According to the fact that the portion of service industry is getting bigger in whole industry, laborer in service has been risen to 45% of entire labor and the number of casualties are increasing compared to construction or manufacturing industry. Ho...
According to the fact that the portion of service industry is getting bigger in whole industry, laborer in service has been risen to 45% of entire labor and the number of casualties are increasing compared to construction or manufacturing industry. However, occupational safety and health policy and industrial accident preventive program have been focused on construction and manufacturing fields that laborers in service industry are not fully supported by government's budget or technical reinforcement compared to other industry laborers. Government's concern has been enlarged due to increase of service industrial accidents, hence they are adopting existing technical, financial, and education support policies which was programmed to settle the construction and manufacturing industry accidents. However, these policies are not proven to be suitable for service industry yet. From these perspective, this study analyzes the form of industrial accidents and field status in service industry to arrange industrial accident preventive program and supporting system. For the purpose, research have been carried out in three steps:
First, we narrowed down the type of business to 6 out of 19 types of business in the service industry, which were classified into a most frequent labor accidents detected by the government. We analyzed characteristics and form of disaster. This study covers the divergence and similarity of the 6 service industries by assessment of industrial features and type of accidents utilizing labor accident statistics which are number of workers, number of disasters, number of deaths, accident rate and number of occupational diseases etc.
In literature investigation, for the second step, we inquired into the feature of occupational safety and health policy and industrial accident preventive program. Moreover, we examined the analysis of causes and compared advanced foreign nations (Germany, Japan and the United States). we checked the accuracy of current occupational safety and health policy and industrial accident preventive program that Korea government enforces. We looked into the industrial accident prevention program that focused on construction and manufacturing fields or full-time workers whether or not this program is appropriate on changes in industrial structure or diversification of employment patterns. We tried to observe services directly or indirectly related to industrial accident preventive program, such as CLEAN workplace support program, loan-facility support programs, safety+ visiting campaign. After that, we examined the occupational safety and health policy of advanced major countries and the industrial accident prevention program that could be applied to Korea. Germany is different from Korea policy in that federal, state, and casualty insurance agencies. Each agency who are responsible for occupational safety and health is participating to set up the joint health and safety strategy. Japan government put emphasis on the independent safety and health management systems between labor and management in the workplace. Occupational safety and health administration in the United States operates a powerful and effective law enforcement process under the three strategies for accident prevention program such as the european enhancement program, providing training and compliance support, partnership and cooperation programs. Since its inception of Barack Obama administration, in addition, the strategic plan for a new mission and vision has established.
Third, survey was conducted to investigate workers'needs and satisfaction for condition of occupational safety and health and occupational safety and health support policy in between six services industry that have most accidents. Businesses with less than 100 workers were surveyed in six services industry.
We analyzed workplace safety and health level about 6 categories, employer interests, the possibility of industrial accident, the possibility of musculoskeletal disorders, the risk level of other workplaces, prevention activities, and job stress with 38 entries using analysis of variance, test of between-subjects effects and multiple comparison analysis.In addition, we investigate the needs and satisfaction of government support policies about 6 categories, occupational safety and health law, accident prevention costs, technical advisory, business education, visit campaign, workplace inspection, consulting agency, disaster cause investigation, health medical examination, protection device using importance-performance analysis.
Therefore, we propose these three steps above for a comprehensive study of the activities of the occupational safety and health support policy and propose how to apply the occupational safety and health support policy correctly.