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A study on the Role of Ergonomics Experts in Industrial Safety and Health

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2021, 26(8), pp.83-90
  • DOI : 10.9708/jksci.2021.26.08.083
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science
  • Received : December 18, 2018
  • Accepted : August 20, 2021
  • Published : August 31, 2021

Kang-Jin Han 1 PARK DONGHYUN 2 Seo-Yeon Choi 3

1LG디스플레이
2인하대학교
3한서대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, effects on industrial accident prevention based on better safety and health environment by utilizing ergonomics expert were studied. This study was mainly based on the data from ‘the survey for occupational safety and health trend’ conducted by Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute. The number of industries participated in the survey was 2,084. Main results of the study were as follows; 1) Only 22.9% of the industries participated in the survey utilized ergonomics expert. The rest of the industries have never had an ergonomics expert due to the reasons such as lack of knowledge for the field of ergonomics, etc. 2) Specific activities done by the industries with ergonomics expert in order to have better safety & health were ‘providing work orders’(94.8%), ‘providing monitoring guidelines’(85.5%), ‘providing information for dangerous work’(95.8%), ‘providing safety education’(96.6%), and ‘other safety management’(94.1%). 3) When the odds ratio for the levels of communication and the levels of environmental stability regarding safety & health for the different groups(with experts and without experts), it was found that the group with ergonomics experts had a significant higher ORs(2.391, 95% confidence interval(1.949-2.932) and 2.128, 95% confidence interval(1.786-2.537)) respectively than those of the industries without ergonomics expert. The results suggested that ergonomics expert has been unique in most of time in terms of his/her contributions in the field of industrial safety and health.

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