To ensure the safety and health of our staff, we must conduct safety and health management based on the Industrial Safety and Health Act. To ensure the safety and health of our students, we must conduct safety and health management based on the School Health and Safety Act. Creating a suitable environment where staff members can work and students can learn through such efforts is an important responsibility. This university aims to create comfortable work and study environments that do more than just comply with the minimum standards established by law to prevent accidents. The university also promotes specific and premeditated measures based on “Rules of Staff Safety and Health Management in Kumamoto University” to create a proactive environment for educational research through methods such as clarifying the assignment of responsibilities and promoting voluntary activities.

On Mar. 2, 2006, the Central Safety and Health Committee deliberated and decided on the following matters.