A Study on the Risk Management of the Risk Accidents and Responses of the Elderly Employment Agency: Focusing on the employees of the Busan Metropolitan City Senior Club
Authors:   Form of Public Safety and Culture, Youn Ki Hyok , Lee Jin Yeol , Park Jae Young 
Published: August 2022

This study has structural limitations due to the characteristic that the participants are elderly people. This limitation can be explained that risk management is very necessary because there is a high possibility of causing a fatal or serious risk to the elderly in the event of an accident. Therefore, as a risk management study of the Senior Club, an institution in charge of employment for the elderly, the purpose of this study was to provide data for the risk management response of the institution in charge of employment for the elderly. For this purpose, the senior employment agency collected data from 16 senior club employees belonging to the Busan branch of the Korea Senior Club, and finally 234 copies were used for this study.
In particular, in this study, the differences according to demographic characteristics were investigated by identifying occupational risks, management (operational) risks, social risks, the possibility of disaster risk accidents, and the possibility of corona 19 risk accidents for employees of senior clubs, which are dedicated to senior employment. Furthermore, the need for risk management by an institution in charge of job placement for the elderly was divided into organizational, environmental, and legal and institutional dimensions, and the need for risk management was analyzed according to demographic and sociological characteristics.
As a result, first, among the differences in the possibility of risk accidents occurring at the senior employment agency according to the demographic characteristics of the study subjects, the possibility of occupational risk accidents was determined by age, position, educational background, and work type, and the possibility of risk accidents in management (operational) was determined by age, Position, period of service, social worker qualifications, work type, the likelihood of a socially hazardous accident by age, the possibility of a dangerous accident by gender, age, educational background, and work type, and the possibility of COVID-19 and dangerous accidents by age, There were significant differences in position, working period, work type, social worker qualifications, and educational background. Second, in the difference in response to risk management of senior employment agencies according to demographic characteristics, the need for organizational risk management is determined by position, period of service, and work type, and the need for environmental risk management is determined by position, length of service, and work type, legal and institutional Dimensional risk management necessity had significant differences in position, working period, and working type.
Based on the above research results, it was proposed to make compulsory risk management maintenance education taking into account the individual characteristics of workers in senior employment agencies, to establish a response TF team for each type of risky accident and to conduct case management, and to develop a customized risk management manual for senior employment agencies. In addition, this study is meaningful in that it provided basic data on risk accident awareness and risk management response of employees of an agency dedicated to senior citizens.