생의 안전실천과 인지실패가 안전사고에 미치는 영향)

  • Jung, Do-Young;Lee, Seung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.8
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    • pp.3665-3671
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    • 2013
  • This study was investigate to impact on safety accidents occurrence for the safety practices of middle school students learn the extent of the failure. A total of 292 patients and it survey data were collected from 5 November 2012 to 11 May 25 of research subjects. Research tools were used SPSS win17.0, the mean and standard deviation, Paired t-test, Pearson's correlation coefficient was used. Safey practice and cognitive failure of subjects was related to negative correlation and according as safety practices was higher, cognitive failure was low. According as safety practices and cognitive failure was low, Safety incidents experienced was high. Therefore, by applying safety practices and cognitive failure degree, it need to for research to come up with ways for the prevention of safety accidents. Besides, A variety of safety and accident prevention training programs by expanding the scope of the study in school, it should be done generalization of safety awareness, cultivate and Safety practice.

A Study on the Analysis of System Improvement in Construction Accident Prevention through Technical Guidance on Data Analysis Results Report (중·소건설업체 재해예방 기술지도 결과보고서 자료 분석을 통한 제도 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Gyeong-Bo;Cho, Jae-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2016
  • This study of small & Medium-Sized construction sites construction disaster prevention technology conduction-site visits from the map results report by the inspector on-site advice and technical guidance for the analysis of deficiencies and potential construction of disaster revealed the potential factors causing an accident as follows. As a results, Should not be a once a month visits. Therefore should be changed at least twice a month to help prevent accidents of this system is to be judged.

Preliminary study for development of safety accident prevention IoT(Internet of Things) Cone system through dangerous area setting in construction site (건설현장의 위험구역 설정을 통한 안전 사고 예방 IoT Cone 시스템 개발 기초 연구)

  • Ryu, Hanguk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.76-77
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    • 2018
  • Under industry 4.0, Internet of Things (IoT) is advancing a new breed of smart manufacturing environment. However IoT has not been widely applied in construction industry compared with manufacturing environment. IoT enables operational systems that deliver more accurate and useful information for managing construction accidents. IoT enables operational systems that deliver more accurate and useful information for managing construction accidents. In order to apply well IoT for construction safety management, as a preliminary study, this paper presents e safety accident prevention IoT Cone system through dangerous area setting in construction site.

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Analysis of Injury Characteristics of Elderly Workers in Small Manufacturing Factory (소규모 사업장의 고령자 재해특성에 대한 분석)

  • 김유창
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.163-167
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    • 1999
  • Korea is becoming an aged society as well developed country. Accident rates of elderly workers are increased. When elderly workers injured, elderly workers are more likely to die as a result, and they take longer to recover than young workers. Thus the cost to industry per individual accident gets higher for elderly workers. If information on the occupational accidents of elderly workers could be collected and analyzed for the purpose of preventing occupational accidents, we would be able to get rid of accidents of elderly workers. The accidents of elderly workers in small manufacturing factories were considered in this study. 97 accidents, which occurred in 1995-1998, were investigated. These accidents were analyzed in terms of sex, work period, cause of accident and form of accident. The accidents of elderly workers in 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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Alternative Prevention on Human Error of Fatal Injuries by the Mobile Cranes (이동식 크레인 사망재해의 인지공학적 대안)

  • Kang, Hyunsu;Park, Peom
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.135-141
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    • 2015
  • According to the statistics, occupational fatal injuries by mobile cranes were about 12 per year in whole industrial. Mobile cranes are widely used in various parts of industries to improve the efficiency of the work. However considerable number of fatal injuries happen each year during the operation of the machines. In this study, the current regulations to be adequate in industrial site have to be renew in order to prevent the fatal injuries by mobile cranes. Fatal injury analyses were conducted with several accident cases by the mobile cranes. For each accident, the causes of the injuries were examined and proper safety measures were proposed. In this study, the mobile crane showed a high fatality rate in industrial accidents and no detailed cause analysis of fatal accidents was conducted in terms of unsafe acts or conditions. This study proposed a revision of the standard guideline as an accident prevention measures through in-depth analysis of fatal accidents. First, among the mainly five machines caused the accidents, mobile crane was higher for the second showed 0.6% for number of fatalities compared to number of mobil cranes and for the third showed 11% for number of fatalities compared to number of injuries. Second, main cause of cognitive engineering agenda was visibility, responsibility, affordance. As the measures to prevent accidents before starting operation, alternative revision for the fool proof including visibility, responsibility, affordance etc. for the fool proof measures was proposed. Third, alternative revision as cognitive accident prevention for the fail safe measures was proposed.