Abstract

While the number of industrial fatalities has been declining in recent years, companies' safety and health management systems are still inadequate, and more than half of industrial accidents are caused by failure to follow basic safety rules. It is important to raise safety awareness among workers and create a safety culture in the workplace. Especially in large-scale, complex environments with many inherent risks, such as power plants, it is necessary to develop solutions specific to power plant sites, such as an emotional design approach that improves worker awareness of safety rules and drives user behavior. To this end, we used user-centered service design techniques to diagnose potential risk factors for each process in the power plant, identify problems from the worker's perspective, and conduct idea competitions and co-creation workshops to develop solutions. The final nine solutions were designed and demonstrated, and received positive evaluations through satisfaction and effectiveness analysis. Through this, it was confirmed that in power plants where risk factors are scattered in various places, an approach that enhances the effectiveness of problem discovery through worker participation and co-development of solutions is necessary. In the future, if safety design considering user characteristics is further developed to minimize potential safety factors and risks by considering the user's lifecycle, it will contribute to improving the safety achievement of power plants.

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