Health and Safety

We conduct the health and safety activity done with all concerned people under IBIDEN WAY, and aim to harmonize "operation" and "health and safety" with the fundamental rule to minimize the risk that may affect the life and health of person participating to IBIDEN's operations.

Occupational Health and Safety Policy（May 18, 2021, seventh edition）

1. We will identify the sources of risks associated with each process in our corporate activities and take steps to prevent labor accidents and illnesses. We will strive to assess and reduce the risks and to maintain and enhance the physical and mental health of our employees.
2. We will provide all employees with a working environment that is safe and reliable and allows them to work vigorously.
3. We will comply with laws and regulations relating to occupational health and safety and with other recognized requirements.
4. We will operate an occupational health and safety management system to ensure that every employee acts on his/her own initiative with the understanding of our occupational health and safety policy and to make continued improvements to attain our occupational　health and safety purposes and goals.
5. We will make this occupational health and safety policy public and push forward with our efforts in concert with subcontractors, suppliers and other stakeholders.

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Organization of Occupational Health and Safety Management

The Group has appointed an environment/health and safety manager under the officer in charge (Executive Vice President), who chairs the Environment/Health and Safety Committee, and has established an occupational health and safety management system centered around each Plant Manager.
Held at least once a year with the participation of the Chairman of the Board, the President & CEO, the Executive Vice President, the Senior Executive Officer, the presidents of affiliated companies, and the chairperson of the labor union, the Company-wide Environment/Health and Safety Committee meetings are aimed at confirming the purposes of company-wide activities and the progress toward the goals, and oversees Company-wide occupational health and safety management. Meetings of the Company-wide Zero Accident Committee, held monthly, are attended by each Plant Manager, management persons responsible at the division and for promoting health and safety at affiliated companies. The Committee functions as a place for establishing common ground in order to implement the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle of activities of the entire IBIDEN Group. The information of these committees is disseminated from committee meetings held at each plant to safety circles of workplaces (small group activities) in which all employees participate.
Also, we have promoted the application of the Occupational Health and Safety Management Policy to on-site contractors who work at plants and construction contractors, and advance safety and health management activities in one united body. Through workshops, such as the "IBIDEN Safety & Health Promotion Meeting for Contractors," we share information and exchange opinions about laws and regulations concerning health and safety as well as the in-house standards of the Company and on-site working rules with contractors to promote the creation of a working environment with no work-related accidents.

Basic activities and Specialized activities of Occupational Health and Safety

As part of the basic activities intended to develop a corporate climate in which the top priority is always placed on health & safety and compliance with laws and regulations, we have continued to engage in "Workplace Safety Circles' Activities," "Safety Patrol," and "Raising Awareness through Safety Education."
We are providing safety education in a systematic way, so that all employees can take the relevant training. The introduction of our hazard-simulation safety education has led to employees raising their safety awareness and acquiring the ability to avoid risks (FY2022 targeted people and results: A total of 307 IBIDEN Group employees received hazard-simulation safety education.) We also provide employees assigned to a new workplace with overall education designed for newly appointed personnel, including health and safety education. Furthermore, we offer special education on health and safety to employees involved in hazardous operations (FY2022 targeted people and results: A total of 1,107 IBIDEN Group employees received education designed for newly appointed personnel; a total of 865 IBIDEN Group employees received special education.)The Workplace Safety Circles, in which all workers working in the premises of IBIDEN participate, promote raising awareness of safety through repetitive learning of safety confirmation points in the workplace and risk prediction training.
As part of our specialized activities, we have reduced risks by assessing the equipment and operations with thorough implementation of the Operational Safety and Environment Assessment, which is a mechanism of safety design, legal compliance, and completion tests, and the Health and Safety Risk Assessment, which targets all sites. In addition, when starting up a new plant or introducing new equipment, we confirm safety concerns and matters to comply with laws and regulations at the capital investment proposal stage and conduct a safety risk assessment before commencing operations.

Occurrence of work-related accidents

Our group aims to achieve zero serious accidents as a medium-term goal and a frequency rate of occupational accidents of 0.10 or less. With a goal of zero major accidents, the Group focuses on "Reducing the number of recurrences of occupational accidents to zero," and "Preventing new occupational accidents" as pillars of our occupational health and safety activities to enable all employees to work with high spirits and establish a safe and comfortable workplace across the IBIDEN Group, with employee awareness of the "Safety First" policy. As a result, the Group, including its contractors, continued to experience no fatal accidents or major accidents resulting in disabilities in FY2021. Also, the occupational accident frequency rate of the Group in FY2022 is 0.22, this level is lower than the average in the all industry throughout Japan.
For accidents that occurred in the Group, the manager of the department in which the accident occurred analyzes the causes and true reasons of the accident as well as formulating recurrence prevention measures. We ensure that the measures are fundamental by conducting risk assessment to see if new risks arise due to the prevention measures. We are also making efforts to strengthen our management so as to prevent similar accidents from occurring within the Group by disseminating information on accidents that have occurred and applying the countermeasures to other departments through committees and workplace safety circles (small groups).

Occupational accident frequency rate**

*This indicates the number of work-related injury or death cases (equivalent to or more serious than cases of occupational accidents resulting in lost workdays) among a total of 1 million actual working hours.