Mukaidono Safety Award

8th Award Commemorative Lecture

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****Commemorative lecture held for receiving the 8th Mukaidono Safety Award****

The 8th Mukaidono Safety Award is to recognize individuals or organizations that have contributed to the improvement, advancement, and dissemination of industrial safety. The winners were selected through a review by the Awards Judging Committee, which is made up of experts. An awards ceremony was then held, and the winners gave commemorative lectures on the dates and times listed below.

❒Date and time: Thursday, February 2024, 2
❒ Location: IIFES2024 Venue (Tokyo Big Sight West Hall Lecture Hall)
❒ Speakers: Individuals/Groups

①13:00-14:30 Professor Mukaidono, Chairman, Institute for Global Safety Promotion (IGSAP)
                                                Chairman of Railway Technical Research Institute (Public Interest Incorporated Foundation), Professor Emeritus of Meiji University
②13:30-14:00 Individual/Hiroyasu Ikeda (Japan Occupational Health and Safety Agency)
③14:00-14:30 Individual/Chisato Takeuchi Rail Solutions Co., Ltd.
 14:30-14:40 Break
④14:40-15:10 Group/Hiroyuki Hirano Shimizu Corporation
⑤15:10-15:40 Group/Kenichiro Hara NSK Ltd.
⑥15:40-16:10 Group/Mitsuhiko Taniguchi Toray Engineering Co., Ltd.

********Lecture content********

① Speaker: Masao Mukaidono
Chairman, Institute for Global Safety Promotion (IGSAP)
Chairman of Railway Technical Research Institute (Public Interest Incorporated Foundation), Professor Emeritus of Meiji University
Lecture title: The concept of positive safety studies

② Speaker: Hiroyasu Ikeda
Japan Occupational Health and Safety Agency National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
New Technology Safety Research Group Specially Appointed Researcher
Title of lecture: Involved in safety research - retrospective and prospects

③Speaker: Chisato Takeuchi
President and CEO of Rail Solutions Co., Ltd.
Title of lecture: Safety is about developing people
~Creative safety activities fostered through teamwork~Our challenge

④ Speaker: Hiroyuki Hirano
Shimizu Corporation Kyushu Branch Civil Engineering Department
Takimuro-zaka Tunnel West Work Site Manager
Title of lecture: Measures to prevent collisions involving heavy machinery in mountain tunnels based on the concept of Safety 2.0

⑤ Speaker: Kenichiro Hara
NSK Ltd. EHS Promotion Office, Production Division
Safety Promotion Group Manager
Title of lecture: Promoting the prevention of occupational accidents through human resource development and risk assessment

⑥Speaker: Mitsuhiko Taniguchi
Toray Engineering Co., Ltd.
Product Safety and Quality Assurance Department Chief
Title of the lecture: Education for machine safety and provision of facilities through risk assessment