민간경비종사자들의 위기관리에 대한 인식분석과 정책적 논의

The Empirical Study on Private Security Employee Consciousness of the Emergency Management: with the case of the Daegu metropolitan city

Hazard are defined here as threat to life, well-being, material goods and environmental from the extremes of natural processes or technology. The challenges of natural and technology in increasing the exposure of people and property to risk pose a dilemma for any government seeking the fullest protection for its people and their property. As society progresses and as technology improves and becomes ever more intricate and far reaching, the human species is confronted with increasingly diverse and numerous catastrophic events. Not so infrequently, unfortunately, the impact of either a man-made or natural disaster is compounded by the fact that policy makers have neither prepared themselves or the public to respond appropriately to a disaster once the tragedy has struck. Many concerns have been raised for importance of emergency management after 1990 s numerous urban disasters in Korea. Emergency management is the discipline and profession of applying science, technology, planning, and management to deal with extreme events that can injure or kill large numbers of people, cause extensive damage to property, and disrupt community life. When the primary function of private security is to protect lives and property of clients, emergency management should be included in the security service and many countermeasure services should be carried out for that purpose. The purpose of this study is to investigate security employee’ consciousness of the emergency management. It also intends to provide useful data for the establishment of total emergency management system in Korea. This study is methodologically based on the literature review, and the survey research(using data from 207 security employee in Daegu metropolitan city. As statistical analysis, mainly simple frequency analysis were conducted by using SPSS package. Conclusionally, policy makers and private security industry employers in Korea has not concerned with the importance of training and education by lack of recognition and has been passive about qualified guards. And the authorities supervising and the administrating the guards has not recognized the importance of private security and has neglected the training of the guards. In theses contexts, private security should develop and maintain a educational program of emergency management to meet their responsibilities to provide the protection and safety of the clients. Today s modern corporate security director, is, first of all, a competent, well-rounded business executive and, second, a ‘service expert’. And, emergency management personnel in private security industry need continuous training.