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Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science Vol.16 No.1 pp.129-138
DOI : https://doi.org/10.12812/ksms.2014.16.1.129

제조업 중업종별 재해율과 작업능력지수에 관한 연구
-경북북부지역을 중심으로-

최 원 일*,
김 상 호**
*한국산업안전보건공단 대구지역본부,
**금오공과대학교 산업공학부

The Correlation between Work Ability Index and Workplace Injuries of Semi-Industrial Classification around North GyeongBuk Area

Sang-Ho Kim*, Won-Il Choi**
*Daegu Office, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency
**School of Industrial Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology
Received January 15, 2014; Revision Received March 13, 2014; Accepted March 13, 2014.

Abstract

As S. Korea is becoming an “aged society”, workers in the country would be exposed to higher risk ofworkplace injuries due to their reducing work abilities as they are getting old. To identify the relationshipbetween the work ability and the incident rate of workplace injuries, the work ability index (WAI) scores weresurveyed from 409 workers occupied in different manufacturing industries reside on north GyoengBuk area. Theworkplace injury statistics in the year of 2010 for the corresponding industries were analyzed and summarizedwith the WAI scores by age groups, years of service, and sizes of business.The results showed the WAI scores of the workers occupied in the higher risk of workplace injury waslower than that of the workers of the lower risk. It means the lower the WAI score, the higher the chance ofbeing injured during the task. It is concluded that appropriate correlation exists between the WAI scores ofworkers and the incident rate of workplace injury. It is recommended to administrate individual work abilitiesof aged workers in order to keep low rate of workplace injuries in upcoming aged and highly aged society.

 

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