양돈 농가의 안전사고 발생현황 및 안전보건 관리수준

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to seek measures for improvement and management of farm worksafety and health by conducting questionnaire surveys and on-site investigations to ascertain the present state ofoccurrence of safety accidents and safety and health management levels among swine farmers. In particular, thepurpose of this study is to provide basic data for the establishment of measures for the management of safetyand health suitable to the characteristics of related working environments. Methods: Questionnaire surveys were conducted among 223 farmers engaged in swine farming in 14 regions,and 10 farms were visited in order to implement multilateral methods, including in-depth interviews, along withfield surveys. Results: The surveys indicated that 26.2% of all respondents experienced farm-work related safety accidents andbody-reaction related accidents showed a high ratio at 31.1% of all respondents. With regard to cause materialsof safety accidents, work other than that directly related to swine raising showed high ratios of safety accidents,with pigsty facility related accidents at 26.6%. Although most workers recognized the dangers latent in theworking environments, their behavior and responses to the prevention of safety accidents were still insufficientdue to a lack of understanding of safety and health management. In the survey on the present state of personalhygiene and wearing of protective equipment, workers were found to have been exposed to dangerous andharmful environments both inside and outside pigsties, but the actual states of their wearing protective safetyequipment were very poor. Conclusion: Given the results of this study, swine farmers well recognize problems in their control of safetyaccidents and management of safety and health, but their knowledge about safety and health education andmanagement guidelines was insufficient. Therefore, safety and health education, public relations, and customizedpersonal protective equipment suitable for swine raising work should be developed in order to address theforegoing problem.