Occupational Health and Safety/Health and Productivity Management
Our Policy
We regard our human resources to be the source of value creation through business growth and implementation of strategies. As such, Iwatani identifies HR strategies in the non-financial strategies of the PLAN27 medium-term management plan. To maintain and improve the health of employees—an essential part of making the most of our human resources—we focus on ensuring safe working environments and helping employees stay in good health, from a health and productivity management point of view.
Health and Productivity Management Declaration
In 2022, we announced our Health and Productivity Management Declaration to demonstrate our stance on health and productivity management initiatives to our stakeholders. We will continue to promote initiatives to protect the safety and health of our employees and their families based on the following declaration.
Health and Productivity Management Declaration
Since its founding in 1930, Iwatani Corporation has done business in line with its corporate philosophy: “Become a person needed by society, as those needed by society can prosper.” As always, our goal is to achieve sustained growth and strengthen corporate value by meeting key needs in our society.
To achieve these goals, it is essential that our all employees have the mental and physical well-being. Based on the conviction that our employees are our most important asset, we strive to create safe working environments and promote the health of our employees and their families.
We remain committed to creating new value and contributing to society by making it possible for all our employees to do their best in healthy and harmonious workplaces.
President
Promotion Structure
We maintain comfortable, safe workplace environments that meet the requirements of laws and regulations. At sites with 50 or more employees, we have established health and safety committees that meet monthly to discuss matters related to employee health management, preventing injuries on the job, and workplace health and safety. We also post the minutes of health and safety committee meetings on the intranet so that they can be reviewed by employees.
Meetings held in FY2022: 12 at the Tokyo Head Office and 12 at the Osaka Head Office
Main Initiatives Toward Health Maintenance and Improvement
Health hotlines have been set up at the Tokyo Head Office and the Osaka Head Office as part of a system for following up on health examinations. This system also encourages consultations concerning everyday health management, mental health concerns, and other topics to support the health of our employees.
Periodic Health Examinations and Dental Examinations
In addition to annual health examinations for employees through age 34, Iwatani provides annual comprehensive health exams for employees and directors aged 35 and older as part of efforts to support employee health management. We encourage insured persons to undergo dental exams for early detection and cavity prevention. Based on the results of regular health exams and comprehensive health exams, we provide guidance from industrial physicians and health staff to promote optimal health management for each and every employee. We require health exams for employees leaving or returning from posts abroad (including accompanying family members) as part of efforts to protect the health of all employees.
Efforts to Stop the Spread of Infectious Diseases
We encourage employees and their dependents to be inoculated against seasonal influenza, covering the cost of all vaccinations. We also provide various vaccinations in the workplace as part of measures to stop the spread of infectious disease and promote business continuity.
Stress Checks
Based on the perspectives of stress management and mental health, we conduct annual stress checks. These are followed by population analysis to contribute to workplace environmental improvements, in cooperation with industrial physicians. Other initiatives intended to prevent mental health issues include setting up an external hotline and raising awareness through various opportunities, including training for new employees and tiered training.
Percentage of employees undergoing stress checks in FY2022: 95.9%
Mental Health Education
Training programs, including training for new employees and training by level, include lectures on self-care and line care related to mental health to raise awareness of ways to prevent mental health issues.
Efforts to Reduce Long Working Hours
The company is advancing workstyle reforms to improve business efficiency alongside efforts to rectify long working hours. Through the appropriate management of employee work, including adopting no-overtime days and a computer shutdown system as a tool for managing working hours, we are promoting workstyle reforms to improve business efficiency. Health and safety committees receive reports on workers who work long hours and undertake follow-up activities in cooperation with industrial physicians and other specialists.
List of Health Promotion Initiatives
Based on the recognition that human resources represent our most important asset, we implement the following initiatives to secure safe working environments and support employee health maintenance.
Health Support Measures for Employees and Their Families
- Regular health exams (regular health exams, health exams for employees leaving, finishing, or temporarily returning from assignments abroad)
- Special health exams + comprehensive health exams, special health guidance (for employees aged 35 and older)
- Dependent health exams (implemented as specific health checkups for dependents aged 40 and older)
- Family health consultation (telephone physical health consultation hotline)
- Dental exams
- Various types of cancer screening (for stomach cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, uterine cancer)
- Assistance with the costs of influenza inoculations
- Occupational COVID-19 vaccinations
- Best Doctors Service
- Prohibiting smoking during working hours
Mental Health Measures
- Stress checks
- Mental health counseling
- Training on mental health
Preventing Overwork
- Adoption of a computer shutdown system as a tool for managing working hours
Fostering a Culture with Heightened Health Awareness
- Sponsorship of and participation in the Osaka Marathon
- Sponsorship of and participation in the KIX International Friendship Dragon Boat Festival
- Special sponsorship of the Princess Ekiden relay race
- Supporting club activities