Abstract
In recent years, many operators in Japan have been facing the problem of declining skills in occupational safety management. Operators have not been sharing adequate know-how about safety because they have had no opportunities to share skills and information. One reason for this problem is the mandatory retirement of experienced operators. Under these circumstances, the occurrence of accidents caused by insufficient safety management has increased. For this reason, in order to support inexperienced operators’ attention and skills, we suggest an operator support system using IT. The database system including information for safe operations, the assisting system for communication among many operators, and the observation system using RFID tags for identifying individual operators were proposed as a general-purpose system of safety management. New guidelines to assist decisions on safety requirement in a safe design process were also proposed to make adequate design of these systems.
