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KMID : 0381319920310030074
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health
1992 Volume.31 No. 3 p.74 ~ p.86
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The Effect of Environmental Measurement on the Improvement of Environmental Condition in Workplac
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안규동. 함정오. 이성수. 황규윤. 정두신. 이병국
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Abstract
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To investigate the effect effect of environmental measurement on the improvement of working condition in small and medium sized industries and to evaluate the usefulness of this measurement which is covered by Occupational Safety and Health Act
for
the
protection of workers from hazardous working condition, authors selected 107 small and medium sized manufactring industries mainly from Chunan area and partly from lead using industries which were in special contract of agent specific
occupational
health service with Institute of Industrial Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Environmental measurements were provided twice in interval of 6 months to study industries. At the end of second measurement questionnaires were collected to check the
usefulness of this measurement for the workers and industries itself. The results obtained were as follows:
1. Out of 107 manufacturing industries, the most frequently measured index of harmful agent in environmental measurement was noise, and the next indices were dust, organic solvents and special chemicals in descending order While the excess rates
of
measurement over Permissible Exposure Level (PEL) in the first measurement were 19.3% in noise, 22.8% in dust, 14.3% in organic solvents and 20.3% in special chemicals measurement, those in second measurement were 26.0% in noise, 14.7% in dust,
10.0% in
organic solvents and 29.5% in special chemicals measurement, respectively
2. The supply rate of protective equipment and the labeling condition of health and safety poster in the later period of study were improved than early period.
3. Most persons in charge of health and safety management (97.2%) had engaged in other administrative works and only 2.8% of study industries had independent occupational safety and health personnels who engaged only in health and safety of
workers.
4. the purpose of environmental measurement answered by the eligible of persons in each industries was to report at the regional office of labor affair Only 7 out of 107 industries answered that their measurements were for the real improvement
of
working condition and 3 industries for fufilment of requirement of trade union.
5. While 86.0% in industries (92/107) felt the report of environmental measurement was helpful to set up protective equipment program to prevent workers from harmful condition, 66.4% in industries answered that it was useful for the
establishment
of
health education program. The measurement of environmental conditions were also useful for the installation of ventilatory system of workplace, for the isolation of work process and for the improvement of work process. But 8.4% in industries
answered
that it was not useful at all.
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