Occupational Health and Safety
Basic principles of occupational health and safety
The ShinMaywa Group acts in accordance with its basic principles of occupational health and safety, which state that safety and health take precedence over everything else. We are working to build a safe working environment and to achieve zero accidents.
Occupational Health and Safety Policy
- We act in accordance with our basic principles of occupational health and safety, which state that safety and health take precedence over everything else. Led by our general safety and health managers, we are engaged in Company-wide efforts to address health and safety.
- We monitor each other’s compliance with basic rules (rules, regulations, procedures, etc.) and communicate closely so that we can ensure each other’s safety.
- Managers and supervisors are strongly determined to prevent accidents from occurring in their own workplace, and are striving to foster a work environment in which all employees are united in their efforts in health and safety activities.
- We use risk assessment effectively to eliminate disaster risk. We actively utilize the PDCA (plan, do, check, act) cycle of our safety measures with the goal of creating a safe and secure working environment
- To prevent accidents caused by people’s unsafe behavior, we make improvements to achieve inherent safety. This is so that even if a worker makes an error, it does not lead to an accident.
- Each worker is deeply aware that unsafe work behavior causes accidents, and is committed to daily work with a determination to never act unsafely.
Health and safety action guidelines (Company-wide key safety themes)
Each fiscal year, we define a Company-wide key safety theme, and set ourselves a goal as a means of preventing industrial accidents among our employees. We are joining forces to engage in health and safety activities to create a safe and secure working environment.
“Let’s foster a culture of safety through reporting, fairness, flexibility, and learning!”
Number of occupational accidents
Frequency rate of lost time injury
*1: Non-consolidated figures; *2: Figures for the Group as a whole
Specific initiatives in occupational health and safety
In FY2024, the Group centralized information management at the
time of workplace accidents, tightened operation rules for that,
and reviewed its safety management system to prevent workplace
accidents among employees, promptly institute recurrence
prevention measures, prevent similar accidents in each division,
and share safety measures across divisions.
The number of occupational accidents has increased from
the previous fiscal year. This is partly attributed to changes in the
operation rules, but it is undeniable that the number of accidents
has essentially increased as we have stepped up business
activities after the COVID-19 pandemic.
In light of this situation, the Group will continue to set forth its
basic principles, which state that safety and health take
precedence over everything else, in ShinMaywa Occupational
Health and Safety Policy. As specific measures, we will add
“prohibited acts that never be done” to our existing operating
manuals and focus on fostering awareness of consistently
“adhering to established steps rather than efficiency.” We will use
risk assessment effectively in an effort to eliminate disaster-related
risks. We will reliably repeat the PDCA cycle of our safety measures
to further pursue the building of a safe and secure working
environment.
In addition, by focusing on the establishment of a training
system that is tailored to organizational and business contents we
have worked on, such as providing special training to new
employees and to those who were transferred to new assignments
from other divisions and offering thorough guidance through
on-the-job training or safety and health patrols, we will strive to
foster a culture of safety.