Abstract

Despite accident prevention activities through government regulations such as the enforcement of the Serious Accident Act and various safety and health policies, the incidence of safety accidents is not showing a clear decrease. Accordingly, the Ministry of Employment and Labor recently distributed a guide on Tool Box Meetings and presented TBM activities as a key activity to prevent safety accidents, although it is not a legal obligation. In this study, we studied the impact of TBM activities on safety factors in manufacturing plants that are currently operating TBM activities to prevent safety accidents. Through a review of previous research, the TBM activity level was used as an independent variable, and safety communication, safety importance culture, and regulatory procedure culture were configured as dependent variables. Based on the results of a survey of 179 workers at 13 manufacturing plants, statistical analysis was conducted using JAMOVI, a statistical analysis program. As a result of the study, the level of TBM activity in the manufacturing industry was positively related to safety communication (=0.607, p<.001), safety importance culture (=0.574, p<.001), and regulatory procedure culture (=0.579, p<.001). It was confirmed to have a significant effect. Through these results, implications were discussed: first, that TBM activities in the manufacturing industry can affect safety accident prevention by improving safety culture subfactors, and second, that TBM activities should be more activated to prevent safety accidents in the manufacturing industry. . In addition, we hope that TBM activities will be activated in the manufacturing industry and contribute to the prevention of safety accidents through follow-up research on the safety effects of TBM activities at manufacturing workplaces.

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