• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.516-524
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• 2022

The construction industry is considered the most hazardous industry globally. Therefore, safety education is crucial for raising the safety awareness of construction workers working at construction sites and creating a safe working environment. However, the current safety education method and tools cannot provide trainees with realistic and practical experiences that might help better safety awareness in practice. A metaverse, a real-time network of 3D virtual worlds focused on social connection, was created for more interactive communication, collaboration, and coordination between users. Several previous studies have noted that the metaverse has excellent potential for improved safety education performance, but its required functions and practical applications have not been thoroughly researched. In order to fill the research gap, this paper reviewed the potential benefits of a metaverse based on the current research and suggested its application for safety education purposes. This paper scrutinized the metaverse's key functions, particularly its information and knowledge sharing function and reality capture function. Then, the authors created a metaverse prototype based on the two key functions described above. The main contribution of this paper is reviewing the potential benefits of a metaverse for safety education. A realistic and feasible metaverse platform should be developed in future studies, and its impact on safety education should be quantitatively verified.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.150-164
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• 2000

This study was conducted at occupational health laboratories in Seoul and Gyunggi district area from December, 1999 to January, 2000. The main purpose of this study was to survey the actual condition of safety and health by questionnaire and checklist and to assess the performance of fume hoods and the airborne exposures to chemicals in the laboratories. The chemicals in the cabinet were not classified by hazardous properties and the compressed gases were not stored safely. The prevalences of laboratories having first aid kits, fire extinguishers, and safety showers were found to be 18%, 55%, and 9%, respectively. Most laboratory workers were not educated for safety and health. Also, there was no performance evaluation for hazards and risks. The fume hoods in laboratories had not been annually inspected by checklist and the face velocity had been checked more than one time in the previous year for only 18% of them. Five percent of fume hoods had the face velocity more than 4.0 m/sec and 17% had no capture performance. Detected organic solvents were methylenechloride, acetone, ethylbenzene, isopropanol, xylene, methylisobutylketone, trichloroethylene, and toluene. The concentrations of organic solvents were much less than the occupational exposure limits proposed by the Ministry of Labor in Korea. This study showed that the actual condition of safety and health was not appropriate for laboratory workers. It is recommended that laboratory workers should be educated for the treatment and storage of hazardous chemicals and compressed gases to improve the working environment of the occupational safety and health laboratories.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.37-47
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• 2004

The processes of manufacturing FRP sewage disposal tanks are very dangerous and hazardous jobs for workers because of large size and heavy weight of the tank, toxic fiberglass dust, nasty smell, and dangerous tools such as hand-grinders. This paper introduces an automatic manufacturing system of the FRP sewage disposal tank to enhance the safety of workers. The system consists of 3 components: the FRP body rotation jig, the automatic manhole cutting machine, the automatic sanding processing machine. The safety of workers and working environment are greatly improved, because the dangerous jobs are automatized and the toxic fiberglass dust is automatically collected. Also, the productivity is greatly improved and the cost is reduced.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.426-432
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• 2009

Asbestos is a commercial term of natural occurring silicated minerals and forms long, thin fibers. Chrysotile, the serpentine asbestos, accounts for most use in commercial use. Asbestos is well known health hazard material and it is proved that inhalation of asbestos fibers leads to increased risk of developing several diseases such as lung cancer, mesothelioma, asbestosis. In these days, people most at risk for exposure are maintenance and construction workers and general citizens who are working on and close to the work area at which asbestos containing material is disturbing. Non asbestiform, though its chemical composition is same with regulated asbestos, is known to be less hazardous than asbestiform. Exposure guideline, 0.01 f/ml, is not safe level in terms of health risk. It is reasonable to take preventable action when asbestos is suspicious. In Korea, it is necessary to clarify the concept between hazard and risk, to differentiate asbestiform from non asbestiform, to make regulations for compensation for asbestos related patients, to manage future exposure for general citizens.

• 유공압시스템학회논문집
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2007

During the last few decades, excavation automation has been investigated to protect the operator from the hazardous working environment and to relieve the cost of the skilled operator. Therefore, a number of modelling and controller design methods of the hydraulic excavator are proposed in many literatures to realize the excavation automation. In this article, a geometric approach far the multi-body system modeling is adopted to develop the excavator mechanism model that contains 4 kinematic loops and 12 links. Considering a simple soil mechanism model with a number of uncertain soil parameters, an adaptive trajectory tracking control strategy based on the developed excavator model is proposed. The improved performance of the designed controller over the simple PID controller is validated via the simulation study.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.127-136
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• 2024

뿌리산업의 유해한 작업 환경과 높은 작업 강도는 작업자의 건강에 영향을 미칠 수 있기 때문에 기존에는 유해한 물질로부터 현장 작업자를 보호하기 위해 반년 단위로 작성한 환경을 측정하여 규제하고 있다. 그러나 작업환경 외에 작업자 건강 상태 등에 대해서는 정량화된 관련 기준이 부재하여 상시로 피해를 주는 임계치 이하 유해 물질의 지속적인 노출에 따른 직업병을 예방하는데 어려움이 상존하고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 기계학습을 이용한 뿌리산업 작업 환경의 위험도 피크레벨 결정방법을 제안하고 이를 토대로 작업장의 실시간 안전 평가를 가능하게 하였다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2014

본 연구는 고무 화학제품의 제조에 연화제로 많이 사용되며 국제암연구소(IARC)에 발암추정물질(2A)로 등록되어 있는 Biphenyl에 대해 국내 취급사업장에 대한 작업환경 측정과 근로자 노출량 산출, 그리고 유해성에 따른 위험성을 결정하였다. 노출시나리오를 바탕으로 노출량 산출 결과는 각각 $1.0{\times}10^{-2}$, $4.2{\times}10^{-4}$, $7.0{\times}10^{-6}mg/m^3$이었으며, 위해성 분류에 따라 산출한 $RfC_{work}$는 발암성 0.21, 표적독성(경구) 2.13, 표적독성(흡입) 0.53, 발달독성 $0.31mg/m^3$으로 산출되었다. 유해성 및 노출평가의 결과를 바탕으로 한 위험성은 발암성 0.57, 비발암성(발달독성) 0.39로 도출되어, 1이하의 비교적 낮은 위험도로 나타났으나, Biphenyl은 일부 유해성이 확인되었으며 사용량이 많고 취급 부주의시 근로자에 직접 노출될 수 있어 취급근로자의 건강장해 예방을 위해 노출 감시가 필요한 물질로 판단되었다.

• 해양환경안전학회:학술대회논문집
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• 해양환경안전학회 2008년도 춘계학술발표회
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• pp.11-17
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• 2008

우리나라는 국적외항상선의 수가 2006년 1월 기준으로 546척, 13,716,733 G/T에 이르는 세계 제 8위의 해운강국이다. 선박은 건조시로부터 25년에서 30년 정도 운항하면 그 수명을 다해 다른 용도로 변경되어야한다. 수명이 다 된 노후 선박의 처리방법으로 재활용이 가장 나은 방범으로 대두되고 있으나 여러 가지 환경적 규제와 노동 규제에 의해 현재 선진국에서는 거의 이루어지지가 않고 비교적 법규제가 느슨한 개발도상국으로 옮겨지고 있으나 국제적으로는 선박도 하나의 폐기물로 보고 국가간 이동을 금지하는 추세이다. 본 연구에서는 선박해체산업현장의 열악한 작업환경과 환경피해의 심각성 해결을 위한 국제적인 동향을 알아보고자 하였나. IMO, UNEP, ILO 에서는 선박의 해체 작업에 참여하는 작업자들의 건강과 안전을 보호 하고 환경오염을 방지하기 위하여 선박내의 유해물질을 목록화하여 유해물질을 관리하도록 하는 방안을 마련하고 있으며, 선박의 재활용과 관련한 바젤협약, IMO Guideline, ILO Guideline, IMO Convention Draft를 통해 세계적인 추세를 알아보았다.