It is necessary to enrich the systematic control of safety in the public facilities, workplaces, schools and communities to prevent the accident disaster for the safety of the person's life. Fundamentally, it is the most important to protect our lives by ourselves. As for the purpose of that, we must bring up the person who can find a dangerous situation, get rid of it and take safe behavior.
However, an examination about the safety competence that is a basis for safety behavior hasn't been done for not less than several years. Because of this, the research committee on safety competence was established by the Japanese Association of Safety Education, and it did the following research to build the basic theory that would be effective in the2lst century.
Formerly, there were three types of theory as to the safety competence: the theory of the elements that are necessary for accident prevention, the theory concerning coping with accidents, and the theory of psychosomatic function as safety competence.
Our committee tried to build new theory of the safety competence based on the previous investigation about the safety consciousness and behavior of students. We proposed the definition of safety competence and analyzed the structure of it. From our point of view, the core of the safety competence was humanity. Finally, we reached the conclusion that it was the most important for whom could do safe life to have better judgment and knowledge, and to acquire the sense of humanity and skills to do with accidents.