부산대학교 도서관

Background: The death number of passive smoking might reaches about 6800 cases annually in Japan, and 3600, or more than half of the total are said to be caused at working sites. Therefore, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare decided to make a plan to revise the Industrial Safety and Health Act to be aimed for strengthening the actions against passive smoking in work places. The purposes of this research are to clarify the actual status of the cease- smoking actions in workplaces, and to investigate the promoting factors and hindering factors to the cease-smoking actions. Method: A self- administered questionnaire was investigated, and 6373 nationwide offices that had obtained the answer were analyzed. Results: The offices where the smoking rate and the problem rate in periodic physical examinations were low, kept a significantly higher ratio of the successful cease-smoking activity (p＜0.01). The offices where recognition and the understanding of the concerning laws, the WHO guidelines etc., were done better, are successful in no-smoking. Among those, offices with low smoking rates and with low problem rates of physical examinations were significantly at higher ratio (p＜0.01). As anti- passive smoking measures, installation of the isolated smoking room was the highest as 27.9%, and the ratio of offices with cease-smoking was 30 percent as a whole. The motive of the most offices that answered to make overall no smoking, was mostly based on the decision of the person in charge of health administration, on the necessity of frames work of the office and by the national health regulations. The reasons why the office has not made overall no smoking were mostly organized the separation of no smoking areas for examples by installation of isolated smoking rooms, etc. Moreover, it was answered from 74% offices that they would improve the non-smoking measures when Occupational Health and Safety Law would be revised. Conclusion: It is expected necessarily that “complete cease of smoking” must be clearly declared and enforced in a policy and implemented, in order to ensure maintenance of the health and life of employees. For the promotion of “complete non-smoking”, it is important for us to disseminate more knowledge about the influence of smoking on health and business, to emphasize the harmful effects of both passive smoking and active smoking, and the necessity for “complete cease of smoking”, its merits, etc., including WHO guidelines and international trends to workers including representatives of management.