산업안전보건관리체계에 있어서 노사참여제도의 효율성제고 방안에 관한 연구

Abstract

The role of workers' participation in industrial safety and health has recently become a hotly debated issue. The participation of workers along with employers in ensuring industrial safety and health rather than having only the employer take part has a significant and important meaning in today's safety and health management system. Although there is an increase in the workers' participation in the safety and health activities of workplace, it is not an easy task to discover an adequate role of workers' participation within Korea's traditional market economy. Therefore, by examining the labor and management participation system and its operational activities in the industrial safety and health system of major advanced countries and Korea, this paper compares and analyzes the systems and operational activities. Also, this paper is aimed at contributing to the establishment of an efficient industrial safety and health policy, and the constitution and development of a cooperative, autonomous and creative labor relations. For such purpose, this paper examines how labor and management participate and cooperate in the decision making and implementation processes of industrial safety and health policy in advanced countries such as Germany, the UK and France. Based on the examples of advanced countries, a survey was prepared and conducted to understand how labor and management participation in safety and health activities of workplace was perceived and carried out in Korea In the survey, various industries were selected as samples including mining, manufacturing, construction, transport, storage and communications and other industries, and a total of 421 interviews of employers and workers were analyzed. The data collected via this survey was analyzed by the SPSS 12.0. First, in order to organize the data by population statistics, frequency analysis was carried out. Afterwards, a T-test was taken to understand the differences between employers and workers in relation to the labor and management participation in industrial safety and health, and analysis of variance(ANOVA) was performed to determine the difference in level of recognition of labor and management participation activities based on age, working years, number of employees, and business type. Finally, a correlation analysis on the level of importance and performance of labor and management participation activities was executed. Based on the survey results, systems of advanced countries that could be introduced to Korea's safety and health system were found, thereby presenting a direction for the development of labor and management participation in Korea's current system of safety and health management.