Study on Application of Risk Assessment System for the Small and Medium Size Companies in Korea

摘要

This paper presents some recommendations that help small and medium size companies in Korea build their own safety management system against industrial accident, based on in-depth investigation and comparison of lots of foreign management and legal systems with the domestic ones. In Korea, PSM (Process Safety Management) system has been widely adopted for a risk assessment system, but has been applied only to large-scale companies and a few specific industrial fields such as petrochemical and chemical industries. This means that PSM is quite complicate and not adaptable for small size companies. This paper suggests the simple risk assessment system that can be applied to various industrial areas. This model consists of S stages; "identification of hazards", "risk assessment", "determination of management action plan", ''operation", and "observation and review". Some samples and operation details available to build this model are also presented as a practical user guide. If the suggested system is built up on small and medium size companies and the legal and management system is complemented accordingly, it is expected that lots of companies can gain the same positive effect as some of companies already did through PSM.