Since cranes are a kind of complex human-machine systems, it is almost impossible to completely secure safety with current technologies. Therefore, managerial interventions to prevent human errors are needed for safely operating a crane. The Occupational Safety and Health law states that cabin-type crane operators should have crane drivers’ licence and crane-related operators (e.g., pendent-type crane operators, slinging workers) should take a special safety training. However, statistics on industrial accidents showed that fatalities due to crane accidents (185 accidents occurred during 2013~2017) were the highest among hazardous machinery and equipment. To effectively control the crane-related accidents, voices of crane workers need to be analyzed to investigate the current status. This study surveyed perceived causes of crane accidents and status of special safety training for crane workers of 387. The survey revealed that 24.3% of the respondents experienced crane accidents and 31.4% eye-witnessed crane accidents. 79% of the respondents pointed human errors such as improper crane operation and improper slinging as the first cause. Lastly, only 16.7% of the respondents took a professional special safety training; but the rest took lecture-based or incomplete education. The findings of the present study can be applied to improve crane-related policies and special safety training systems.

This paper analyzed a survey of 388 general target samples to analyze the correlation between disaster safety costs and human risk factor analysis and evacuation behavior due to tunnel accidents. Considering the impact of the tunnel accident on disaster safety costs and the correlation between human evacuation and risk factors in the tunnel environment, the system should be reorganized to reflect the tunnel’s basic plan, tunnel cross-section, tunnel installation.

The leading source of occupational fatalities is a portable ladder in Korea because it is widely used in industry as work platform. In order to reduce victims, it is necessary to establish preventive measures for the accidents caused by portable ladder. Therefore, this study statistically analyzed injury death by portable ladder for recent 10 years to investigate the accident characteristics. Next, to monitor wearing of safety helmet in real-time while working on a portable ladder, this study developed an object detection model based on the You Only Look Once(YOLO) architecture, which can accurately detect objects within a reasonable time. The model was trained on 6,023 images with/without ladders and safety helmets. The performance of the proposed detection model was 0.795 for F1 score and 0.843 for mean average precision. In addition, the proposed model processed at least 25 frames per second which make the model suitable for real-time application.

In this study, the risk factors of coastal purse seine fisherman were analyzed through a survey of fishery workers of coastal purse seine fishery and the accident compensation insurance data of the fisheries workers of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives (NFFC). The classified fishing operation accident data was analyzed through 4M (Man, Machine, Media, Management) model of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the accident prevention measures were presented using Harvey's 3E (Engineering, Education, Enforcement) model. The rate of accidents on coastal purse seinens each year was 75.8‰, 36.7‰ and 74.8‰ from 2015 to 2017. The accident frequency resulting from slipping was the highest, and the risk of a contact with gear was low. When comparing each insurance data, the average value of the contact with gear accident was the highest. This research result is expected to be important data in identifying and preventing safety hazards of coastal purse seiner fisherman in the future.

This study aimed to analyze the economic feasibility of the reduction of working safety accidents in stow net fishery through the prevention education to fishing crews. The benefit was evaluated by estimating insurance payment amount that was reduced through prevention education. The decreasing rate of working safety accidents was presumed to follow the experience in Japan. The cost was assumed as the cost of textbook development. Results indicated that IRR was estimated to be 79.9% in case of scenario assuming no additional operating costs while IRR was 56.3% in case of scenario assuming 10% additional operating costs. In addition, the economic feasibility would be secured when annual operating costs increased to 274 million won according to the result of sensitivity analysis.

매년 해양활동이 증가하며 해양사고 발생빈도가 높아지고 있다. 이에 따라 해양안전을 위한 각종 연구 활동과 정책이 실행되고 있다. 하지만 이러한 노력에도 불구하고 매년 해양사고가 증가하고 있어 이들의 실효성에 대한 문제가 제기되고 있다. 문헌연구 결과에 따르면, 통계연보를 활용한 선행연구는 통계제공항목 간 비교를 통해 두드러지는 항목에 대한 예방책을 제시하고 있다. 2000년대 이후에는 대형 해양사고가 반복적으로 발생하면서 '사고대응'에 대한 사례연구(case study)가 진행되고 있다. 국내 해양안전을 위한 정책수립 연구과정에서 통계연보나 사고사례를 주 자료로 활용하고 있으나 현재 자료는 사후결과 요약정도의 수준이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 해양 사고 사례분석 및 개선방안 관련 문헌연구를 통해 현행 해양관련 연구와 정책의 한계를 탐색하였다. 또한 자료 활용 한계를 개선하기 위한 방안의 일환으로 선박사고 상황보고서 속성분석, 텍스트 마이닝을 통해 해양사고 정보 분류체계인 온톨로지(ontology)를 수정 보완하였다. 해당 항목은 ‘신고자, 신고수단, 구조세력, 대응 조치사항, 대응취약성, 적재물, 유류유출경위, 피해유형, 사고처리결과’이며, 이 항목 들은 분류체계 표준용어를 활용해 향후 지속적으로 수집 활용할 수 있다. 마지막으로 온톨로지를 실질적으로 활용하기 위한 데이터 수집 및 품질확보 방안을 제시했다. 결과적으로 현재 해양안전이 직면한 문제를 명확히 파악하고 ‘품질이 확보된 충분한 정보’를 활용한다면 보다 다양한 연구와 실효성 있는 정책 실현이 가능할 것이다.