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A study on the survey and improvement of work platforms at construction sites (건설현장 작업발판의 실태조사 및 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Seong-Chun
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.53-62
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    • 2014
  • According to the statistics of occupational injuries in 2013, the work platforms were main objects causing fall injuries in construction sites. But many scaffold and platform workers use and install the work platforms and the fixed and mobile scaffolding without considering about safety and health standards. We had done a nationwide survey about how the platform workers obey safety and health standards. As the result of this survey, in order to ensure the safety of the work platforms, we founded that the platform workers must obey the safety and health standards when using and installing the work platforms. To improve the safety and health conscious of the workers, it needs to educate a worker on safety and health standards for work platforms. Also, to effectively prevent constructin injuries for the work platforms, it is rextricted for workers to use only safety certified work platforms. And, before installing and using work platforms, it needs to make a work plan for work platforms and obey it.

Survey on Work Platform on Double Scaffold by Safety Standards (쌍줄비계 작업발판 안전기준에 따른 사용 실태조사)

  • Choi, Don-Hoeng;Choi, Jin-Woo;Go, Seong-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.47-51
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    • 2011
  • Work platform is temporary material that many workers use in construction field, but many workers construct and use the work platform without considering safety standards, workers who have not the knowledge of safety standards construct the work platform in weakness and use the work platform in unstable, According to the statistics in 2009, 1230 people were injured at the work platform. Among them, victims by falling account for about 77% and mostly lead to fatal injuries. we have studied and survey about the safety or danger of the work platform(set limits to duble scaffold) in construction field and about how many workers observe safety standards of the work platform. According to the result of this survey, 24%~100%(average : 68%) of the work platform in survey is not observe the safety standards.

Research on the safety working instructions in the retaining wall construction (concrete retaining wall) (옹벽(콘크리트 옹벽)의 안전작업 지침 개요)

  • Oh, Ki-Taek;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.25-33
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    • 2016
  • This guidance purpose is setting Safety Health work instruction for prevent accident such as falling from heights work, collapse and trapped under the heavy equipment and Sediment collapse during retaining wall work by unsder the Industry Safety and Health rules.

"Job Crafting Makes Safety": The Effect of Work Overload on ("잡 크래프팅이 안전을 만든다." : 직무 과부하가 안전 행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Byung-Jik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.81-89
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    • 2022
  • Since the competitive environment, work overload among employees has been increasing. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of work overload on safety behavior and its intermediating mechanisms. In specific, this paper delves into the mediating effect of job stress, as well as the moderating effect of job crafting in the association between work overload and job stress. To empirically test the hypotheses, this study utilized survey data from 168 Korean employees by conducting structural equation modeling(SEM) analysis. The results demonstrated that work overload has a positive (+) influence on job stress, which has a negative (-) influence on safety behavior. Moreover, job stress mediated the association between work overload and safety behavior. Furthermore, job crafting moderated the work overload-safety behavior link.

Safety Management Information System in Construction Work;Focus on Tunnel Work (건설공사의 안전관리정보시스템 개발;터널공사 중심으로)

  • Park, Jong-Keun;paik, Shin-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.72-78
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    • 2008
  • In any form of construction work, it is essential that accidents be prevented at every stage from foundation preparation to build completion. For this, it is necessary to use models that can assess risk and provide instruction for safe work processes so that the risk of accidents is reduced. Currently, however, very few models can perform these tasks. In this paper, we presents a model that assesses risk quantitatively by analyzing risk factors involved in stage of construction such as foundation work, erection work, structural work, equipment work, finishing work and etc work. The model performs assessment based on examples of accidents and by investing actual conditions during construction. In addition, we presents in this paper a safety management system was developed to assess risk during construction and to effectively train laborers.

- Building The Safety Management System of The Dryness Equipment - (건조설비 작업개선을 위한 안전관리 시스템 구축)

  • Kim Byung Suk
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.15-26
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    • 2004
  • There is much dangerous machine in worksite. These make the rate of accidents increase. Specially, among them, dryness equipment work has the highest rate of accidents. Therefore, it has been managed by safety-health law. It is very important to make a special study of work using the dangerous machine. In press work, it is also important to develop safety system program to improve productivity and work safely In this reaserch. the safety mangement system is built for the work improvement of the Press. I will try new development method about dangerous machine.

- Building The Safety Management System of The Press Machine - (프레스 작업의 위험분석 몇 작업안전관리 체계연구)

  • Kim Byung Suk
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.27-40
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    • 2004
  • There are much dangerous machine in worksite. These make the rate of accidents increase. Specially, among them, the Press work has the highest rate of accidents. Therefore, it has been managed by Industrial safety-health law. It is very important to make a special study of work using the dangerous machine. In press work, it is also important to develop safety system program to improve productivity and work safely, In this reaserch, the safety management system is built for the work improvement of the Press. This paper showed method about dangerous machine.

A Development on the Safety Management Information System in Building Work (빌딩공사의 안전관리정보시스템 개발)

  • Park, Jong-Keun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.20 no.4 s.72
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    • pp.71-77
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    • 2005
  • There are insufficient models that find problems and solutions for accident prevention through risk assessment and suggest safe work process and work instruction from foundation works to finish work for accident decrease. This paper presents a quantitative risk assessment model by analysis of risk factors in each process such as foundation, erection, structure, equipment finish and etc based on accident examples and investigation on actual condition in building. In addition, the safety management system was developed to perform risk assessment of construction and use it for effective safety training for labor.

The Role of Labour Inspectorates in Tackling the Psychosocial Risks at Work in Europe: Problems and Perspectives

  • Toukas, Dimitrios;Delichas, Miltiadis;Toufekoula, Chryssoula;Spyrouli, Anastasia
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.263-267
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    • 2015
  • Significant changes in the past year have taken place in the world of work that are bringing new challenges with regard to employee safety and health. These changes have led to emerging psychosocial risks (PSRs) at work. The risks are primarily linked to how work is designed, organized, and managed, and to the economic and social frame of work. These factors have increased the level of work-related stress and can lead to serious deterioration in mental and physical health. In tackling PSRs, the European labor inspectorates can have an important role by enforcing preventive and/or corrective interventions in the content and context of work. However, to improve working conditions, unilateral interventions in the context and content of work are insufficient and require adopting a common strategy to tackle PSRs, based on a holistic approach. The implementation of a common strategy by the European Labor Inspectorate for tackling PSRs is restricted by the lack of a common legislative frame with regard to PSR evaluation and management, the different levels of labor inspectors' training, and the different levels of employees' and employers' health and safety culture.

Work Pressure and Safety Behaviors among Health Workers in Ghana: The Moderating Role of Management Commitment to Safety

  • Amponsah-Tawaih, Kwesi;Adu, Michael Appiah
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.340-346
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    • 2016
  • Background: safety and healthy working environment has received numerous research attention over the years. Majority of these researches seem to have been conducted in the construction industry, with little attention in the health sector. Nonetheless, there are couple of studies conducted in Africa that suggest pressure in hospitals. Therefore the aim of the study was to examine how pressure influence safety behavior in the hospitals. With reference to the relevance of safety behavior in primary health care delivery, there was the need for the study. Method: Data was obtained from 422 public hospital employees. Respondents were assured that all information would be kept confidential to increase the response rate and acquire more accurate information. Collection of questionnaires from participants took four weeks (20 working days), after which the data was analyzed. Results: The result of the study showed that work pressure correlated negatively with safety behavior. General safety climate significantly correlated positively with safety behavior and negatively with work pressure, although the effect size for the latter was smaller. Hierarchical regression analysis showed management commitment to safety to moderate the relationship between work pressure and safety behavior. Conclusion: When employees perceive safety communication, safety systems and training to be positive, they seem to comply with safety rules and procedures than voluntarily participate in safety activities.