This study aims to draw priorities and importance of things to be improved at the moment to raise the sense of safety of harbor cargo workers at Busan Port, in order to prevent safety accidents during cargo working and improve safety management.
For these purposes, this study conducted literature analysis of previous studies on harbor safety, through precedent studies of safety management objects and safety fields such as harbor facilities, harbor dangerous articles, harbor safety, ship liners and harbor cargo working.
In addition, to draw factors, this study applied 4M industrial accident factors through container terminal safety managers, port trade unions, harbor cargo workers, interviews of port trade union members and precedent studies on harbor cargo safety management and industrial accidents; then, it extracted 16 subfactors under 4 representative factors.
As for the spacial range, Jaseongdae Container Terminal of Busan North Port, Gamman Container Terminal, Sinseondae Container Terminal and Busan New port were included as targets; as for the duty, this study was conducted targeting container terminal cargo workers and safety managers.
To draw priorities and importance to improve safety management of Busan Port cargo workers, analytic hierarchy process(AHP), which was put forth by Thomas L. Saaty in 1970s was used for analysis. AHP is the decision making method that stratifies evaluation factors and draws priorities by measuring relative importance among evaluation items.
Objects of analysis were classified according to detailed duties into checker, Q. C / T. C / Y. T / Y. F(duty of running equipment), foreman, reefer, center and others; AHP analysis was carried out through the survey of cargo workers.