• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.47-54
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• 2016

A confined space means places where the risk of damage to health caused by lack of oxygen or hazardous gases in inadequate ventilation conditions and the risk of fire and explosion caused by flammable substances. Asphyxiation accidents in a confined space occured every year and also occurred more than two people at the same time. In this study, we surveyed the domestic statistical data occurred the lack of oxygen in confined space for the last 10 years(2006-2015) and, analyzed the accident by industries sector, workplace size etc. 17 fatal work accidents that occurred in confined spaces in Korea between 2013 and 2015 were investigated and analyzed using the database of the KOSHA and suggested interventions to minimize asphyxiation accidents in confined spaces. This paper is expected to be used to establish interventions planning and training as a preventive measures in workplace having confined spaces.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.772-779
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• 2008

Through this study, standard design guidelines for the high speed EMU have been derived to meet the crashworthiness requirements of the Korean rollingstock safety regulation. The crashworthiness regulation requires some performance requirements for two heavy collision accident scenarios; a train-to-train collision at the relative speed of 36 kph, and a collision against a standard deformable obstacle of 15 ton at 110 kph. The complete train set will be composed of 2TC-6M with 13 ton axle load, different from KTX with the power car of 17 ton axle load. Using theoretical and numerical analyses, some crashworthy design guidelines were derived in terms of mean crush forces and energy absorptions for main crushable structures and devices. The derived design guidelines were evaluated and improved using one dimensional spring-mass dynamic simulations. It is shown from the simulation results that the suggested design guidelines can easily satisfy the domestic crashworthiness requirements.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.795-800
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• 2009

Railway safety is one aspect of the transport service quality delivered to passengers, employees and third parties. To improve safety by a cultural shift from a deterministic to a risk based approach, European Railway Agency (ERA) introduces common and transparent methods to monitor safety performance and set targets and establishes safety management systems. The objective of this study is to review the common safety performance management method of the ERA(European Railway Agency) for it's application to the Korea railway. For this end, the risk assessment models were developed based on the accident scenarios and domestic railway accidents had been investigated and quantitative and qualitative analyses was performed using the developed information system.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.391-402
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• 2009

This paper introduces the development of safety assessment technology in Korea, focusing on the activities of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute in the areas of system thermal hydraulics, severe accidents and probabilistic safety assessment. In the 1970s and 1980s, safety analysis codes and methodologies were introduced from the United States, France, Canada and other developed countries along with technology related to the construction and operation of nuclear power plants. The main focus was on understanding and utilizing computer codes that were sourced from abroad up to the early 1990s, when efforts to develop domestic safety analysis codes and methodologies became active. Remarkable achievements have been made over the last 15 years in the development and application of safety analysis technologies. In addition, significant experimental work has been performed to verify the safety characteristics of reactors and fuels as well as to support the development and validation of analysis methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.838-843
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• 1998

Risk importance measures are widely wed to rank risk contributors in risk-based applications. Typically, Fussell-Vesely (F-V) importance and risk achievement worth (RAW) are used in the component importance raking for the reliability centered maintenance (RCM) analysis of safety system in nuclear power plants (NPPs). This study was performed as part of feasibility study on RCM for domestic NPPs, which is focused on the component importance ranking approach the maintenance recommendation. The approach of modulizing faulting tree basic events was applied in the simplification process of the PSA model and the validity of the approach was evaluated As a result of the case study, this paper included the importance and the maintenance recommendations for the safety-related equipments associated with safety injection and containment spray in large loss of coolant accident sequences.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.28 no.12
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• pp.6-12
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• 2014

The safety and reliability of the power system short-circuit current, the short-circuit current depends on the failure to obtain the objective is to quickly eliminate the breaking capacity of the circuit-breaker selection of the cable, the insulation of electrical equipment and protective relay an important factor in determining the level correction and protective relay selection scheme to be meaningful. Standards used in the domestic circuit breaker is applied to the production of IEC standard, but the American National Standards (ANSI / IEEE) by NEMA specification of the fault current calculations and the application of the asymmetric coefficient Korea. Therefore, in this paper, the IEC 60909 standard IEC breaker fault current calculation method and the method for selection of system configurations reviewed and protection system for reviewing the configuration of various protective relays appropriate correction and the correction value is main protection, back-up protection the equipment so that the period of protection relay coordination to minimize accidents and accident protection to minimize interruptions proposed for cooperation.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.62 no.3
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• pp.300-305
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• 2013

LOOP(Loss of Offsite Power) and SBO(Station Blackout) events have been occurring in nuclear power plants should be reviewed and be controlled on important electrical equipments by professional engineer to prevent and to safety improvement from safety assessment and reliability analysis report. LOOP and SBO occasionally happened by internal or external causes. This paper contained that LOOP frequency in the United States NPPs and in the domestic NPPs have compared and analyzed data by the past lessons and probabilistic statistics. Additionally will be installed MG(Mobile Generator) according to the lessons of Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, which CDF(Core Damage Frequency) and LOOP frequency have reconsidered. And this paper proposed to reduce reliability criteria using PSA(Probabilistic Safety Analysis).

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07c
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• pp.1159-1162
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• 1998

The induced voltage of underground pipelines caused by the stray current not only do harm to workers and instruments. but also cause big accident such as gas explosion. The AC stray current is mainly produced by the grounding system of the 22.9kV distribution power system and the DC stray current is mainly produced by the subway system. The mechanism of AC and DC induction, stray current failure examples of domestic and foreign countries and the countermeasure of the AC and DC induction are described.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2006.11b
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• pp.245-250
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• 2006

From the research which it sees the safety regarding a high-speed railway vehicle collision and a derailment evaluation research it an example and executed. Japan, France, Germany and Spain, Italy and with our country together it compared a high-speed railway vehicle collision of the high-speed railroad operating nation and derailed relation safety standard and safety against the evaluation system trade name comparison it analyzed. The research which it sees it led and the accident instance against the hazard analysis against the collision and a derailment of the high-speed railway vehicle and a risk evaluation together and a high-speed vehicle collision and derailed it cannot prevention plan from hereafter domestic comparison it analyzed forecast it presented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.575-580
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• 2004

The latest equipment automatic Intelligence of digital base done large size equipment appear in succession. That run by voltage electric current(mA, mV, ${\mu}A,\;{\mu}V$) that outline is microscopic of action of accuracy large size equipment of this digital base is bulk. Have received influence that is great in river electric field by installment that use computer. Most of domestic working voltage from service entrance extra-high voltage and working voltage of commercial frequency 60Hz working voltage 220V that use our country outside 1 country in interior of 22.900V for semiconductor use computer use digital installment of appliance as well as various smalls of digital base, middle, large size that safety is these fine voltage electric current that is not enough direct admonition hundred vast damage give can. Also, already act in surge circle and impulse transient phenomena such as several thousands, myriads, strong bit error more than billions time to digital fine electronic circuit by mistake use of using electric facility system of system electric power.