Health and safety

Workplace Safety and Security Initiatives

At Sanken Electric, we have set "zero work-related accidents, zero commuting accidents, and zero occupational diseases" as our management goals. To achieve and continuously maintain these goals, we are promoting workplace safety and security by coordinating between the Central Safety and Health Committee and multiple Safety and Health Committees at various business sites. Additionally, under the Sustainability Committee's Social Subcommittee, we established the "Safety and Health Promotion Team" and the "Health Promotion Team." However, in fiscal year 2024, these teams will be integrated into the "Safety and Health Promotion Team." As a group, we are carefully selecting themes such as reducing excessive working hours and decreasing the number of smokers to promote "workplace safety and security."

Slogans and management goals

Safety and Health Activity Policy for Fiscal Year 2025

• 1）  To enhance employees' safety awareness, we will conduct safety and health education, training sessions, and awareness activities utilizing the internal network. Additionally, we will issue alerts regarding work-related accidents that may occur while telecommuting or on business trips.
• 2）  We will strengthen safety patrols and work on preventing work-related accidents.
• 3）  We will promote KYT (Kiken Yochi Training), "near-miss" reporting, and risk assessment to prevent work-related accidents before they occur.
• 4）  For pharmaceutical operations, we will establish a "Chemical Substance Manager" and a "Protective Equipment Wear Management Supervisor" to strengthen the management system. Additionally, we will periodically review various manuals to enhance safety measures.
• 5）  We will establish the necessary environment and framework to acquire the "White Mark (Occupational Safety and Health Excellent Company Publication System)."
• 6）  To reduce the number of individuals with findings in health examinations, we will collaborate with the Safety and Health Promotion Team of the Social Subcommittee within the Sustainability Committee and organize health-related events.
• 7）  Regarding mental health care, we will collaborate with the Human Resources Department to undertake preventive measures such as stress checks and workplace environment improvements.
• 8）  With regard to bicycles, we will implement an application system for their use in commuting to clearly identify the relevant individuals. Additionally, we will establish new training sessions to prevent accidents.
• 9）  We aim to eliminate company vehicle accidents by utilizing the drive recorders installed in all vehicles.
• 10）  We will prioritize efforts to protect the lives of our employees by collaborating with the Crisis Management Committee on natural disaster countermeasures.

Major Initiatives in Recent Years

• (1) As part of safety education, we conducted safety and health education for new employees and mid-career hires.
  Additionally, we held "Chemical Handling Training" and "High-Pressure Gas Safety Training" sessions led by external instructors.
  The online training sessions included case-based education, covering causes and countermeasures of actual incidents that had occurred.
• (2) We combined the analysis of incidents that occurred within the company, efforts related to the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the spring traffic safety training sessions into "Safety and Health Training Sessions." Additionally, as a measure to address the recent increase in the number of individuals with findings in health checkups, mainly due to aging, we held the "Health Promotion Challenge" using online platforms. These events have been newly introduced in recent years.
• (3) We engage in daily activities to achieve zero accidents by conducting regular patrols, providing in-house education related to chemicals, and directly sending AI assessment results and advice from the drive recorders installed in all company vehicles to the drivers.
• (4) We held "Basic Life Support Training" sessions conducted by firefighters to train employees to perform rescue activities calmly in the event of an actual disaster.　
  During the COVID-19 pandemic, these sessions were substituted with e-learning.
• (5) As a measure against commuting accidents and traffic accidents, we conducted "Traffic Safety Training Sessions" online (using Viva Engage*1) with the help of external instructors, and these sessions saw a high level of participation.

In addition, in line with the work style reform, our company has actively introduced telecommuting and flexing systems, and has been expanding the use of free addresses within the company, thereby focusing its efforts on flexible working environments.

*1 Viva Engage is an internal communications environment centered on SNS

Trends in Sanken Group Business Accidents

• Frequency rate is the number of deaths and injuries due to occupational accidents per 1 million hours of actual work.
• Severity rate is the number of days of work lost per 1000 hours of actual work, indicating the degree of severity of accidents.
• Basis of Calculation : Calendar Year
• Establishment of Niigata Sanken in 2024

Health Management Initiatives

Amid social issues such as the declining working-age population due to aging, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) is promoting strategic initiatives to consider employee health management from a managerial perspective, in order to achieve healthy longevity and contribute to the sustainable maintenance and enhancement of health.
At Sanken Electric, it is considered crucial that employees and their families are both physically and mentally healthy. With this belief, Sanken Electric has been advocating the "Health Declaration" since May 2018. The aim is to create a workplace environment where employees can work energetically and continuously by promoting employee health and well-being.

Healthy management corporation

　　

　　

Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.

Sanken Electric Co., Ltd. has been certified as an Excellent Enterprise in Health Management 2025 (Large-scale Enterprise Category) by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Japan Health Conference. This marks the 7th consecutive year of certification, starting from 2019.

Major Initiatives and Achievements

1. Improve health literacy

To enhance employees' health literacy, we support the three pillars of health management: ① Learning, ② Practice, and ③ Evaluation.
We are particularly focusing on the four key themes: "smoking cessation," "diet," "sleep," and "exercise."

Past achievements

• ① Health screening participation is at 100%, and the examination rate for individuals with findings is 46.0% (increasing trend).
• ② The participation rate for stress checks is 100%, and the rate of individuals with high stress is 13.7% (up from last year's 11.4%).
• ③ Reduction in smokers: 9.5% of employees (achieved the target of below 10%)
• ④ The rate of good sleep quality is 47.8% (showing an improving trend).
• ⑤ The participation rate for women's health management training is 93.5% (increasing trend).

Future Initiatives

• ① Utilization of ICT for health management to improve lifestyle habits (better than the national average)
• ② Increasing the interview rate to prevent severe disease; aiming for an examination rate of over 60% for individuals with findings.
• ③ Aiming to reduce the rate of high-stress individuals to below 10% through workplace environment improvement and line care after stress checks.
• ④ Promoting the use of smoking cessation apps to further reduce the number of smokers (targeting less than 8% smokers).
• ⑤ Monitoring sleep conditions and implementing improvement measures to aim for a sleep quality rate of over 70%.

2. Promoting Employee and Family Health

Survey of health status (survey of family health status) and use of training facilities.
Implementation of health management using ICT will enable families to work together. Promote support for maintaining health for families, such as medical checkups and health guidance. We aim to make further efforts to promote health in the future.

Various indicators

Lifestyle Surveys and Productivity Indicators.

• August 2024 Survey
• All employees, including those under the age of 40.