This study was intended to help workplaces set up an occupational health & safety management system by investigating the certification of the system and by conducting a questionnaire to survey the necessity, purpose, effect and promotion of the system. The occupational health & safety management systems generally adopted in Korea are OHSAS 18001 and K-OHSMS 18001, which are the PDCA model, such like the quality and environment management system. Because these standards have a compatibility with other management systems, individual or integral certification is available. A telephone questionnaire was conducted with 30 workplaces in Kyeonggi Province and Incheon Metropolitan City, which have been certified for the occupational health & safety management systems (OHSAS 18001, KOSHA 2000, and/or K -OHSMS 18001). About 92 percent of them were large-sized workplaces with over 500 employees. For the question on the necessity of the system, most of the respondent answered very necessary. The purposes of the certification were to control the risks in safety and health, to have a systematic approach for accident prevention and sustainable improvement, and to comply with a range of regulations voluntarily, in that order. Most of the answers to the question on the effect of the system were prevention of accident. For the question on the promotion of the system, the most prominent answer was reduction in the workers compensation rate.

This article is concerned with various aspects of establishing the global standard for occupational safety and health management system (OHSMS). The notion, main features, and brief history of the OHSMS are presented. The OHSAS 18000, its assets and liabilities, are reviewed as a prototype of the global standard. It is also addressed the possibility of combining ISO 9000(quality management system), 14000(environmental management system) and the OHSMS into the integrated management system (IMS) as a whole. The concepts of internal and external customers are presented to explain why the environment, safety and health should be incorporated into the notion of total quality 'Participation of the members' and 'standardization of the 4Ms (Man, Machine, Materials and Method)'are emphasized as the major enablers of the IMS. Finally, the industrial, academic and governmental roles are discussed for developing the IMS and setting it down into the Korean industries.

산업안전을 평가하는 지수개발은 안전 프로그램의 발전 방향에 크게 기여하기 때문에 매우 중요하다. 한국에서는 현재 사업장의 안전평가를 위해서 산업재해 평가지수로서 재해빈도를 나타내는 도수율과 재해 강도를 나타내는 강도율을 주로 사용하고 있으며 그외에 연천인율, 종합재해지수등도 사용되고 있다. 이러한 산업안전평가지수들은 근로자들이 느끼는 주관적 안전의 정도를 나타내지 못한다. 근로자들이 느끼는 안전의 정도를 도수율과 강도율의 함수로 나타낸 평가지수인 동의안전지수(동의안전지수=0.2*도수율10.8*강도율)가 최근 개발되었다. 본 논문은 동의 안전지수를 이용하여 업종별 분석을 실시하여 업종별 근로자가 느끼는 위험의 정도를 알아내고, 이를 근거로 업종별 효과적인 안전관리 방안을 제시하고자 한다.