Abstract
As a new social problem, people's attention has been attracted to the recent occurrences of disasters in petroleum and related industries, such as disaster resulting from earthquake, explosion at chemical processing plant, explosion of oil tanker, etc. The petroleum industry has made long strides owing to the technical inovation and the safety management, too, is required to keep pace with the development of engineering and technology. For this cause, we should learn from the experience of past disaster causes, especially fire and explosion, find problems that need be solved, and take countermeasures on the basis of the scientific attitude and the free and active system. We must also be abert to the measures taken by individual factories and at the same time, to the general trends of the industry.
The disaster prevention is naturally based on science, but it must be added with the philosophic concept transconding the sphere of science.
In short, the prevention of disasters is, basically, problem that must be solved by introducing a new concept into the present capitalistic social structure.
