• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.99-108
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• 2020

Objectives: This study aimed to compare the regulatory systems for laboratory safety and health management between Korea and Germany and discuss the implications. Methods: Laboratory safety and health regulations for legal enforcement and relevant technical guidelines in Korea and Germany were reviewed. Results: Lab safety and health management is enforced by the Act on the Establishment of Safe Laboratory Environment in Korea. Most provisions focus on supervisory control, that is, the principal's liability is emphasized. In addition, there is a lack of laboratory-specific procedures for safety and health management in the act since it is stipulated that other relevant regulations apply to some technical contents. Non-compulsory technical guidelines for lab safety and health management are also provided by the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) in order to enable researchers to follow safe procedures. There is no independent regulation for lab safety and health in Germany, and it is also governed by several regulations. The German Social Accident Insurance Institute provides technical guidelines on lab safety and health, and these contain more specific content to allow them to be followed more easily compared to the KOSHA guidelines. The most remarkable differences between the regulation of each country were contents of the risk assessment and specific protect measures from hazardous agents. Conclusions: Regulatory control is an essential way to prevent accidents, but it is more important to create an environment in which all stakeholders, including individual lab members, are allowed to participate actively in safety and health management activities.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.127-133
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• 2012

This paper shows survey result on safety management status of laboratories in Korea. In Korea, many studies and reports on laboratory safety have been published since the ministry of education, science and technology (MEST) enforced the Act on Establishing a Safe Environment of Laboratories (Lab Safety Act) in 2006. The MEST has surveyed status of safety management in institutions subject to Lab Safety Act in 2008 and 2010. According to the survey result, safety management status of universities and colleges has been improved on several factors such as establishment of safety manual and implementation of safety inspection; while the number of safety managers of universities and colleges have increased. However, the difficulties in performing duties of safety managers has increased because the number of exclusive safety managers has decreased. This paper identifies the similarities and differences between Occupational Safety and Health Act and Lab Safety Act on assignment and duties of safety managers; therefore, this paper suggests a standard to determine the number of safety managers and decide whether or not their duties should be exclusive. Besides current standard that is based on the number of researchers, the number of individual laboratories should be considered. The new method would be helpful to determine the number of exclusive safety managers because the amount of safety managers' duties generally do not depend on only the number of people who may be exposed to any risk but also the number of facilities that may be cause of any accident.

• Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.70-88
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• 2020

대부분의 스타터 배양균은 유산균(LAB)군(group)에 속하며 미국 식품의약국(FDA)과 유럽식품안전청(EFSA)에 의해 안전하다고 인정받고 있다. 그러나, LAB는 항생제 내성(antibiotic resistance) 유전자를 위한 내적 또는 외적 저장소로 작용할 수 있다. 하지만 저항 유전자 전달이 수직이기 때문에 이 사실은 그 자체가 안전상의 문제가 아닐 수도 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 외부 유전적 요소는 심각한 안전 문제를 나타내는 인체 장내 미생물뿐만 아니라 병원균의 저항성 수평 전달에 유리한 변화를 유도할 수 있다. 항생제 내성을 가진 유산균의 일부 속(genus)에는 발효육 및 유제품에서 분리된 Enterococcus, Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Leuconostoc, Pediococcus, Streptococcus 등이 포함된다. 현재 WHO는 식품산업에서 사용되는 LAB는 저항이 없어야 한다고 권고하고 있다. 다행히도 한국의 식품의약품안전처가 인정한 프로바이오틱스 균주 중 Enterococcus에 해당되는 균주는 E. faecium과 E. faecalis인데, 2019년 4월 1일부터 E. faecium과 E. faecalis의 독성인자와 항생제 내성전달인자 모두 없다고 인정된 경우에면 사용이 허가된다. 따라서 LAB의 산업적 중요성을 고려할 때 앞으로 인체와 동물장관 유래의 LAB은 체계적인 탐색 및 동정, 병원성 및 항생제 내성 유전자의 확인, 식품 및 가축사료 첨가제로의 활용, 안전성 평가연구는 계속 필요하다고 사료된다.

• Safe Food
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2009

• Agribusiness and Information Management
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.12-21
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• 2017

The aim of this study was to forecast the future Health Functional Food (HFF) market trends of Korea by studied about policies and market situation in Japan. The HFF is a food that is given an additional health function. In contrast with traditional foods, the HFF has unique characteristics in that it can be produced under the political regulations. The market size of the HFF was growing gradually due to the increased of an aging population and consumer need for high quality and diversified foods. The reason why the HFF market in Japan grew up earlier than other countries, Japan was the first country that institutionalized the HFF policies. Therefore, in this paper, by examining the policies and the market situation of Japan through literatures, we forecasted upcoming political and market situational changes of Korea's HFF market. We noticed that consumers needs about the HFFs which diversified, confidently ensured safety and ingredients will increase. In this regard, the government will reorganize legislation in order to increase the confidence of the safety of HFFs. In addition, the market size of domestic HFFs which are produced by major food companies will grow.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.88-94
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• 2013

In university laboratories, areas of studies are becoming diverse and complicated according to the development of the industry. New forms of potential risk factors are increasing and they are unlike existing ones. In addition, many students are conducting various experiments in the laboratory. Therefore, they could be exposed to risk more often. Despite these risks, people do not recognize university lab safety activities properly and observe safety precautions. They are exposed to various laboratory accidents continually. In this study, we do not apply the present diagnosis method, checklist, but the safety assessment that is widely used in industry. Then we can find lots of hazard that checklist method could miss. This study will use the 4M and Hazard & Operability to design a new Laboratory safety assessments method.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.78-88
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• 2023

Medication safety and medicine delivery challenge the well-being of the elderly and the management of the elderly center. With the outbreak of COVID-19, the elderly in the care center were challenged by the inconvenience of the medication restocking. The purpose of this paper accentuates the importance of the design and development of an UAV-based Smart Medicine Case (UAV-SMC) to improve the performance of medication management and medicine delivery in the elderly center. The researchers came up with the design of UAV-SMC in the light of the UAV and IoT technology to improve the performance of both Medication Practice Management (MPM) and Low Inventory Detection and Delivery (LIDD). Based on the result, with UAV-SMC, the performance of both MPM and LIDD was significantly improved. The UAV-SMC improves the efficacy of medication management in the elderly center by 26.97 to 149.83 seconds for each medication practice and 9.03 mins for each time of medicine delivery in Subang Jaya Malaysia. This paper only investigates the adoption of UAV-SMC in the content of elderly center rather than other industries. The authors consider integrating the UAV-SMC with the e-pharmacy system in the future. In conclusion, the UAV-SMC has significantly improved the medication management and guard the safety of elderly and caretaker in the elderly in the post-pandemic times.

• 시스템엔지니어링학술지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.68-77
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• 2020

The shipbuilding and offshore industry is a large and complex assembly industry, which causes many safety accidents. The major accidents in the shipbuilding and offshore industry workplaces are stenosis, falling objects, dust, fire, explosions, and gas poisoning. The accident by worker in this industry mainly has three factors: frequent movement, narrow work space, and increased use of subcontractors. To control these factors, it is necessary to monitor the worker's location and work status. In this paper, a worker location monitoring system using inaudible sound wave was designd that can be used in environments with many metal barriers. The process included deriving stakeholder requirements, transforming to system requirements, designing system architecture, and developing prototype. The prototype was validated by third-party testing agency. As a result, it satisfied the designed performance and verified its feasibility.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.579-586
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• 2022

Modular building is a fast-growing construction method, mainly due to its ability to drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to construct a building and produce higher-quality buildings at a more consistent rate. However, while modular construction is relatively safer than traditional construction methods, workers are still exposed to hazards that lead to injuries and fatalities, and these hazards could be controlled using emerging smart technologies. Currently, limited information is available at the intersection of modular construction, safety risk, and smart safety technologies. This paper aims to investigate what aspects of modular construction are most dangerous for its workers, highlight specific risks in its processes, and propose ways to utilize smart technologies to mitigate these safety risks. Findings from the archival analysis of accident reports in Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Fatality and Catastrophe Investigation Summaries indicate that 114 significant injuries were reported between 2002 and 2021, of which 67 were fatalities. About 72% of fatalities occurred during the installation phase, while 57% were caused by crushing and 85% of crash-related incidents were caused by jack failure/slippage. IoT-enabled wearable sensing devices, computer vision, smart safety harness, and Augment and Virtual Reality were identified as potential solutions for mitigating identified safety risks. The present study contributes to knowledge by identifying important safety trends, critical safety risk factors and proposing practical emerging methods for controlling these risks.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.336-344
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• 2019

현재 한국은 고령사회에 진입하면서 폭넓은 분야에서 노인문제가 발생하고 있다. 본 연구는 노인문제 중 노인의 건강문제와 안전문제에 대해 연구하고자 한다. 이론적 배경으로 매슬로우의 욕구이론을 적용하였으며, 욕구 5단계 중 생리적 욕구와 안전의 욕구를 노인건강과 안전에 연관하여 새로운 이론을 설정하였다. 노인의 건강문제는 생리적 욕구에 적용하여 신체와 인지, 심리부분으로 자세히 살펴보고, 실내, 외에서 발생하는 안전사고는 안전욕구와 관련하여 알아보고자 한다. 빅데이터 포탈인 네이버 데이터랩을 통해 노인의 건강과 안전문제에 대한 버즈량이 꾸준히 증가하고 있음을 알 수 있고, 구글 트렌드를 통해 연관검색어를 설정하여 노인문제에 대한 관심사를 파악 할 수 있다. 연관검색어에 따르면 건강문제는 건강과 관련한 사회적인 부분, 안전사고 문제는 사고종류와 관련된 키워드가 상위권을 이루었다. 이러한 연구결과는 노인문제의 연구와 해결방안에 중요한 기초자료가 될 것이다.