Promote Health and Productivity Management

Indicators and Targets

Our group has identified “promote health and productivity management” as a materiality, and has established the following KPIs to promote initiatives.

KENKO Investment for Health

RIKEN TECHNOS believes that investing in the promotion of its employees’ health invigorates its organization by energizing employees and making them more productive. This contributes to the sustainable growth of the Company. Failing to create environments where our employees can continue to work in good health would render the Company incapable of sustainable growth. That is why the Company and our health insurance union are conducting collaborative health* initiatives, closely connecting the Company’s KENKO Investment for Health and the health insurance union’s data health plan activities.

* Companies and health insurance unions each performing their own roles and meeting their own responsibilities while collaborating together to promote the health of employees

Support for the Promotion of Employee Mental and Physical Health

We have created a third phase data health plan activities as an effective and efficient health promotion project (data health) that uses data analysis to assess the health of employees and their family members and addresses health issues. We are sharing progress and improvements on this plan as well as scoring report with the health insurance union, and conducting reviews to address and resolve health issues.
In particular, as a measure against lifestyle-related diseases, we worked to raise the specific health examinations and specific health guidance participation rate.
We have adopted periodic health checkups based on comprehensive medical examinations annually for employees aged 40 and older as a disease prevention measure. In addition, we are enriching our efforts to diagnose cancer, including breast cancer. We are also carrying out measures for high-risk employees who have yet to undergo health checkups, conducting diabetes prevention/mitigation and smoking cessation programs, implementing shoulder stiffness and back pain prevention measures, holding “walking challenge” promotion activities, and issuing seasonal magazines and pamphlets to promote health literacy. Through these efforts, we are providing support to help employees change their activity patterns to enjoy mental and physical health.
We are also, of course, conducting stress checks, as specified in the Industrial Safety and Health Act. These stress checks help employees become aware of their own stress and assist them in dealing with them. They also help prevent mental health issues in advance by improving workplace environments. When workplaces are found to have high stress levels, we promptly take steps to make workplace environment improvements.

Ensuring of Work-life Balance

We have created various systems, including a flex time system and a working-hour interval system, to ensure that employees can maintain their work-life balance.

System for Half-day Paid Leave, Period for Promoting the Taking of Paid Leave, and Planned Taking of Annual Paid Leave

We have introduced a system where employees can take paid leave for half a day at a time and are conducting campaigns for promoting the taking of paid leave. Other ways in which we are focusing on ensuring work-life balance include the planned taking of annual paid leave, in which we have major periods of consecutive leave with the entire site taking leave together.

System for Accumulating Expired Paid Leave

Paid leave expires after two years. This system allows paid leave to be withheld and accumulated for up to 60 days.
Withheld leave can be taken for taking care of children, nursing care, and for illnesses and injuries not related to work.

Occupational Health and Safety

Occupational Health and Safety Management Structure

We carry out our business operations with an occupational safety management system in accordance with ISO 45001.

Health and Safety Activities

Activities to Eradicate Causes of Dangers and Hazards through Risk Assessments

Following the introduction of risk assessments in 2003, preventive improvement activities to eliminate and separate potential dangers and hazards in the workplace to reduce risks have become instilled. Going beyond “zero industrial accidents,” all employees work to achieve “zero risks” by participating in activities to improve safety awareness and systems as well as to reduce risks.

Health and Safety Patrols

Factory managers regularly patrol workplaces to confirm that there are no latent risks or unsafe behavior in factories, and that the 5S are being practiced as basic action. We perform risk assessments of the hazards identified through these activities, and establish work environments which place safety first.

Virtual Reality Safety Education

We have introduced educational contents making use of virtual reality (VR) as part of safety education and kiken yochi (hazard prediction) training at work sites involved in dangerous work within our factories. The use of VR allows simulated experiences of industrial accidents and dangerous situations, helping to prevent accidents and improve safety awareness.

Sharing of Health and Safety Information

Materials regarding health and safety and information regarding industrial accidents are shared between all RIKEN TECHNOS GROUP companies, including overseas consolidated subsidiaries. This helps improve the safety awareness of operators and prevent accidents.

Results of Safety and Health Activities

Incidence of Industrial Accidents

For FY2024, there was one case of occupational injury requiring time off work in Japan (including consolidated subsidiaries).
The RIKEN TECHNOS GROUP has never had a fatal accident.

SHANGHAI RIKEN TECHNOS CORPORATION
Excellent Company Award

SHANGHAI RIKEN TECHNOS CORPORATION received an award as an excellent company from the management committee of Shanghai Xinzhuang Industrial Park, where the company is located. This award is presented to companies that practice healthy corporate management with no issues in aspects such as safety and the environment.

RIKEN ELASTOMERS CORPORATION
Governor’s Safety and Health Award from State of Kentucky

RIKEN ELASTOMERS CORPORATION received the Governor’s Safety and Health Award from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where the company is located, for its occupational health and safety initiatives.