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KMID : 0381319770160030091
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health
1977 Volume.16 No. 3 p.91 ~ p.103
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A Study on the Socio-medical Status of the Manufacturing Workers in the Masan Free Export Zone
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김응남/Kim, Eung Nam
이영호/이수일/정석주/맹광호/Lee, Youeg Ho/Lee, Soo Il/Chung, Seok Joo/Meng, Kwang-ho
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Abstract
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Followings are major indings obtained from a study on the socio-medical studus of the manufacturing workers in the Masan Free Export Zone.
This study was planned to find out socio-medical conditions of the workers which seemed to be essential to the better management of the health of the workers and the working environments.
For this study, 6987 workers who are equivalent to 26.9％ of total workers in Masan Free Export Zone as of the end of 1976 were sampled and they were asked to answer to the pretested questionnaire.
Questionaire survey took one month of period in November 1976. Major findings are;
1) General characteristics;
(1) 83.8％ of sampled workers were female.
(2) 84.9％ of workers were less than 25 years of age and female workers who entered in this age group were 93.6％.
(3) 91.9％ of workers had more than junior high school education and those who finished only junior high school occupied the majority with the proportion of 67.7％.
(4) 87.1％ of workers were un-married and the proportion for the female was 93.2％.
(5) Majority (89.6％) were from Yongnam area and 5.2％ of workers were from Honam area.
(6) 49.1％ of workers were living separately from their families and 76.9％ of them were self-cooking.
2) Working conditions and working history;
(1) 78.1％ of workers were receiving from 20,000 won to 40,000 won as their monthly salaries and those who were receiving from 40,000 won to 60,000 won were the next (12.5％).
(2) 34.4％ of workers had been working in the present plant for from one to three years and those who had been working for less than one year were 31.9％.
(3) Most of workers (91.2％) were working 8 hours a day but 25.3％ of precision optical instruments manufacturing workers were working about 10 hours a day.
(4) Only 6.2％ of workers ever changed their working places during the past one year. 89.0％ of them changed once and 9.0％, twice. Male workers changed their working places more often (8.7％) than female workers (5.7％).
3) Present and past history of illness;
(1) 6.7％ of workers had the sick among their family members and cardiovascular diseases were most common (47.8％).
(2) Those who had experiences of sickness lasted more than one week were 7.1％ and those who had operations were 3.3％.
(3) 42.0％ of worders were complainning at least one physical symptom. Those who were complainning "tingling pain on eye ball" were the most (20.5％), and headache. and dizziness were both the next (16.3％).
4) Smoking, drinking habits and drug dependency;
(1) Among all workers, 11.7％ (male, 69.5％; female, 0.4％) were smoking and 13.1％ (male, 71.9％; female, 2.3％) were drinking alchole. Those who were using drug customarily were only 2.3％ and the drugs they were using were aspirin (35.0％). antibiotics (12.5％) and others.
5) Present physical conditions found at the periodic physical examinations;
(1) Mean height of male workers vas 168.3㎝ and that of female workers was 158.1㎝. Mean body weight of male workers was 60.7㎏ and that of female workers was 51.3㎏.
(2) Those who had abnormal vision were 10.1％ and the frequency of self-awared hearing loss was 4.56％. If the visual powere of one or both eyes was less than 0.6, we considered this as an abnormal vision.
(3) Those who were informed by the physician that they had hypertension were 8.4％ and those whe were informed that they had tuberculosis lesion on the chest were only 0.4％.
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