무엇이 일터혁신의 산업안전 효과를 조절하는가?: 인적자원관리와 기술혁신을 중심으로

This study conducts an empirical study on whether HRM and automated technology moderate the impact of workplace innovation on occupational injury and illness, using the manufacturing sample of the 6th-8th rounds of Workplace Panel Survey(2015-2019) collected by Korea Labor Institute. Conjecturing that the inconsistent safety effects of workplace innovation in the previous studies are due to the varying characteristics of workplace innovation practices, we draw the following hypotheses: HRM and automation rate moderates negatively the effect of workplace innovation on occupational injury and illness. Besides, we explore the effects of workplace innovation, HRM, and automated technology on occupational injury and illness. We estimate panel-data fixed effects models. Their dependent variables are simple and recognized occupational injury and illness rate, and their main independent variables are workplace innovation, HRM, automation rate, and their interaction terms. The results of this study indicate the following: HRM moderates positively the reducing effect of workplace innovation on occupational injury and illness, and automation rate partially moderates it positively. Workplace innovation does not have a significant reducing effect on occupational injury and illness, while HRM and automation rate partially have significantly negative and positive ones respectively. Finally the results are summarized and interpreted, and their implications are discussed.