Improving Qualification of Safety Manager at Construction Site

건설현장 안전관리자의 자격기준에 관한 연구

  • Gal, Won-Mo (School of Human & Environmental Sciences, Eulji University) ;
  • Son, Ki-Sang (Department of Safety Engineering, Seoul National University of Technology) ;
  • Jeong, Se-Gyun (Research Center for Safety & hygiene, Korea Occupational Safety & health Agency) ;
  • Choi, Jea-Nam (Graduate School of Energy and Environment, Seoul National University of Technology)
  • 갈원모 (을지대학교 보건환경과학부) ;
  • 손기상 (서울산업대학교 안전공학과) ;
  • 정세균 (한국산업안전공단 안전위생연구센터) ;
  • 최재남 (서울산업대학교 에너지환경대학원)
  • Published : 2009.06.30

Abstract

As shown in the accident analysis from 2007, it has been found that causes of accidents on large-scale projects are different from those found in general construction projects. A 300-question survey regarding systematic and practical aspects of safety problems at construction sites was distributed to ten (10) different companies. Participants were to respond subjectively, so that the results could be used to assemble the first formal questionnaire survey. They were collected and compiled by an advisory committee for this study. The resulting surveys were then sent to the division chiefs of the top 100 construction companies in Korea, in order to improve the response rate. The Department of Safety & Health Direction, and the :Ministry of Labor, ROK sent the same sheets to medium and small construction companies that placed within 101-200th of all Korea construction companies. The above safety engineers were classified into four (4) levels, from 1st to 4th, followed by the project dollar amount and risk level. Formulae were developed to assign safety engineers to construction sites by engineer level, the project dollar amount, and the project risk level. Conclusions are summarized as follows: 1) Reviewing the assignment system of experienced safety engineers to large scaled projects - The more experienced the engineers assigned to a project, the higher the level of accident prevention. 2) Enforcing the assignment of advanced level safety engineers to large-scaled sites - At least one advanced-level safety engineer should be assigned to construction sites with projects valued at $15million USD (15,000,000,000). 3) For assigning safety engineers by risk level - Twenty models have been developed to calculate the number of safety engineers to be assigned by risk level. In the future, risk level for each job should be established by the government (as is now the practice in Germany).

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