Chemical Process Safety Research Group

Chemical industry information disclosure systems

Research purposes

The general consensus on the chemical industry is that it is dangerous and unsafe. However, chemical products are found in clothing, drugs, cosmetics, daily necessities, building materials, etc., and as such are indispensable in daily life. It is therefore desirable that the chemical industry continue to develop as an industry that has earned society’s trust, and to do so it naturally must maintain that trust. Safety management in the chemical industry is not easily grasped by society in general, and thus has the potential to cause apprehension among people, requiring an easily comprehensible state of safety control and tools that allow easy and comprehensible responses to the public’s anxieties and questions. The group is working on research aimed at a safety consensus-building system as the means to achieve this goal. A conceptual diagram of this system is shown at right.

Members

Name	Affiliation	Field of study	Full/Part-time
Kouji Matsuda	ex-Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation・Kashima Oil Corporation	Process	Part-time
Susumu Ohno	IDEMITSU petrochemical	Safety management	Full-time
Ikuo Hori	ex-Kanagawa Prefecture	Safety Administration	Full-time
Yuji Naka	Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology	Systems Engine	Part-time
Keichi Higuchi	ex-Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation	Safety・Environment	Part-time
Eiken Kawabata	ex-Okinawa Oil Camp	Safety Management	Part-time

Results (in English only)

◆ Interim evaluation report　[PDF:58kb]

● Download

■ Link

▲ In preparation

Format	Author, Title of the result, etc.	Browse
Article	Susumu OHNO and Hideaki SHIROYAMA, Issues of Safety Regulations for Chemical Processes and Its Future Framework, Journal of Science and Technology for Society, 317-326, October,2003	■
Article	Naoki KOJIMA, Status Quo of Risk Communication Activities of Process Industry in Japan, Journal of Science and Technology for Society, 327-337, October, 2003	■
Article(Draft)	Ikuo HORI, Establishing The Science Shop on Chemical Process Safety and Risk Communication	●
Article(Draft)	Kouji MATSUDA, The Role of Top Management in Securing Safety	●

More information

http://www.ristex.jp/chemistry/ (in Japanese)