Our
Commitment
to Our
Employees
Our health and safety initiatives
Our commitment to health and safety underpins all our corporate operations. We uniformly promote
relevant initiatives throughout our Group under our philosophy of “health and safety first.”
Group Policies
According to our “Health and Safety First” philosophy,
we promote these policies throughout the DAIHEN Group
as the foundation of our management approach to health
and safety initiatives.
Social Report
To promote these initiatives, managers and supervisors
use self-directed efforts to enhance health and safety
awareness and take steps to prevent industrial accidents
in the workplace. We facilitate comprehensive health and
safety initiatives with the participation of all employees so
that they themselves come to understand the need to
protect their own health and safety. DAIHEN continues to
follow a policy of promoting a safe, healthful, and
comfortable workplace for all.
● Main initiatives (fiscal 2014)
Management system
○ Strengthening and enhancing our mutual check
system
Safety initiatives
Our Commitment to Our Employees
○ Strengthening our risk assessment initiative
○ Improving hazard prediction
○ Providing comprehensive workplace health and
safety training for unskilled workers
Health initiatives
○ Enhancement of mental health care
Road safety initiatives
○ Improving safe driving awareness to eradicate
traffic accidents
Major health and safety
initiatives in fiscal 2013
Promoting safety visualization
In order to eradicate unsafe employee actions and
enhance their safety awareness, we have worked to clarify
the visualization of workplace hazards.
Specifically, in addition to implementing thorough
targeting and achievement of the benefits of visualization
among employees and ensure a thorough grasp of actual
conditions through visualization in the workplace, we widely
promoted visualization to enhance safety awareness as well
as visualization of operations and facilities that are more
likely to be involved in a serious accident. In promoting this
initiative, we focused on providing sufficient discussion with
all employees at our workplaces and addressed solutions
with innovative ideas.
As part of this promotion of visualization, we held a
contest within our Group at the end of the fiscal year,
compiled the adoption of visualization practices into a
database, and made it available on a network. We are
actively promoting wide adoption of such good practices in
each division and within our affiliates.
Strict adoption of “finger-pointing and calling”
The most effective confirmation method for preventing accidents
is strict adherence to the practice known as “finger-pointing and
calling.” We have adopted this practice as an important enforcement
item with the intention of eliminating human error among workers.
While KYT (kiken yochi, or hazard prediction training) is first
conducted at each workplace by KYT trainers, we again impart strict
finger-pointing and calling and reemphasize it at each morning
meeting before the start of work, at the start of work in the afternoon,
and during “alarm KY.” We also ensure strict implementation of
uniform Group finger-pointing and calling for forklift work, crane
work, rigging work, collaborative work,
and other unique practices requiring
finger-pointing and calling as
determined at the workplace. In the
future, we will continue to address the
goal of firmly identifying the practices
requiring finger-pointing and calling.
Practical training in finger-pointing
and calling in the workplace
Implementation of various mental health training sessions
We assigned an industrial physician who normally conducts
face-to-face interviews and counseling of persons with mental
disorders to deliver mental health lectures to managers,
supervisors, and health and safety staff. These lectures included
training in reporting the results of the mental health checks that are
implemented throughout our Group; the responsibilities of
managers and supervisors; what to observe on a day-to-day basis;
and ways of interacting with people.
We held workshops in which the industrial physician and outside
lecturers teach practical skills and techniques in each workplace,
and we distributed a
self-care pamphlet to
all employees. We
remain committed to
enhancing mental
health care in the
workplace.
Mental health lecture for
managerial positions
Self-care pamphlet
The More Movement Contest held as a health promotion event.
In order to help prevent and treat lifestyle-related diseases, we
held the More Movement Contest (a 3-month competition focused on
the amount of energy consumed by physical activity) that utilizes a
USB activity meter to monitor the amount of energy burned in the
activities of everyday life of the wearer. This took place in cooperation
with Society-Managed Health Insurance and a labor union. A
computer registered the data accumulated by the USB activity meter
in relation to various activities, including the amount of energy
burned and the number of steps taken. The contestants were ranked
by their activity levels. This helped the contestants sustain their
enthusiasm and motivation for active living.
In addition, we held contests that included individual competitions
and workplace team competitions in order to encourage an upsurge
in participation. As a result, more than 800 participants actively took
part in this health promotion event.
Walking Event held as a final stage activity
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