Decline in risk perception when using chemicals as tools - suggestions for laboratory safety
Decline in risk perception when using chemicals as tools - suggestions for laboratory safety
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使用化学品作为工具时风险认知下降——实验室安全建议
DOI：
10.11162/daikankyo.e15rp0901
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发表时间：
2016
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S. Usui
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Toshiyuki Tachikake;H. Momose;Kengo Tomita;I. Shibata;Hitoshi Yamamoto;S. Usui
我们收集并分析了日本一所大学四年来的事故报告。在学术研究事故中，以接触化学物质导致的事故为研究对象，发现与化学相关领域相比，生物学、物理学等非化学领域的事故发生率更高，研究经验越丰富的人，事故报告的数量越多。此外，在涉及处理化学物质的事故中，58.2%的事故是在实验过程中将化学物质用作工具，而不是实际的研究对象。这些结果表明，当今的先进研究与使用化学物质作为工具密切相关，强调需要通过化学物质的基础教育和学术研究中不断的事故预防努力来了解化学物质的危险特性。在实验研究中使用化学物质作为工具，发现与风险认知的下降密切相关，对这一机制的调查应有助于今后的安全教育工作。
We collected and analyzed reports of accidents over a four-year period at a Japanese university. Focusing on accidents resulting from contact with chemical substances among accidents in academic research, we found that accident victims were more likely to be in biology, physics, or other non-chemistry fields relative to chemistry-related fields, and that the number of accident reports tended to increase among those with more research experience. In addition, of the accidents involving the handling of chemical substances, 58.2% of the total cases resulting in accidents involved the use of chemical substances as tools in the experimental process, rather than being the actual subject of the research. These results show that today’s advanced research is closely related to the use of chemical substances as tools, underscoring a need for the understanding of the hazardous properties of chemical substances through basic education about chemical substances and ongoing accident prevention efforts in academic research. The use of chemical substances as tools in experimental research was found to be closely related to a decline in risk perception, and investigation of this mechanism should contribute to future safety education efforts.