Korean Journal of Hazardous Materials (한국위험물학회지)

Korean Institute of Hazardous Materials (한국위험물학회)
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A Study on the Ideas on the type and cause analysis of Hazardous materials accidents

위험물질 사고의 유형 및 원인 분석에 관한 소고

  • Cha, Jung-Min (Dept. of Fire Safety Management, Kyungbuk Univ.) ;
  • Hyun, Seong-Ho (Dept. of Fire Safety Management, Kyungmin Univ.) ;
  • Lee, YongJae (Dept. of Fire Safety Management, Kyungmin Univ.) ;
  • Kim, Inbeom (Dept. of Fire Safety Management, Kyungmin Univ.)
  • 차정민 (경북전문대학교 소방안전관리과) ;
  • 현성호 (경민대학교 소방안전관리과) ;
  • 이용재 (경민대학교 소방안전관리과) ;
  • 김인범 (경민대학교 소방안전관리과)
  • Received : 2018.05.23
  • Accepted : 2018.06.16
  • Published : 2018.06.30
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Abstract

Based on the study executed by National Fire Agency on the hazardous material accidents occurred past five years, 60% of the accidents were caused by fire, 26% from leakage, and 14% from explosion. About 41% of the total accidents occurred from direct handling of hazardous materials, whereas 59% of the accidents occurred during facilities management process and non-direct handling process of the materials, rather than direct handling process. Therefore, it is necessary to make efforts to reduce accidents caused while non-direct handling process of hazardous material. According to 2016's National Fire Agency investigation, human factors accounts for 64.2% of the hazardous material accidents, among which 63.5% were caused by negligent management monitoring. In case of physical factors, 69.2% of the accident were caused by equipment failure. Therefore, reinforcement of the human factors in the safety management regarding hazardous materials in the future should be considered.

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