Core concept
In order to create comfortable workplace environments, the UNISOL Group strives to enhance its health and safety-related activities, prevent the occurrence of occupational accidents, and maintain and improve employee health and safety.
Health and safety management structure
As required by law, the UNISOL Group has established a Health and Safety Committee. This Committee comprises safety managers, health managers, safety and health advocates, and health advocates. Through monthly health and safety meetings, safety patrols of manufacturing sites using safety checklists, and other activities, the Committee strives to prevent occupational accidents among our employees and to maintain and improve employee health.
Occupational health management system
Risk assessments
The UNISOL Group has identified risks associated with each of our areas of operations and implemented countermeasures for these risks.
In our manufacturing operations, we have identified as risks the potential dangers and hazards that could arise in the workplace, such as the possibility of being caught in or between pieces of major equipment. We have preemptively established countermeasures to prevent disasters related to machinery, equipment, operations performed, the work environment, and other factors. For example, in our Construction Products Business segment we have drafted an annual safety plan, including regular self-inspections and work environment measurement, based on the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s Guidelines on Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems. We continue to make improvements to our management system on an ongoing basis. We also engage in safety-related activities using the “near misses” concept, taking reports of near misses from employees and using these to identify key focus areas, establish remedial measures in response, and work to prevent any reoccurrences.
In our sales operations, meanwhile, we consider major traffic accidents to be a risk. We maintain our equipment and systems, analyze the details of past traffic accidents, ensure provision of safe driving courses and personal guidance (primarily aimed at our junior sales staff, who present a comparatively higher risk of involvement in traffic accidents), promote awareness of traffic safety, and more, always maintaining respect for human life as the top priority in our efforts. In addition, we ensure prevention of any and all driving under the influence by having our drivers undergo alcohol testing before and after driving, and have also installed dashboard cameras in our vehicles to monitor driving.
Employee training
We provide our employees with a variety of educational programs on occupational safety and health.
Safe driving
As a company that makes use of a large fleet of vehicles for sales, logistics, distribution, and other processes within our value chain, we consider ensuring that our employees are driving safely to be an important mission and responsibility. The UNISOL Group holds a driving safety course once annually, aiming to raise our drivers’ awareness of safe driving. These courses are designed for junior employees who meet certain criteria relating to their age and the year in which they joined the Company. Our FY2024 course was attended by 130 employees (100% of those eligible). We also share information about the National Traffic Safety Campaign to raise awareness.
Safety training
In our manufacturing operations, accidents related to the operation of machinery and equipment present a significant risk. To prevent any such accident from occurring, we provide our employees with safety training.
Within our Construction Products Business, we held a course in 2023 for Chemical Substance Managers, delivered by an external lecturer. A total of 19 employees obtained the related qualification, and we have been able to station Chemical Substance Managers at all 9 of our factories. In 2024, our Shiga Plant hosted voluntary training in facilities safety for 11 of the facilities safety officers (primarily junior employees) who cover our 9 factories. This included discussions of facilities safety, using a matrix diagram, as well as going over past examples of occupational accidents and their countermeasures. In addition, we have a monthly meeting for a group of approximately 15 factory managers and safety advocates, which aims to use lessons from past industrial accidents to raise safety awareness. We have used these meetings to share examples of our factories’ initiatives in this area.