• 한국안전학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.65-74
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• 2019

The safety and health signs as an important communication tool can help employees recognize the harm and risk information and take proper actions easily and fast. This study investigated the management of safety and health signs in 75 workplaces and also conducted a survey for the level of subjective comprehension of safety and health signs with 150 employees in Korea. In total, 69 safety and health signs containing alternative signs by KS S ISO 7010 were used for the survey for the ease of comprehension. At the results, the frequency of education on the signs was relatively high, but it was difficult to systematically manage those in the small-sized workplaces. In addition, the results of the ease of comprehension survey showed that proportion of alternative signs was high in the upper rank, and also several alternative signs showed significantly high mean compared with safety and health signs. And the means of alternative signs tended to have higher at the categories of prohibition, instruction, and guidance. Although there are some methodological limitations, it is important that the recent management and the level of comprehension for safety and health signs were empirically identified.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.473-481
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• 2006

가독성은 글자의 읽기 쉬움의 정도를 나타내는 척도로서 해설판의 정보전달의 효과성을 결정하는 중요한 요소로 알려져 왔다. 그러나 해설판의 가독성이 탐방객의 관심유발과 해설판 읽기 행동에 어떻게 영향을 미치는지에 대한 연구는 드물다. 본 연구는 가독성과 해설판의 관심유도, 선호도. 해설판 읽기 권유의도와의 관계를 구명하기 위하여 실시되었다. 데이터 수집은2003년 8-11월중에 내장산 국립공원 내 자연관찰로 탐방객 중에서 선정된 총 375명을 대상으로 관찰로 주변에 설치된 해설판에 대한 설문조사를 통하여 이루어졌다. 이중 이용 가능한 350명의 응답이 본 연구의 분석을 위하여 이용되었다. 분석결과, 가독성은 관심유도, 선호도, 해설판 읽기 권유의도와 관련이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 가독성 이 높으면 높을수록 관심유도, 선호도, 해설판 읽기 권유의도도 높게 나타났다. 가독성과 더불어 관심유도와 선호도도 해설판 읽기권유의도와 관련이 있는 것으로 분석되었으며, 세 변수중 선호도는 해설판 읽기 권유의도에 대하여 가장 높은 설명력을 보였다. 본 연구의 결과는 해설판의 가독성을 증진시킴으로써 해설판 읽기 행동의 증대가능성을 시사하고 있다.

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.123-140
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• 2019

This study analyzed problems of interpretive signs along Eorimok-Yeongsil Trail on Mt. Hallasan National Park, focusing on factors of distracting visitor's attention from reading and understanding the signs. Eorimok-Yeongsil Trail has a total of 86 signs, and according to their purpose and content, they are classified into thirteen general signs, sixteen location signs, nine safety signs and forty-eight interpretive signs. Interpretive signs provide visitors with information and explanations about the nature and human resources of Mt. Hallasan as well as enhancing the opportunity for self-guided interpretation. The contents of interpretive signs of Eorimok-Yeongsil Trail are composed of landscapes, flora and fauna, topography, geology, history and culture, of which 70.8% of the total are related to plants and animals. Interpretive signs on the Eorimok-Yeongsil Trail do not attract visitors' attention because of the low readability, inappropriate locations and frequent errors in translation from Korean into other languages. The causes of low readability of interpretive signs include thirty-six physically damaged and faded signs, twenty-two improper font sizes and misuse of color schemes and five unclear description signs. The reasons for the incorrect locations include twenty-two long distances from the trails, twenty-one inadequate heights and fifteen inconsistencies in descriptions and locations. Problems with English use include eight grammar and spelling errors, twenty-one incorrect translations, and twenty-six English names missing.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.604-609
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• 2019

최근 도로시설물의 신설, 도로명 안내표지와 같은 새로운 표지의 설치, 중요시설물의 증가로 도로표지에 대한 각종 민원들이 발생하고 있다. 도로표지관련규정과 부합하지 않는 표지들 또한 상당수 포함되어 있어 도로표지가 기본적으로 지향하는 안내지명 연계성, 위치 적합성, 일관된 도로표지 안내체계가 이루어지지 않고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이와 같은 문제점들을 개선하기 위해 일반국도 8개 노선상의 방향표지, 이정표지, 경계표지, 노선표지 등 주요 표지를 대상으로 각종 오류사항들에 대하여 조사하였다. 또한, 오류표지들에 대한 정비 우선순위를 매기기 위해 등급별로 분류하였으며, 노선별 오류표지의 현황과 등급별 오류표지의 현황을 종합적으로 분석하였다. 분석된 자료를 기반으로 하여 도로표지가 안고 있는 전반적인 문제점을 도출하여 이에 대한 개선방안을 도출하였다. 향후 본 연구를 기반으로 하여 정부와 지방자치단체의 협력을 통해 도로표지를 보다 체계적으로 설치 및 관리가 이루어지면, 도로표지 담당자들의 업무효율성 증대는 물론 도로이용자에게 안전하고 편리한 도로표지 안내체계가 확립될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.111-118
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• 2008

In usual safety signs are final means to transmit hazard information so that the importance of them cannot be emphasized too much. Nevertheless, in Korea, few people are interested in functions of safety signs so that evaluation of safety signs are seldom committed. This research was conducted to evaluate and compare perceptional characteristics of safety signs, especially "Fall" signs, by Semantic Differential Method and Multi-dimensional Scaling Method, with undergraduate students as well as industrial workers. According to research results on several signs evaluated high through suggested procedure, action inducibility was different for students majoring in different sciences, but it had common elements in the sense of 'openness' or 'arrangements'. Besides, perceptional images on safety signs were mainly recognized with bases of 'arrangement' for student group and 'simplicity' for industrial workers, respectively, and their maps corresponded well with each other by partial rotating so that students and workers seemed to recognize safety signs with similar factors though their name might be different. However, since perceptional characteristics including image map, comprehensibility, and action inducibility were similar for student group whereas those were not for worker group, it was concluded that the test for action inducibility would be absolutely necessary for safety signs for workers' group.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.96-101
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• 2007

Usually pictograms embedded in safety signs are such final means to transmit hazard information that the importance of them cannot be emphasized too much. Nevertheless, in Korea, few people are interested in safety signs and their functions so that evaluation of safety signs are seldom committed nor safety signs draw workers' attention to fulfill their functions. Therefore this research aimed to standardize the procedure for developing safety signs in order not only to give practical help to industrial workers but to match them international standards, and to develop a few examples through the suggested standard procedure. As results, a procedure for developing industrial safety signs was developed by combining both ANSI Z535.3 and ISO 9186 with a special emphasis on action inducibility as the former emphasized as well as comprehensibility as the latter suggested. According to test results with undergraduate students as well as industrial workers on a few signs developed through the suggested procedure, action inducibility was higher whereas confusion rate was lower than expected on one hand, and it could be concluded that the procedure would supply results that can be satisfied on the other hand.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.119-126
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• 2006

Though safety signs are important since they transmit hazard information even after diverse accident prevention treatments, their functional effectiveness were never tested in Korea so that even those provided by Occupational Safety & Health Act(OSHAct) could not accomplish their objectives, "effective accident prevention", This research was carried out to understand confronted problems and improvement direction for safety signs provided by OSHAct. For them, current safety signs were analyzed with a semiotic view on one hand, and a questionnaire survey was conducted with safety-related people in industrial fields on the other hand. To summarize problems in semiotic aspects, geometric simplicity of pictograms in safety signs seemed to be so emphasized that they might fail to induce realistic action, and their esthetic sensation seemed to be lower than those of developed countries. And according to present questionnaire survey, it was pointed out that; 1) legal systems related with safety signs were not classified appropriately, 2) safety signs were recognized as difficult to understand and inapplicable to industrial fields, and eventually 3) safety signs were not effectively utilized for industrial accident prevention. Therefore, discussions for improving confronted problems and relation to international standards were added at the end.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.131-141
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• 2016

PURPOSES : While road networks are becoming increasingly complex, traffic signs are being indiscriminately installed and operated, which makes drivers who depend on traffic signs to reach their destination confused and unable to understand road information efficiently. In order to promptly and exactly guide road users to their destinations, traffic signs should be able to satisfy the functions of connectivity, visibility, and location suitability. However, the results of a site survey shows that most of the traffic signs currently installed in the Jeollanam-do Province do not satisfy these functions. METHODS : This study analyzed the problems of traffic signs after an actual site survey and focused on a total on 9,353 traffic signs and 70 road routes in Jeollanam-do Province. RESULTS : This study analyzed the problems of traffic signs based on their required functions (connectivity, visibility, suitability) and suggested improvements by establishing a guide system that considered the problems found in the study. CONCLUSIONS : The guide system can be utilized as a basic material that provides efficient road information for future installation and maintenance of traffic signs in Jeollanam-do Province.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제26권2D호
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• pp.275-283
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• 2006

최근 도시지역의 확산과 교통망의 발달로 도로안내표지의 효율적 정보제공이 요구되고 있으며, 안내체계의 효율성을 증대시킬 수 있는 안내지명의 선정원칙과 안내체계가 필요한 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 수원시의 도로표지 안내정보의 실태를 파악하여 적절한 정보들을 제공되고 있는지 또한 제공된 정보들은 체계적인 연속성을 가지고 있는지 파악하고자 하였다. 즉, 도로이용자가 찾고자하는 한 지점을 중심으로 도로표지판의 안내정보의 적절성과 연계성 및 출현빈도에 관한 조사를 실시하였다. 수원시청을 최종목적지로 하여 주변도시 접경부 의왕시, 안산시, 화성시, 오산시, 용인시 등지 에서 수원시청까지 5개의 간선도로에 설치된 도로표지판 중 방향예고표지와 방향표지, 시설안내표지등을 분석하였다. 결과, 도로표지규정의 안내 지명선정 원칙에 의한 랜드마크나 1등급으로 분류되는 지명들은 상대적으로 찾기가 다소 용이하나, 그 외의 이용자가 원하는 지명을 알아내는데 상당히 어려움이 있는 것으로 파악되었다. 이는 안내지명만으로 현 위치를 파악하기가 어렵고 제시된 안내지명이 직진방향에서 만날 수 있는 지명뿐 아니라 좌회전 혹은 우회전을 해야만 만날 수 있는 지명일 경우 방향을 알 수가 없어 비효율적인 정보가 제공되고 있는 것으로 파악되었다. 게다가 선정된 안내지명마저도 출현빈도의 적정성에 문제가 있고, 표지간의 연계가 이루어지고 있지 않아 도로이용자에게 많은 불편함을 주고 있는 것으로 나타났는데, 이러한 이용 상의 불편을 방지하기 위해서 도로표지의 체계적인 개선이 필요하다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.63-73
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• 2015

Objective: The goal of this study is to evaluate the comprehensibility of the newly introduced water-sport prohibitive signs by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE, later merged into the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy) among Koreans and westerners, and to check whether the comprehensibility is affected by cultural differences. Background: The Ministry of Knowledge Economy had newly introduced fourteen water-sport prohibitive signs at the end of 2011 to alert people to potentially dangerous situations. However, no studies had been found so far to review or assess their comprehensibility. Method: Comprehensibility tests of fourteen water-sport prohibitive signs were conducted with forty Koreans and forty Westerners in two sequential sessions. In session I, participants were asked to guess the meaning of each sign verbally in an open-ended test. In session II, participants were encouraged to provide feedback for each sign after its intended meaning was given. Results: Only two out of fourteen signs satisfied the comprehension rate (67%) recommended by ISO standard for both groups (Koreans and Westerners). Cultural difference between Koreans and westerners significantly affect the comprehension rates of the investigated signs, and Westerners exhibit better overall comprehension than Koreans. Five poorly comprehended signs for both Korean and Western groups were identified. Conclusion: The recently introduced water-sport prohibitive warning signs by MKE still need a lot of improvements in order to be implemented nationally or internationally. There were significant differences in the signs' comprehensibility between Koreans and westerners. Application: The findings may serve as a useful input for researchers and watersport sign designers in creating easy-to-comprehend safety signs.