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Determination of Bioconcentration Factor of Heavy Metal (loid)s in Rice Grown on Soils Vulnerable to Heavy Metal (loid)s Contamination

  • Lee, Seul;Kang, Dae-Won;Yoo, Ji-Hyock;Park, Sang-Won;Oh, Kyeong-Seok;Lee, Jin-Ho;Cho, Il Kyu;Moon, Byeong-Churl;Kim, Won-Il
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.50 no.2
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    • pp.106-114
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    • 2017
  • There is an increasing concern over heavy metal(loid) contamination of soil in agricultural areas including paddy soils. This study was conducted to determine the bioconcentration factor (BCF) for heavy metal(loid)s to brown rice grown in paddy soils vulnerable to heavy metal(loid)s contamination, for the quantitative health risk assessment to the residents living nearby the metal contaminated regions. The samples were collected from 98 sites nationwide in the year 2015. The mean and range BCF values of As, Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn in brown rice were 0.027 (0.001 ~ 0.224), 0.143 (0.001 ~ 2.434), 0.165 (0.039 ~ 0.819), 0.028 (0.005 ~ 0.187), 0.006 (0.001 ~ 0.048), and 0.355 (0.113 ~ 1.263), respectively, with Zn showing the highest. Even though the relationship between heavy metal(loid) contents in the vulnerable soils and metal contents in brown rice collected at the same fields was not significantly correlated, the relationship between log contents of heavy metal(loid)s in the vulnerable soils and BCF of brown rice wes significantly correlated with As, Cd, Cu, and Zn in rice. In conclusion, soil environmental risk assessment for crop uptake should consider the bioconcentration factor calculated using both the initial and vulnerable heavy metal(loid) contents in the required soil and the crop cultivated in the same fields.

A Study on the Analysis of Fire Risk for each Building Usage Based on the Reliability of Operation of Fire Protection System (소방설비 작동신뢰성 기반 건축용도별 화재리스크 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Jin, Seung-hyeon;Kim, Hye-Won;Seo, Dong-Goo;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2020.06a
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    • pp.113-114
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    • 2020
  • In the design and maintenance of buildings, identifying the degree of damage in the event of a fire is an important factor in fire prevention and fire safety design. In order to predict fire damage, safety measures should be established by predicting the nature of evacuation according to fire, smoke and in-house characteristics, and the effects of the operation of fire safety facilities should also be considered, but in Korea, the risk analysis due to the operation of fire safety facilities is insufficient. Accordingly, this study uses fire statistics and sprinkler inspection data to analyze the degree of fire damage caused by the operation of sprinkler facilities in a probabilistic manner.

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The Concepts and the Applications of Load and Resistance Factor Design and Partial Safety Factor Based on the Reliability Engineering (신뢰성공학에 근거한 하중-강도계수 설계법과 부분안전계수의 개념 및 적용)

  • Yoo, Yeon-Sik;Kim, Tae-Wan;Kim, Jong-In
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.309-314
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    • 2007
  • Recently, the LRFD and the PSF based on structural reliability assessment have been applied to NPP designs in behalf of the conventional deterministic design methods. In the risk-informed structural integrity, it is especially possible to optimize design procedures considering cost, manufacturing and maintenance because the structural reliability concepts have confirmed the reliability for which a designer aims. Generally, in order to evaluate the PSF, the LRFD which is the design concept for evaluating safety factors respectively on the limit state function including load and resistance. This study certifies the concept and its applications of the PSF using the LRFD based on the structural reliability engineering.

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A Structural Design of Aviation Safety Inspection Checklist for Safety Information Analysis and Safety Risk Assessment (안전정보분석 및 안전위험평가를 위한 항공안전감독 점검표 구조 설계)

  • Choi, Dongwook;Choi, Soonji;Choi, Young J.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.59-67
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    • 2016
  • The checklist currently used for Aviation safety inspection performed by ASIs consists of inspection groups and multiple items, it does not have structured hierarchy system which required to efficiently process aviation safety analysis. On this study, through mapping taxonomy of HFACS onto current checklist to secure structured hierarchy system and present a specification on systematic frequency and severity to perform safety risk assessment of detected hazard.

A Study on Priority Factor Analysis of Standard Method for Risk Measurement (위험성 측정을 위한 표준안전작업 중점사항 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Yang, Kwang-Mo;Kim, Min-Jun;Cho, Jung-Hyun;Park, Jae-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2007
  • There are many reason for unsafety action without safety operation. The reason is no standard safety operation in company or the workers never get a enough education. Standard safety operation is prepared by paper for accurate directions and orders and operators must read the paper to prevent an error of action. Also an essential particular is safety of equipment and machine must be assumed to establish standard safety operation then safety of operations will be possible.

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Analysis of the Risk Factors and Design of the Safety Management Application for the Panel Line in a Shipyard (조선소 판넬라인의 위험요인 분석 및 안전관리 Application 개발)

  • Oh, Hyunsoo;Chang, Seong Rok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.160-165
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    • 2012
  • The process of panel line in the shipyard produce the panel of outside planking which is located the side and bottom of a ship. The stiffeners or plates are welded onto the plates in this process. In this study, the panel line was performed to work process analysis and was analyzed into the IDEF0(Integration Definition) model that is functional modeling methodology. Also the panel line was analyzed to find out the risk factor and expected accident/safety guide from each process. And then this outputs were applied to the IDEF0 model. The mobile application which is designed by ooCBD(Object-oriented Component Based Development) method is able to use the output data of the process analysis in the panel line. This mobile application could be used by employees and safety managers without regard for working location and time.

A Study on the Application of Safety Design based on the Risk of Construction Process (건설공정 위험성 기반 설계안전성 활용 방안 연구)

  • Lee, Hyeon-Sung
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.493-501
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to prevent construction safety accidents, and the design safety systems were reviewed. This paper aims to establish as an effective system by looking at the implementation procedures and contents of the design safety review system. Method: We reviewed the purpose and content of the law, accident statistics, etc. for the study. In addition, we looked at the implementation plans for actual construction sites using the 'design safety' assessment process as defined by the Act. Results: We divided it into the data review phase, the risk factor elicitation and alternative setup phase, and the design safety assessment report preparation stage. Conclusion: it is necessary to derive risk factors that take into account the diversity of construction sites. However, the effectiveness of other reports is questioned as they are often copied and written. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen external verification procedures attended by construction safety experts.

Development of safety system for Road Tunnel - The study of Quantitative risk assessment for middle scale road tunnel with natural ventilation system - (도로터널 방재시스템 개발 - 자연환기를 수행하는 중규모 도로터널의 정량적 위험도평가관한 연구 -)

  • Yoo, Ji-Oh;Shin, Hyun-Jun;Kim, Jong-Won
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.67-70
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    • 2008
  • As a part of the project on road tunnel fire safety system development, Quantitative Risk Assessment program was developed. In this study, We carried out Quantitative Risk Assessment with this program by using a factor of cross passage interval, warning announcement time and congestion ratio etc for 1km tunnel with natural ventilation. In the case of 250m below of cross passage interval, Risk value due to warning announcement time was a slightly changed. but if cross passage interval is more than 250m, expected fatalities in the same HRR(heat release rate) was sharp increased. As a result, Quantitative Risk Assessment program which was developed in this research project is possible to risk assessment with ventilation type, cross passage for evacuation and detection system response property etc. hereafter, this program look forward to use as a tool for road tunnel performance based design.

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Development of Standard Risk Indicators for the Prevention of Serious Accidents in Mobile Crane Operations (Focused on Construction Industry) (이동식크레인 작업의 중대재해예방을 위한 표준 리스크 평가 지수 개발 (건설업을 중심으로))

  • Jonggook Choi;Jongwoo Lee
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.719-728
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: Mobile cranes are machines that contribute to high mortality, and the High Risk Factor (SIF) information, which analyzed 2,574 accidental deaths in the construction industry in the past 6 years (2016~2021), resulted in a total of 61 mobile crane accidents. Despite safety measures in the field, it is not used properly. In this study, we present standard risk assessment indicators that contribute to accident prevention. Method: Through expert interviews, fatal accident case analysis, field analysis, and literature research, we present the standard risk assessment index method of the 4M risk assessment method. Result: As a result of analyzing the risk assessment of eight sites, it was concluded that it cannot make a significant contribution to disaster prevention and should be applied as an improvement measure of the Standard Risk Assessment Index Law. Conclusion: Switching to the standard risk assessment index method at construction sites has been proposed to make it easier for health and safety personnel and workers to use, contributing to the reduction of accidents.

Method for Assessing Landslide Susceptibility Using SMOTE and Classification Algorithms (SMOTE와 분류 기법을 활용한 산사태 위험 지역 결정 방법)

  • Yoon, Hyung-Koo
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.39 no.6
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    • pp.5-12
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    • 2023
  • Proactive assessment of landslide susceptibility is necessary for minimizing casualties. This study proposes a methodology for classifying the landslide safety factor using a classification algorithm based on machine learning techniques. The high-risk area model is adopted to perform the classification and eight geotechnical parameters are adopted as inputs. Four classification algorithms-namely decision tree, k-nearest neighbor, logistic regression, and random forest-are employed for comparing classification accuracy for the safety factors ranging between 1.2 and 2.0. Notably, a high accuracy is demonstrated in the safety factor range of 1.2~1.7, but a relatively low accuracy is obtained in the range of 1.8~2.0. To overcome this issue, the synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE) is adopted to generate additional data. The application of SMOTE improves the average accuracy by ~250% in the safety factor range of 1.8~2.0. The results demonstrate that SMOTE algorithm improves the accuracy of classification algorithms when applied to geotechnical data.