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Based on the “Yaskawa Group Code of Conduct”, we ensure the safety and health of the workplace, and comply with laws and internal rules regarding workplace safety.
In addition, we have established a system for labor and management to manage occupational safety and health, and are working to maintain a safe and healthy working environment.
Yaskawa Group Health Management Declaration has been widely declared both inside and outside the company, and health management is promoted under the leadership of the Health Management Promotion Committee. In March 2024, the Group was certified as a “Excellent Corporations for Health Management 2024” and we have continued to maintain this certification in 2025. We aim for sustainable growth and development of the company and its employees by improving productivity by creating an environment in which each employee can work with peace of mind and demonstrate their full potential.
Yaskawa has appointed a company-wide general safety and health manager to oversee safety and health activities, and the Central Safety and Health Committee meets twice a year. The Committee consists of an equal number of members from labor and management, and representatives from each business site and group companies participate as observers. Based on the policies determined by the Central Safety and Health Committee, each business site and Group company determines, manages, and operates its own policies in the monthly Safety and Health Committee meetings. Specifically, they include the dissemination of disaster cases and their countermeasures, the confirmation of matters pointed out by patrols and the contents of improvements, the reporting of near-miss incidents, and measures against long working hours as well as the implementation of e-learning on health promotion to improve health literacy.
In accordance with the Health Management Declaration established under the responsibility of the Representative Director, President, the director in charge of health management shall be responsible for the promotion system.
In order to promote health management, the Health Management Promotion Committee, chaired by the director in charge of health management, shall be held at least twice a year to improve productivity by creating an environment in which each employee can work with peace of mind and maximize his/her abilities, with the aim of achieving sustainable growth and development of the company and its employees.
The members of the Committee are cross-functional, including union members.
The division in charge of health management cooperates with professionals such as occupational physicians and occupational health staff, as well as with health insurance unions, and is working to resolve issues to achieve goals across the organization.
| Materiality | Create a rewarding workplace and human resource development |
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*1 Initiatives were added in April 2024
Based on the concept of an occupational health and safety management system, each workplace prepares work standards and conducts education and training, risk assessment, and accident prevention activities in daily work. We also conduct internal audits to ensure that these activities lead to the achievement of our health and safety policies and targets, and provide thorough guidance on the items pointed out by the health and safety committees at each business site to make further improvements. As a result, the lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) in Yaskawa Electric and its domestic group companies have remained below the average for the same industry.
In FY2024, the LTIFR was 0.00 for Yaskawa Electric, 0.19 for the Yaskawa Group in Japan, and 0.34 for the Yaskawa Group overseas
* LTIFR of three factories in China (Shenyang, Changzhou and Shanghai) and Yaskawa India
Health and safety patrol
In fiscal 2024, we continued to implement the following measures for occupational health and safety.
・By carrying out regular patrols by industrial physicians and health managers, we are working to raise the awareness of safety among those who point out and those who are inspected.
・We are working to ensure that employees submit near misses.
・We conduct safety patrols at our plants and offices in order to enhance inspection based on expert knowledge.
・The following safety and health education programs are implemented.
Training are provided at the time of employment, when work contents are changed, when work standards are established or changed.
Safety and health education for employees within three years of employment
Safety and health education for employees handling specified chemical substances
Special education for workers engaged in dangerous or harmful work
Education corresponding to workplace accident trends
We conducted the training programs below in fiscal 2024.
| Training | Method | No. of participants |
|---|---|---|
| Safety and health education for new employees | Collective training | 97 |
| Mandatory safety education | E-learning | 657 |
| Health promotion education | E-learning | 2,922 |
| Mental health self-care education | E-learning | 2,888 |
Since fiscal 2023, we have been working to improve the following items.
| Desired outcomes | Items |
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| １．Eliminating diseases and injuries caused by working in the company (Duty of safety consideration: Company) | Frequency of lost time injuries |
| General regular health screening rate | |
| Rate of stress check examination | |
| ２．Increasing the number of employees who practice health and safety activities autonomously (Self-health duty: Employee) |
Smoking rate |
| Proper weight maintenance rate | |
| Rate of exercise habit | |
| Good sleep ratio | |
| Drinking habit ratio | |
| ３．Each employee aims to create a safe, positive, and rewarding work environment and work style. (Job satisfaction/engagement: Employee and company) |
Work engagement |
| Degree of vigorousness (presenteeism) |
We have created a strategic map that shows the link between concrete efforts to solve health problems (health investment) and improvements in the final indicator targets and are working on these initiatives.
With regard to various medical examinations, we take into full consideration the related laws and characteristics of examinations, and strive to implement them organically and efficiently, from grasping the working environment and selecting the subjects, to conducting the examinations and taking follow-up measures. We provide health guidance and education focusing on lifestyle and employment support as well as prevention of work-related illness.
We consider psychiatric disorders and disabilities, as well as other diseases, to be diseases that can occur to anyone, and provide support in terms of daily life and work as necessary.
As part of measures to deal with psychological stress, which has various effects on employees’ health and lives, we use a stress check system and provide feedback to individuals and the workplace based on the results.
For external mental health consultations, we have expanded our consultation desks to cover 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, including holidays.
When employees return to their workplace after taking long leave due to inevitable sickness or injuries, we prepare the maximum possible physical support structure and physical environment to support them in collaboration with the individuals, as well as their superiors, the administration department, and the industrial doctor.
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