항만하역종사자의 안전분위기와 태도가 안전성과에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Abstract

The role of ports is rapidly increasing as international trade advances briskly, with globalization, industrialization and specialization at the same time. With the fast-growing role of ports, the workload of stevedore is also increasing, which leads to a high rate of industrial accident actually. As of 2010, ports – key national infrastructure – are important import-export gateway that accounts for the handling of more than 90% cargo. Industrial accidents occurred at this national infrastructure give rise to suspension of work, productivity loss, cost increase, loss of national image, etc. This national or personal loss may have enormously direct or indirect damage to ports.

The purpose of this study is, First, to examine the real state of safety accidents and safety consciousness for harbor workers at Busan Port. Second, it is to determine the main factors that can have an effect on the safety performance for harbor workers. Lastly, it is to find out the effect on which safety climate and attitude of harbor workers have on their safety performance and verify it through empirical analysis.

For this purpose, a survey was conducted on harbor workers at Busan Port Container Terminal and Bulk Terminal, For two weeks, from April 26, 2017 to May 12, 2017, 200 copies of questionnaires were distributed to them, of which 146 copies could be collected. SPSS 21.0 Program was used in date analysis, and frequency analysis was done for demographic characteristics, And then, Cronbach Alpha analysis and factorial analysis were conducted to verify the validity of measurement tool. With data proving reliability and validity, multiple regression analysis was done for hypothesis test.

The result of this study is as follow : First, it turns out that, in terms of climate and safety performance, leadership, safety support, and cooperation have a positive effect on the safety performance. So, it is necessary to have a good strategy that can boost up safety performance through better communication among field workers and managers, free exchange of ideas and feedback, various support for safety, sense of morality and cooperation among coworkers. Second, in terms of safety attitude and safety performance, it turns out safety-oriented attitude has a positive effect on the safety performance. For better safety performance, stevedoring companies need to keep up the practice will and effort of having workers comply with safety regulations and procedures thereof. At first, it was thought that careless and cavalier attitude of workers might have a negative effect on safety performance, but empirical analysis shows their careless or cavalier attitude does not have significant effect on it statistically. This result shows that, although cargo working has a high risk of accidents, those accidents that are often occurred at come from safety ignorance that they have had usually.

The result of this study shows the necessity of building up safety management system that can boost up the safety consciousness of workers, and coming up with how to improve safety performance. From a working-level standpoint, it can be an important implication.