In June 2018 Taiyo Nippon Sanso established “Technical Academy” in its Kawasaki Mizue Operations, aiming to make a base to train human resources and facilitate technological transmission related to the safety and techniques to produce high-pressure gases at the sites. It has now started to operate on a full scale.

In today’s production sites of high-pressure gas they say that there is an issue of lack in the awareness of risks among workers because they have less opportunities to touch the facilities at the actual sites than before, while troubles have been reduced substantially thanks to the automated facilities brought by the technical development including IoT.

TNSC also has so far carried out the safety and technical training in external facilities, but has found the necessity of further awareness of workers about trouble risks and systematic technical training for them. Thus the company established the Academy posting three mottoes; “Upgrade Safety and Technical Know-how”, “Prevent Industrial Accident” and “Promote Technological Transmittance”.

The Technical Academy provides an experience-based seminar on risk in addition to the TN Technical Seminar which has been implemented since before the establishment of the facility. The experience-based seminar on risk has been participated by 400 employees for about half a year since establishment including freshmen, staff-members of the 5th year and newly promoted managers.
　
The facility is two-storied having a floor area of 960 square meter. On the first floor there is a training room to experience risks in which an experience-based seminar is given. On the second floor there are different-sized meeting rooms and a display room in which cut models of valve and vaporizer are provided for participants to touch and take them up actually by hand like the real site, so that they can deepen knowledge about their structure and role.

The risk-experiencing room is provided with a total of 35 units of equipment, where the participants can experience general risks at work sites such as pinching or caught-in. They can also experience some specific risks like liquid seal or overturn of cylinder which may be caused particularly in handling of high-pressure gases.

The gas-related equipment is made by TNSC itself and analyzes the data on the safety/accident cases inside the Group collected by its Safety Management Department of Technological Affairs Division and such data is utilized to review and develop units to be installed.

For the time being, the seminar will be implemented for about three thousand staff-members of the Group. It is expected that about 600 persons will participate in 2019. In the future the scope of participants may well be expanded over to partner companies or users.