A Study on the HUMAN PSYCHOLOGICAL Stability of Railroad Engineers after an Accident

Abstract

Trains running through urban railroad sections in large cities are an important means of transportation for many passengers. In 2019, the number of passengers using the Seoul Metropolitan Railway reached 2.9 billion. The drivers are responsible for the safe operation of the numerous passengers repeatedly go two to three minutes apart, looking only at the railroad tracks in the dark underground section. Although the urban railway system is becoming state-of-the-art and accidents are caused by system errors and human error continue, so the train drivers must exert a high level of concentration to prevent accidents. This professional nature has led to considerable job stress for drivers, and the annual subway accident is feared to cause depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and various mental disorders and panic disorder caused by post-traumatic stress disorder. In this paper, while the accident lessons and measures are active in railway operation institutions after the occurrence of various railway accidents, the measures for drivers have been taken away from the very insufficient existing methods and considered the engineer as a special class of high-risk groups, and the application of the psychological stability program of firefighting officials, who are currently high-risk. The meaning and necessity of developing human psychological stability program for railroad engineers were presented by analyzing these.