Following results are come from the investigation about occupational diseases working environment and safety ho1met. 20 % of workers(160 persons) in the textile industry in Taegu, 1977, July. Here, I used the method of distribution
1. Acaident of inj...
Following results are come from the investigation about occupational diseases working environment and safety ho1met. 20 % of workers(160 persons) in the textile industry in Taegu, 1977, July. Here, I used the method of distribution
1. Acaident of injury while on duty
1) Respondents pointed out 18 kinds of accident which high1y possible to happen in working place. Among these, 「Knife wound because of careless use」 is the most, 16 cases; 「tool wound because of careless use」, 「turning roller wound」, and 「crash with goods carrying truck」9 cases each; 「finger severance by contacts with spinning raw nylon thread」7 cases.
2) 12.5 % of respondents have experienced injury on job. They insisted that the causes of accident; 40 % of careless behaviors by himself or others, 30 % of imperfectness of machinery equipment, 30 % of no answer respectively. Specifying injuries, the most case is external injuries of those upper body injuries are usual case.
3) Absense because of injury on job
Except seven men who do not remember absent days, the rest 13 men's average absent days are about eighteen days.
On the other hand, on the basic of formal study on this industry 28 cases of accident broke out to record 3.9 % of on job injury rate so that they marked 264 loss days during 1977.
2. Existence and Nonexistence of nonwound accidents and their report attitude.
6.9% of workers has experienced nonwound accidents for three months. Under the assumption of nonwound accidents happen to himself, the portion which will make exact report is only 24.4 %.
Over half of them (66.9 %) not. But for the group that believes this report will be much aid to prevent accident, report attitude is positive (76.9 %).
On the other hand, in the group that does not believe, report attitude is negative.
3. Anxiety about occupational diseases and experience or nonexperience.
59.4 % workers worry about happening of occupational diseases to themselves. For the degree in anxiety, women show a little more serious attitude (64.6 %) than men (57.1 %), but cach departure shows little difference.
But in relation to educational level, educational level shows inverse proportion to the degree of anxiety. Moreover the causes of anxiety come from Masscam or oral information, and genarally have no relation with occupational disc see case.
On the other hand, 22.5% (36 persons) of interviewes insisted that speciality of their working environment and work made them to hove occupational diseases, neurotic sastroeuterie disorder (7 persons), difficulty in hearing (6 persons) and. another 7 hinds (17 persons). But in the contrary, industry admits only difficulty in hearing.
4. Working Environment and Safety Equipment
1) Working Environment
Among the all suffering conditions at working place, female workers and workers at production department are suffered from long hours' standing work. In high temperature working conditions, male workers and workers at public affairs department suffered. The improvements on their inconvenient working condition which they suggested are;
(1) Improvement of working environment
(2) wearing of safety equipment, and
(3) proper arrangement of break time
2) Safety equipment.
in view of their characteristics of work, over 60 % of workers claim that it is needed to wear safety equipment. But actual wearing proportion is low. This unrational attitudes of respondents, except 3/1 of workers who are unexplainable, not derived from distrust of efficiency of safety but inconvenient wearing methods.