연구목적 : 본 연구의 목적은 국내 작업치료 임상가의 응급처치 교육경험에 따라 실제 응급상황에서의 대처능력과 교육필요성을 조사하여 교육경험이 응급처치 대처능력과 교육필요성에 미치는 영향을 알아봄으로써 향후 작업치료사의 역량강화를 위한 응급처치 교육의 필요성을 제시하기 위함이다. 연구방법 : 본 연구의 대상자는 현재 의료기관 및 사회복지시설에서 근무하고 있는 작업치료 임상가로서 총 150명에게 본 연구에서 구성한 설문지를 배포 및 회수하였다. 설문지는 일반적 특성(6문항), 응급처치 교육경험(7문항), 각 응급상황에 따른 대처능력과 교육필요성(총 24문항)등 총 37문항으로 구성하였다. 응급처치 교육경험에 따른 응급상황별 대처능력과 교육필요성의 차이를 분석하기 위해 t-검정을 시행하였으며 두 종속변수 간의 상관성은 Pearson 상관분석을 시행하였다. 결과 : 응급처치 교육경험에 대한 빈도분석 결과, 전체 대상자(n=150) 중 115명(76.7%)이 응급처치 교육을 받은 경험이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 응급처치 교육경험 유무에 따른 응급처치 대처능력은 경험과는 상관없이 모두 ‘대처할 수 없다’라고 응답하였으며 ‘호흡장애(t=2.721, p<.05)’를 제외한 모든 항목에서 두 집단 간 통계학적으로 유의하지 않았다(p>.05). 교육필요성에 대한 집단 간 차이 분석에서는 심정지(t=-2.646, p<.05)와 경련 및 마비(t=4.17, p<.05) 항목에서만 통계학적으로 유의한 차이를 보였다. 두 종속변수간의 상관관계는 확률적으로 유의한 것으로 나타났다(p<.05) 결론 : 본 연구결과, 응급처치에 대한 교육경험이 있더라도 실제 응급처치 대처능력은 무경험자와 크게 다르지 않음을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 실제 응급상황에 적절히 대응할 수 있도록 보다 지속적이고 현장감있는 교육과 훈련이 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

This research study aims to examine who vulnerable people are on disaster & emergency situations in South Korea. There are various vulnerable people such as children, senior citizen, the disabled and foreigners. I choose foreigners who live in South Korea as vulnerable group among them because there would be no system and study for helping foreigners on the situations, comparing to other vulnerable groups. Foreigners' residents often could have accidents from disaster and emergency situations because they live in South Korea for long time and various places such as factory, farmland, fishery and so on. To solve these problems, we should be willing to cope with emergencies for foreigners’ residents. First of all, it is necessary that a variety of educations and promotions should be a prerequisite to foreign residents' easy access to safety. As well, revitalizing a variety of communities, we need to figure out a way to cope with emergent disasters. This study will present some preparations to solve the problems, as exhibited in the following. First, multilingual emergency disaster & emergency services applications. Second, foreign residents provide disaster & emergency related promotional media. Third, education and social institutions established disaster & emergency. Forth, selection foreign volunteer firefighters. The research being sought by this study is a set of findings that contribute to the development of practical and realistic policy recommendations which may be used for disaster & emergency management practitioners, as well as policy and decision makers at all level.

Considering possibility of public health risk and environmental hazards, it is important to manage the disposal of“medical waste” properly. Although Korean government has made many efforts to provide safe medical waste managementsystem, some institutional problems are still existing and need to be improved. We focused on medical waste managementin emergency situations. Currently, the most common method of medical waste disposal is off-site incineration, whichaccounts for approximately 99.6% of total waste. However, in case some incineration facilities stopped unexpectedlybecause of fire, strike, breakdown, etc., inappropriate management of the medical waste has been of importantenvironmental concern due to potential secondary infection. This paper presents current limitations of resignment-relatedregulation and suggests improvement methods for effective and safe treatment of the medical waste, especially inemergency situations.

Sometimes, an evacuation should be executed from a ship for many reasons. This study considers on emergency evacuation on fire in a ship, one of the many reasons for evacuation. Due to the characteristic of fire, the most loss of life is known to be caused by suffocation resulted by smoke. To reduce the suffocation by smoke, the time available for evacuation should be improved for the higher survival rate of crews. In this study, crews' survival times and Evacuation time are analyzed quantitatively in during fire in the same sealed space in two different cases of the natural ventilation and the forced ventilation.