We also provide educational training. For example, we have Occupational Safety Schools at the local level, which incorporate our philosophy in their training. That is, instructors do not lead courses, but encourage participants to develop solutions by themselves from their own experiences. We call this type of training the enabling approach. Every year in East Tokyo, around thirty people spend three days and two nights in training, and then inspect real job sites on the last day This way they can notice the fine points involved in good on-site safety practices, and come up with solutions when they find problems.
Professional instructors remain solely advisors.
Thirty percent of work-related accidents are traffic accidents. The rest are on-site accidents such as falling from high buildings or getting fingers caught in press machines. Other occupational hazards include lower back pain and strained backs. Traditional industrial hazards like dust-related lung damage and repetitive motion disorders are also common. These cancers are a problem that is just emerging 20-30 years after the actual work people did in 1970s when all those hazardous chemicals were being widely used.