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Occupational Health and Safety
We aim to create safe working environments by adopting a Health and Safety Management Policy each fiscal year, and by sharing our philosophy on occupational health and safety with employees.
Basic Policy on Health and Safety Management
Our goal under the Health and Safety Management Policy is to achieve a continual reduction in accidents. We are achieving this by maintaining a PDCA cycle in which accidents are analyzed each year in order to identify issues so that countermeasures can be included in the Health and Safety Management Policy for the following fiscal year.
The Health and Safety Management Policy includes both our basic policy and priority action items. It is reported to senior management after deliberations by the Health and Safety Management Committee.
Basic Policy on Health and Safety Management
We put the health and safety of employees first.
Accidents can and must be prevented.
Our managers and supervisors are constantly working to prevent industrial accidents by using risk assessments to detect and eliminate safety-related issues with machinery and equipment. We also use risk prediction activities to prevent unsafe behavior by workers and create safe working environments.
We are working to prevent traffic accidents by providing road safety and hazard prediction training, especially for young employees and older workers. We are also enhancing our road safety guidance activities in order to prevent accidents while walking or operating vehicles, including bicycles, en route to or from work.
Through our health management initiatives, we are helping to enhance the physical and mental health of our employees, and to maintain and enhance work environments that are safe, comfortable, and hygienic.
Individual employees help to eliminate unsafe behavior by raising their awareness of potential hazards. They are also working to maintain and improve their mental and physical health.
Priority action items
Occupational accidents
- Raise awareness about hazards by entrenching the practice of reporting near-miss incidents, implementing countermeasures, and sharing information.
- Increase opportunities for hazard prediction training, instill the habits of pre-work hazard prediction and pointing and calling, and eliminate unsafe behaviors.
- Create workplace environments that are not conducive to accidents by systematically implementing risk assessment activities (including for hazardous chemical substances).
- Monitor the risk status of chemicals handled using safety data sheets and other means, and provide thorough safety education.
- Ensure that equipment is consistently turned off during cleaning or when malfunctions occur, alongside the strengthening of measures (such as the use of safety covers) to prevent entanglement in machines.
- Prevent disasters by maintaining and strengthening the 5S methodology鈥攕eiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu, shitsuke (usually translated into English as 鈥渟orting, setting in order, shining, standardizing, and sustaining鈥)鈥攊n the workplace.
- Share information about accidents that have occurred within the TikTok成人版 Seifun Group in order to prevent recurrences of similar accidents.
- Increase safety educational opportunities for older workers (in their 50s and older) and ensure that education is carried out thoroughly.
(Ensure the safety of older workers by promoting the utilization of Age Action 100*1 and the Age-Friendly Guidelines.*2) - Strengthen measures to prevent tripping, trapping and entanglement accidents and cutting and grazing accidents. To prevent tripping accidents in particular, modify equipment and facilities, such as the installation of non-slip sheeting, and the redesign of floors and grating to prevent slipping.
- Provide safety education for foreign employees.
- *1鈥 Compiled by the Japan Industrial Safety and Health Association, Age Action 100 is a set of workplace improvement tools based on a 100-item checklist that is used to review work methods and develop good working environments for older workers.
- *2鈥 The Age-Friendly Guidelines were formulated by Japan鈥檚 Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare with the aim of creating safe, pleasant working environments for older workers. They consist of items that require action by businesses and workers.
Traffic accidents
- Continually raise awareness of the importance of anticipatory driving.
- Raise hazard awareness through regular hazard prediction training based on the use of hazard prediction videos and traffic accident news items.
- Ensure that a safe distance is maintained from the vehicle ahead whether moving or stationary (e.g., a gap of at least 2 seconds, depending on the speed of travel, a distance from which the lower edge of the rear bumper of the vehicle ahead is visible when stopped at an intersection).
- Check safety, especially at key locations, including intersections or parking lots (such as by pointing and calling).
- Improve the driving skills of workers under 30 (e.g., instruction by an accompanying supervisor, attendance at an outside driving school).
- Install safety devices, driver support systems, and dashboard camera in commercial vehicles.
- Set schedules and encourage behavior that provide ample time.
- Respond to amendments of the Japanese Road Traffic Act (such as introducing alcohol checks).
- Identify potential hazards (including natural disaster risks) along routes used by workers who commute by car or other means and share hazard information at business sites and in workplaces.
- Provide thorough traffic safety training for young workers aged under 30 and senior workers aged 50 and older.
- Expand multilingual traffic safety guidance for foreign employees.
- We remind people that when crossing roads on foot, even if the light is green, they need to check for vehicles running red lights from left or right. We also raise awareness of the need to enhance their visibility to drivers when walking at night, such as by wearing bright clothing or carrying a light.
- Take steps to prevent self-inflicted accidents.
For example, we alert people to the ban on engaging in other activities, such as talking or looking at smartphones, while cycling or walking. We also encourage people to look out for hazards, such as gutters and uneven ground, while traveling to and from work on foot or by bicycle.
* Natural disaster risks include road blockages due to landslides, rising river levels, and other consequences of earthquakes, typhoons, and rainstorms, etc.
Measures to prevent minor and major fires
- Regularly inspect equipment, such as heating and cooking apparatus (especially friers), and ensure that surrounding areas are kept clean, including exhaust ducts.
- Ensure that all workers, including staff of outsourcing contractors, are aware of and comply with the smoking rules.
- Strictly limit and control the use of fire through regulations.
- Ensure that hazardous materials, designated combustibles, and waste at construction sites and at other locations are stored and managed in the correct plac