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KMID : 0606019960020010087
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Soonchunhyang Journal of Industrial Medicine
1996 Volume.2 No. 1 p.87 ~ p.101
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Actual Status and Understanding of Workshop Environment of Small-sized Companies in and around Taegu City
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이성미
이종영/김두희/이종화/장봉기
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Abstract
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This study was conducted to examine both actual status and understanding of the workshop environment of the small sized companies with 30 or less employees in and around Taegu city, Korea by analysing the questionnaires with 400 small sized
manufacturing companies from the end of Mar. to the end of June 1993 according ro their employee number and business type. The result of this study is summarized as follows.
The job title of the respondents showed that the president accounted for 34.3% which was highest, particularly, which showed the highest percent in the companies with 5-9 employees. The management of workshop environment indicated that the
response
of
'Very Necessary' accounted for 52.0% which was higher. Thus it was shown that the owner and manager's understanding of the improvement of workshop environment indicated that the president accounted for 51.1% which was also higher, 54.3% of all
subjects
considered their workshop environment as not goo, while 66.5% answered that the workshop environment has effect on the health of employees.
The actual status of industrial accidents occurred from January to December 1992 showed 18.7% frequency, while their business type was that the metal and machinery industries accounted for 24.8%. In addition, their size indicated that 16-29
employees
accounted for 26.5% which was higher than that of other companies with different sizes.
Regarding the question of understanding whether their workshop is the subject required for measuring the workshop environment, it was shown that the response of 'No Understanding' accounted for 57.0%, Based on their size, the companies with 5-9
employees accounted for 37.6% while on their business types the metal and machinery industries accounted for 31.2% which showed the lowest understanding. In case of the companies understanding as the subject required for measurement of their
workshop
environment, the subject required for measurement of their workshop environment, the harmful element acting as a problem in their workshop indicated that the response of 'Too Noisy' accounted for 37.8%, and 'Too Serious Dust' for 11.8%, when the
nose
appeared as the most serious harmful element in all workshops. Among the companies required for measuring the workshop environment, it was shown that the workshops which did not carry out the required measurement accounted for 24.4%. of the
workshops
which carried out the measurement required for their workshop environment, the frequency of annual two times accounted for 40.1% which was highest. Based on their size, it was shown that the companies with 16-29 employees accounted for 52.6%
which
was
highest. The use of their measured data and execution of required improvement showed that the response of 'Good' was totally high. Also the keeping result of their measured list indicated that the response of 'Good' accounted for 72.3%.
Based on the above result, the understanding of needs for control of workshop environment was high. However, the actual improvement of workshop environment was not so active as their understanding. Because the health of all employees in closely
related
to the harmful workshop environment and working conditions, it will be necessary for the government to support the improvement of workshop environment of these small sized companies with insufficient capability of investment, to suggest its
direction
and to continuously encourage and inspect their measurement of workshop environment.
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