‘ 75 OSH Research Results Unveiled’
Research on directions for OSH policy and system |
□ Korea Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute (OSHRI) opens 75 reports of research on occupational safety and health.
○ Those are results of OSHRI's activities in 2015 and suggesting directions for OSH policy. Also showing domestic trend of OSH in industry.
○ Researches are mainly based on the five areas: policy, safety, occupational health, working condition and chemicals; and each area has different number of reports
*note: 24 reports for policy, 9 for safety, 14 for occupational health, 11 for working condition and 17 for chemicals.
□ This year's reports are focused on practical use on site. Especially a device has been developed based on 「Research on electric shock accident prevention for mobile equipment」which is one of the research topic for safety, and it is in process of application for patent.
Another practical use of the research reports are as below:
No. |
Topic |
Practical on-site use |
1 |
Research on electric shock accident prevention for mobile equipment |
Patent on ground connection check and power control device with circuit breaker |
2 |
Research on development for control banding approach of nano-material exposure |
Guideline development for nano material handling workers' health protection |
3 |
Program development for emotional workers |
Development of brain education program |
4 |
Research on diving work and cost/benefit analysis |
Development of diving works' decompression planning program |
□ KOSHA's OSHRI published 「Executive summary of research on OSH」and resaerch reports' content can be found by search menu of its website: http://oshri.kosha.or.kr.
□ Kwon, Hyuck-myun, Director of OSHRI said that, "The reports are in line with support to government's OSH policy and proactive OSH issue” and "I hope opening and sharing of the results can bring further improvement of occupational safety and health".
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