Policies and Strategies
The Yukiguni Maitake Group places the highest priority on the safety and health of our employees, while working to comply with laws and regulations, and reduces and eradicates the potential risks of occupational accidents. In addition, through our safety education and training, we promote the creation of a safe and secure work environment with the participation of all employees. In addition, we have set KPIs under the priority theme, “Creation of a safe and harassment-free workplace” and continuously strive for improvement.
Yukiguni Maitake safety and health policy
- We will comply with the Industrial Safety and Health Act and related laws and regulations, and place the highest priority on the safety and health of our employees.
- We will strive to reduce the potential risks of occupational accidents in our occupational safety and health management.
- We will strive to raise our employees' awareness by providing them with education and training necessary and sufficient to ensure occupational safety and health.
- We will document our occupational safety and health policy and goals, make our employees familiar with them, and review them from time to time toward the achievement of our goals.
- We will strive to create a bright workplace where employees can work safely, securely, and energetically.
- We will activate our safety and health management activities and eradicate the source of danger in order to create a safe workplace with the participation of all of our employees.
Structure and Governance
Occupational health and safety management system
We have established a Central Safety and Health Committee to continuously improve the level of safety and health management at each of our business sites, including our subsidiaries. In addition, each center has also established respective safety and health committee, which formulates a safety and health management activity plan each fiscal year, submits the plan to the Labor Standards Management Bureau within their jurisdiction, and implements activities based on the plan.
Risk assessment
We conduct risk assessments at each of our business site whenever changes occur, such as occasions when new work is added, new machinery or equipment is introduced, or work procedures are changed. If it is determined that countermeasures are necessary based on the results of the assessment, we strive to prevent occupational accidents before they occur by taking countermeasures in advance and then providing education to employees involved in the work.
Indicators and Targets
The Group has set the following indicators and targets to promote occupational health and safety.
| Scope | Unit | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | Target | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of occupational accidents Figures in parentheses indicate serious accidents |
Consolidated | - | 20 （0) |
22 （0) |
11 （0) |
0 （0) |
| Number of fatalities | non- consolidated |
people | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lost time injury frequency rate | non- consolidated |
- | 1.26 | 2.01 | 0.73*1 | 0 |
| Lost time injury severity rate | non- consolidated |
- | 0.10 | 0.21 | 0.02*2 | 0 |
| Number of employees who received occupational health and safety training | non- consolidated |
people | 106 | 64 | 98 | - |
- *1. Frequency rate for the manufacturing industry in FY2022 announced by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare: 1.25
- *2. Severity rate for the manufacturing industry in FY2022 announced by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare: 0.08
Main initiatives
Risk assessment
Each workplace conducts risk assessments and the results are discussed at monthly meetings of the Health and Safety Committee, leading to improvements to prevent occupational accidents. The secretariat of the Central Safety and Health Committee also participates in the Health and Safety Committee meetings at each workplace, providing advice and guidance as needed.
Safety patrol
In order to identify potential hazards in our workplaces, we strive to reduce unsafe actions and unsafe conditions in a way in which the Central Safety and Health Committee takes the lead in patrolling each business site and making improvements to machinery and equipment, work methods and others based on the results.
In addition, we also horizontally disseminate the results of safety patrols to other business sites to improve the level of safety management throughout the company.
Hazard prediction training
In order to increase employees’ sensitivity to recognize hazards as hazards, we strive to enhance the level of awareness of each and every employee by using pictures and drawings at each of our business site, providing our employees with training to predict apparent and potential hazards, and promoting the sharing of information among them.
Moreover, we strive to prevent occupational accidents before they occur by pointing and calling out when crossing aisles or at places where there are steps in our business sites.
5-S Principles
In order to make our workplaces safer places, enhance our work quality and productivity, and improve the atmosphere of our workplaces, we conduct our activities based on the 5S principles of “Seiri (sorting), Seiton (setting in order), Seisou (cleaning), Seiketsu (keeping clean), and Shitsuke (disciplining)” at each of our workplaces.
We believe that we can detect the signs of danger as quickly as possible and prevent occupational accidents before they occur by maintaining and sustaining a work environment in which the 5S principles are well practiced.
Health management activities
We strive to grasp the health conditions of our employees and undertake initiatives that pay attention to the health management of our employees, such as interviews with industrial physicians for those who wish to receive such interviews.
We subsidize the cost of optional medical checkups if employees wish to undergo preventive checkups for diseases, such as lifestyle-related and diseases, in addition to the legally required medical checkups and stress checks. In addition, we also subsidize a portion of the cost for complete medical checkups if employees wish to undergo complete medical checkups, instead of regular medical checkups. In this way, we encourage our employees to undergo medical checkups (however, there are regulations regarding matters such as eligible persons and institutions where they are to receive medical checkups).
Moreover, we also subsidize the cost of influenza vaccinations for our employees, as a countermeasure against infectious diseases.