Materials for Safety Education

(in order for technicians to work under pleasant

and safe working environment)
Ⅰ. To Technicians working at Global-Market Work Sites
1. What is “Safety” at work sites?
“Safety” at work sites is the state that there are no factors to cause any injuries
on you and your coworkers.
The best things to prevent the occurrence of such factors are that all of you
always know the following:
1) Once an injury has occurred, it will cause many other serious things
2) People’s lives matter more than any other things.
And, also in order for you to prevent the occurrence of the above factors,
you also:
1) always follow the Fujitec safety rules and the public safety rules / laws.
2) know that you are required to always help each other, having the
knowledge that safety always comes first, and
3) know that your observance of the safety rules and laws can protect you
and your coworkers against injuries, and prevent your families from
being involved in possible future serious things.

You are strongly expected to establish safety at your work site by

implementing the above and create a high efficiency of your work.
2. Once an injury has occurred,
Once you have got injured, you, your family, and your company / work site
will get involved in the following things.
1) You and your family:
a)You will have a pain and a hard time physically
and psychologically. 3) The society will see your injury as;
b)You will have a less income.
①A damage on the society or a possible loss
c)You will lose your physical strength and cannot
of human resources in the society.
keep your present skill.
②A damage on the social facilities due to a
d)Your family will have a hard time, being worried
lack of your maintenance of them or a
about your health condition.
possible loss of the assets of the society.
e)Your expenditure will increase for your medical
treatment.
2) Your company and your work site:
a)Your company / work site will have less man power.
b)Your absence will affect the work schedule of your
company / work site.
c) Your absence will decrease the work efficiency of
your company / work site.
d)Due to your absence, a lack of maintenance of work-
site facilities might be caused and the facilities
might break down.
e) Your absence might lead to a lack of control of your
group members and create unstable relationships Responsibility
between them.
Things caused by Your Injury

For Yourself
(The Injured Person)
→ Physical Pain, Psychological Shock,
Permanent Injury, and Life Loss
For Your Family
(The Injured-Person’s → A Heavier Burden of a Lot of Worries than You (the injured
person), Deep Grief, and Lots of Difficulties in Daily Life
Family)

For Your
Work Site
→ A Lack or Loss of Working Force, A Decrease of Work Morale, A Lack
of Repair or Maintenance of Facilities due to Your (the Injured
Person’s) Absence, and A Delay of Work Schedule

For Your → No Tender Invitation from the National and Local Government, A
Penalty for A Delay of Work Schedule, Compensation Requirement for
Company
the Injured Person, Company’s Social Responsibilities for the
Occurrence of the Injury, A Decrease of the Present Company Image,
and A Decrease of Customers’ Trust on the Company
3. The Original Contractor’s / Subcontractor’s
Responsibilities for the Safety of Work Site
The original contractor and the subcontractor are always required to confirm
the safety of their work site.
1) Safety Confirmation shall be made on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
2) The basic items implemented to confirm the safety of a work site are determined
by the both original contractor and subcontractor. The both parties shall cooperate
with each other and confirm the work-site safety as a single company shall do.

A cycle of safety confirmation is daily, weekly, or monthly. This is called “Safety

Confirmation Cycle at Work Site.”
The daily cycle for safety confirmation is illustrated below. Morning Meeting

Safety Confirmation Safety Confirmation

for Work Finish Meeting

Cleanup at Respective
Daily Safety Awareness
Work Sites for New Comers

Cycle Safety Check for

Discussion about Safety
Check Process Work Start

Work-Site Responsible
Person’s Tour
for Safety Confirmation

Giving Safety Instructions and

Guidance to Technicians
４．Following the Safety Rules and Laws
In the roads, if a driver doesn’t follow the traffic rules, a traffic accident will occur.
Likewise, in your work site, if you don’t follow the given safety rules and laws, an
injury will occur. Therefore, your observance of the safety rules and laws is very
important.

In a country, a company and a work site, there are various kinds of safety rules and
laws. Those are revised and updated, when a new critical factor to threaten the safety
of work site has occurred.
●Various Safety Rules and Regulations:
【Country’s Laws and Regulations:】 Industrial / Occupational Safety and Health Act (for the
safety of employers and employees), Regulations and
Rules under the said Act, Regulations for the Use of Cable
Cars and Others.
【Companies’ Rules:】 Common Standards and Rules for Business Conduct, Work
Plans, Work Procedures, and others, which are determined
by companies based on the Country’s Laws and Regulations.
【Work-Site’s Rules:】 Rules for Workers’ Access to Work Sites, Rules for Workers’
Entry to / Exit from Work Sites, Rules for Working Time,
Rules for Transportation of Work Materials into / out of Work
Sites, and Rules to hold and conduct Work-Site Meetings for
the Establishment of Safety, etc.
５．Activity for Awareness of Workplace Hazards

Before the start of work every day, each group of technicians

shall discuss about what kinds of hazards there are at their work
site and what countermeasures against them shall be taken at the
time that such a hazard has occurred.
A Meeting for Each Technician to Using the board of Itemized Hazardous Matters
Acknowledge Work Hazards After all-workers’ general assembly in the Today’s Work

morning, the leader of respective work groups will Disassembling Work Platforms at a High Place

explain both the day’s work procedures and the

Have you understood important things to be observed by all technicians.
what countermeasures Based on the leader’s speech and explanation, a
should be taken in order meeting that each technician can acknowledge the
to prevent any hazards hazards will be held.
from occurring
at your work site?
Our today’s work is - - - - - .
So, we must acknowledge
hazards that might
occur - - - - .
６．Prevention of the Occurrence of any Incidents
leading to Injuries
Prevention of the occurrence of an incident leading to an injury shall be
promoted by the both original contractor and subcontractor along with the
following procedures.
1) Collect already caused incidents that might possibly have led to injuries,
and utilize them in order to prevent such incidents from happing in the
future.
2) If needed, the updates of the existing work-site rules and the improvement
of the work-site facilities shall be made,
3) And then, all technicians of the both original contractor and subcontractor
will participate in the group activities aiming for the elimination of all
possible future injuries.
７．Exchange of Verbal Communications

●Exchanging Verbal Communications among Technicians

working at their Work Site for the Safety Confirmation

・By saying “Good Morning,” recognize the attendance of each technician.

・By saying “Hello,” recognize the entry of a visitor into the work site.

・By counting the numbers: one, two and three, conduct your work safely with
your partner.
A reference case:
When lifting up a heavy cargo together with your partner, move it up counting
the numbers, “One and Two,” and then put it on the given location saying the
number, “Three.”
・By saying “See you!” to your coworkers at the end of the work, confirm that
they have safely finished their work at the work site.
Ⅱ. Important Points
to be Confirmed for Technician’s Safety

①Check Points for Technicians’ Clothes (Uniform)

Regular Clothes (Uniform)

Hard Hat (Head Protection) with No Worn and Torn Parts
Firmly Buckled Chin Trap

Unloosened
Sleeve

Safety Shoes Safety Belt / Harness

with a Double Latch
② Scaffold (Working Platform)
Framed Scaffold Stage Scaffold Triangular Scaffold

Technicians are required to confirm the following items.

1. The position of the top edge of handrails is 90 cm or more high above the
scaffold’s floor. The handrails are firmly supported by intermediate support
beams.
2. The depth of the working area of the firmly fixed scaffold’s floor is 40 cm or
more.
3. In the hoistway, when there is a large space between the edge of the scaffold’s
floor and the hoistway wall, personnel safety net must be installed between them.
4. The assembled scaffold must have its own ladder.
③ Safety Belt / Harnesses
Technicians are required to confirm the following items.
The position of an
When you have shifted The safety harnesses are immovable fixture to which
your whole weight to the put around your the safety wire will be
hooked safety belt / shoulders so that you connected is higher than the
harnesses, the safety belt can hook the safety wire position of your waist.
/ harnesses can bear and extended from your
support your whole safety belt anytime on an
weight. immovable fixture.

The immovable
fixture to which the
safety wire will be
Your safety belt is connected is stable
fastened at a little enough to absorb an
bit higher position impact given by The safety wire extending
than your hipbones. your accidental fall. from your safety belt to an
immovable fixture is
prevented from touching on
any sharp and angular sections
of other parts / equipment
fixed in the hoistway.
When you work at a place adjacent to a hoistway
opening where you might accidentally fall, you
must anchor a safety metal ring or install a safety
④ Your Work at a Place adjacent block in an immovable structure and then, hook
to the Hoistway Opening your safety wire on it.
(If there is a firmly fixed handrail or the like at
your work place, you may hook your safety wire
on it. In this case, be sure to check that it doesn’t
become loosen and cannot move even at the time
that a large impact is given on it.)
⑤ Safety Covers over the Hoistway Openings

The safety sheet must Appropriate sections of the Whenever the safety
cover the whole opening of safety sheet are firmly fastened sheet is rolled up, the
an elevator entrance. on horizontal bars with wires front side of the
(This safety measure is and brackets. They cannot be opening must be
always required.) detached easily. barricaded.

The height of the kick

plate is enough to The portable
prevent technician’s barricade is
feet from entering into placed.
the opening. The kick
plate is firmly fixed.

The safety sheet

cannot be blown away
by wind.
⑥ Using or Wearing Protective Things

When you do a Light-Resistant

Face Mask / When you use a high-
welding work,
Glasses speed cutter, a
you will wear:
portable grinder, and
The mask that you similar ones, you
Welding will use must be: must wear:
Gloves

Dust-Protective Mask
Disposable Type Eye Protector
(Protection against
Welding Fume)

Remark: The disposal type of masks has a usable period. You are prohibited
from using them beyond the usable period given by the mask maker.
⑦Do Not Behave in an Unsafe Manner

It is said that when people don’t keep themselves very aware of the importance
of safety, they are apt to behave in an unsafe manner and take an easy way in
which there might be danger.

This behavior and action can lead to a serious injury. The best way to prevent
people’s inclination toward this kind of behavior and action is their observance
of the given safety rules / laws, the given instructions and the previously
determined work procedures.
⑧The Four (4) States required for the Safety of Work Site
“Sorted-in-Order State”; “Set-in-Order State”; “Swept-Dust State”; “Sustained-Cleanliness State”

Two states; “Sorted-in-Order State” and “Set-in-Order State” are the basic matters
for the safety of work site.
“Sorted-in-Order State” “Set-in-Order State”
means the state that things have been sorted neatly into
means that tools have been set in their given
the two groups; the necessary-things group and the
places and stored in good order so that
unnecessary-things. Things sorted into the latter have
technicians can use them safely at any time.
to be discarded timely.
Unnecessary things.
This tool has been
set in the given place.
I’ve confirmed it.

“Swept-Dust State”
means the state that dust or similar particles have “Sustained-Cleanliness State”
been swept and that the work site is kept clean. Both means the constant state that work clothes, a
work sites and places for technicians to stand by for dining place and a restroom, etc., are kept
work are always required to be clean. clean.
Ⅲ．When an injury has occurred,
１.First,
When you see or find that someone has been injured,
① rescue the injured person without getting into any panic.
②Secondly, inform the work-group leader or the subcontractor’s manager
of the following.
a)Who has been injured? b)When did the injury occur? c) Where did it
occur?

２. If you’ve got an injury,

①Immediately, inform your work-group leader or the original-contractor’s
manager of your injury.
②Even in the case where your injury is small, you must inform your work-group
leader or the original-contractor’s manager of your injury.
③When you have given medical treatment by yourself on an injured part of your
body or when you have received your medical treatment from an ordinary
person, you must go to see a doctor. If you don’t, you might go into a serious
case.
④After you have received medical treatment from your doctor, you must follow
your doctor’s instructions.
Ⅳ. Knowing the Characteristics of Your Work Site

Obtaining the following information and knowing the

following characteristics regarding your work site is very
important for you to place yourself under the safe
circumstances and to proceed with your work under the
safe environment.

a)The summary of the type of a building.

b)The work-implementation policies that the top
responsible person of the general construction
company takes.
c) The rules and regulations of the work site, etc.