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A Study on Disaster Influencing Factors and Importance for Safety Management in NATM Tunnel Drilling (NATM 터널 굴진 시 안전관리를 위한 재해영향요인 및 중요도에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, YoungSoo;Yoon, Younggeun;Oh, Taekeun
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.757-763
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    • 2022
  • In the NATM tunnel construction method for urban subway and underpass construction, various causes of disaster exist. In this study, in order to analyze the importance of disaster influencing factors during NATM tunnel excavation, the possible risk factors were analyzed through prior research such as drilling, charging and blasting, It was divided into the work items of wrinkle treatment, pumice cleanup, and support materials. Next, the final 21 detailed measurement indicators were selected through the FGI survey of related experts, and AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) analysis were conducted. As a result, it was found that the workers involved in the tunnel construction were the most influential disaster influencing factor.

Factors Influencing Implementation of OHSAS 18001 in Indian Construction Organizations: Interpretive Structural Modeling Approach

  • Rajaprasad, Sunku Venkata Siva;Chalapathi, Pasupulati Venkata
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.200-205
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    • 2015
  • Background: Construction activity has made considerable breakthroughs in the past two decades on the back of increases in development activities, government policies, and public demand. At the same time, occupational health and safety issues have become a major concern to construction organizations. The unsatisfactory safety performance of the construction industry has always been highlighted since the safety management system is neglected area and not implemented systematically in Indian construction organizations. Due to a lack of enforcement of the applicable legislation, most of the construction organizations are forced to opt for the implementation of Occupational Health Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS) 18001 to improve safety performance. Methods: In order to better understand factors influencing the implementation of OHSAS 18001, an interpretive structural modeling approach has been applied and the factors have been classified using matrice d'impacts croises-multiplication $appliqu{\acute{e}}$ a un classement (MICMAC) analysis. The study proposes the underlying theoretical framework to identify factors and to help management of Indian construction organizations to understand the interaction among factors influencing in implementation of OHSAS 18001. Results: Safety culture, continual improvement, morale of employees, and safety training have been identified as dependent variables. Safety performance, sustainable construction, and conducive working environment have been identified as linkage variables. Management commitment and safety policy have been identified as the driver variables. Conclusion: Management commitment has the maximum driving power and the most influential factor is safety policy, which states clearly the commitment of top management towards occupational safety and health.

The Performance Measurement of Business & Industry and University Foodservice Operated by Contracted Foodservice Management Company (위탁 경영사업체 및 대학교 급식소의 수행평가)

  • Han, Kyung-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.252-259
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study examined important factor of performance on Contract Foodservice management. Three contract Foodservice companies were selected which were located in Seoul & kuonggi province. 300 units were chose. The questionnaire was composed of seven part. There were the operation of food management, the operation of menu, the operation of equipment and facilities management, the operation of solid waste and safety management, the operation of waiting time management. As a result of the survey B&I foodservice was listed higher than University foodservice as food hygiene, FIFO and food shelf life. University foodservice employees worked 4 hour longer than B&I foodservice employees, so turnover rate was higher than it. Comparing the number of feeding, B&I foodservice equipment and facilities scale was bigger than University foodservice equipment and facilities. The rate of solid waste on B&I foodservice was 11.468% and the rate of University foodservice was 16.23%, the waiting time of University foodservice was about 8mins longer than B&I foodservice.

Examining Importance of Urban Rotorcraft Operations Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

  • Hye-Jin, Hong;Yong-og, Kim;Sungkwan, Ku
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.487-498
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    • 2022
  • This study aims to determine the importance of each factor considered when operating a rotorcraft in a city. After identifying factors that could affect urban air mobility, we reviewed the influencing factors by applying an analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Level 1 classifies the essential factors of the urban operation of rotorcraft in nominal and off-nominal situations. The factors corresponding to the characteristics of each were composed of lower levels, such as Levels 2 and 3. Using this, the importance of influencing factors was analyzed and the most important factors were determined. The most influential factors of the urban operation of rotorcraft included engine failure, fire situations, and vehicle safety. Accordingly, an environment that can guarantee safe operation by considering the most influential factors in advance in an actual operation stage must be constructed.

The Effect of Frequent Change in Railway Driving Regulations on Human Error (철도운전관련규정의 잦은 변경이 휴먼에러에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jin-Tae;Shin, Tack-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.19-29
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    • 2014
  • Korean societal concern for the train accidents is fast and widely increasing with an ever-increasing demand and use for KTX. Most of these train accidents are inclined to be caused by human error. Experts used to attribute the causes of human error to the defects in various aspects such as technology, organizational system, practices, corporate culture, and/or human resource itself. Among the diverse causes of human error, an important one, even though it was rarely focused, may be the issue of impact of rule or procedure change on human error. Giving attention to the implicit importance of this issue, this study intends to highlight the theme of frequent procedure change in railway driving manual as a critical factor of human error. To attain this purpose mentioned above, dual methodologies were adopted. One is to qualitatively analyze the real cases of procedure change in relevant manuals followed by the incident case(passing the station scheduled to stop) happened lately. Another is to quantitatively perform statistical analysis based on questionnaires received from 224 train drivers. Results show that frequent changes in internal affairs procedure is or may be an important factor causing stress and human error from train drivers.

Research on Secure Keypads for Mobile Devices with Stretchable Displays (스트레처블 디스플레이가 적용된 모바일 기기의 보안 키패드 연구)

  • Dongmin Choi
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.885-890
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    • 2024
  • This study proposes a secure keypad structure that can adapt to screen changes in mobile devices equipped with stretchable display. For this purpose, we compared and analyzed the authentication methods applied to current rigid form factor smartphones with those applied to rollable and bendable display based smartphones, which are the previous stages of stretchable display. Based on the results of this analysis, we identified potential user convenience and security safety issues that may arise in the form factor structure for smart wallets, multitasking, screen expansion and media viewing, and gaming and entertainment applications where stretchable displays will be applied, then proposed a security keypad structure for these form factors. Our keypad structure provides enhanced user convenience and security compared to the structures applied in the smartphone environment based on the conventional rigid display form factor and rollable, bendable display form factor.

A Study on the Effect of the Fit between the Type of Business Process Change and Organizational Culture on the Business Process Change Success (조직문화와 BPC 유형의 적합도가 BPC성공에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Hee-Joo;Jeong, Seung-Ryul;Ahn, Hyun-Chul
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.49-72
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    • 2011
  • Business Process Change(BPC) is regarded as a salient factor to improve an organizations' efficiency in the current fast-changing business environment. Despite the tremendous popularity and great potential, the field of BPC adoption is littered with remarkable failures. Consequently, there have been many studies that have tried to identify the environmental factors that lead to successful BPC. However, most of them have not considered the effect of the interaction between the environmental factors on BPC success. According to Klempa(1995), the fit between environmental factors of a company may have the impact on its BPC success. Under this background, this paper empirically examines the effects of the fit between the type of BPC and the organization's culture on the success of BPC. Organization's cultures, organizational learning, as well as knowledge sharing are the dominant causes that have impact on the innovation characters of organization. Whether an organization has safety-oriented homogeneous culture or it has the change-oriented heterogeneous culture may have impact on its implementation of BPC. Also the implementation of BPC may be affected by whether the organization adopts the improvement project which accompanies only small changes or it adopts the innovation project which leads to critical changes. Thus, we analyzed the effect of the fit between the organization's culture and its BPC type on BPC success by using the survey data collected from the companies that have adopted BPC. The findings presented in this paper show that the organization having heterogeneous culture practicing innovation project and the organization having homogeneous culture practicing the improvement project resulted in the excellent BPC success.

Rock Mass Stability of the Buddha Statue on a Rock Cliff using Fracture Characteristics and Geological Face-Mapping (마애불 암반의 단열특성과 지질맵핑을 이용한 안정성 해석)

  • Ihm, Myeong Hyeok
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.539-544
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    • 2023
  • The subject of this study is the Maae Buddha statue in granodiorite of the Mesozoic Cretaceous period, which is concerned about stability as a standing stone cultural property located in ◯◯-dong, Gyeongsangbuk-do. For stability analysis, three-dimensional face mapping, geological properties of joints, three-dimensional scanning, ultrasonic velocity, polarization microscopy, electron microscopy analysis and XRD analysis were performed. In addition, the safety factor of the Maaebul was calculated by analyzing the damage status investigation, stereographic projection analysis, rock classification, and limit equilibrium analysis. The types and scales of damage and possible collapse by section depend on the degree of weathering of the rock and the orientation and characteristics of the joints, but wedge-failure and toppling-failure are expected to be small-scale. The safety factor of Maaebul in dry and wet conditions is less than 1.2, so stability is concerned. The types of damage were mainly observed, such as exfoliation, cracking, granular decomposition, and vegetation growth. The Maaebul rock is granodiorite, and the surface discoloration materials are K, Fe, and Mg. The 4 sets of joints are developed, J1 is tensile joint and the others are shear joint. The uniaxial compressive strength estimated by ultrasonic exploration is 514kgf/cm2, which corresponds to most soft rocks and some weathered rocks. Rock classification(RMR) is estimated to be grade 5, very poor rock mass. These technique along with the existing methods of safety diagnosis of cultural properties are expected to be a reasonable tool for objective interpretation and stability review of stone cultural properties.

The Effectiveness of Emotional Safety Using PIR Sensors in Building Construction Site (센서를 활용한 건설현장 감성안전의 효용성에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Han-Woo;Kim, Gwang-Hee;Kim, Tae-Hyung;Kim, Tae-Hui;Choi, Eung-Kyoo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.59-65
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    • 2010
  • Many Construction companies are making great efforts to prevent accidents on their work sites. Safety is one of the greatest success factors on a construction project. Nowadays, many safety tools are being applied to construction sites. In addition, an emotional safety culture is an important factor for promoting a "safety first" mindset on construction sites. Therefore, this research aims to examine the effectiveness of the emotional safety system using PIR (Pyroelectric Infrared Ray) sensors to improve the safety mindset in the building construction site. The results of this research revealed that many construction site workers are satisfied with the emotional safety system using sensors. In addition, it was found that voice safety systems give a positive impulse to the workers. By applying this system to construction sites, construction companies can improve safety and work productivity.

Immunomodulating Effects on Macrophage of Rhamnan Sulfate Extracted from Monostroma nitidum (홀파래에서 추출한 Rhamnan sulfate의 Macrophage에 의한 면역조절효과에 관한 연구)

  • 류병호;빈재훈;김희숙
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.235-241
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    • 1996
  • The rhamnan sulfate extracted from green algae seaweed, Monostroma nitidum was characterized as activity in vitro culture assay with macrophages from mice. Rhamnan sulfate indicated that F-4-3 fraction enhanced glucose consumption, as well as the production of nitrogen dioxide and tumor necrosis factor(TNF). F-4-3 fraction was also augmented IL-1 secretion from those macrophages. Effects of the pretreatment of peritoneal macrophages with rhamnan sulfate F-4-3 fraction and several polysaccharides as relative standard on the production of H2O2 induced with unopsonized zymosan A were examined. Pretreatment with polysaccharides inhibited the zymosan A mediated H2O2 production by macrophages. The phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) mediated H2O2 production was not affected by the pretreament. These result suggested that pretreatment of rhamnan sulfate interfered with the interaction of macrophages zymosan A. Rhamnan sulfate inhibited zymosan A mediated production of H**O** by macrophages and F-4-3 Fraction was also activator of macrophages.

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