This study analyzes the impact of occupational health risk assessments on the safety and health levels and the safety behaviors of workers in manufacturing workplaces. An online survey was conducted among 3,172 companies, yielding 637 responses. The statistical analysis on the collected responses revealed three key findings. First, the safety and health levels (safety importance, safety comprehension, safety awareness) positively influence the outcomes of occupational health risk assessments(safety practice, safety management, safety improvement) and safety behaviors (activity change, safety check). Second, the effectiveness of occupational health risk assessments has a positive impact on safety behaviors. Lastly, the effectiveness of occupational health risk assessments partially mediate the relationship between safety and health levels and safety behaviors. These findings are expected to contribute to the promotion of risk assessments in the field of industrial health and to enhancing safety performance by improving workplace safety, health levels, and safety behavior.

The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) aims to maintain and promote the safety and health of workers. Additionally, violations of the act can result in imprisonment or fines, depending on the severity of the offense. This study examines whether the severity of OSHA violations is proportional to the size of the fines imposed. There are 120 items subject to fines, with penalties ranging from a minimum of 50,000 won to a maximum of 30 million won. To assess the severity of these items, pairwise comparisons were conducted, and the results were expressed numerically. In summary, no significant correlation was found between the severity of violations and the amount of the fines. Therefore, this study proposes calculating fines based on the severity of violations. In many small companies, resources (e.g., budget and manpower) are limited. Thus, greater attentions tend to be directed toward addressing items with higher fines. Consequently, aligning the severity of legal violations with the size of the fines may contribute to improving the industrial safety.

This study analyzed the factors affecting the effectiveness of the Chemical Hazard Risk Management (CHARM). A survey was conducted on 104 learners who participated in the Risk Assessment training course at Occupational Safety and Health Training Institute. Through a self-administered questionnaire, the effect of personal characteristics, corporate characteristics, and safety and health level of the company on the effectiveness of chemical risk assessment was investigated. As a result of statistical analysis, the safety and health level of the company had a positive (+) effect on the effectiveness of Chemical Hazard Risk Management(CHARM), but personal characteristics and corporate characteristics had no relation to it. This study can be used as basic data for further research related to chemical risk assessment in workplaces.

One of the important components of a nuclear fuel cycle facility is a hot cell. Hot cells are engineered robust structures and barriers, which are used to handle radioactive materials and to keep workers, public, and the environment safe from radioactive materials. To provide a confinement function for these hot cells, it is necessary to maintain the soundness of the physical structure, but also to maintain the negative pressure inside the hot cell using the operation of the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. The negative pressure inside the hot cells allows air to enter from outside hot cells and limits the leakage of any contaminant or radioactive material within the hot cell to the outside. Thus, the HVAC system is one of the major components for maintaining this negative pressure in the hot cell. However, as the facility ages, all the components of the hot cell HVAC system are also subject to age-related deterioration, which can cause an unexpected failure of some parts. The abnormal operating condition from the failure results in the increase of facility downtime and the decrease in operating efficiency. Although some major parts are considered and constructed in redundancy and diversity aspects, an unexpected failure and abnormal operating condition could result in reduction of public acceptance and reliability to the facility. With the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution, prognostics and health management (PHM) technology is advancing at a rapid pace. Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, Siemens, and other companies have already developed technologies to constantly monitor the integrity of power plants and are applying the technology in the form of digital twins for efficiency and safety of their facility operation. The main point of PHM, based on this study, is to monitor changes and variations of soundness and safety of the operation and equipment to analyze current conditions and to ultimately predict the precursors of unexpected failures in advance. Through PHM, it would be possible to establish a maintenance plan before the failure occurs and to perform predictive maintenance rather than corrective maintenance after failures of any component. Therefore, it is of importance to select appropriate diagnostic techniques to monitor and to diagnose the condition of major components using the constant examination and investigation of the PHM technology. In this study, diagnostic techniques are investigated for monitoring of HVAC and discussed for application of PHM into nuclear fuel cycle facilities with hot cells.

Occupational safety and health management expenses in the construction industry are statutory and separately included in the cost statement to prevent occupational accidents and health problems. The expenses are determined by multiplying the standard amount by the rate decided according to construction types and scales. However, the current expense appropriation method does not properly reflect the recent changes in the construction industry such as industry size, industry diversification, and social atmosphere about safety reinforcement. This study surveyed 1579 questionnaires in total and analyzed expense execution rate and proportion of each expense category. The expense execution rate was relative higher in complex construction (e.g., heavy construction = 126%, civil engineering = 125%) and long-period project (equal to or over 48 months construction = 133%) compared to general construction (98~116%) and short-period project (less than 48 months construction = 115%). The proportion of spending expenses was higher in the category of safety manager labor costs (25~52%), safety facility costs (22~40%), and personal protective equipment costs (10~25%). The analysis results of the study can be utilized in revising the standard expense appropriation method by reflecting the current usages of the occupational safety and health management expenses in the construction industry.

The Severe Disaster Punishment Act had recently been established in order to promote safety and health (OSH) management system for severe accident prevention. OSH management system is primarily designed based on risk assessments; however, companies in industries have been experiencing difficulties in hazard identification and selecting proper measures for risk assessments and accident prevention. This study intended to introduce an accident analysis method based on epidemiological model in finding hazard and preventive measures. The accident analysis method employed in this study was proposed by the U.S. Department of Energy. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the accident analysis method, this study applied it to two accident cases occurred in construction and manufacturing industries. The application process and results of this study can be utilized in improving OSH management system and preventing severe accidents.

우리나라의 산업안전보건교육은 일반근로자, 사업주, 근로감독관 등을 대상으로 하나, 체계적이지 못하고 산발적으로 이루어지고 있다. 특히, 청 소년들을 위한 산업안전보건육은 법적 근거가 명확하지 않고, 담당기관, 프로그램 등 체계적이지 못하다는 비판이 제기되고 있다. 최근 한국고용 노동교육원이「한국고용노동교육원법」 제3조에 따라 전국 중·고등학생 및 청소년을 대상으로 노동인권교육을 실시한다고 발표하였으나, 주로 일반 적인 노동교육에 집중된 측면이 있어, 산업안전보건교육의 필요성이 제기 된다. 오늘날 산업재해로 인한 사망사고 등이 지속적으로 발생함에 따라 산업재해를 예방하고, 건강하고 안전한 근무환경을 조성하기 위해 산업안 전보건교육이 더욱 중요한 과제가 되었다. 특히, 청소년들은 일을 처음으 로 하거나 시작하기 전, 사업장의 안전보건과 생산적 효율성을 위해 기본 지식, 기술 및 능력을 갖출 필요가 있다. 미국은 우리나라와 달리 산업안 전보건교육의 대상을 분리하여 대상자별로 법적 근거를 달리 규율하고, 담당기관, 교육내용, 교육수준 등을 차별화하여 교육하고 있다. 이에 본 논문은 미국 산업안전보건교육의 법·정책적 제도로부터 도출할 수 있는 시사점을 알아보고자 한다. 첫째, 산업안전교육에 관한 공공부문 은 모범적 사용자 역할로서 근로자 등에게 교육을 제공하고 있으며, 교육 을 강화하고 있다. 둘째, 미국은 산업안전보건교육에 관한 법체계의 정합 성을 확립하고 있다. 산업안전보건교육 관련 「산업안전보건법」,「연방시행 규칙」,「훈련지침」을 마련함으로써 법체계의 정합성을 확립하고 있다는 것 을 알 수 있다. 셋째, 미국은 산업안전보건교육의 근거가 되는 법률과 대 상을 분리하여 교육을 실시하고 있다. 넷째, 미국은 산업안전보건교육 관 련 컨소시엄을 구성하여 운영하고 있다. 이러한 시사점을 바탕으로 본 논 문은 청소년을 위한 산업안전교육을 실시하기 위해서는 「청소년 기본법」 을 근거로 담당기관을 설립 또는 지정하여 교육수준별 전문성을 확보하여 야 하고, 업종별로 필요한 교육훈련과 기준을 상세하게 기술하고 이와 관 련된 과목들을 사업장 또는 사업장 외 훈련장에서 이수할 수 있도록 교육 편제를 변경하는 것도 고려해 볼 만 하다.

This study examined the certification effects of safety and health management system (SHMS) on the establishment level of SHMS and accident statistics in construction industry. This study obtained the establishment level of SHMS for 106 construction companies surveyed from our previous study. In addition, three major accident statistics (mortality rate, accidental mortality rate, and injury rate) for the companies were collected from the database in Korean Occupational Safety and Health Agency. The statistical analysis results revealed that the establishment level for SHMS certified companies was significantly higher than those for uncertified or certification preparing companies. Furthermore, SHMS certified companies showed significantly smaller accident statistics compared to uncertified or certification preparing companies. The results of this study support the positive effects of SHMS on reducing major industrial accidents in construction companies.

선한국선원통계연보에 따르면 2020년 기준 선원의 직무상 재해율 9.49%는 고용노동부에서 발행한 ‘2020년 산업재해 현황 분석’에 따른 육상근로자 사고 재해율 0.49%보다 19.4배 높은 것으로 나타나 선내안전보건과 관련한 사고율이 심각한 수준이다. 또한 일본 선원의 재해율 1.66%(2019년 기준)는 우리나라 선 원의 재해율 11.24%(2019년 기준)와 비교하여도 우리나라 선원의 재해율이 일본 선원의 재해율 대비 6.8배이다. 이는 우리나라 선원의 재해율 감소를 위한 선원재해 관련 법제 정비가 시급하다는 것을 말해준다. 선원재해예방을 위한 선내안전보건의 수준을 증진하기 위해서는 우선적으 로 관련 법제의 정비가 필요하다. 육상근로자는 「산업안전보건법」의 전부개 정을 통해서 육상근로자의 보호를 위한 법제를 마련하고 있는 반면에, 선원은 선내안전보건기준의 부재와 같은 제도적 공백이 존재하므로 현행의 높은 선 원의 재해율을 감소시키기 위한 제도적 개선방안이 모색되어야 한다. 그러나 선원재해예방을 위한 선내안전보건의 수준을 증진하기 위해서는 관련 규정의 정비도 중요하나 그것을 이행하는 수범자인 선박소유자와 선원의 역할 또한 중요하다. 특히, 선원재해예방을 위해서는 선내안전보건 관련 선박소유자의 의무 준수와 더불어 선박소유자의 사고방지 조치에 대한 선원의 협력이 필수 적이다. 따라서 본 연구는 선원 재해율의 감소를 위한 방안으로 선내안전보건에 있 어 국가, 선박소유자 및 선원에 관한 현행 법제에 대한 검토 후 그 개선방안 을 도출하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이 연구의 결론은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 국가 측면에서의 선내안전보건에 관 한 개선방안으로 ➀ 선원의 직무상 사고 등 조사 개선방안(직무상 재해 등의 정의, 보고 기준, 보고 내용 및 보고 절차 개선, 조사의 범위 및 내용 개선), ➁ 선원의 직무상 사고 등에 관한 통계 개선방안(통계의 내용 명확화), ➂ 총 톤수 20톤 미만 어선원의 안전보건 개선방안(독립법 제정을 통한 법제 및 주 관부서 통합방안)을 도출하였다. 둘째, 선박소유자 측면에서의 선내안전보건에 관한 개선방안으로 선박소유 자는 선내안전보건에 관한 선원근로계약상 안전배려의무 이행의 주체임을 명 확히 하고 선내안전보건기준 개정을 위한 검토에 적극적으로 참여하여 선내 안전보건의 수준을 증진시키기 위한 선박소유자의 역할 강화 필요성을 도출 하였다. 셋째, 선원의 측면에서의 선내안전보건에 관한 개선방안으로 선원이 주체적 이고 적극적으로 선원재해예방에 참여할 수 있도록 선원의 의무(제3자에 대 한 배려, 위험에 대한 보고의무, 주의의무 등) 확대 및 「선원법」상 안전배려 의무를 명문화하여 선원 스스로 선내안전보건기준의 준수 및 이행에 있어 적 극적이고 주체적 역할을 할 수 있게 함과 동시에 선박소유자의 안전배려의무 위반 시 선원의 이행청구권이 인정되어야 할 필요성을 제기하였다. 마지막으로 선내안전보건의 수준을 증진시키기 위한 이행주체별 개선방안 에도 불구하고 선원재해예방을 위한 보다 종합적인 선내안전보건 법제를 갖 추기 위한 독립법(선내안전보건 및 사고 예방에 관한 법률)의 필요성을 확인 하고, 독립법의 성격, 역할 및 주요 내용을 도출하였다

Recently, the Severe Disaster Punishment Act (January 27, 2022) was implemented, and the importance of industrial safety and health is being re-recognized. In addition, the reality is that the management burden is increasing, such as investing huge costs in reducing safety accidents centered on large companies. In this situation, we would like to help improve the working environment consistent with safety and health by deriving diagnosis and improvement measures for the current situation through a survey of production workers working in mid-sized and small-sized enterprises.

It was legislated in Korea that the small-sized enterprise with fewer than 50 employees should appoint at least one managing officer in order to improve safety and health of the employees since 2016. Study on the effectiveness of this legislation is hardly found, however. This study tried to evaluate effectiveness of the regulations for appointing the safety and health management officer in small-sized manufacturing companies and make suggestions to improve it. It was done by pairwise comparison between the level of safety and health achievement of 52 companies before and after the legislation. A scorecard system and questionnaires were devised for assessing the level of safety and health achievement and surveying awareness and practice of the regulation in the field. Results from quantitative and qualitative analyses performed in the study confirm that the safety and health achievement score has increased significantly after appointing the managing officer. It is also revealed that the lack of expertise and motivation of the appointed officer would yield pointless outcomes. Recommendations to make it better the effectiveness of the regulation are: to administrate requirements more strictly to be appointed as a safety and health management officer, to revise the curriculum to train the expertise of the appointed officers, and to expand financial support of the government to settle the safety and health management system.

이 논문은 선원에게 적용되는 안전ㆍ보건법제를 검토하고 산업안전보건법 및 선원법의 개선방안 제시를 목적으로 한다. 이 연구의 방법론으로 선원법이 제정되기 이전부터 선원에게 적용되는 안전보건법제의 변천과정을 통해서 선 원법과 산업안전보건법과의 관계를 연혁적으로 검토하고 산업안전보건법이 선 원법의 적용을 받는 선원에게도 적용되는지를 검토하였다. 또한 영국, 캐나다 및 일본의 산업안전보건법제의 검토를 통해서 선원의 안전보건에 관한 해외법 령이 어떠한 입법방식을 취하고 있는지 검토하였다. 그 결과 산업안전보건법은 명시적으로 선원법의 적용을 받는 선원에 대한 적용을 배제하고 있지 않으므로 법해석상의 논란이 있으며 해외의 입법사례와 같이 산업안전보건법이 선원법이 적용되는 선박에는 적용제외 하는 개정이 요 구된다. 또한 선원법은 해사노동협약의 이행과 해기사 실습생의 안전보건을 강 화하기 위한 법적 근거를 선원법에 마련할 필요성이 있다. 장기적으로는 부분 적 선원법 개정만으로는 선내안전보건제도를 강화하고 이행하는 데 입법적 한 계가 있으므로 선원안전보건법(가칭안)의 입법추진을 제안한다.

Activities to prevent industrial accidents can be divided into management of disaster risk factors of production facilities, disaster prevention systems and procedures, and human factors management. Human factor management is the last and most effective means to minimize disaster incidence and loss costs. The key strategy for this is safety and health education. However, formal or fictitious education is still being carried out in the industrial field. In addition, it is true that the application of practical use is insufficient due to the simple theoretical education based on knowledge transfer. In order to change the safety consciousness of employers and workers, we think that the paradigm of education should be changed from the traditional text and video-oriented lecture education method to experience-oriented education. The purpose of this study is to measure and analyze the effectiveness of safety education through education contents using VR(Virtual Reality) and AR(Augmented Reality) technology in keeping with the changing times of the 4th Industrial Revolution, And to suggest the direction of future safety and health education and content development trend.

한국선원통계연보에 따르면 2020년 기준 선원의 직무상 재해율 9.49%는 고용노동부에서 발행한 2020년 산업재해 현황분석에 따른 육상노동자 사고 재해 율 0.49%보다 19.4배 높은 것으로 나타나 선내안전보건과 관련한 사고율이 심 각한 수준이다. 고용노동부에서 발표한 2019년 산업재해 발생현황에 따른 우리 나라 사고 사망만인율(0.46‱)은 선진국(영국 0.04‱, 일본0.15‱)과 비교하여 매우 높은 수준이다. 선원재해예방을 위한 선내안전보건의 수준을 높이기 위해서는 관련 규정의 정비도 중요하지만 그것을 이행하는 수범자인 선박소유자와 선원의 역할이 중요하다. 특히, 선원재해예방을 위해서는 선내안전보건 관련 선박소유자의 의무 준수와 더불어 선박소유자의 조치에 대한 선원의 협력이 필수적이다. 그동안 선내안전보건의 문제는 선박소유자의 이행의무를 중심으로 논의되어 왔다. 이로 인해 선원은 선내안전보건에 있어 주로 권리의 향유주체로 인식되 어왔다. 그러나 선내안전보건에 있어 선원은 주로 권리의 향유주체이지만 이와 동시에 의무의 당사자이기도 하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 선원재해예방을 위한 하나의 해결책으로 선내안전보건 에 있어서 선원의 권리와 의무를 비교법적 검토를 통해 선원이 선원재해예방의 주체적이고 적극적으로 관여할 수 있도록 선원의 법적지위의 재정립 방안을 연 구하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이 연구의 결론은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 선원의 공법상 권리 및 사법상 권리를 부여할 수 있도록 선내안전보건기준을 시급하게 제정·시행하여야 한다. 둘째, 선원의 제3자에 대한 배려, 위험에 대한 보고의무, 주의의무 등 선원의 의무 확 대가 요구된다. 셋째, 선원법상 안전배려의무를 명문화하여 선원 스스로 안전 보건기준의 준수 및 이행에 있어 적극적이고 주체적 역할을 할 수 있게 함과 동시에 안전배려의무의 위반 시 선원의 이행청구권도 인정되도록 하여야 한다.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of organizational safety and health management activities on safety and health performance by using the results of safety activity level evaluation of public organizations. To this end, a research model was established by using three fields as independent variables among the four areas of the safety activity level evaluation index: safety and health system, safety and health activity plan, and safety and health activity level, and the safety and health activity performance field as a dependent variable. Correlation analysis and regression analysis between major variables were performed. As a result of the correlation analysis, the safety and health activity performance had a significant positive (+) correlation with all of the safety and health system, safety and health activity plan, and safety and health activity level. The safety and health system had a significant positive (+) correlation with the safety and health activity plan and safety and health activity level, and the safety and health activity plan had a significant positive (+) correlation with the safety and health activity level. And as a result of the regression analysis, it was found that the organization’s safety and health system, safety and health activity plan, and safety and health activity level all had a significant positive (+) effect on safety and health activity performance.

The purpose of this study is to investigated occupational accidents of child care worker. We surveyed 392 childcare worker to investigate their experience of occupational accidents. Fifteen percent of the respondents from occupational accdients survey for child care workers reported that they had experienced more than one occupational accident, but mostly did not claim Occupational Safety and Health Insurance. We suggested policy tasks to improve system for protecting child care workers.

The applications of information and communication technology (ICT) into real industrial fields are getting great attentions in recent years. More and more industrial practitioners and scientific researchers are conducting studies and trying to adopt the technologies into diverse industrial fields. The purpose of this study is to review the technologies such as big data and smart sensors and to provide application cases in order to facilitate grafting the 4th industrial revolutionary technologies onto the safety and health systems. Based on the comprehensive reviews on literature, reports, and industrial cases, we found that big data technology has been used in industries for investigating work related disease. In addition, digital image technology and drone have been applied to establish safety system in construction industry. Lastly, some companies have tried to apply the technologies to build their own safety and health system.

This study was undertaken to assess the occupational safety and health of fishermen community in Seberang Takir, Terengganu. The aims of this study was to evaluate current state of the occupational safety and health for fishermen at Seberang Takir, Terengganu and to create the prevention measures for occupational safety and health. The scope area of the research is Seberang Takir village, Kuala Terengganu, which is separated by a river and estuary. This research covers all fishermen and community at the Seberang Takir, Kuala Terengganu. The target population includes two groups of workers within fishermen and seller. Tools for this study is using HIRARC (Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment and Risk Control) form, along with hazard identification, a quantitative risk assessment as methodology has been done to prioritize the risk control management. The study reveals that during working (routine activity) was exposed to some hazards during handling of transfer the fish container to the collection point. Out of 7 identified hazard, 2% posed low level, 4% posed medium level and 1% posed high level. Secondly, an activity of fishermen during fishing was selected for this study to evaluate the occupational safety and health risk on board. Out of 6 identified hazard, 1% posed low level, 2% posed medium level, and 3% posed high level. This includes ergonomic, biological, physical, psycho-social, and natural. Overall the highest level of risk is ergonomic hazards. The result of risk matrix ranking based on the HIRARC survey of Occupational Safety and Health for fishermen Seberang Takir was conducted to determine the hazards and to improve the safety and health at the workplace. There are have several prevention measures are applied such as engineering control, administrative control and usage of personal protective equipment to reduce or prevent the hazards. The results of the current study can be utilized in the design of effective prevention measure in accordance with Malaysian Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Fatigue is not a trivial issue and needs much attention. On the other hand, fatigue among seafarers could lead to accidents at sea due to their inability and ineffectiveness in carrying out their work. Some were caused by sleepiness and lack of vigour, which, could not only affect their safety but compromising on other seafarers as well. In this study, factors that cause fatigue among seafarers were examined analytically and their quantitative priorities were determined using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. Additionally, the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is used to identify the best alternatives in minimizing fatigue among seafarers. For this, data is collected through interview involving those working in academic and maritime industry with more than 5 years of experiences in dealing with seafarers. The AHP result shows that fitness is the main cause that could affect fatigue on seafarers’ reliability. Besides, TOPSIS result shows that a well-maintained shipboard is the best way in sustaining seafarers’ energy. In sum, fatigue among seafarers could influence on safety and may lead towards precarious health issue over a long-term.