2019 Volume 29 Issue 3 Pages 119-128
As the result of promoting notification of the plan for environmental risk reduction measures for the large-scale disasters to a given size or larger factories and business establishments, the plans have been submitted from all of the 482 target entities during fiscal years of 2014-2016.
In order of handling amount of designated chemical substances in Osaka prefecture, chemical industry, petroleum and coal products industry, and warehousing business were ranked in classifying by industry, and Toluene, Xylene, and Benzene by substance. Handling amount of chemical substances were about 5,000-30,000 times as large as those of release amount, and they were the largest at the area of Senshu and Sakai-City where industrial complex of oil and chemical factories has been located in the coastal area.
