2021 Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 25-28
Because experiments in laboratories often deal with potential sources of danger, safety education plays an important role in preventing accidents. To increase the effectiveness of safety education, it is desirable to explain the mechanism by which each source of danger becomes evident as an accident depending on how the experiment is conducted, using examples of accidents that have actually occurred in the immediate vicinity. It is also important to incorporate experiments using each hazard source as a specific teaching material into the safety education curriculum to provide practical training. In this study, we developed a safety education system for the units of “electricity,” “outdoor activities,” and “lasers,” which consists of the basic knowledge necessary to prevent accidents, mechanisms by which accidents and problems occur, and hands-on learning. One of the unique features of this educational content is that it is based on examples of actual accidents that occur frequently and includes classroom learning on why these accidents occur and what should be known to prevent them and hands-on experience of occurrences that are the essence of the accidents. By incorporating various examples of hazards in each content, the program is designed to be widely applicable to diverse research sites. There were 143 participants in the program in 2020, and through this education, they are expected to understand the systematic approach in each topic and learn through the experience of specific and practical educational content. In the future, we plan to further enhance the content to improve the practical skills of the participants and make the teaching materials multilingual in light of the internationalization of the university.
