<b>Decline in risk perception when using chemicals as tools - suggestions for laboratory safety </b>

• Tachikake Toshiyuki

  Student Support Center, Okayama University

• Momose Hideki

  Department for the Administration of Safety and Hygiene, Osaka University

• Tomita Kengo

  Environment, Health and Safety Office, Nagoya University

• Shibata Ikuya

  Research Center for Environmental Preservation , Osaka University

• Yamamoto Hitoshi

  Department for the Administration of Safety and Hygiene, Osaka University

• Usui Shinnosuke

  Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

抄録

We collected and analyzed reports of accidents over a four-year period at a Japanese university. Focusing on accidents resulting from contact with chemical substances among accidents in academic research, we found that accident victims were more likely to be in biology,physics, or other non-chemistry fields relative to chemistry-related fields, and that the number of accident reports tended to increase among those with more research experience. In addition, of the accidents involving the handling of chemical substances, 58.2% of the total cases resulting in accidents involved the use of chemical substances as tools in the experimental process, rather than being the actual subject of the research. These results show that today’s advanced research is closely related to the use of chemical substances as tools,underscoring a need for the understanding of the hazardous properties of chemical substances through basic education about chemical substances and ongoing accident prevention efforts in academic research. The use of chemical substances as tools in experimental research was found to be closely related to a decline in risk perception, and investigation of this mechanism should contribute to future safety education efforts.

収録刊行物

• 環境と安全

  環境と安全 7 (2), 133-139, 2016

  大学等環境安全協議会

キーワード

• Risk Perception
• Accident Analysis
• Safety Education
• Laboratory Safety

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390282680378983424
• NII論文ID: 130005263399
• DOI: 10.11162/daikankyo.e15rp0901
• ISSN: 21863725
• ISSN: 18844375
• 本文言語コード: en
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