Problems and backgrounds in implementation of Risk Assessment

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  • 化学物質のリスクアセスメント導入における課題と背景
  • カガク ブッシツ ノ リスクアセスメント ドウニュウ ニ オケル カダイ ト ハイケイ

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Compulsory risk assessment for chemical substances will be legislated, but there are several challenges that must be met to attain widespread adoption. First of all, sufficient understanding of safety, which is the foundation of risk assessment, is not widespread in Japan. Japanese people tend to perceive safety as responding to immediate dangers and taking action towards the danger itself. We often treat these actions directed at immediate danger as being equivalent to absolute safety. This is far from the current international standard for safety understanding, which defines what safety is and what kind of conditions should be sought, and analyzes the structural scheme for safety. We cannot expect risk assessment to be properly implemented unless our understanding level for safety is improved. Furthermore, risk assessment is just a tool to evaluate the level of risk, and it is assumed that this information will be applied to management in some organized fashion. However, it is often supposed that just the implementation of risk assessment will directly result in prevention of work accidents and occupational disease. We lack understanding of utilization of information and the importance of management. This misunderstanding must be corrected before we can expect proper implementation of risk assessment.

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