This Association is the only one organization in Japan with expertise in working environment measurement and control of it based on the result of the measurement.

The Japan Association for Working Environment Measurement is a nonprofit and only one public service corporation established in 1979 on the basis of Article 36 of the Working Environment Measurement Law as instructed by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, for the purpose of contributing to the improvement of measurement taking by the three parties through an assemblage of experts in work environment measuring, working environment measurement agencies and employers who perform working environment measurement using their own experts, and maintaining the dignity of working environment measurement experts.

Technical Paper : 1. The Role of Work Environment Control for the Prevention of Occupational Diseases in Japan, from the viewpoint of the experiences of Japan (PDF file 34p/732KB)
[Date of revision : October 2004, April 2005, September 2005, October 2007]
    2. Japan Association for Working Environment Measurement (JAWE): Training Course for Evaluation of Asbestos in Bulk Materials
(IOHA Newsletter, 2005-JUN, p11)
    3. Occupational Hygiene Association (JOHA) - Joint Conference and Exhibition on Occupational Hygiene and Working Environment Measurement 2005, Takamatsu, Japan, November 2005
(IOHA Newsletter, 2005-DEC, p16)

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