Health and safety

Workplace Safety and Security Initiatives

Sanken Electric has set "Zero occupational accidents, zero commuting accidents, zero occupational diseases" as its management goal, and in order to realize and continuously maintain this goal, we are promoting initiatives for workplace safety and security in cooperation with several workplace safety and health committees, centering on the Central Safety and Health Committee. In addition, the Safety and Health Promotion Team and the Health Promotion Team have been established at the bottom of the Sustainability Committee and Social Subcommittee. The Group as a whole is working to promote workplace safety and security by reducing excessive working hours and the number of smokers.

Slogans and management goals

Safety and Health Activities Policy

• １）  Continue to provide information using safety and health education, training sessions, and internal networks to raise safety awareness among employees, and ensure safety first.
• ２）  We will review the environment and system to obtain the "White Mark," a symbol of safety and health.
• ３）  Establish a KYT near-miss risk assessment system and work to prevent disasters.
• ４）  Improve the overall level of chemical operations, including proper installation of protective equipment, compliance with operating procedures, and control of chemical poisons, to achieve zero chemical hazards.
  In addition, the latest version of the SDS (Safety Data Sheet) shall be thoroughly managed.
• ５）  Conduct regular work environment measurements, in-house patrols, etc., and maintain zero observable persons in special medical examinations.
• ６）  In order to reduce the number of people with findings in medical examinations, health promotion measures will be promoted in cooperation with the human resources department and health insurance associations.
• ７）  We will actively provide education, training, and information on mental health care to improve the work environment, respond to mental health problems, and support employees who are absent from work to return to work.
• ８）  Aiming to prevent the health impairment of workers due to overwork, the target is to obtain annual paid leave of at least 70%. In addition, it ensures that "doctor's interviews" are conducted when overtime work exceeds 70 hours per month.
• ９）  Review the use of drive recorders installed in all vehicles and continue alcohol checks based on the Road Traffic Law.
• １０）  We will cooperate with the Emergency Management Committee to implement disaster prevention measures, putting the lives of employees at the top of the list.

Major Initiatives in Recent Years

• (1) As part of our safety training, we provided safety and health training to new and mid-career employees, as well as held "chemical handling training" and "high pressure gas safety training" by outside instructors. We provided training based on examples of actual disasters, including their causes and countermeasures, in the form of online training.
• (2) The Health and Safety Training Program combines the analysis of internal disasters, the Occupational Health and Safety Act, and internal efforts to deal with them with the spring traffic safety training course. The Health Promotion Challenge was also held online as a measure to increase the number of people with findings in medical examinations mainly due to the aging of society in recent years.
  These events were newly established in recent years.
• (3) We work every day to achieve zero accidents through regular patrols, in-house education on chemicals, and direct transmission of AI test results and advice to drivers using the drive recorder installed in all company vehicles.
• (4) Fire-fighting personnel held an ordinary life-saving seminar, and trained them to be able to save lives calmly even in the event of an actual disaster.
• (5) In order to eradicate commuting accidents and traffic accidents, the Traffic Safety Training Sessions held twice a year in spring and autumn are remote training sessions using Yammer*1.

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 Yammer 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

Health Management Initiatives

Based on this philosophy, in May 2018 we adopted the Health Declaration in order to create a workplace environment in which employees can work energetically and dynamically by promoting employee health.

Healthy management corporation

Sanken Electric Co., Ltd. was recognized as a "Health Management Excellent Corporation 2023 (Large Sector)" by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Japan Health Council on March 8, 2023. This will be the fifth consecutive year since 2019.

Domestic companies have also acquired the Small and Medium Enterprise Division of "2023 Healthy management corporation." This certification was obtained by the entire Group.

※Healthy management corporation： This is a system to honor large corporations and small and medium-sized enterprises that practice particularly excellent health management, based on their efforts to address health issues and the health promotion initiatives promoted by the Japan Health Council.
Source: 　Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Health Management Excellence Corporation Certification System

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Health Declaration

We believe that it is important for employees and their families to be healthy both in mind and body, and to help people who use our products remain healthy. Aiming to create an environment in which each and every employee thinks and acts with an awareness that safety and health are always the highest priority, the Company will contribute to the health of its customers through efforts to autonomously maintain and promote the health of its employees and their families, as well as through innovations in power electronics.

Slogan

Organizational Structure

The Health Promotion Committee, consisting of the President as the Chief Executive Officer of Health Care, the Director of the Workstyle Reform Promotion Department, an occupational physician (Health Management Office), and the President of the Health Insurance Association as assistants, will work together with the Company and the Health Insurance Association to implement various measures to promote health management.

Health Management Strategy Map

Connection between health investment and management issues

Major Initiatives and Achievements

1. Improve health literacy

Supporting the three pillars of health care ① learning, ② practice, and ③ evaluation in order to improve the health literacy of employees. In particular, the four priority themes of "smoking cessation," "meals," " sleep ," and "exercise" are addressed.

Past achievements

• ① 100% of health checkups and 44.9% of those with findings.
• ② 100% of respondents took stress checks, 11.4% of those with high stress (13.8% last year)
  2 seminars on workplace improvement (¥1.23 million) Participation rate of 97.5% among participants
• ③ Fewer smokers. (10.9% of employees)
• ④ Good sleep rate was 45.3%. (decreasing trend)
• ⑤ Women's health management training (participation rate 91.5%)

Future Initiatives

• ① ICT-based health management practices to improve lifestyle.(better than the national average.)
• ② Increase interview rate for prevention of severe disease Target of 60% or more of patients with findings.
• ③ Improvement of work environment after stress check and target 10% or less of high stress people in line care.
• ④ Promote the use of smoking cessation apps to further reduce the number of smokers. (target of less than 10% of smokers.)
• ⑤ Check sleep status and take measures to improve sleep, aiming for a good sleep rate of 70% or more.

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 2023 Survey
• All employees, including those under the age of 40.