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Current Status of Patient Safety Regulations, Guidelines and Support Mechanisms in Korean Hospitals

  • Lee, Jae Ho;Kim, Jeong Eun;Kim, Suk Wha;Lee, Sang Il;Jung, Yoen Yi;Kim, Moon Sook;Jang, Seon Mi
    • Perspectives in Nursing Science
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.158-166
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate patient safety regulations and guidelines in order to understand their current status, and to examine support measures to improve patient safety in Korean hospitals. Methods: The participants were the safety officers from hospitals with 200 or more beds and 112 hospitals responded to the online survey. The questions covered patient safety regulations, the performance level of patient safety activities, patient safety incident reporting systems, the dedicated professional, training, support mechanisms, and expectations of reporting systems. Results: Among preventative measures, fall prevention and hand hygiene were reported to be most widely practiced (92% and 91%, respectively). Time-out for invasive procedures showed a relatively low practice rate at 70%. Among patient care activities, transfusion, surgery and sedation, medication, and infection management were performed by 84, 74, 93 and 93% of the hospitals, respectively. Patient safety activities included patient safety committee, patient safety cooperation between decision-making bodies, patient safety workshops, seminars, lectures, and training for employees. Conclusion: Patient safety regulations and guidelines have not yet been sufficiently prepared, and a public institution such as a certification authority is of crucial importance to enforce these guidelines.

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An Exploratory Study on the Possibility of Creative Quality Management (창조적 품질경영의 가능성에 대한 탐색적 연구)

  • Oh, Hyung-Sool;Seong, Baek-Seo;Kim, Seon-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.103-113
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    • 2009
  • Motorola which had developed and commercialized wireless telephone and mobile phone for the first time in the world made a decision on the separation of the mobile unit from the Motorola due to the continuous bad performance turn. In addition, the Korean company named Raincom which had developed and commercialized MP3 player have been disappeared since Raincom failed to compete with iPod of Apples. What is the main cause the companies that have been top of the world level weed out of IT product market? For less product life cycle and globalization of market, the company's competitiveness tends to be determined based on company's creative capability, rather than process implementation capability. Thus, companies spent a great amount of time and effort in the introduction of creativity management and R&D activities. However, as company's continuous investment on R&D and innovation activities did not lead to business performance, they starts to pay much attention on the effective R&D and innovation activities. Therefore, this paper tries to solve the limitation of the effectiveness of R&D activities by introducing the concept of 'creative quality'. The creative quality is executed by the creative process, which is designed for getting over the limitation of the traditional brainstorming method. This paper presents the concept so called 'creative quality management' and expects it to be an alternative to conquest the limitation of six sigma management.

A Study for Improving the Effectiveness of Safety and Health Education Based on the Empirical Education Utilizing Virtual Reality (안전보건교육의 실효성 제고 방안에 관한 연구: VR·AR기반 체험교육 중심으로)

  • Moon, Seok-In;Jang, Gil-Sang
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.35-45
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    • 2021
  • Activities to prevent industrial accidents can be divided into management of disaster risk factors of production facilities, disaster prevention systems and procedures, and human factors management. Human factor management is the last and most effective means to minimize disaster incidence and loss costs. The key strategy for this is safety and health education. However, formal or fictitious education is still being carried out in the industrial field. In addition, it is true that the application of practical use is insufficient due to the simple theoretical education based on knowledge transfer. In order to change the safety consciousness of employers and workers, we think that the paradigm of education should be changed from the traditional text and video-oriented lecture education method to experience-oriented education. The purpose of this study is to measure and analyze the effectiveness of safety education through education contents using VR(Virtual Reality) and AR(Augmented Reality) technology in keeping with the changing times of the 4th Industrial Revolution, And to suggest the direction of future safety and health education and content development trend.

Utilization of the robot's field of fire prevention research (로봇의 소방방재분야 활용방안 연구)

  • Lee, Jeong-Il
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2013.04a
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    • pp.471-484
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    • 2013
  • Large and complicated firefighting environment is accelerating in the early activities in the field of fire officials at the time limit situation leads to people's lives and property damage, as well as the loss of the Fire Service. Therefore, the state-of-the-art technology that can respond to rapidly changing fire environment urgently in the field of fire fighting have been introduced should be utilized. These intelligent firefighting robots build daegukmin firefighting safety net that can be used when. Other advanced technology industries, the most effective ways that can be introduced into the firefighting shall be provided in the current situation of the industry's initial firefighting robots.

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Research of specification development & application methods for Occupational Health and Safety management System in industry (산업안전 및 보건(OH&S)경영체제 인증규격 개발과 적응 방법에 관한 연구)

  • 문재승;유왕진;우태희
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.184-190
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    • 2001
  • Industrial structure is more developed, the economical value of human resources and the cases which risks worker's Health & Safety is expended. The Safety & Health issues are focused on elements of control for management activity simultaneously with work environment as well as the risk elements which risks worker's life and body. The activity for combination of basic management System and Safety & Health management is progressing with active discussion in ILO, BS 8800 is specified the guidance of Occupational Safety & Health Management System in UK. 1996. This research refers to BS 8800:1996, specification as a basic model, and introduce of the result of certification development result in Occupational Safety & Health management System with in ISO 14001 Environmental System Standards & ISO 9001 Quality Management System Standards and Systemic Factors. Through this applicability and efficiency evaluation, we make an effort to support and to improve the specification. Also applicability evaluation of Occupational Safety & Health management System and the specification developed for the purpose of the third party certification is applied with expending in industry, and the method is presented through the case which is required to support for method review and activities.

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The effect of information technology system on knowledge management activities and moderating effect of industrial type (정보기술시스템이 지식경영활동에 미치는 효과 및 업종에 따른 조절효과)

  • Ahn, Kwan-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.237-243
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    • 2012
  • This paper reviewed the relationship between information technology system and knowledge management activities, and the moderating effect of industrial type. The results of multiple regression analysis, based on the responses from 219 employees in manufacturing and financing service sector, showed that information technology infrastructure and information technology usage have positive effects on knowledge acquisition, knowledge transfer, and knowledge usage. In moderating effects, information technology infrastructure more positively related with knowledge acquisition in financing service sector than in manufacturing sector. And also information technology usage more positively related with knowledge transfer in financing service sector than in manufacturing sector.

An Application of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Safety measurement in Malaysian Construction Industry

  • Samad Doostdar;Zubaidah Ismail
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.66-73
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    • 2013
  • Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a famous method amongst Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), set up by Saaty in 1980. AHP can be determined as a methodology of hierarchical analysis following reasonable decision making with make simpler a difficult crisis. Decision making in systems of Safety management concerned multipart challenges. AHP is process for get better the composite decisions understanding with analyzes of the problem in a structure of hierarchy. The integration all of applicable decision criteria, their pair wise judgment permits the decision maker to establish the trade-offs amongst objectives. In recent years, Malaysian's economy and infrastructure development have significantly and rapidly risen. The construction industry continues to play a major role in this development as many construction activities have been carried out to meet the high demands of the expansive market. However, the construction industry has faced a wide range of challenges, one of which is the frequent occurrences of accidents at the workplace. An effective safety program can substantially reduce accidents because it can help management to build up safer means of operations and create safe working environments for the workers. Furthermore, by having an effective safety programs, good safety culture can be embedded in organization because it can encourage mutual cooperation between management and workers in the operations of the programs and decisions that affect their safety and health. The focus of this research is development methodology of Analytics Hierarchy Process (AHP) in construction safety factors and investigates the levels of some effective elements in SMS in Malaysian construction industries.

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A Study on Safety Activity Process of Train Control System (Manual Based) (열차제어시스템 안전성활동 프로세스에 대한 연구(매뉴얼기반))

  • Han, Chan-Hee;An, Jin;Cho, Woo-Sic;Jung, Jae-Ok
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2011.10a
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    • pp.1084-1091
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    • 2011
  • The primary purpose of the safety management is to prevent the loss of lives or physical damages arising from potential hazards in the railway signaling system. Since such potential hazards may occur at any time during the system life-cycle from design and development to maintenance, safety management activities have to be continuously taken in the course of the system life-cycle. In this paper, presented for Safety Activity Process. (Phase, Methods, Documentation)

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Non-Value Adding Activities in South African Construction: A Research Agenda

  • Emuze, Fidelis;Smallwood, John
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.1 no.3
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    • pp.38-44
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    • 2011
  • The central issue in this particular research is the seemingly inadequate achievement of optimum performance in the construction process, either with respect to value for money for the client and the entire construction supply chain or value in terms of the utility derived from built assets in spite of efforts by government and governmental bodies such as the Construction Industry Development Board (cidb) to increase industry performance. Therefore, based upon an extensive review of related literature, the paper reports on effects and causes of non-value adding activities in the construction industry in general, and South African construction in particular. The research findings indicate that activities that can be referred to as non-value activities are not only prevalent, but they can also be held responsible for performance related issues in terms of cost, time, quality and health and safety (H&S) in construction; and the exploration of pluralism in the research methodology may result in a robust model based upon the system dynamics approach.

Exploring the Job Crafting Experience of Millennial Safety Workers: Focusing on S Energy Company (밀레니얼세대 안전직 근로자의 잡 크래프팅 경험 탐구: S에너지를 중심으로)

  • Song, Seong-Suk
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.11-21
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    • 2021
  • In order to explore the job crafting experience of millennial safety workers, this study conducted a qualitative case research with five safety workers of S Energy from March 26 to September 27, 2021 . As a result of the analysis, task crafting showed 'matching one's strong suit with a given task', 'expanding work knowledge using social network service (SNS)', and 'making changes in job performance methods for preemptive safety management activities'. Also, Cognitive crafting showed 'recognition of social vocation as a safety job', 'recognition of a role to grow as a safety management expert', and 'cognitive changes from means of organizational adaptation to enjoyment and energy of life'. At the same time, in relation crafting, 'establishment of amicable relationships through SNS in non-face-to-face and rapid communicating situations', 'safety management made through with mutual cooperations between business people', and 'reborn as a mutual safety net in business relationships' appeared. These can be used as basic data to accumulate the theoretical basis for job crafting research of millennial safety workers and to improve their job satisfaction. A follow-up study was proposed for safety workers with occupations of various kinds.