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 order to prevent workplace accidents among employees, our group has established a safety and health committee in each business division and group company to carry out safety and health activities, but in order to further improve effectiveness, we have reviewed the safety and health promotion system from fiscal 2024 and established a central safety management system with the "President" at the top, followed by the "Executive Meeting," "Labor Department Manager Meeting," and "Safety Officer Meeting." This has created a mechanism to quickly share information from the "Safety and Health Committee" of each business division and group company, and to quickly and reliably convey instructions to all employees to maintain and improve safety through a top-down approach.
We will continue to establish, operate, and improve our risk assessment system, and work to improve safety measures on both the soft and hard fronts, such as by utilizing IT and digital technology to prevent disasters.
We also focus on safety and health education for employees, and are working to create an education system suited to the organization and business content, such as holding a "Safety Conference" at each business division and group company to announce the results of safety and health activities, conducting special education when new employees are hired or when they change workplaces, providing on-site education through OJT, and thorough guidance through safety and health inspections.