2019 Volume 10 Issue 2 Pages 45-47
The fact that the frequency of laboratory accident remains stable year after year suggests that the current concept of accident prevention based on retrospectively investigating the causes of accidents at their sources has certain limitations. In response to this situation, we have proposed a new concept for accident prevention systems using a non-empirical approach, such that laboratory users can promptly be informed when any deviation from the laboratory usual state is detected. In this system, all data concerning the state of the laboratory needs to be collected by real-time monitoring, and the usual state or “non-usual state” of the laboratory is defined by integrating various laboratory activity data. Thus, consolidating all relevant data to be monitored and establishing a method for collecting each data is important. In addition, collecting real-time data for laboratory’s individual details on human elements, non-human elements, and environments can also contribute to grasping the current situation and improving problems in the laboratory. In this paper, we report our recent results examining the tracking of reagent bottles using a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system as an example of the realtime monitoring. A case study in a real chemical laboratory confirmed that an RFID system can collect data for tracing object movements,however, the study also revealed we need to further develop our data-collection method in order to construct a non-empirical accident prevention system.
