This study was designed to survey misused expression in 37 KS (Korean Industrial standards) related to personal protective equipment.
The results were as follows:
1. One hundred and twenty five misused expressions were found
- 44 expressions were used illogically (35.2 %). 80 expressions were wrongly described (64.0 %)
The types of illogically misused are:
10 illogical cases, 4 cases of a wrongly designated provision when cited, 12 cases of the lack of provisons for KS, 7 cases of a inappropriate uses of units, 8 cases of an overlapped sizes between standards.
- The types of expressions wrongly described are:
30 cases of confusion in using an terms, 4 case of making an error when proofreading, and 29 cases of choosing words not appropriate to describe technical standard, 18 cases of unclear provisons due to missing phrases and terms, and 11 cases of provisons described differently from original intended purposes.
2. There is one case, where the same standard is categorized as two different names.
There are three major causes of the misused expressions as seen from the following summary:
- Imitated the developed countries´ standards without filtering them by considering domestic law and ocher KS standards.
- Tended to create each definition for each standard instead use of the basic standard.
- Insufficiency of synthetic examination to the correlation between standards.
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