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Occupational Safety and Health
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- Mental Health Care
- Lifestyle-related Disease Prevention
Occupational Safety and Health Management
Promoting structures aimed at improving the level of occupational safety and health
For the sake of workplace safety and employee health, Konica Minolta is promoting the development of organizational systems aimed at continuously improving the level of occupational safety and health.
The Group is continuously strengthening its Safety and Health Achievement Program*, which it developed independently to internally assess and improve its safety and health activities. This program is designed to promote the spontaneous improvement of health and safety levels at workplaces through the use of objective quantification. This is based on a checklist of every aspect of safety and health activities, including systems and everyday activities. In Japan, Konica Minolta has established targets for each site, including back-office sections, and is taking steps to implement work improvements aimed at achieving those targets. In fiscal 2009, identical programs were implemented at all production sites, beginning with full-scale development in China.
The Group also introduced occupational safety and health management systems at production sites throughout the world. The Group doesn't necessarily require obtaining external certification, but rather promotes substantial improvement that is effected through the operation of guidelines established in line with policies of each individual country.
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- Safety and Health Achievement Program: A system which Konica Minolta independently developed to convert safety activity into a score using a checklist, and to encourage voluntary improvement.
Measures Taken to Prevent Accidents During Working Hours
Implemented intensive measures for designated priority sites and target incident types
Konica Minolta works to prevent accidents from occurring during working hours by identifying the specific risks at each company and developing specific measures for dealing with them. Each fiscal year, the Group also identifies priority sites and implements intensive measures at these specific sites.
In fiscal 2010, the Group chose one of its production sites in China to establish an organization to implement health and safety programs, and provided on-site training to raise the level of risk assessment. During the first half of fiscal 2010, two accidents causing absence from work and three accidents not causing absence occurred at this site. With the implementation of intensive measures starting in July, the site was able to achieve a record of zero accidents during working hours for the second half of the fiscal year. This approach will be expanded to other production sites in China in the future.
In fiscal 2010, Konica Minolta created a list of equipment at high risk for causing serious accidents and implemented fundamental facility improvements to reduce this risk. The Group drafted safety standards to be met during installation or refurbishing of equipment and developed tools to check for potential risk. In fiscal 2011, it plans to establish a system to promote activities that will reduce the risk of accidents at business companies and to introduce specific measures under this system.
Accidents Causing Absence from Work, Frequency Rate
Considerations for Employee Health
Implementing policies based on the Health Care Plan
Konica Minolta has formulated a Health Care Plan built around three key policies--overwork prevention, mental health care, and lifestyle-related disease prevention--and related measures are promoted in accordance with this plan.
Overwork Prevention Measures
Konica Minolta is taking steps to prevent health problems caused by overwork. It has conducted health check-ups for all employees who work more than 80 hours of overtime in a month at Group companies in Japan, and is pursuing thorough management of working hours in order to control overwork tendencies.
For employees whose overtime work exceeds 40 hours by the middle of the month, a notice will be sent by email to each individual employee and his or her supervisor, while the human resource department of each company will be sent a list of employees who are need of guidance to help them reduce their hours. For employees who exceed 80 hours of overtime work, the relevant department and the human resource department work together to take preventive measures to keep those employees from working long hours. In the future, the Group will take further steps to investigate ways to keep overtime work under 60 hours per month.
Mental Health Care
Konica Minolta provides mental healthcare interview to employees who are liable to experience increased levels of stress due to job transfer unaccompanied by family or job displacement. The Group also has set up a Mental Healthcare Month and encourages all employees to take a stress check using a self-diagnostic tool available on the Group's intranet.
Going forward, the Group plans to strengthen its initiatives in this area by upgrading support for employees to promote self-care.
Lifestyle-related Disease Prevention
Konica Minolta provides its employees with health guidance by internal industrial health staff, in compliance with a national program started in 2008 which requires the provision of “specific health guidance” to public medical health insurers (National Health Insurance, employee's health insurance).
To help improve its employees' lifestyle habits, the Group provides information on lifestyle-related disease prevention using its intranet, and continually holds internal health-promoting events, such as diet improvement activities at the employee cafeteria and walking rallies.
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