Management of Occupational Health and Safety

The Nabtesco Group conducts environmental, safety and health (ESH) activities in line with the basic policy and targets shown in the following table. The ESH activities are conducted by Nabtesco, Nabtesco Group companies and also by the partner companies and subcontractors operating on the premises of the Group’s plants. The basic policy on ESH activities has been approved by the Board of Directors and the Group has established the ESH Committee under the direct control of the CEO as an organization to lead the ESH activities across the Group.

Nabtesco Group's major plants have established occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS). In particular, we identify hazard sources, extract and evaluate risks and opportunities, set their priorities to set goals and work to reduce risks. We also evaluate the measures that have been implemented and intend to improve the occupational health and safety level of the plants.

We will not only nurture a safety-oriented mindset at workplaces by setting occupational health and safety goals every year but also strive for zero occupational accidents at our workplaces by enhancing our safety education and training.

The Nabtesco Group complies with the Industrial Safety and Health Act and other related laws to create a safe working environment.

We have established a safety and health management framework in each office, allocated a manager of safety and health as well as a person in charge of safety management to take a variety of measures, such as periodic health examinations and industrial doctors’ visits to the workplace. In addition, we hold the Safety and Health Committee, which is comprised of representatives from workers and those from the company, on a monthly basis to report on accidents and disasters and perform safety patrols. We are constantly taking measures to prevent accidents and carry out safety awareness improvement activities.

In FY2023, we received fire risk diagnosis for three group companies and then took measures to improve the items that had been pointed out as not well managed in the diagnosis.

In the Nabtesco Group, the rate of occupational accidents (frequency rate) has dropped lower than the average in all domestic industries and the domestic manufacturing industry. This trend is stable and low. The frequency rate of occupational diseases is zero. However, we have not achieved our goal of zero occupational accidents. Consequently, we work on Safety Culture Development Activities to further increase safety awareness.

In FY2023, we worked on reducing the number of occupational accidents, including commuting accidents to zero. As a result, the occupational accident incidence (frequency rate) turned downward to 0.49. In the event that an occupational accident happens at any of our sites, we will inform all the sites of the fact. Every time we have an occupational accident, we hold a meeting to clarify the cause of the accident and implement measures to prevent the reoccurrence of similar accidents across the bases. Moving forward, through the Safety Culture Development Activities, we will enhance activities not only at plants but also at distributors.

At the Nabtesco Group, we have been working to create a safety culture and to build a safety culture unique to Nabtesco.
These activities are composed of the three measures of “a stratified safety education system,” “safety model workplaces,” and “environmental safety fora.” Through these, we aim for “zero occupational accidents” by building an “organization” that can create a safety culture.

We convene a Safety Practitioner Liaison Group once a year, sharing information about safety within the whole business group, reinforcing and expanding safety patrols at each business location, conducting hazard prediction training to increase hazard recognition, making near-miss suggestions, doing public outreach on safety, etc.

Moreover, to address a diverse workforce (such as an increase in foreigners and senior workers) as a result of a decline in the number of working-age people due to the aging population and declining birthrate as well as globalization, efforts should be made in many companies, including the Nabtesco Group, to prevent work-related accidents such as those attributable to differences in languages and values when working with foreigners, and injuries (e.g. being caught in manufacturing equipment) and falls that may occur to seniors due to their physical decline. We prepare easy-to-understand educational tools and enhance safety training courses.

We are committed to ensuring the safety of our employees in case of accidents or disasters during commutes by holding traffic safety classes, placing safety monitors, posting hazard maps, conducting traffic hazard prediction training, etc.

At the Nabtesco Group, we systematically strengthen our factory buildings to withstand potential earthquakes. Moreover, in addition to conducting general disaster drills, we also conduct night drills, earthquake drills, and BCP initial-response drills at some of our plants, and we plan to continue to expand this in the future.

The Nabtesco Group conducts risk assessments relating to ESH in each stage from research and development to product design, production, distribution/sales, use of products and disposal. The Group makes it mandatory to assess safety and health risks associated with new businesses, product development, production/manufacturing (new construction/addition of factories/facilities), M&A and other new projects and to report the assessment results before implementation. In FY2023, we conducted ESH risk assessments of 7 businesses and projects.