• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• International Journal of Safety
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.29-37
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• 2012

Since most construction workers comprehend information on work through sight, the importance of safety signs are increasing by the day. In Korea, due to the sharp economic progress and the higher standard of the workforce, since the end of 1980, each year the number of foreign workers entering the country who working simple technical jobs have increased this condition. This study researched safety signs, which are the final accident prevention measures at the workplace. Based on the study, comprehension of the standard safety signs of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) was lacking at a level of 2.5. Also, the perception level of the Industry Public Safety Law (38%) was very low. And, it was found that sex and experience or non-experience in safety training was not an issue in the level of understanding. However, when satisfying the standards of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and changing the safety signs, the level of understanding went up to 3.49 and the perception level was increased significantly to 70%. Thus, it is concluded that, since the foreign workers are mainly from non-English speaking countries and because the workers of Korea are not familiar with English, in order to provide proper safety information, there must first of all be simplistic and concise pictograms. This will provide needed information and must be coupled with simple English words that can give additional information to the worker and be effective in helping him understand and perceive the safety sign. Also, it has been determined that the existing forms of safety signs and their effectiveness in industry accident prevention must be reassessed.

• 시큐리티연구
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• 제55호
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• pp.31-55
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• 2018

본 연구는 교통안전표지, 교통신호기기 등 교통안전표지 설치의 교통사고 발생에 대한 선행성을 분석하는데 목적이 있다. 시계열분석(time series analysis) 중 하나인 교차상관분석(cross-correlation analysis)을 실시하여 도출한 주요 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 교통안전시설 설치건수의 교통사고 발생건수에 대한 선행성은 교통안전표지(전체) 설치건수(시차수 1), 교통안전표지(주의) 설치건수(시차수 7), 교통안전표지(규제) 설치건수(시차수 7), 교통안전표지(지시) 설치건수(시차수 4)가 각각 부(-)의 관계로 교통사고 발생건수를 선행(先行)한다. 둘째, 교통신호기기 설치건수의 교통사고 발생건수에 대한 선행성은 교통신호기기(보행등) 설치건수(시차수 2)가 부(-)의 관계로 교통사고 발생건수를 선행(先行)한다. 셋째, 교통안전시설 설치건수 증감률의 교통사고 발생 증감률에 대한 선행성은 교통안전표지(전체) 설치 증감률(시차수 1), 교통안전표지(주의) 설치 증감률(시차수 1), 교통안전표지(지시) 설치 증감률(시차수 1), 교통안전표지(보조) 설치 증감률(시차수 1)이 각각 부(-)의 관계로 교통사고 발생 증감률을 선행(先行)한다. 넷째, 교통신호기기 설치 증감률의 교통사고 발생 증감률에 대한 선행성은 교통신호기기(보행등) 설치 증감률(시차수 0)이 정(+)의 관계로 동행(同行)한다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.50-56
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• 2017

The number of accidents in school zone is decreasing than before with the introduction of strengthening traffic safety policy since January 2011, but the danger still exists. The School zone sign is widely known to have much effect in protecting children from risks of traffic accidents, but design improvement is being demanded to improve a sense of safety and legibility of safety signs in School zone due to the lack of understanding on the safety signs in crosswalk and School zone. This study analyzed differences in shape and color of existing safety signs through a case analysis of traffic developed countries as America, England, Japan, and Germany and suggested improvement plans for drivers to clearly perceive the school zone. For improvement methods, this study suggested the importance of delivering definite and unified warning message for school zone to drivers by using indication sign and caution sign together, and to use yellow, a safety color, and to unify the safety sign into triangle shape that symbolizes warning and caution to conform the international standards. Actual design production and experiment through improvement plans are needed in the future, and it is expected to secure safety of children and to provide international standardization of safety signs in school zone.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.231-240
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• 2015

In this study, to find out the effect of psychological anxiety of the patients during MRI examination on the claustrophobia and vital signs, As for a study tool, to measure Anxiety Sensitivity Index(ASI), Kamsung Evaluation Index of Life Environmental Noise(KEI), Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM-IV) was used, and for vital signs, blood pressure and pulse rate were measured pre and post MRI examination. In conclusion, it was indicated that though the effect of the general characteristics, psychological anxiety, on noise sensitivity and claustrophobia was small, the psychological anxiety of the patients during MRI examination affected claustrophobia and vital signs.

• 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.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.185-192
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• 2024

항공산업은 기술적인 혁신을 통해 안전성을 향상했으며, 항공 당국의 안전 규제와 감독을 통해 비행안전을 강화해 왔다. 항공산업의 안전 접근 방식이 항공기 시스템 전체에 대한 체계적인 접근 방식으로 발전함으로써 항공사는 새로운 안전 관리시스템을 구축하게 되었다. 항공기의 기술적 결함이나 비정상적인 데이터는 사고로 이어질 수 있는 전조 징후가 될 수 있으며, 이러한 징후를 조기에 식별하고 대처함으로써 사고 발생의 위험을 감소시킬 수 있다. 따라서 비정상적인 전조 징후의 관리는 데이터 기반 의사결정을 촉진하고, 항공사의 운영 효율성 및 안전수준을 강화하는 데 있어 필수적인 요소이다. 본 연구에서는 항공기 착륙 시에 활주로 이탈로 이어질 수 있는 크랩랜딩 이벤트의 패턴과 원인 분석을 위한 사전적 분석 단계에서 QAR (quick access recorder) 비행 데이터 통계 분석 모델을 제시하여 착륙 이벤트의 전조 징후와 원인을 식별 및 제거하는 안전관리의 효율성을 제고하고자 한다.