New approach for safety education in Nagoya University

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The Environment, Health & Safety Office (EHS Office) in Nagoya University focuses on safety education and training in order to ensure healthy and safe conditions for faculty, staff, and students. We have been implementing safety education and related programs that are based on two internal guidelines: “Guideline on General Safety Education” and “Education Guideline for Safe Laboratory Works.”These guidelines were established on May 2015, and have been developed to prescribe the contents of the education and training on general safety and health management and prevention of accidents in research activities involving laboratory work. These guidelines include essential educational content covering a wide range of topics from general safety to laboratory work, such as handling chemical substances, high-pressure gases, cryogen, laser, electrical, and machine work. We have prepared and provided standard materials for safety education, and conducted lectures on safe handling of these materials. We are going to develop the contents of the standard materials and lectures to enable the faculty, staff, and students to nurture their own safety consciousness, and to guide our students in safe research at the laboratory.