유해위험작업의 실태조사를 통한 안전보건교육제도에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study analyzes the current state of safety and health education in the Occupational Safety and Health Act and implements measures for the prevention of industrial accidents by improving the hazardous work which has not been revised for more than 20 years. In this study, The theoretical review through a large body of literature is thoroughly conducted. Based on this review, the comparative analysis between domestic and international safety and health education is performed as well. Furthermore, the industrial accidents is analyzed to investigate the status of hazardous work. In specific, laws related to industrial accidents are studied and the laws in the case of Japan are compared with those in the case of Korea. In this respect, we conducted surveys, SWOT analysis, and expert brainstorming and ultimately reached the conclusions as follows. First, as a result of the comparative analysis of the system of health and safety education between Korea and major foreign countries, the overall legal system, supervision, and punishment were remarkably similar, excepting systematic and detailed definition of safety and health education. In addition, systematic system of domestic education and professional instructors are urgently needed with respect to institutions, contents, and methods for safety and health education, Second, despite the rapid changes in the industrial structure, hazardous work in the Industrial Safety and Health Act has not been revised for over 20 years. However, a Japan’s committee has been formed right after the enactment of the law. Along with changes in the industrial structure through steady research with field experts, amendments are directly introduced. Therefore, in Korea, a committee for the revision of special education should be organized and the Industrial Safety and Health Act is revised according to changes in industrial structure. Third, as a result of analysis on 11,513 cases of deaths in the past 10 years, it is revealed that the regulations for the works that show a high death rate should be maintained. However, it is necessary to amend the regulations related to works with a zero or low death rate through the detailed and comprehensive analysis. Fourth, as a result of survey on the status of employment restriction of hazardous work, it is necessary to provide safety education suited to each work characteristic. By integrating tasks overlapping with special education subjects, the new (or revised) certification for relevant works and education of professional training is needed. lastly, as a result of survey on the special education of hazardous work, first of all, the experts' brainstorming indicates that there were almost no changes in 38 tasks since the legislation was created. Therefore, it is necessary to amend the regulation by adding or removing the target work with respect to recent industrial structure change. Also, the theory education has been usually conducted in the field, but the experiential education that suits the characteristic of each work is more important than the theory education. Only theoretical education, it is difficult to train the professional instructor. This limitation is due to the statute by which the business owner or the safety officer can educate. Therefore, it is necessary to revise the regulations on training of professional instructors in the certified institutions like the case of Japan. In addition, Most of the security personnel in the company are currently conducting the education. Their educational satisfaction is not low, but it is required to provide hands-on training and practice-oriented education more than a theory education. Also, the education through a professional instructor in consigned education institutions or private education institutions is more necessary than that through a safety officer in the company.