Yoshiro Nabeshima

Faculty of Engineering, Tamagawa University
(6-1-1, Tamagawa-gakuen, Machida City Tokyo 194 Japan)

Abstract

Recently, Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Facilities including incineration plants, bulky refuse shredding plants, and resource recovery plants are requested to have higher performances to meet such social demands as recovery and utilization of various materials and thermal energy and environmental pollution control, resulting in more complicated plant systems and operation techniques. On the other hand, as MSW treatment plant operations have a negative side, such as dangers concerning labor safety and work comfort, improvement of the labor environment and safety operations is very important. Study has been conducted by the study committee on "the improvements of labor safety and the amenity of the work environment in Municipal Solid Waste disposal operations" , organized in the Japan Waste Management Association, which is entrusted from the Ministry of Health and Welfare. In this paper, an outline of the study results are introduced. The statistical data and study on accidents at these facilities, and an analysis of labor accidents, safety countermeasures to the accidents are also described, as well as the methods of Risk Predict Training (KYT) and Risk Predict Activity (KYK), which are introduced for reference.

Key words: municipal solid waste, treatment facility, labor accident, safety management, safety operation manual