Safety practice in educational demonstrations

Abstract

Most of workers in modern industries are graduates from universities. The reduction of frequency of industrial accidents will prevail as the number of educated workers increases in workplace. Among recent accidents, there are some accidents due to lack of basic knowledge of workers on the working environment. Loss prevention through education has been important target for Japanese government since Meiji era. Traditionally, police investigates industrial accidents for criminal process. In some areas, the social system related to the industrial accident reviewed its management system to lower the frequency of accidents. An accident case during an educational demonstration and its management system were reviewed. Safety must be the absolute priority and educators should demonstrate chemical safety concepts as well as the science topic.