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Occupational Safety and Health Management
Promoting structures aimed at improving the level of occupational safety and health
Risk assessment of non-routine work
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.
One of the main initiatives is the introduction of Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems at each of its production bases. In fiscal 2008, two Group companies, located in China and Malaysia, received external certification.
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 fiscal 2008, the Group set the targets for each site in Japan and implemented improvements toward the achievement of the targets. The program has also started at its production companies in China.
In the future, this program will be developed into a program for evaluating the implementation and efficacy of occupational safety and health management systems, and will help improve the safety and health of the entire Konica Minolta Group.
Accident Prevention Measures During Working Hours
Promoting efforts to strengthen measures based on risk assessments
In fiscal 2008, as in the previous year, Konica Minolta worked to identify risk factors and conduct risk assessments for equipment, facilities and operations at its general offices in addition to its production and R&D sites, and implemented measures in response to the assessments. Regarding tertiary occupational accidents such as falls or lower back injuries, the Group is conducting a focused edification and training, along with efforts to eliminate the causes of such dangers.
The Group has collected information on accidents that occurred during working hours primarily at its production sites outside Japan since fiscal 2007. In fiscal 2008, the use of a database that had been managed in Japan made it possible to achieve a more rapid response.
Going forward, our efforts to improve daily activities involves linking already implemented activities such as risk prediction, near-accident reporting (hiyari-hatto), and "5S" efforts (sort, straighten, shine, sustain, and standardize), with risk assessment techniques, thereby raising safety awareness among employees.
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
In an effort to minimize the health risks to employees, health exams are conducted for all employees who exceed a certain number of overtime hours per month. Supervisors of employees who are diagnosed with accumulated fatigue will be instructed to reduce the work hours of affected employees.
Employees who have a tendency to work long hours will be instructed to reduce their overtime hours for the sake of achieving greater business efficiency, and preventive measures will be taken to keep those employees from working long hours.
Mental Health Care
Konica Minolta is nearing completion of its educational programs for training managers in dealing with the mental health of their staff. Furthermore, in fiscal 2008 Konica Minolta launched measures to promote self-care among all employees. Specifically, the Group began incorporating information about self-care into its position-based training, and has held self-care lectures conducted by occupational physicians as part of its internal health-promoting activities during National Occupational Safety and Health Week.
The Group has even begun using an e-diagnosis system, which allows employees to conduct a stress check using the Group's intranet, as a diagnostic tool when conducting overwork health exams.
In the future, the Group plans to strengthen support for recurrence prevention (tertiary prevention) among employees who have returned to work after a mental health-related absence.
Lifestyle-related Disease Prevention
To comply with the requirement that medical health insurers (National Health Insurance, employee's health insurance) start providing "specific health guidance" in fiscal 2008, Konica Minolta began having its internal industrial health staff provide health guidance to employees starting August 2008.
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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