Human Capital

Basic Health and Safety Management Policy

Implementation of health and safety activities in which each and every employee actively participates

Ensuring the health and safety of employees is the basis of our corporate activities.
Recognizing that these are important issues in our corporate activities and that any setbacks could affect the survival of the company, labor and management will work together to promote health and safety activities in which each and every individual actively participates.

Health and safety activities that lead to corporate development

Initiatives to secure safety

The three pillars of safety activities

At JATCO, we have established the following three pillars regarding safety activities.
1. Development of people proficient in safety, 2. Realization of safe equipment/work methods, 3. Initiatives to prevent the recurrence of accidents
Firstly, we believe that “education” is an essential measure from the perspective of career development, so we repeatedly emphasize the importance of behaving safely and the scariness of unsafe conditions.
Secondly, we are carrying out “activities to eliminate non-standard processes” in order to realize safe equipment and working methods. The main purpose of the activities is to “eliminate non-standard processes,” but even after implementing physical measures we implement the activities in collaboration with the on-site workers for management until elimination.
Finally, as initiatives with respect to “preventing the recurrence of accidents,” we conduct comprehensive inspections of accidents which occurred in the past. We are carrying out activities to identify not only hard countermeasures but also soft countermeasures that can be implemented, and to ensure that accidents are not forgotten.

Developing people who are proficient with safety

Raising the safety level for employees overall

The plants have continued to take the lead in implementing safety activities based on Safety CAPDo^＊1 activities, but the situation is that accidents both requiring and not requiring time off work are continuing to occur.
We analyzed the factors behind the accidents occurring from the perspective of the 4M^＊2 and in the results the following four points came into sharp relief.
1. Lack of safety knowledge 2. Lack of danger sensitivity 3. Lack of confirmation in daily work 4. Overlooking of accompanying work
Regarding the basic axis, Safety CAPDo, we have given the first priority to raising danger sensitivity without making any changes (Level 1) and have stipulated Level 2 as increasing the propensity to take risks and additionally to abide by company rules.
Furthermore, we have defined Level 3 as employees who understand the meaning of the safety rules and can always sense, judge, and avoid danger, and we are currently working hard on safety activities every day with the goal of employees becoming Level 3 “persons who can think and act.”

^＊1 CAPDo: In contrast to the PDCA method of creating a plan first, this improvement cycle method changes the order of PDCA and starts with “C (Check = ascertain the current situation)”
^＊2 4M: A framework named by taking the initial letter of the four elements of Man, Machine, Material, and Method

“Developing people who are proficient with safety” ideal state

Renovating the safety experience training dojo

We provide experiential education at the safety dojo with the goal of providing emotionally compelling education that allows employees to recognize danger and experience the fear of unsafe behavior and unsafe conditions. The content of the education is created based on actual near misses and accidents that have occurred.
Furthermore, for accident/near miss cases that would entail danger if they were actually recreated, we have introduced a theater-style experiential education tool. This enables the trainees to experience danger in a virtual space, as if they were actually present and working in that space.

Implementation of occupational safety and health education

（1）Education to enhance skills with respect to hazardous substances

We develop qualified personnel in-house by implementing skills courses based on the Industrial Safety and Health Act.

（2）Safety education by level

Section managers and also health and safety management section assistant managers, plant managers, and leaders are required to receive safety education once a year.
Particular emphasis is placed on training for newly appointed health and safety management for the health and safety management section assistant managers who are present as the people responsible not only for on-site guidance but also for safety and health activities for employees in their divisions and sections.

About the safety education system and our priorities

Realization of safe facilities/work methods

Safety activities tackled by all of our employees

We recognize the task of ensuring safety as a priority in all our work, and have established “Absolute Safety” as our motto. In line with this, we engage in safety activities with a focus on on-site inspection, such as risk assessments, SES I^＊1, 5S patrols^＊2, plant (division) safety patrols, public work inspections, and safety specialist inspections by agilely (adaptably and quickly) applying Safety CAPDo in order to move from zero accident to zero danger workplaces.

^＊1 SES I (Safety Evaluation System I): Our system for quantitatively assessing safety levels at the workplace
^＊2 5S patrols: Patrols of our sites on a regular basis to ensure compliance with the 5S methodology (Seiri [Sort], Seiton [Set in order], Seisō [Shine], Seiketsu [Standardize], Shitsuke [Sustain])

Eliminating non-standard processes

Particular emphasis is placed on eliminating non-standard processes that have a high risk of causing work accidents and may also cause losses in our production activities.
The assessed risks of each production activity are summarized in a list. We establish the degree of priority and the appropriate countermeasures based on the size of the risk, and then speedily implement essential safety countermeasures (hard countermeasures, such as improving facilities), and soft countermeasures, such as training and guidance.
Additionally, by revitalizing risk assessment activities in the workplace, we are promoting the creation of workplaces in which all of our employees can work safely and comfortably.

Deployment of health and safety management section assistant managers

We have deployed a dedicated health and safety management section assistant manager to each of the production sections in order to provide specialized management of health and safety management. They have responsibility for the safety/fires/traffic accidents/health management of their section, and they have the duties of listening to feedback from their colleagues working in the workplace and making improvements.
As experts, they are aiming to construct a strong health and safety network both inside and outside the company in order to build a team whose members absorb the good things from each other. They are also taking on the challenge of creating a culture where the employees “take action immediately,” “praise what is good,” and “say no to what is bad” by speaking to each other about diverse ideas which are oriented toward the outside world.

Initiatives to prevent the recurrence of accidents

Comprehensive inspection activities for the horizontal rollout of accidents which occurred in the past

There are activities in which, in order to prevent accidents from recurring, the Safety & Health Administration cooperates with the health and safety management section assistant managers of each section to check and follow up on the status of the countermeasures that have been horizontally rolled out throughout the company, regarding whether they have penetrated the work sites and whether the countermeasures are being implemented on an ongoing basis. The main purpose of the activities is to prevent accidents from recurring, but a comprehensive inspection is also carried out, including OJT (danger awareness) for newly assigned colleagues.

Creating a safety culture which is not forgotten

In addition to the above, the Safety & Health Administration distributes past accident cases with the title of Accident Memorial. In order to ensure that lessons learned from accidents which occurred in the past are not forgotten and to ensure the same accidents do not occur repeatedly, each month we distribute to all of our employees the industrial accidents which have occurred at the company over the past ten years as accident examples which occurred in that month.
We create time for all of our employees to think about accidents, such as by raising awareness at morning meetings in each division as part of our daily safety activities.

Safety activity management metrics

Accident occurrence status

Injury in the course of employment (accidents requiring time off work frequency rate^＊3)

Initiatives for health management

Declaration on Health Management

The JATCO Group considers the physical and mental health of employees to be an invaluable asset of the company. We have established the JATCO Group's Declaration on Health Management, intending to be a company where employees can work enthusiastically and comfortably.

Health management implementation system

External evaluations

JATCO has been a Certified Health & Productivity Management Organization (White 500) for seven consecutive years since 2019.
For two consecutive years, from 2024 to 2025, we received a toptier evaluation, ranking in the top 1 to 50 in the Survey on Health and Productivity Management.

We have been certified as a “Sports Yell Company 2025” by the Japan Sports Agency. This is our fourth certification, having been certified for the first time in February 2021.

Lifestyle improvement

Health-building events and health education

We continually implement health promotion activities in order to help employees establish better lifestyles with respect to the health risks they face. We hold fun, hands-on, participatory events at each location with the aim of enhancing health awareness.

In-house gym

We have installed a training gym inside our location to create an environment where even people who have not previously had the habit of exercising can exercise easily.

Measures to Reduce Smoking

Our company, including the group companies, started taking measures against smoking from 2003, with full-scale segregated smoking activities starting from 2007, the establishment of non-smoking hours from 2013, and a smoking ban on our premises (inside our site) since 2017. We are also implementing “move beyond smoking (quit smoking)” activities for smokers, such as interviewing former smokers, distributing smoking cessation gum, and opening an in-house smoking cessation clinic.
As a result, the smoking rate among our employees is gradually decreasing.
Our goal is to reduce it to 30% by 2025.

Trend in the smoking rate

Initiatives for mental health measures

JATCO has developed mental health support measures for employees, managers and supervisors, occupational health staff, and the Human Resources Division, and is tackling the acquisition of and penetration of understanding of basic knowledge about mental health, knowledge about stress management (self-care), and knowledge about how to deal with subordinates (line care). Since FY2018, as one of its health management activities, the company has been implementing initiatives with a greater awareness of PDCA and approaches to the sense of psychological burden that comes with changes to and diversification of work styles, such as working from home.

Health management activity management metrics

Medium-Term Health Management Plan

We formulated a medium-term plan in order to achieve the vision aimed for by the Declaration on Health Management, and we are implementing activities based on the six pillars of JATCO health management.