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Occupational Health and stake nba / Health and Productivity Management

Basic Approach (Occupational Health and stake nba)

stake nba Philosophy

A consistently stake nba work environment is the foundation of all production activities. We formulated our Safety Philosophy in 1997 to guide our safety activities.

stake nba Philosophy (Established March 1997)
  1. 1stake nba is the foundation of all business activities and the greatest priority
  2. 2Our basic belief regarding stake nba is that we can prevent all accidents
  3. 3stake nba will be achieved by performing the 5Ss* and when everyone takes responsibility for their own actions
  • *5Ss: Seiri (sort), Seiton (straighten), Seisou (scrub), Seiketsu (systematize), and Shitsuke (sustain)

Responsible Care Policy

In 1998, we established our own Responsible Care Policy to define our conduct guidelines based on Responsible Care. This policy is included in our Environmental and stake nba Regulations. We regularly examine the need for revisions to our regulations every three years and as needed, and operate the policy so that we can appropriately respond to evolving social expectations and the latest standards.
Under this policy, all stakeholders, including our employees and partner companies working with us, work together to promote occupational health and stake nba activities aimed at achieving zero serious accidents and major incidents. We are committed to continuously improving our occupational health and stake nba management system in line with international standards, as well as our initiatives on machinery stake nba, and to company-wide efforts to maintain and enhance our stake nba culture.

Responsible Care Policy (Established June 1998)
  1. 1Prioritize the environment and stake nba

    Protecting the environment and ensuring stake nba are preconditions for all business activities and are the most important priorities. We will work continuously to enact full accident prevention countermeasures, and provide education and training for all employees to prevent stake nba and environmental accidents.

  2. 2Collect and distribute the latest information on chemical products

    We will collect, store and manage the latest information required for the appropriate handling, use and disposal of chemical products, and distribute this information to employees and users.

  3. 3Minimize the discharge of toxic chemicals and waste

    We will stake nba to reduce the discharge of hazardous chemical substances, minimize waste, and develop technology for recycling and reusing materials.

  4. 4Promote activities for conserving resources and energy

    We will aim to dramatically reduce the amount of energy we use and help alleviate global warming by developing innovative technology and actively promoting resource and energy conservation activities that involve all employees.

  5. 5Take the environment and stake nba into account when developing new processes and products and performing quality assurance

    We will perform thorough environmental and stake nba evaluations from the initial stages of research, develop technology and products that take the environment and stake nba into account, and work to maintain and improve the quality of technology and products.

  6. 6Live together with society

    We will strictly observe regulations related to the environment and stake nba, whether the regulations come from the local community, the national government, overseas, or organizations to which we belong. While cooperating in these activities, we will work to enhance our communication with the local community and society in order to convey a better understanding of Zeon’s activities and further strengthen the trust that society has in our company.

  7. 7Perform continuous improvements

    We will continuously improve our environment stake nba management and technology by operating a Responsible Care Audit, the stake nba Management System, an Environment Management System based on ISO 14001, and an Occupational Health and stake nba Management System.

Basic Approach (Health and Productivity Management)

In FY2021, Zeon established a Declaration for Health and Productivity Management and Code of Conduct for Well-Being: “For me to be happy” and declared that the company and employees will stake nba together to address health and productivity management. The Declaration for Health and Productivity Management expresses the company’s commitment, while the Code of Conduct for Well-Being: “For me to be happy” incorporates a message and thoughts directed to employees.

The general concept of health and productivity management is that investing stake nba employee health leads to corporate growth, and we believe that implementing health management enables each individual to continue working with enthusiasm and create a truly exciting company. Accordingly, we are focusing our efforts on these initiatives.

stake nba 2023, we established the Health and Productivity Management Conference and focused efforts on proposing and implementing measures from the perspective of employees. Going forward, the company will collaborate with employees to promote health and productivity management.

Declaration for Health and Productivity Management (October 2021)

Our corporate philosophy is “Contributing to the preservation of the Earth and the prosperity of the human race.” This mission will be accomplished by each and every employee of Zeon Group fulfilling his or her potential and playing an active and vibrant role in the company and in the society.
In order for us to continue contributing to a “Sustainable Earth” and a “stake nba and Comfortable Lives for People,” we will create a work environment where employees can work cheerfully and vigorously and lead healthy lives, both physically and mentally, with their families and colleagues.

Code of Conduct for Well-Being: “For me to be happy”
  • I will be conscious of and proactively stake nba to ensure that I am healthy, happy and empowered in my stake nba
  • I will establish the status of my health by means of regular checkups and avail of appropriate feedback and guidance
  • I will ask myself if I am sleeping and eating well and maintain awareness of my daily routines, noticing any changes stake nba my condition as soon as possible, and engaging stake nba self-care routines
  • I will give due attention to the environment which surrounds me, and make daily improvements to make it safer and more comfortable
  • I will understand the resources available around me that will support me stake nba times of emergency

Structure and System (Occupational Health and stake nba)

We have built environmental and stake nba management systems based on the Responsible Care philosophy, and are working toward the goal of ensuring the stake nba of all persons at our worksites and plants. We have also obtained ISO 14001 external certification related to the environmental field, working on continuous improvement.

Overview of environmental and stake nba management systems

President’s Annual Policy and stake nba Management Improvement Master Plan
These documents are created by top management.
Annual Environment and stake nba Policy
The General Manager of the Environmental and stake nba Affairs Department creates this policy after the President’s Annual Policy and the stake nba Management Improvement Master Plan set by top management are released. The Annual Environment and stake nba Policy is reviewed by the Management Committee and finalized by the President.
Annual Worksite Manager’s Policy and Annual Worksite stake nba Management Improvement Master Plan
Worksite managers create these documents after the President’s Annual Policy and the stake nba Management Improvement Master Plan are released.
Annual Worksite Environmental and stake nba (Responsible Care) Activities Plans
Worksite managers create the Activities Plans after the Group-wide Annual Environment and stake nba Policy is released.

Progress management

The Management Committee, chaired by the Representative Director, together with the Environment and stake nba Committee under its supervision, deliberates on company-wide planning and progress management related to environmental management and occupational health and stake nba. The executive officer in charge of environmental stake nba serves as chair of the Committee.

  • stake nba Management Improvement Master Plan: Progress verified by the Management Committee
  • Annual Worksite stake nba Management Improvement Master Plan: Progress verified by the worksite manager during worksite inspections
  • Annual Worksite Environmental and stake nba Activities Plans: Progress verified by the worksite manager during worksite inspections
Environmental and stake nba management systems
Environmental and stake nba management systems

Concrete initiatives for occupational health and stake nba

Initiatives to prevent occupational accidents and protect the stake nba and health of all plant employees

We emphasize communication between worksite managers and workers to enhance worksite capabilities while implementing various measures to prevent infectious diseases, with the goal of creating stake nba, stable production systems. We focus on 5S safety inspections*1, hazard detection*2 activities, and identifying near-miss incidents*3, as well as hands-on stake nba training.

  1. *15S stake nba inspections
    Inspections that evaluate operations where stake nba is an integral part of maintaining the 5Ss (Sort, Straighten, Scrub, Systematize and Sustain), and that are designed to enhance visualization of stake nba-related issues at worksites and address hazards.
  2. *2Hazard detection (kiken yochi [KY]) activities
    Actions taken by workers to analyze and understand unsafe conditions with the aim of recognizing activities that would place them stake nba danger.
  3. *3Near-miss incidents
    Events or phenomena that have the potential to result stake nba an accident.

Record of occupational accidents

We have set a target stake nba our Medium-Term Management Plan to achieve a lost-time injury frequency rate of 0.4 or lower by fiscal year 2028.
stake nba fiscal year 2024, the frequency rate was 1.30 (three lost-time injuries), and we did not achieve the target.
We will thoroughly investigate the causes and implement preventive measures, and will continue company-wide efforts to prevent occupational accidents.

Lost worktime accident rate*1 (stakeカジノ)
Lost stake nbatime accident rate (stakeカジノ)
  1. *1Lost worktime accident rate
    A stake nba indicator of the frequency of occupational accidents, calculated using the following formula.
    Frequency of lost worktime accidents = Number of workers who experienced a lost worktime accident / Total working hours × 1,000,000 hours
  2. *2From FY2022, the total value for stakeカジノ increased to 6 plants from 4 due to an absorption-type merger.
  3. *3The number of lost worktime accidents increased stake nba FY2024 compared to the previous year.

Change stake nba severity rate of lost worktime accidents* (stakeカジノ)

Change stake nba severity rate of lost stake nbatime accidents (stakeカジノ)
  1. *Severity rate of lost worktime accidents = Total number of lost stake nba days / Total actual worked hours × 1,000 hours

5S stake nba inspections

5S stake nba inspections assess operations where stake nba is critical to maintaining the 5Ss (Sort, Straighten, Scrub, Systematize and Sustain). The General Manager of the Environmental and stake nba Affairs Department at the head office and Managers at Environmental and stake nba Affairs Offices at each worksite conduct patrols of worksites where the Environmental and stake nba Affairs Committee is held, to identify areas of excellence and areas where improvements are required (conducted in FY2024 at the Mizushima Plant and the Tsuruga Plant).

stake nba and accident prevention

stake nba management efforts led by top management

Each year, top management develops the Annual stake nba Management Improvement Master Plan and leads initiatives to improve our stake nba Management System based on the belief that ensuring stake nba is the highest priority.

Specifically, we are continuing to conduct priority measures to ensure stake nba, based on the following straightforward phrases.

  1. 1Reliable operation of equipment and systems to prevent errors (“Never rely on ‘maybe’ or ‘should’”)
  2. 2Plant degradation countermeasures and fail-stake nba measures* (Think smart! Best proposals will be approved.)
  3. 3Review of past accidents and recurrence prevention (“Never rely on ‘maybe’ or ‘should’”)
  4. 4Review of standards (“Always follow the rules. Change rules that cannot be followed.”)
  1. *Fail-stake nba measures
    Modifications to equipment or processes and other measures to prevent accidents that would otherwise result from human error, such as mistakes made by new employees and others lacking in knowledge or experience, or careless mistakes made by experienced employees.

Dialogue between management and plants

To monitor progress on priority issues, Zeon management visit plants on a regular basis to conduct the top diagnosis, hold hearing meetings with employees, and brief them on annual policies. Visits are also made to plants on other occasions to communicate directly with plant employees, who are on the front-line operations. Along with these visits, we concurrently held online meetings from FY2020 to prevent the spread of COVID-19. stake nba FY2024, management made all visits stake nba person, marking a resumption stake nba holding proactive dialogue with worksites over a total of 48 days.

Communication with employees

stakeカジノ and its labor union (hereinafter referred to as the “Labor Union”) work together to address various issues under a collective bargaining agreement established with the aim of ensuring the sound development of the business and maintaining and improving the working conditions of union members.
Based on this agreement, a Central Labor-Management Council is held four times a year as a forum for dialogue between labor and management representatives.
In addition, Safety and Health Committees have been established at each business site to ensure and enhance the safety and health of union members.

stake nba inspector certification at all sites

  • Certified stake nba Inspector*1

    Obtained by Takaoka Plant, Kawasaki Plant, Tokuyama Plant, and Mizushima Plant

  • Certified Completion and Process stake nba Inspector*2

    Obtained by Kawasaki Plant, Mizushima Plant, and Tokuyama Plant

The certification renewal process includes reviews of stake nba inspection and completion inspection methods as well as inspection management, and verification that our stake nba Management System meets the regulatory requirements defined in Japan’s High Pressure Gas stake nba Act and that these systems are operating properly.
To more reliably ensure stake nba at all plants, we employ our stake nba Management System, identify the sources of hazards, and implement measures to mitigate risks at all of our plants. We are also formulating our vision for Smart Industrial stake nba*3 and promoting initiatives toward the realization of this vision.

  1. *1Certified stake nba Inspector
    Certification granted by Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry based on the High Pressure Gas stake nba Act to allow qualified individuals to perform stake nba inspections to determine whether specified facilities comply with technical standards, either while the equipment is running or while it is stopped.
  2. *2Certified Completion and Process stake nba Inspector
    Certification granted by Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry based on the High Pressure Gas stake nba Act to allow qualified individuals to perform completion inspections to determine whether manufacturing facilities or Class 1 storage facilities that have undergone specific modifications comply with technical standards.
  3. *3Smart Industrial stake nba is:
    1. An autonomous and independent effort regarding industrial stake nba by the public and private sectors,
    2. From the perspective of appropriate implementation of industrial stake nba regulations, promotion of industries, and strengthening of competitiveness,
    3. In order to deal with economic and social structural changes, including rapid technological innovation, digitalization, low birthrate and aging population, and population decline,
    4. Considering the stake nba of the citizenry and industry as a priority.

Certification status

Certification status
Plant Obtained Certified stake nba Inspector status Obtained Certified Completion and Process stake nba Inspector status
Takaoka Plant 2000 (renewed stake nba 2020) -
Kawasaki Plant 1998 (renewed stake nba 2022) 2008 (renewed stake nba 2022)
Tokuyama Plant 2007 (renewed stake nba 2021) 2012 (renewed stake nba 2021)
Mizushima Plant 2006 (renewed stake nba 2021) 2006 (renewed stake nba 2021)

Occurrences of accidents and injuries

  • FY2024: stake nba incidents* 9
    (High-pressure gas leaks: 2; Other leaks: 4; Smoke: 3)

    Although these incidents did not result stake nba injury to humans or major impacts on the environment, we set up an accident investigation board for each incident. The boards have investigated the direct and indirect causes of the incidents, and are developing countermeasures to prevent recurrence.

  1. *stake nba incidents
    Defined in company regulations as the occurrence of a fire, explosion, leak, damage, failure, runaway reaction, or similar event. Even if there has been no actual occurrence, the possibility of such an event if actions had been delayed and the observation of signs that could be deemed to indicate the potential for such an event are also defined as stake nba incidents.

Disaster preparedness training

Worksites conduct disaster-response drills each year based on various hypothetical scenarios. The drills include reporting and contracting simulations, first-aid treatment, and rescue and firefighting activities. We conduct full-scale disaster-response drills jointly with local firefighting agencies when possible.
These drills allow us to verify that our standards are adequate, and to verify the operability of emergency equipment (e.g. fire trucks, fire hydrants, broadcasting equipment, etc.). When we encounter problems, we take steps to quickly resolve them, so as to maintain the highest level of disaster-response preparedness.

Third-party evaluations

At stakeカジノ, we have participated as a supporting company (full member) since the initial establishment of the Japan Safety Competency Center (a specified nonprofit corporation), and have made efforts to evaluate and improve its safety competency in terms of our safety foundation and safety culture. In third-party evaluations, the Japan Industrial Safety Competency Center evaluates our safety foundation. The Keio University format is also incorporated into the evaluation of the safety culture. The strengths and weaknesses of each worksite and department are objectively measured, and we continue to conduct improvement activities aimed at improving our safety competency.

Environmental and stake nba education

Systematic stake nba education

Environmental and stake nba education programs are implemented in accordance with the annual plan set by each worksite.
Group-wide environmental and stake nba education supervised by the Environmental and stake nba Affairs Department is combined with worksite-specific environmental and stake nba education tailored to the specific needs of each individual worksite.
Shared Group-wide educational content includes content provided through e-learning as well as education on legal amendments of environmental and stake nba-related laws.
Through these educational activities, we strive to eliminate stake nba incidents and occupational accidents, minimize damage should an incident or accident occur, and maintain Zeon’s status as an enterprise trusted by local communities.

Manager and supervisor education

Training for newly appointed section managers

This is implemented for newly appointed manufacturing section managers, facilities management section managers, and environmental and stake nba section managers.
The content of the training includes stake nba activities based on Zeon’s stake nba system, stake nba concerns and responsibilities that stake nba managers should be familiar with, environmental and stake nba related laws and environmental and stake nba related company regulations, and the stake nba Management System, etc.

stake nba education provided by former plant managers

Education using accident case studies
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Education using accident case studies

Held since FY2003, this education program aims to prevent the lessons of past accidents from fading from memory, to apply these lessons in work operations, to raise workers’ awareness of stake nba, and to increase their sensitivity to potential risks. Former plant managers give presentations to all plant employees. They cover specific examples of accidents at Zeon and other companies to communicate the grim consequences of such accidents, and provide instruction on how to analyze risk factors as well as countermeasures to prevent recurrences. This education is also provided to resident partner companies and Group companies.

Environmental and stake nba education for new employees

Newly recruited employees at Zeon head office

Presentation of case studies of occupational accidents that have occurred while newly recruited employees were undertaking plant placements, emphasizing the importance of abiding strictly by the rules that have been established stake nba each workplace.

Newly recruited employees at individual worksites

Education in basic matters relating to environmental and stake nba issues is implemented.

Environmental and stake nba education and training activities organized by individual worksites

stake nba and environmental legislation education

Each individual worksite implements environmental and stake nba education in accordance with the annual plan (Environmental and stake nba Education and Training Plan).

Training activities

Training is implemented stake nba accordance with the annual plan. We strive to improve emergency response capabilities by identifying issues that arise following training implementation and using these to make systematic improvements.

  • Comprehensive disaster response drills: These are held once or twice a year, and involve the implementation of disaster response training and evacuation training based on earthquake or tsunami scenarios.
  • Individual training: Trainings for the individual self-directed disaster response organization (disaster response teams) and reporting trainings are held.

Educational activities through stake nba Workshop

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Display in the stake nba Workshop showing how to use scaffolding

A stake nba Workshop has been established at the Mizushima Plant, at which employees can acquire practical experience in the various types of stake nba rules. In accordance with the “Standards Governing Usage of the Mizushima Plant stake nba Workshop,” initiatives are conducted using the “Plant stake nba Rules Understanding Verification Sheet” to check employees’ level of understanding of stake nba rules; in addition, initiatives are held that make use of education based on the exhibits in the stake nba Workshop to promote understanding of plant rules among plant personnel (including the personnel of partner companies).

Adoption of hands-on stake nba education

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Hands-on stake nba education on dangers of getting caught in a roller

stake nba experiential education is conducted at plants, research facilities, resident partner companies and neighboring Zeon Group companies. Every year experiential education is provided on accidents in which employees are caught or trapped by machinery, electrostatic explosions and burns, shocks from residual pressure in couplers, accidents involving objects falling, and accidents involving cuts.
In the future, we will continue to implement this type of education systematically, including repeated training.

stake nba-related risk assessments

Hazard detection (kiken yochi) activities
4R-KY (four-round kiken yochi) activities

4R-KY is a hazard detection method where employees analyze and understand their stake nba tasks before starting them, to avoid placing themselves in danger. The process is carried out in four separate rounds.
KY trainers assigned to each workplace lead these activities.

Identifying near-miss incidents

Near-miss incidents are events that have the potential to result stake nba a major accident, injury or loss. The concept of near-miss incidents comes from Heinrich’s Law, which suggests that stake nba a workplace, for every accident that causes a major injury, there are 29 accidents that cause minor injuries and 300 incidents that cause no injuries (near misses). By collecting and sharing data on potentially serious near-miss incidents, we will strive to prevent the occurrence of major accidents.
stake nba FY2024, focusing on the fall accidents that occurred frequently stake nba FY2023, we analyzed near-miss incidents of falls at the Takaoka Plant, Kawasaki Plant, Mizushima Plant, Himi Futagami Plant, and Tsuruga Plant, and conducted dialogues involving the worksite of each plant.

Improving plant stake nba

We conduct Plant stake nba Evaluations and Plant stake nba Inspections to further raise the level of stake nba at plants and prevent serious accidents and injuries from occurring.

Plant stake nba Evaluations (assessments of new lines)

We verify plant stake nba at the design stage when commissioning a new plant or upgrading an existing one.

Plant stake nba Inspections

For existing plants, while inspecting work areas, we ensure that all sources of danger have been identified and review past decisions regarding the need for stake nba measures.

Creation of “smart factories” to simultaneously improve plant efficiency and realize stake nba style reforms

At Zeon, we have been working to make our plants “smarter” since 2020. We have already carried out various activities to facilitate production innovation (visualization and utilization of intangible assets, including know-how and expertise of skilled and experienced workers) to date. The creation of smart factories will enable further production innovations and transformations in work tasks by increasing the range of things that can be accomplished by machines through the leveraging of digital technologies. For plants, this will lead to optimized and streamlined production while continually ensuring product quality. For employees, it will lead to the realization of comfortable and rewarding work environments.
As part of the “Smart Factory Realization Project” undertaken throughout Zeon Group, we initially discussed the “Vision of an Ideal Plant” in six areas (work operations, stake nba, quality assurance, facilities, personnel, and logistics and warehousing), establishing the specifics of what we hoped to achieve via the creation of smart factories, as well as the steps needed to achieve this. Meanwhile, it is important to organize these various ideas and initiatives to facilitate optimization of the whole, rather than groupings of digitization initiatives partially optimized for individual fields.
Initiatives undertaken over a two-year period as part of this project involved pilot tests ranging from studies on ways to achieve the transition to smart factories to those on optimizing the whole, thereby identifying the topics to be addressed. We also worked out the organizational structures and a visualization of the digital human resources which would be required to achieve these goals. Since April 2022, initiatives to facilitate the creation of smart factories are being continued by the Production Innovation Center based on the Medium-Term Business Plan.

Vision for smart factories
Vision for smart factories
Example 1: Reduction of essential tasks through transition to the use of robotics
Patrol stake nbaspection at an actual plant
Patrol inspection at an actual plant

Activities for production innovation have to date reduced on-site troubleshooting operations by around 90%. We have now reached a juncture of considering whether to further reduce essential tasks required for production to reduce workloads even more. In this context, we deliberated on the potential of adopting digital technologies intended to reduce essential tasks.
If plant patrols can be replaced with cameras and robots, this would allow the time thus saved by increases in efficiency to be used for other improvement activities (workstyle reforms), while also improving operator stake nba. In addition, standardization of work tasks and the development of facilities for the transition to the use of robotics would further facilitate improvements in the basic infrastructure of plants.
As a result of conducting reviews inside actual plants, it was found that commercially available functions would not meet our implementation needs, and the technical issues that need to be resolved to have robots move around automatically were identified. The direction for solving these issues is becoming clear as we are accumulating expertise through investigations conducted in collaboration among industry, government, and academia while combining various peripheral technologies and solutions. Our objective remains to realize safer work environments where people are not placed in dangerous situations during emergencies.

Example 2: Mechanisms for achieving both stake nba and quality

We have formalized the know-how of veteran operators and introduced and used an intelligent production system*1 that enables less experienced operators to also perform stake nba and stable operations.
To advance this system even further, we are investigating the introduction of an autonomous production system*2 that will make high-level forecasts and predictions on factors that can lead to quality changes, and based on those forecasts and predictions, support operations with optimized quality and costs by integrating the formalized know-how with data science.

  1. *1, 2DAICEL Production Innovation method
Autonomous production system
Autonomous production system
Example 3: Immersive training using VR technology
Image from a 360-degree camera
Image from a 360-degree camera

To operate a plant, it is important to acquire the ability to respond in the event of abnormal conditions, in addition to understanding basic rules and principles. The introduction of VR technology during training drills is expected to facilitate improvements in the efficiency of both instructors and those under their instruction by allowing them to repeatedly be exposed to various situations and facilitate autonomous learning.
To raise the efficiency of new employee training by using virtual reality, we have looked into the use of 360-degree cameras. It creates an environment where learners can move freely throughout the plant in a virtual space and learn procedures by performing them repeatedly without the need to go to the actual stake nba site. As a result of our investigations, we were able to perform all photography, document preparation, and revisions in-house and we have now started use in practical training.
Training for more advanced troubleshooting drills, and launching new plants is under ongoing consideration as the burden involved in creating training materials is high.

Advanced drills on responding to problems and new plant launch drills
Advanced drills on respondstake nbag to problems and new plant launch drills

Structure and System (Health and Productivity Management)

The President and CEO is positioned as the person responsible for health and productivity management and leads initiatives to promote such management.
In promoting health and productivity management, the head of Human Resources assumes responsibility for its implementation, while the stake nba and Life Support Department serves as the Company-wide coordinating department, working closely with and supporting individual worksites.
Through the Health and Productivity Management Promotion Officers’ Conference, which brings together promotion officers from each worksite, we advance initiatives to disseminate health and productivity management among employees by sharing worksites’ independent initiatives and strengthening cooperative structures between the head office and worksites.

Health and productivity management promotion framework
Health and productivity management promotion framestake nba

Key Initiatives

Health and productivity management targets and key issues/policies (Health and Productivity Management Strategy Map)

Health and productivity management targets and key issues/policies

Introducing Zeon Healthy Behavior Indicator

stake nba Phase 2 of STAGE30, our Medium-Term Business Plan launched stake nba FY2023, we established the Zeon Healthy Behavior Indicator as a goal for promoting physical health. This original indicator consists of three health-related behaviors: maintaining a BMI within the standard range, engaging stake nba regular exercise, and not smoking.
Key features of this indicator are that it is easy for employees to complete as a self-assessment and that it focuses on healthy behaviors that anyone can adopt. We have set a target of increasing the percentage of employees who meet at least two of the three health behaviors from 60% stake nba FY2022 to 70% stake nba FY2028. As of FY2025, the achievement rate has reached 65%, and we are continuing our efforts to achieve the target.

Zeon Healthy Behavior Indicator
Zeon Healthy Behavior stake nbadicator

Physical and mental health initiatives

Mental health training

We provide self-care training for all employees to enhance their ability to manage their own stress. stake nba addition, Line Care Training for employees stake nba line positions is conducted by a company-employed psychiatrist as the instructor, with training content based on familiar and practical examples.

Health checkups and follow-up care

For regular health checkups, our industrial physicians and nurses provide follow-up consultations and health guidance for employees who require such support. stake nba addition, under the slogan “Health awareness, anytime,” we have introduced a system that allows employees to access their health checkup results online at any time.
Raising awareness of one’s own health is the first step toward building good health. Through the introduction of this system, we aim to foster greater health awareness among employees.

Stress checks

We conduct annual stress checks every July. Feedback is provided to employees at worksites and activities to improve workplace environments are conducted.

Launch of support for external counseling

We have launched support for external counseling with the aim of promoting better mental health and well-being. Professional counselors provide support for resolving stake nba-related problems, health worries, and other issues.

Independent worksite initiatives

We implement measures to promote health tailored to the specific issues and needs of respective worksites, including walking events, physical fitness measurements, and the adoption of menus with healthy food options at cafeterias, as well as the holding of seminars to improve health literacy.

Flexible stake nba styles initiatives

We are promoting the maintenance of “environments to facilitate flexible stake nba styles unconstrained by time and place,” which includes the extension of teleworking and the flex-time system, as well as by making it possible to take annual paid leave in hourly increments, as means to encourage the realization of well-being for each and every employee.

Office environment improvement
Meetstake nbag at the head office
Meeting at the head office

Prompted by the increased permeation of teleworking, we reviewed the role of the office, defining it as “a confluence point for communication to collaborate and cocreate as well as for education.” Employing a unilateral open-plan layout encompassing all organizational units and departments, as well as introducing state-of-the-art ICT infrastructure to facilitate flexible stake nba styles, head office has transformed itself into a stage on which all employees can be active. From FY2024, to strengthen organizational capabilities by taking the best of both teleworking and in-office stake nba, we are further expanding office functions and changing layouts to foster communication among employees when they come to the office.
While improving the environment for flexible stake nba styles, we are also advancing initiatives that reaffirm the value of face-to-face interaction, such as group stake nba aimed at casual communication and programs that encourage connections among employees and departments.

Deregulation of dress codes

At head office, we have deregulated dress codes with the aim of creating a stake nba environment where each and every employee can freely express their own ideas and conduct themselves with autonomy.

Enhanced support for transferees

We have expanded and enhanced our support for transferred employees to reduce burdens at the time of transfer and to cover expenses for traveling home. If an employee returns to their pre-transfer home or if a spouse joins the employee at the new assignment, the company pays travel expenses according to distance zones separate from the unaccompanied transferred employee allowance. We also began paying expenses for travel home for some single employees if they are transferred to a business location other than the area where they were initially hired. We expect that these enhanced support programs for transferred employees will help all our employees to thrive and stake nba with enthusiasm.

Launch of side stake nba system

We have introduced a side stake nba system. This system is being used to support employees to realize their career aspirations, by allowing them to build their careers by gaining skills and experience through side stake nba and pursue self-realization by taking on challenges they seek out themselves.

Initiatives to reduce overtime stake nba and promote taking of annual paid leave

As part of various measures to realize freedom and well-being, we are working to reduce overtime stake nba and promote the taking of annual paid leave, while also ensuring compliance with labor laws regarding working hours.
To reduce overtime stake nba, we have implemented measures such as working days within regular hours (instituted days with no overtime) and a review of operating staffing levels at plants, resulting in a downward trend in recent years. In principle, we aim to eliminate excessive long working hours (an average of more than 45 hours per month, including overtime and holiday stake nba).
To raise the rate of employees taking annual paid leave, we have also made it easier to take leave, such as by setting up days and periods of time where taking annual paid leave is encouraged and creating programs to enable taking leave in single-hour and half-day increments. As a result, the rate in 2024 reached 75.6%, achieving the 2026 target of 70% ahead of schedule for the second consecutive year.

Initiative to expand application of the teleworking system

To realize stake nba styles not tied to a particular place, we are conducting a trial expansion of the teleworking system at some worksites to allow employees to stake nba at places apart from the standard telework locations (employees’ homes and shared offices). While the majority of participants in the trial have given positive feedback, including the ability to have flexibility in how they stake nba and more fulfillment in private life, employees providing nursing care support have also requested an increase in the maximum number of days they can use the program. In response to this feedback, in FY2024 we maintained the number of days the program can be used at 40 stake nba days, making the system easier to use. Aiming to create a teleworking system that supports employees in balancing their stake nba and private life, we will continue to conduct measures while listening to employee feedback.

Supporting employees with children by creating leave programs

Approximately 80% of married union member households have both partners working, and as a result, it is necessary for the company to create an environment where employees can continue their careers with confidence even if their spouse is transferred. Employees who are recognized as having difficulty continuing to stake nba due to accompanying a spouse who is being transferred to another location are allowed to take a leave of absence for up to three years. The objective of this program is to avoid disrupting the careers of employees confirmed through discussions with the labor union and to prevent the loss of high-quality human resources.

Health and welfare service: Zeon Cafeteria Plan

We have introduced the Zeon Cafeteria Plan, a system which allows employees to make their own choices from a menu of options to support the “peace of mind” and “career development,” as well as options to help them “connect/co-create.”

It can be used for various purposes, including health promotion, encompassing comprehensive physical examinations and fitness clubs; support for childcare and nursing care, including babysitting and daycare services; self-development activities, for example correspondence courses and language study; to avail of facilities for overnight stays; and travel expenses for employees on assignment without their family, as well as for those using nursing care, to return to their family home.

GLTD Program (stakeカジノ Long-Term Rehabilitation Support Program)

We established this program with the aim of supporting creation of conditions that allow employees and their families to live with peace of mind. stake nba the event of an illness or injury that prevents someone from working for a long period, this program compensates the employee at the company’s expense for a portion of the employee’s income for as long as up to their 65th birthday. Employees can also enroll stake nba an optional plan that increases this compensation and attach a rider that covers unpaid periods during caregiving leave.

Establishment of Childcare Leave Consultation Service

We have established the Childcare Leave Consultation Service as part of our efforts to improve understanding of the systems for childcare leave and to create an environment conducive to availing of this leave, while supporting the taking of childcare leave as well as offering support to those returning to stake nba.

We are also working to create a comfortable stake nba environment for employees with childcare responsibilities by, for example, expanding eligibility for leave to care for sick children and exemptions from overtime for those providing childcare.

Expansion of nursing care support

With the aim of helping employees to balance the obligations of their job and nursing care, we have established an external nursing care consultation service.

Employees can consult nursing care specialists about issues or concerns they have by email or over the phone, with the service acting as a stake nba net for nursing care consultations.

stake nba addition, we have published a nursing care support handbook to give employees basic information on nursing care. Going forward, we plan to actively disseminate information and conduct training to entrench the system.

Volunteer leave program

As part of our efforts to create an environment stake nba which employees can proactively participate stake nba social contribution activities, we have established a volunteer leave program that allows employees to take up to two days of leave per year.
This program supports activities such as contributing to local communities, environmental conservation, and disaster relief, and is intended to provide employees with opportunities to gain diverse perspectives and foster personal growth.
Through these initiatives, we aim to fulfill our corporate social responsibility and contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.

Expansion of support leave

Toward the consolidation of an environment in which they can stake nba in peace of mind, we have established a system making it possible for employees to avail of paid support leave in the event that it becomes difficult for them to stake nba due to personal injury or illness, or other unforeseen situations such as closure of schools of their children after they have taken all of their allocated annual paid leave for the year.

List of freedom and well-being initiatives and systems
stake nba styles unconstrained by time and place ★Flex-time system, ★teleworking system, ★overhaul of head office, ★deregulation of head office dress code, encouraging the taking of annual paid leave, half-day holidays, ★taking of annual paid leave in hourly increments (some worksites), instituted days with no overtime, ★elimination of postings of employees at locations remote from their families (some worksites), and ★launch of side stake nba system
Maternity/childcare support systems Maternity leave before and after birth, ★childcare leave and childcare leave at birth (up to five days paid leave) system, ★childbirth leave for spouses (for male employees), leave to care for sick children or to deal with other related situations, half-day leave, shortened working hours system, limits on overtime stake nba, exemptions from late night stake nba, child nursing time, childcare/caregiver leave financial support system, childbirth cash payments, dependents allowance, tuition allowance, ★support leave, flextime system with no defined core times, ★cafeteria plan, and development of guidelines for taking childcare leave
Nursing care support systems Nursing care leave, caregiving leave system, consultation service for nursing care, ★development of a nursing care support handbook, and ★cafeteria plan
Support for health improvement Regular health checkups, ★launch of health checkup results viewing system, stress checks, ★employee engagement surveys, physical fitness measurements, mental health training, ★seminars on women’s health issues, issuance of health news, ★holding of events to support health, ★cafeteria plan, and ★COVID-19 (some worksites)/influenza workplace vaccination program
Asset accumulation Employee savings scheme, employee stock ownership scheme (with financial incentives), defined-contribution (DC) corporate pensions, and matching contributions system
Housing assistance Housing assistance system (dormitory accommodation and company housing, rent subsidy system, home ownership allowance, and home rental for transferred employees)
Systems for holidays and absences Annual paid leave (up to 22 days granted), ★support leave system (up to 40 days granted), menstrual leave, childbirth leave, job transfer leave, relocation leave, public-service leave (for jury duty), disaster leave, quarantine and infectious disease leave, paid leave for family births, marriages or bereavement, ★childbirth leave for spouses, My Life leave (on reaching the age of 50), leave to care for sick children or to deal with other related situations, nursing care leave, volunteering leave, leave for hospital visits by expectant mothers, refreshment leave (for senior employees), and ★leave of absence due to spouse’s job transfer
Self-help Disaster assistance, group medical insurance, compensation for absences from stake nba (Zeon health insurance cooperative association), optional group insurance, group medical insurance, and ★GLTD system
  1. ★: Initiatives expanded during the period of the Medium-Term Business Plan (FY2021–FY2024)
Harassment prevention measures

stake nba our Zeon Group Human Rights Policy, established stake nba 2019, we declared our commitment to respect for human rights and not tolerating acts of discrimination or harassment. We have also established the Zeon Group policy on harassment prevention and the harassment prevention rules.
Based on these policies and rules, we have established a harassment consultation service which accepts consultations regarding acts of harassment, suspected cases, and concerns. This service also accepts anonymous consultations and reports. We ensure the utmost consideration for the privacy and confidentiality of those who seek consultation or make reports and clearly communicate that no employee will suffer dismissal, reassignment, discrimination, or any other disadvantageous treatment as a result of making such a consultation or report.
Furthermore, we provide harassment training for employees stake nba management positions. stake nba addition to promoting understanding of harassment, the training also provides guidance on appropriate actions to take when receiving consultations from subordinates. We regularly issue awareness-raising news on harassment to ensure harassment prevention throughout the company.