This study conducted the questionnaire on present condition of certification, background, purpose, effect and promotion of an occupational health & safety management system which introduced in domestic from 1999'. The questionnaire was conducted with 136 companies which replied in questionnaire distributed to 193 companies which received the certification. Also, recognition improvement of managers and participation of workers are demanded, the support to subcontract companies is demanded because the disaster prevention effect of the companies which possess the support program on subcontract companies is good, and reduction in the insurance rate to companies which received certification is demanded to activate an occupational health & safety management system.

Objective : This study was conducted as a policy task on the distribution of occupational therapy in community health centers.Method : A questionnaire was sent to 242 community health centers nationwide and (a total of) 135 questionnaires was returned between November 15, 2002 to December 20, 2002. We used frequency analysis and cross analysis for the questionnaires, generated by SPSS for Windows 10.0 version. a statistic analysis program.Results : 1) They do not promote rehabilitation programs for the disabled person significantly in community health centers. 2) Little has been carried out for occupational therapy in the com-munity health centers. The absence of occupational therapist attributes to the lack of knowledge on occupational therapy by outpatients, the lower demand, the lack of budget for hiring occupa-tional therapist, and the lack of understanding on the role of occupational therapist. It also shows that the occupational therapy is currently performed comprehensively by other department. 3) The need for occupational therapists in the community health center was more than one person. Conclusion : The results of this study suggest that appropriate occupational therapy program in the community health center includes the occupational therapy for the disabled person living at home, the occupational therapy for the disabled person in the rehabilitation program in the community health center, and the education on occupational therapy for the disabled person and their families.

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.