Abstract
The importance of safety and health education for science and technology students who aspire to be engineers is widely recognized in the industrial world. However, that importance has not been adequately recognized at educational institutions such as universities whose mission is education and academic research, as well as contributing to society. Thus, to help realize safety education at universities and other institutions whose purpose is developing engineers, we have established a study group—to raise awareness of the need for such education, and investigate and examine desirable educational content, methods of supporting educators, and other topics—as a study group of the Industrial/Chemical Machinery and Safety Division of JSME. There is a methodology for realizing safety, and it is common knowledge in the industrial world that industrial machinery design and occupational accident prevention are based on that methodology. On the other hand, the need for safety education and its methodology are not adequately recognized at institutions like universities, and thus deficiencies are evident in education for developing engineers. This report discusses the need for education by presenting an example of a fatal fire accident which occurred during Tokyo Design Week due to an exhibit produced by university students. Then the report discusses challenges for introducing safety education at institutions like universities, which have the dual roles of education and research, and present topics for closer examination identified by the study group.
