KRAS의 제조업 사업장 적용 실태에 관한 연구

Abstract

According to the statistics of the Korean Ministry of Employment and Labor Occupational Accidents, the rate of the industrial accidents decreased in 2012 by 0.59% from 3.98% in 1982 as the employer, employees, private safety organizations and government branches put forth increased efforts and applied existing risk assessment method to each manufacturing industry with the establishment of the occupation safety and health act in December, 1981. The aim of this study is to propose methods to apply KRAS support system and increase its availability by collecting and analyzing various opinions from the manufacturing industry through the KRAS support system application status survey conducted by the manufacturing industry. For this study, a survey of KRAS support system procedures and changes of safety and health management in the field was conducted at 54 manufacturing industry in Ulsan. Safety consciousness of the employer and employees was improved after KRAS support system were applied. In particular, risk assesment procedures were assessed to contribute to prevention of industrial accidents and improve systematic safety, health management and work environments. However, it was assessed to have many difficulties in deducting mechanical, electrical, chemical and biological, work characteristics and work environmental factors at step 2(Hazard identification) of the KRAS support system procedure. In addition, KRAS support system were assessed to have a low application rate to the manufacturing industry. The reasons for this insufficiency in application included the evaluator’s subjective judgement, the difference between the evaluator’s specialty in realizing the hazard identification, and the difficulty in predicting the employee’s unsafe behavior during the work. For these reasons, it is necessary to improve the system to support the problems. Therefore, it is necessary to safety and health experts training, evaluators training, development of specific assessment tools such as a hazard identification method, risk evaluation method and for an employer to pay continuous attention.