Occupational Health and Safety
Basic Approach
We place the highest priority on ensuring the safety and promoting the health of all employees, and encourage the creation of a pleasant working environment.
1. We comply with health and safety laws and regulations, as well as internal policies, put appropriate measures in place.
2. We pledge to actively promote health and safety activities with the participation of all employees in mind, and strive to improve the general level of health and safety throughout the Group.
3. We will provide thorough training to all employees to ensure they understand and appreciate the importance of health and safety.
Target
- Appointing and notifying managers in accordance with laws, regulations, and company rules.
- Zero occupational accidents
- Systematic health and safety training
- Compliance with health management obligations under the Industrial Safety and Health Act
- Implementation of measures to prevent lifestyle-related diseases
- Achieve 100% of employees receiving regular health and stress checks
- Compliance with the five days of paid annual leave per year
- Increase the annual paid leave utilization rate from 60% to 65% in FYE2025
Initiatives to Change the Style of Work
The aim of changing the work style is to improve the job satisfaction of our employees.
We ensure that all employees undergo stress checks and provide them with feedback on the results and, if necessary, recommend that they seek counseling or advice leading to self-care.
While we have introduced a new personnel system and provided a teamwork program to generate change from within in order to create a workplace environment in which each employee can actively work and make the maximum use of his or her abilities, now we renewed the Workstyle Transformation Promotion Committee to further accelerate these initiatives. This committee is developing a vision for RYODEN’s workstyle transformation (based on security, team, and challenge) through discussion among young to midlevel members from each division, with the goal of making it both easier to work and more fulfilling.
We are presently engaged in activities aimed at resolving issues across four themes:
- Organizational culture and mindset reform
- Create a culture where people thank and praise each other, foster a team mindset, and increase unity
- Structures and systems review
- Review systems according to diverse needs and establish operations
- Personnel training and use of personnel
- Use character traits and individual strengths, create a workplace environment where everyone can play an active part
- Business promotion and operational reform
- Standardize and streamline operations for higher productivity, and promote the use of ICT
Work-life balance
It is necessary for each employee to have a meaningful private life, in order to perform his or her best at work. We are working to realize balanced working styles, enabling employees to concentrate on work and take leave when necessary. The five days of annual paid leave are allotted systematically and may be used in combination with holidays to enable employees to take extended leave, or used in units of half a day or even an hour. In this way, we endeavor to create an environment where employees can maintain harmony between work and life. We strictly comply with the Article 36 Agreement (concerning overtime work and work on rest days), investigate the cause of long working hours and implement countermeasures, and coordinate with employees to follow-up on the subsequent situation.
Annual paid leave utilization rate (FYE2023)
| FYE2020 | FYE2021 | FYE2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utilization rate | 62.5% | 62.5% | 79.0% |
*Eligibility: all employees of Ryoden Corporation
*Utilization rate = Number of days of paid leave taken / days granted
Health and Productivity Management
The health of employees is the foundation for an energetic company, and is also vital for the happiness of employees and their families. The Company and its employees are united in their efforts to maintain and promote employee health, and we will strengthen initiatives towards preventive maintenance.
Physical health
We ensure that all of our employees undergo regular medical checkups. Employees with a high risk of lifestyle diseases receive guidance from a public health nurse, enabling them to improve their health. Moreover, we have increased the amount of subsidy for the purpose of preventative medicine (health screening, etc.) in the “cafeteria plan” and are implementing a smoking cessation program and walking event with the cooperation of health insurance associations. The Company shares information regarding long working hours with its employees through forums such as the Health and Safety Committee. We are strengthening measures to protect the health of employees, including consultation with an industry physician and interviews with the immediate supervisor and administrative division for employees whose working hours exceed a specified level.
We also distribute a health promotion app to all employees. The app helps to promote the health of the owner. By entering data gained from past health checks, or movement and meal data, users can access information such as advice and calories consumed. In addition, it can also be used as a first-aid guide as well as to search for medical facilities or an AED, or to request SOS relief, in the case of a health emergency affecting the employee or a family member.
Mental health
100% of employees undergo a stress check diagnosis. The result is reported back to each individual employee, and where necessary, recommendations are given for further consultations, counselling, etc. to aid in employees’ self-care.
We implement organizational diagnosis surveys to visualize the sources of stress for employees in the workplace. The situation for the organization and individual employees, reflected in the results of these two diagnoses, is reported back to management, together with expert commentary. By utilizing these results for improvement activities, we support more effective mental health promotion in the workplace.