@article{ref1,
title="Survey on preparedness, concerns, and support demands for autonomous management of chemical substances",
journal="Journal of UOEH",
year="2023",
author="Hinoue, Mitsuo and Yamada, Shimpei and Hara, Kunio and Miyauchi, Hiroyuki",
volume="45",
number="3",
pages="167-183",
abstract="The management of workplace chemicals shifted from a regulatory-based to a self-managed approach as of April 2023. To assess readiness, concerns, and necessary support for this change, a free-response questionnaire survey was conducted for the participants of the &quot;Promoting self-management of chemicals in enterprises&quot; seminar held by the Department of Occupational Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, in January-February 2023. Text-mining using KH Coder (Ver.3) was conducted to investigate relationships between words that appeared in sentences using a co-occurrence network and hierarchical cluster analysis. From the questionnaire's description text, combinations of the terms &quot;information&quot; and &quot;collection,&quot; &quot;small and medium-sized&quot; and &quot;enterprise,&quot; and &quot;chemical&quot; and &quot;substance&quot; were extracted. <br><br>RESULTS suggest a need for &quot;information gathering&quot; and &quot;support for small and medium-sized enterprises.&quot;<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0387-821X",
doi="10.7888/juoeh.45.167",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.7888/juoeh.45.167"
}