MAKING OF A RISK-MATRIX BASED ON PRODUCT ACCIDENT DATA

ITS APPLICATION TO CHILD TOY ACCIDENTS

Abstract

Accident caused by the manufactured products is always a serious problem. In order to decrease such accidents and to protect the consumers, a unified consumer accident information system is needed. In Japan, the government has started to put more efforts on improving the accident information collecting system. However, an effective risk evaluation method based on such information has not been established. In this paper, we proposed a method for product risk assessment, based on a hazard matrix and a risk matrix. The data of product accidents were classified by applying the world standards concerning safety and injury. We applied the data of toy product accidents, which was extracted from the NITE accident database to verify the feasibility and utility of the proposed method.