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A Feasibility Study on the Application of Safety Assessment to the Fishing Vessels

  • Kwon Young-Sub;Anthony Joby C.
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • 제8권3호
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2004
  • The current paper deals with the safety of fishing vessels, which needs more speculations than other ship types. The characteristics of accidents of fishing vessels are rather different compared with other commercial vessels. In the context, the methodology of the formal safety assessment, one of the important issues in the maritime world to enhance the safety of marine vehicles, are reviewed and consulted along with other methodologies to see its applicability for fishing vessels. It is anticipated that further effective measures for better safety of fishing vessels can be identified including due considerations of the aspect of human elements, i.e. cultural environment.

ADVANCED MMIS TOWARD SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION IN HUMAN ERRORS IN NPPS

  • Seong, Poong Hyun;Kang, Hyun Gook;Na, Man Gyun;Kim, Jong Hyun;Heo, Gyunyoung;Jung, Yoensub
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제45권2호
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    • pp.125-140
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    • 2013
  • This paper aims to give an overview of the methods to inherently prevent human errors and to effectively mitigate the consequences of such errors by securing defense-in-depth during plant management through the advanced man-machine interface system (MMIS). It is needless to stress the significance of human error reduction during an accident in nuclear power plants (NPPs). Unexpected shutdowns caused by human errors not only threaten nuclear safety but also make public acceptance of nuclear power extremely lower. We have to recognize there must be the possibility of human errors occurring since humans are not essentially perfect particularly under stressful conditions. However, we have the opportunity to improve such a situation through advanced information and communication technologies on the basis of lessons learned from our experiences. As important lessons, authors explained key issues associated with automation, man-machine interface, operator support systems, and procedures. Upon this investigation, we outlined the concept and technical factors to develop advanced automation, operation and maintenance support systems, and computer-based procedures using wired/wireless technology. It should be noted that the ultimate responsibility of nuclear safety obviously belongs to humans not to machines. Therefore, safety culture including education and training, which is a kind of organizational factor, should be emphasized as well. In regard to safety culture for human error reduction, several issues that we are facing these days were described. We expect the ideas of the advanced MMIS proposed in this paper to lead in the future direction of related researches and finally supplement the safety of NPPs.

조선업 종사자의 근골격계질환 자각증상과 직무 스트레스에 대한 연구 (A Study on Musculoskeletal Disorders and Job Stress of Workers in a Shipbuilding Company)

  • 이유정;김태형;장성록
    • 한국안전학회지
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    • 제26권5호
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    • pp.89-98
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    • 2011
  • Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) have become a hot issue in the Korean workplace for the past several years. So many manufacturing companies have tried to improve the work environments for the control and the prevention of the WMSDs. This study investigates the relation between WMSDs and job stress from 965 workers in a shipbuilding company by questionnaire analysis. The seven job stress factors which are job autonomy, job insecurity, organizational system, workplace culture, unfair compensation, relationship conflict, and job requirement were analyzed. The prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders symptoms were 12.9%. The analysis showed that job stress by job autonomy was higher than that by job stress factor. WMSDs were associated with job requirement, organizational system, unfair compensation and workplace culture. The results could be used to design the management program for the reduction of job stress.

AHP 분석기법을 이용한 건설현장 취약시간대 안전관리에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Safety Management of Vulnerable Time in the Construction Site by AHP Analysis)

  • 이문호;윤영근;오태근
    • 문화기술의 융합
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    • 제8권5호
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    • pp.597-602
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    • 2022
  • 건설 현장에서는 정규 근무시간 외의 야간작업, 조기작업, 점심시간 작업 시 관리감독자나 안전관리자의 부재로 많은 사고가 발생한다. 본 연구의 목적은 근로자의 안전수준을 측정하고, 작업조건에 대한 전문가집단의 의견을 분석하여 취약시간대 사고 예방을 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 한다. 작업조건은 기본조건, 물리적 환경, 사회적 환경, 생리적 요인의 4개 영역으로 구분하였으며, AHP를 통해 결정된 우선순위 고려 대상과 사전에 조사한 근로자의 안전수준에 대해 상관관계를 조사한 후, 요인별 관리방안을 도출하였다.

소비자들의 식품선택기준과 기능성 식품에 대한 인식도 (Consumer Opinions about the Factor in Food Selection and Functional Food)

  • 한명주;배은아
    • 한국식생활문화학회지
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    • 제11권3호
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    • pp.299-304
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    • 1996
  • The objective of this study was to investigate important factors affecting food choice, specific dietary changes over past few years and to find out consumer opinions concerning the use of yogurt and oligosaccharides. Results of this study showed that three most important factors in food selection were taste (52.5%), nutrition (23.4%) and safety (15.8%). Three most important nutritive factors were protein (26.3%), calorie (19.2%) and vitamin (13.8%). Specific dietary changes of the respondent over past few years didn't affect meat intake, but increased vegetable and fruit intakes. Majority of the respondent (52.3%) ate yogurt more than 3 times per week and 35.6% of them ate $3{\sim}4$ times per month. Reasons for intake of oligosaccharides were as follows; low calorie (40.8%), sweetener (28.3%)and bifidogenic factor (25.0%). The respondent regarded that yogurt had more preventive effect of disease than that of oligosaccharide.

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원자력 발전소 안전체감에 관한 연구: 안전체감지수 개발과 안전체감 수준 (Developing the Nuclear Effective Safety Index)

  • 최인철 ;김범준
    • 한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제
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    • 제13권3호
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    • pp.1-21
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    • 2007
  • 본 연구에서는 1) 원자력 발전소 지역 주민들의 안전체감을 구성하고 있는 하위요인들을 규명하고, 2) 그 구성요소들의 측정을 통해 주민들의 안전체감지수를 산출하며, 3) 주민들이 체감하는 안전의 정도와 발전소 직원들이 추측하는 주민들의 안전 체감 정도를 비교하였다. 이를 위해 원자력 발전소 지역주민 800명을 대상으로 연구 1과 발전소 직원 187명을 대상으로 연구 2가 수행되었다. 연구 결과에 따르면, 안전체감은 커뮤니케이션, 신뢰, 발전소 위험대응역량, 그리고 응급대응역량의 4가지 요소로 구성되어 있는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 개발된 안전체감 지수에 따르면 발전소 지역 주민들의 안전체감 수준은 매우 낮았으며(100점 만점에 38.22점), 이 점수는 발전소 지역에 따라 다른 것으로 나타났다. 또한 원자력 발전소의 직원들은 주민들이 실제로 체감하고 있는 것보다 주민들이 발전소를 훨씬 더 안전하게 지각하고 있을 것이라고 착각하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이 결과의 시사점 및 후속 연구에 대해 논의하였다.

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화학산업 작업자의 안전행동과 안전분위기의 상관관계 (The Relationship between Workers' Safety Behaviors and Safety Climate in Chemical Industry)

  • 백종배;엄민용;김지선
    • 한국안전학회지
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    • 제30권5호
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    • pp.100-107
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    • 2015
  • Korea government has established and enforced countermeasures about the various policy of industrial accident prevention. Recent chemical accidents included hazardous materials. Exposure to these chemicals can cause serious environmental poisoning and various health problems. The key factor causing these major accidents may be associated with the mistake in workers' safety behaviors. Some researchers noted workers' safety behaviors may be related to workers' safety climate. In this research, a survey was conducted to explore workers' safety behaviors and safety climate in a large petrochemical company in Korea. The company processes major petrochemical materials and any spills can be hazardous and cause chemical disasters. In this study, we explored one petrochemical company to investigate three hypotheses. 593 workers were surveyed for this study. We checked association between workers' safety behavior and safety climate. The survey result shows the people who have safety climate do safe behavior.

의식개혁을 위해 인간공학에 의한 위험성 평가 기법 개발 : 반도체 산업을 중심으로 (Development of Risk Assessment by Ergonomics for Conscious Reform : Focused on the Semiconductor Industry)

  • 강영식;박범;윤용구
    • 산업경영시스템학회지
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    • 제32권4호
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    • pp.101-106
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    • 2009
  • The unsafe act and unsafe condition is due to human error that experience 80% of safety accidents. Accordingly, one of the most important issues to reduce industrial accidents as a whole, is how to reduce the accident rate by the human error. Therefore, this paper describes the development of quantitative risk assessment (QRA) model by ergonomics for reform of safety consciousness on the semiconductor industry. Unconsciousness, disregard, ignorance, recklessness, and stress among the human factors are selected for conscious reform. Finally, the QRA model is efficiently expected to contribute towards improving continuous self-safety and health and safety culture campaign in order to prevent industrial accidents.

인터넷 아동복 구매자의 인터넷 쇼핑 태도, 인터넷 쇼핑 행동, 인터넷 쇼핑 만족도 - 인터넷 구매 빈도를 중심으로 - (Internet Shopping Attitude, Shopping Behavior, and Shopping Satisfaction according to Purchasing Frequency of Internet Shoppers for Children's Clothing)

  • 남은경;장수경
    • 복식문화연구
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    • 제14권6호
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    • pp.1027-1041
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the differences of internet shopping attitude, shopping behavior, and shopping satisfaction according to purchasing frequency of internet shoppers for children's clothing. Data were collected from 170 female internet users who had purchasing experiences of children's clothing. For data analysis, factor analysis, one-way ANOVA, Duncan test, cross tabulation, regression analysis, t-test, frequency and multi- response analysis were conducted. The results are as follows: The internet shoppers for children's clothing were classified by purchasing frequency. Factors of internet shopping attitude were convenience, reliability, and safety. Significant differences were found on internet usages, internet attitudes, and shopping behaviors between two groups. Heavy purchasers used internet longer, had more positive attitude toward convenience and safety, and paid more money than light purchasers. Significant differences were found on internet attitudes according to age and internet usage. Convenience and safety factors had impact on internet shopping satisfaction.

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야간 근로자의 식품선택유형에 따른 건강정보 인지수준이 힐링 욕구에 미치는 영향 (Effect of Health Information Awareness on Desire for Healing According to Food Preferences of Night Shift Workers)

  • 강여울;정희선
    • 한국식생활문화학회지
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    • 제35권2호
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    • pp.156-166
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    • 2020
  • In this study, 594 questionnaires administered to men and women residing in the capital metropolitan area who work night shifts were analyzed in order to study the effect of health information cognition on healing needs in accordance with the type of food selection criteria of the night worker. The results of confirmatory factor analysis in deriving food selection type identified four categories, a safety seeking type, a food exploratory type, a habitual seeking type, and a rational type, and the cognition types on health information were classified into physical cognition and psychological cognition. The need for healing, which was the investigated factor, was found to have a high correlation between questionnaire items with high reliable consistency. The results of this study were as follows. First, the food selection types of safety seeking type and habitual food seeking type had significant positive effects on the cognitive level of physical health information, and food exploratory type and habitual seeking type had significant positive effects on the cognitive level of psychological health information. In addition, it was shown that food exploratory type and rational type had significant positive effects on healing needs. As a result of this study, it was found that the cognition level of physical and psychological information was different according to food selection type, and the higher the cognitive level, the higher the healing needs. In particular, the result that the level of psychological health information significantly affected healing needs signifies that there is a demand to develop programs and menus that satisfy various needs related to healing and recovery from fatigue. In addition, further interest and study on the health and healing of night workers are required.