2017, Vol.13, No.9

Crisisonomy 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.64

pISSN : 2466-1198 / eISSN : 2466-1201
https://journal.kci.go.kr/cemtp

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of socio-demographic, injury-related, and pre-injury job characteristics on the types of return-to-work among injured workers in South Korea. This study used the data from 1,993 injured workers in 2012 based on the first wave of the Panel Study of Worker’s Compensation Insurance (PSWCI). According to the results, workers who were in their 40s and 50s, living with spouse, working in a company with 100 employees or less, had less than three months of medical care, good health status, and worked for a long period as a regular employee were more likely to return to pre-injury job or find a new job. Thus, policy makers and practitioners need to consider not only socio-demographic and injury-related characteristics but also pre-injury job characteristics when designing return-to-work programs for injured workers in South Korea.

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in safety-related accidents within university research facilities due to unsafe conditions, insecure behavior, and administrative causes, which requires systematic safety management. According to current laboratory safety laws, the safety education is limited to only the science and technology laboratories and its contents fail to incorporate the unique characteristics and risk factors of each laboratory. In order to solve those problems, we suggest a new education system that can cover various academic fields and majors. We conducted a risk analysis for identifying high-risk majors and presented a customized education module for those majors. Additionally, we derived educational modules ensuring the university-wide EHS (Environment, Health and Safety) rather than conventional safety education limited to experimental features. Finally, we suggested ways to organize educational contents by safety module, along with the selection criteria of the curriculum.

The purpose of this study is to characterize the organizational metaphors by analyzing language examples used by the chief managers of the military police and the police organization and compare the two organizations. The results of this study through metaphor analysis were as follows. First, the characteristics of the military police and the police organizations are periodically different when it comes to the use of metaphors. Second, the chief managers of the police organization rely on a diverse metaphor, keeping up with the times. Third, the chief managers of the military police lack understanding of metaphors and have limitations when they try to sympathize with their members about their main polices. Fourth, from an organization metaphor analysis, it is found that both the military police and the police organizations have often used machine and culture related metaphors throughout the history.