2018 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 97-107
Risk Assessment (hereafter referred to RA) is recommended as an effective measure to prevent accidents that occur in the workplace and its implementation is increasing. Nevertheless, accidents in the workplace continue to occur. In order to establish RA as an effective measure to prevent accidents in the workplace, an important process is to detect issues in the contents of RA executed in workplaces where accidents have occurred and to improve these issues. In this study, I surveyed the contents of RA described in the “Report concerning the Conditions of Health and Safety Management ”, which requested submissions from around 3,200 workplaces with more than 50 workers, to the Health and Safety Division of the Labour Standards Department in the Ibaraki Labour Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare from FY2013—2015 and FY2017. I compared the contents of RA for the workplace in which accidents had occurred with the contents of RA for the workplace in which no accidents had occurred. Based on this comparison, I identified the issues with quantitative reasoning of contents of RA in workplaces in which accidents had occurred.
All workplaces in Ibaraki Prefecture, not only workplaces in which accidents have occurred, but also those in which no accidents have occurred should be able to improve the contents of RA by applying the issues identified in this study as more effective measures to prevent accidents in the workplace.
