대학 연구실 안전 강화를 위한 법제 개선방안

The safety management of research laboratories in Korea is mainly managed by the "Act on the Establishment of Safety Environment in Laboratory" enacted in March 2005, but the proportion of safety accidents in university laboratories is 84 percent since 2011, which is a high percentage compared to other research institutes and business-affiliated research institutes. Since most university labs are composed of undergraduate and master's students, their expertise is reduced, and thus they are highly exposed to the risk of safety accidents. Efforts to prevent safety accidents in the laboratory are essential because of the steady occurrence of safety accidents in the university laboratory. This is to disprove the importance of the Act on the Establishment of Safety Environment in Laboratory.42) The purpose of Act on the Establishment of Safety Environment in Laboratory is to efficiently manage research resources and thereby to contribute to the revitalization of scientific and technical research and development activities by ensuring the safety of laboratories in the fields of science and technology established in a university, research institute, etc. and ensuring proper compensation for damage caused by a laboratory accident. In order to achieve this purpose, we seek to improve the contents, operation and fundamental improvement. Improvements in contents include expansion of the scope of application. Recently, due to the revitalization of literature and science convergence studies and courses, the necessity of establishing a safety management system for the safety of university research laboratories, including not only science and technology departments, but also arts and humanities and social studies laboratories, is increasing. university laboratory accidents should apply to all laboratories, including the arts and physical arts department, but current Act on the Establishment of Safety Environment in Laboratory are limited to science and engineering. Therefore, it is urgent to expand the scope of application of the Law of Act on the Establishment of Safety Environment in Laboratory in order to solve the safety problems and legal problems caused by limiting the application of the Act on the Establishment of Safety Environment in Laboratory to the science and technology laboratory installed in universities and research institutes. This can be achieved through an extension of laboratory definition rules. There is also problem that the concept category of person engaged in research activities is unclear, and the scope of research activities is ambiguous. Directly quoting terms explicitly defined in laws related to science and technology is more consistent with the purpose of the law. Act on the Establishment of Safety Environment in Laboratory Article 3(Scope of Application) However, this has a scope of coverage and relations with other laws in one article. This is a mismatch of system legitimacy. Therefore, the provisions on scope and relations with other laws will have to be revised as separate independent clauses. In terms of operational improvement, only the science and technology field laboratories are separately managed. As a result, safety blind spots have occurred and systematic safety management has not been achieved. It is necessary to establish an integrated management and cooperation system for university and research institution safety related laws. Therefore, there is a need for safety management of universities and research institutes through powerful control towers. Inter-ministerial council arrangement can be an alternative. In addition, it is also necessary to establish and operate a comprehensive management system that extends safety management to people and the environment, which has been focused only on the safety of the laboratory. The fundamental improvement is the establishment of the right to constitutional security. The right to security means 'the right to fully preserve its constitutional interests from risk'. Prompt establishment of the right to constitutional security is urgent.