Journal of Occupational Safety and Health
Online ISSN : 1883-678X
Print ISSN : 1882-6822
ISSN-L : 1882-6822

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Trends and Future Subjects on Countermeasure for falling accidents
Yasumichi HINO
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESS Advance online publication

Article ID: JOSH-2020-0019-GE

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About 1/4 fatal labor accidents in Japan have been due to falling. Therefore, it is extremely important to reduce fatal accidents caused by falling to success the number of labor fatal accidents to be decrease. At first, this paper arranged the statistics data to realize the relationship between the vicissitude of the policy on falling accident prevention and generation status of fatal falling accidents. In this review, the date on the U.S.A were also compared with the Japanese. Secondly, this paper introduces the fundamental safety method by using personal protective equipment such as harness in the EU region. Considering above facts, present and future subjects on this topics were investigated based on theoretical and experimental study.

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