Abstract
Human casualties caused by industrial accidents pose a serious threat to corporate management due to the continual strengthening of safety laws as well as changes in the public’s awareness of corporate social responsibility. Accordingly, companies are raising safety awareness among employees by regularly conducting on-site safety activities and training to prevent industrial accidents. However, the safety activities, education, and training of many companies are not carried out voluntarily or in practice by their employees, but mostly through formal implementation. To break away from these customary and passive behaviors and establish a mature safety culture, it is crucial to strengthen the execution capacity of safety management in the field; to this end, we plan to utilize the safety practice index (SPI). The safety practice index (SPI), which quantitatively represents the degree of safety practice, is necessary to increase the effectiveness of safety management for the purpose of preventing accidents. In this study, the correlation was verified by comparing the SPI calculated based on the 2018 and 2019 risk management and the safety activity results of manufacturer A with the reported safety accidents. It was also effective in improving the SPI and reducing safety accidents in 2020 by supplementing the weaknesses of the SPI in 2018 and 2019. According to the results of this study, SPI can be used as an effective indicator for safety accident prevention activities by supplementing weaknesses with strengths through strengthening leadership and safety policies, such as classifying and managing the safety management level of a specific period or department.
Highlights
According to a CNBC (Consumer News and Business Channel) analysis of the economic outlook report released by the World Monetary Fund (IMF), South Korea, which ranked 12th in 2019, ranked 10th in the world in terms of nominal gross domestic product (GDP) after the outbreak of COVID-19 [1]
The applied grades were classified in the same way as the safety activity index, and the average of the grades for each item was calculated by calculating the risk assessment (RAs), high-risk improvement (HRi), and unsafe act (UAc) ratio (%), after which the ‘Risk management index (RMI)’ was expressed as a geometric average value
As a result of reflecting the safety practice index (SPI) for seven factories, it was confirmed that the safety practice level grade and safety accidents are quantitatively inversely proportional, revealing that it can be used as an effective index for safety management
Summary
According to a CNBC (Consumer News and Business Channel) analysis of the economic outlook report released by the World Monetary Fund (IMF), South Korea, which ranked 12th in 2019, ranked 10th in the world in terms of nominal gross domestic product (GDP) after the outbreak of COVID-19 [1]. In this regard, South Korea has strengthened the level of punishment given to companies that have experienced serious industrial accidents by enacting the ‘Serious Accident Corporate. The main cause of continuous safety accidents in companies has been determined to be the continuous repetition of unsafe acts, such as (1) neglecting unsafe conditions, (2) work methods, or (3) poor wearing of protective equipment [5] This is proof that safety activities are either not being properly carried out in the field or are not being carried out effectively. The previous studies described above are expected to be useful in predicting safety accidents through unsafe act and condition observations and allowing for advance warning of possible risks in the workplace. It was confirmed that the SPI rating can be used as a quantitative indicator for accident prevention, and it was found to be effective
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