Since 2024, small business are also going to be ruled under the Serious Accident Punishment Act. As the scope of the law expands, the small logistics companies are required to pay more attention on preventing serious accidents on the field. Freight vehicle accidents can cause personnel accidents and cargo accidents which are the two serious accidents that the Serious Accident Punishment Act is trying to prevent. The purpose of this research are to study the factors that cause the serious accidents that happens in the small logistics companies and to suggest preventive. The results of the study shows that fall prevention is the top-priority and then driving experience, safety management, and cargo driving hours. However, the gaps between the evaluation values of each are not huge, which means all the preventives are significant.

Recently, the importance of impact-based forecasting has increased along with the socio-economic impact of severe weather have emerged. As news articles contain unconstructed information closely related to the people’s life, this study developed and evaluated a binary classification algorithm about snowfall damage information by using media articles text mining. We collected news articles during 2009 to 2021 which containing ‘heavy snow’ in its body context and labelled whether each article correspond to specific damage fields such as car accident. To develop a classifier, we proposed a probability-based classifier based on the ratio of the two conditional probabilities, which is defined as I/O Ratio in this study. During the construction process, we also adopted the n-gram approach to consider contextual meaning of each keyword. The accuracy of the classifier was 75%, supporting the possibility of application of news big data to the impact-based forecasting. We expect the performance of the classifier will be improve in the further research as the various training data is accumulated. The result of this study can be readily expanded by applying the same methodology to other disasters in the future. Furthermore, the result of this study can reduce social and economic damage of high impact weather by supporting the establishment of an integrated meteorological decision support system.

This study proposes a methodology for assessing seismic liquefaction hazard by implementing high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) ground models with high-density/high-precision site investigation data acquired in an area of interest, which would be linked to geotechnical numerical analysis tools. It is possible to estimate the vulnerability of earthquake-induced geotechnical phenomena (ground motion amplification, liquefaction, landslide, etc.) and their triggering complex disasters across an area for urban development with several stages of high-density datasets. In this study, the spatial-ground models for city development were built with a 3D high-precision grid of 5 m x 5 m x 1 m by applying geostatistic methods. Finally, after comparing each prediction error, the geotechnical model from the Gaussian sequential simulation is selected to assess earthquake-induced geotechnical hazards. In particular, with seven independent input earthquake motions, liquefaction analysis with finite element analyses and hazard mappings with LPI and LSN are performed reliably based on the spatial geotechnical models in the study area. Furthermore, various phenomena and parameters, including settlement in the city planning area, are assessed in terms of geotechnical vulnerability also based on the high-resolution spatial-ground modeling. This case study on the high-precision 3D ground model-based zonations in the area of interest verifies the usefulness in assessing spatially earthquake-induced hazards and geotechnical vulnerability and their decision-making support.

Construction industry is considered as one of the most high-risk industries for work-related injuries and fatalities, accounting for more than half of fatalities in Korea. Advanced countries have recognized the critical role of designers in preventing construction accidents and have established regulations on design for safety. In line with this, the Korean government have also implemented regulations that require owners and designers to review the safety of design outcomes. However, it has been observed that designers face challenges in identifying hazards and integrating design solutions at the design stage mainly due to their shortage of required knowledge and skills. This study aimed to examine design solutions that can be applied to prevent fall accidents in the construction industry, and to establish a relationship between these solutions and fatal fall accidents occurred over the past three years in Korea. This study also analyzed the relationships of four variables (construction type, cost, work type, and fall location) with design solutions. The results indicated that all four variables have significant relationships with design solutions, with fall location showing the strongest relationship. The design solutions and their relationships with fatal fall accidents identified in this study can be utilized in identifying hazard and integrating design solutions to ensure design for safety.

Since last year, the government has enforced the 'Act on the Punishment of Severe Accidents, Etc.' (hereafter referred to as the 'Serious Accident Punishment Act'), which punishes business owners and business managers who fail to fulfill their duty of safety measures with 'imprisonment of one year or more' and the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Based on this, various occupational safety and health policies were developed, including the operation of a system related to entrusting the work of safety managers. Despite these efforts, the effect of implementing the Severe Accident Punishment Act is a groundbreaking change in the current disaster prevention policy, which has increased by 0.02%P and 0.03‱P, respectively, from the previous year to 0.65% of the total accident rate and 1.10‱ of the death rate per 10,000 people as of 2022. As the need emerged, attention was paid to 'collaboration and governance with safety management institutions' in the 'Severe Disaster Reduction Roadmap' announced by the Ministry of Employment and Labor in November 2022. In this study, a meaningful result was derived by comparing and analyzing the industrial accident status of workplaces entrusted by “A” safety management institutions with the national average based on the industrial accident survey table, and the types of industrial accidents that occurred in consigned workplaces were selected as intensive management targets. The policy direction for industrial accident prevention was established. It is necessary to develop safety management work manuals based on the results of this study, expertise, discover best cases of risk assessment and develop guides, and educate and train consigned workers. In addition, it suggests that the government's guidance and supervision are needed to advance the professionalism of safety management entrusted tasks, and that safety management institutions should strengthen their roles and functions for preventing and reducing industrial accidents. However, due to difficulties in disclosing information of specialized safety management institutions, the limitation of the provision, collection, and viewing of research-related data to “A” specialized safety management institutions remains a limitation of the research. It seems likely that more thorough research will be conducted.

Recently, the crisis of demographic extinction is rising in Korea more than any other country, and it is difficult for industrial sites to maintain without 'foreign workers'. Industrial accidents and accident deaths of foreign workers account for 7.6% and 12.3% of the total, through an in-depth analysis of fatal accidents in the manufacturing industry, differences and similarities between fatal accidents of foreign workers and all fatal accidents were confirmed in terms of occurrence type, workplace size, length of service, employment type, etc. In this study, customized countermeasures were found.

This study is to investigate the degree of field awareness of how each provision of the Serious Disaster Punishment Act will affect accident prevention. As a result of conducting a survey of construction site workers, it was analyzed that construction site workers had a low sense of safety and did not voluntarily engage in safety activities. And it can be seen that they are taking a very passive position that it is efficient to implement safety under the supervision of the supervisor. Workers who need voluntary construction site safety activities are most aware of the situation at the site, but the problem was pointed out as “lack of procedures for listening to opinions and preparing improvement measures” for these problems. Future research is needed to see if this is a problem for individual workers or for those in charge of safety and health who do not correct it even though active opinions have been submitted.

Safety has once again emerged as a social issue due to the enforcement of the Serious Disasters Punishment Act and the occurrence of major disasters recently. As such, the safety culture related to unsafe human behavior is drawing attention as various discussions about the importance of safety and accident prevention are currently being undertaken. This study aims to determine whether changes in the level of safety culture in companies affect the accident rate. To this end, we targeted three workplaces in the same company in the domestic manufacturing industry, and 2,790 people were surveyed using DNV's Safety Will(ISRS-C version 4.0) for safety culture level diagnosis. The change in safety culture level and accident rate were compared and analyzed after carrying out safety culture level improvement activities for 5 years. As a result, the level of safety culture increased by 5.8 points, an overall improvement of 9.5%, while the total number of accidents decreased by 20%, from 5 to 4, indicating a general decreasing trend in accident occurrence. Results confirmed that the change in the level of safety culture affects the accident rate, and the improvement in the level of safety culture affects a reduction in accidents. Therefore, this study suggests that efforts to improve the level of safety culture within a company can be associated with accident reduction and accident prevention outcomes.

In 2022, the Serious Accident Punishment Act was implemented, emphasizing the responsibility of managers at workplaces where serious accidents occur in order to reduce serious accidents that occur frequently throughout the industry and promote worker safety. Currently, it is applied only to workplaces with 50 or more workers, but from 2024, it will be applied to small businesses with fewer than 50 workers. Although these small-scale workplaces act as steppingstones in various fields, the rate of serious accidents is high due to the relatively poor environment and lack of human resources and financial capabilities. In this regard, we intend to examine effects of the Serious Accident Punishment Act on small-scale information and communication companies and to drive countermeasures.

This study has found the socio-economic factors that affect occupational accidents and measured the influence quantitatively. We built the panel data of 4 countries (Japan, Germany, the U.S., and the U.K.) and the analysis model counted on the fixed effect model to reflect the countries' differences. The fatal occupational injury rates in the analyzed countries had a statistically significant relationship with the level of per capita GDP, the proportion of the construction industry, the rate of male workers, annual average working hours, the rate of workers in manufacturing and construction industries, etc. The annual average working hours have a positive correlation with the fatal occupational injury rate. To reduce occupational accidents effectively, we should be monitoring and researching various factors that can affect the occurrence of occupational accidents such as worker characteristics, changing industrial structure, and changes in working hours.

김정은 시대 북한 재해관리는 최고지도자의 관심과 법률 보완을 통해 체계적 관리로 발전하였다. 김정은 시대 재해관리 체계 확립에 있어 가장 우선시 되었던 조치는 2014년 「재해방지 및 구조, 복구법」 제정이다. 김 정은은 재해 관련 신속한 예방과 대응, 복구를 위해 ‘재해방지 및 구조, 복구법’을 새롭게 제정하고 재해의 범위를 자연·사회·보건으로 규정하여 관련 법률 적용을 일원화하였다. 다음 조치로 김정은의 관심과 현지지도이 다. 2014년 평천구역 아파트 붕괴 사고 이후 김정은은 6개월 동안 9차례 건설현장 현지지도를 실시하였으며, 이후 「건설감독법(2014)」을 제정하여 건설현장의 엄격한 관리를 규정하였다. 2020년 대규모 수해 발생 이후 김 정은은 2개월 동안 8차례 수해 현장 현지지도를 실시하였으며, 이후 2021 년 「환경보호법」·「건설법」·「산림법」 수정보충 및 「시군발전법(2021)」을 제 정하여 지역 개발과 발전을 도모하였다. 2020년 코로나19팬데믹 현상 이 후 김정은은 총 22차례 정치국 회의를 개최하고 13차례 코로나19 관련 논의를 진행하였으며, 이후 「전염병예방법」 수정보충, 「비상방역법(2020)」· 「의료감정법(2022)」을 제정하여 코로나19 확산을 통제하고 코로나19 확진 자 관리를 위한 체계를 수립하였다. 마지막으로 체계적 재해관리를 위한 조직 구조를 구축하였다. 체계적이며 신속한 재해관리를 위해 국가비상설 재해방지대책위원회와 국가비상재해위원회, 부문별, 지방재해방지대책위원 회, 시도군인민위원회, 국토환경보호성, 중앙인민보건지도위원회, 중앙비상 방역지휘부 등 각 재해 유형별 관리체계를 세분화하여 유기적으로 대응할 수 있는 조직 구조를 구축하였다. 특히, 2020년 비상방역상황에서 사회안 전군을 전면에 내세워 신속한 비상방역활동을 실시하였다.

선원은 해상이라는 노동환경의 공간적 특수성으로 말미암아 예측할 수 없는 다양한 해상위험에 노출되어 있어 이를 고려해 재해선원에 대한 충분한 보상이 필요하다. 그러나 우리나라의 선원법은 육상근로자와 비교했을 경우 재해선원에 대한 보상이 미흡한 상 태이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 유럽의 사회보험 선진국인 독일의 해양노동법, 산재보험법을 살펴보고 우리나라와 비교하여 시사점을 도출 하고자 하였다. 먼저 선원재해 발생 시의 보상 주체에 대해서 독일은 공적 성격의 기관에서 관리하는 반면 우리나라는 선박소유자가 전 적으로 보상하고 있는 것으로 조사되었다. 두 번째로 재해보상의 내용에 대해서 독일은 다양한 지원제도를 통해 연속적인 치료와 요양을 제공할 뿐 아니라 선박 업무 복귀를 위한 다양한 프로그램을 운영하고 있다. 그러나 우리나라는 선박소유자가 재해보상의 책임을 면할 수 있도록 하는 일시보상제도를 두고 있어 재해선원에게 불리한 상황인 것으로 분석되었다. 마지막으로 선원재해의 원인을 판단하는 주 체는 독일의 경우 공적 성격의 산재보험조합이 업무 기인성에 대해 판단하고 있으나, 우리나라는 선박소유자나 보험회사에 의해서 결정 되고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 우리나라의 재해선원에 대한 적절한 보상을 위해서 선원재해보상을 주관하는 공공기관을 설립하여 역할을 부여할 필요가 있으며, 재요양, 장해연금, 재활급여 등을 보상받을 수 있도록 선원법 정비 또는 관련 제도의 개선이 필요하다.

The rate of industrial accident reduction is slowing down as the attention of the Ministry of Employment and Labor and related agencies on risk assessment systems decreased. this paper focuses on weakness of legal system for the risk assessment in recent years. A survey was conducted to identify the status and condition of the risk assessment system applying on small and medium-sized manufacturing companies. A set of questionnaires is designed to reflect various perspectives of the companies regarding the problems and solutions of the system. The results refer that differentiated instructions and support systems in response to the actual conditions of the companies are mandatory to reinforce the efficiency of risk assessment system.

The Act on the Punishment of Serious Accidents to Prevent Large-scale Disasters, including Ferry Sewol and Taean Thermal Power Plant, passed the National Assembly on January 8, 2021, and has been in effect since January 27, 2022. However, the law, in which the representative of the headquarters is unlimitedly responsible for each worker's accident, is somewhat unreasonable at a time when a company owns dozens to hundreds of construction sites due to the nature of the construction industry. I agree with the purpose of enacting the law to reduce chronic serious accidents at construction sites, but it is necessary to carefully reconsider the implementation of the law in that punishment alone cannot achieve industrial safety. Previous studies focused on revising the Occupational Safety and Health Act, but there are few studies on the impact on the construction industry after the implementation of the Serious Accident Act. Therefore, this study attempts to derive problems related to the application of the Serious Accident Act and present improvement measures. To this end, after analyzing previous studies, SWOT analysis was performed by applying the Delphi method to derive strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. In addition, the results of two surveys of safety experts such as public institutions, academia, and companies were reflected, and its countermeasures were presented as follows. S/O strategy: establishing on-site execution capabilities of health and safety management system; W/O strategy: expanding legal and system execution checks; S/T strategy: establishing a risk response system; W/T strategy: expanding consulting by external specialized institutions