Occupational Health & Safety
Basic Concept
Recognizing that safety and health are the foundation of all business activities and our highest priority, we aim to create an environment in which everyone working across the Group can feel secure both physically and mentally, fully demonstrate their abilities, and continue to play an active role with vitality over the long term. To this end, while respecting the spirit of independence and self-reliance, we will work to raise safety awareness and maintain and promote health through workplace-centered initiatives involving everyone. We will also continuously pursue improvements with an emphasis on prevention, premised on compliance with laws and regulations.
Safety Activity Policy
“Aiming for zero serious occupational accidents, we work to ensure strict adherence to rules and transform safety awareness in a spirit of independence and self-reliance.”
- Based on the fundamental principle of “Safety First,” the Group positions the prevention of occupational accidents as its highest priority and promotes the creation of a safe working environment throughout the Group.
- While respecting the autonomous initiatives of each Group company, we seek to establish safety activities in which everyone working at operational sites participates, based on a workplace-centered approach.
- With good communication as the foundation, we work to heighten sensitivity to hazards and transform each individual’s safety awareness through the collection and sharing of near-miss and other safety-related information and the rigorous implementation of risk assessments.
- In addition to ensuring strict compliance with laws and regulations, we promote continuous improvement in safety standards and prevention-focused initiatives through the establishment of voluntary internal standards and Group-wide information sharing and horizontal deployment.
Health Activity Policy
“With physical and mental health as the foundation, we aim to build an organization where everyone can work with vitality and continue to play an active role over the long term.”
- Based on the Health and Productivity Management Declaration and the Health and Productivity Management Strategy Map, we systematically and continuously promote initiatives such as improving lifestyle habits, preventing disease, and implementing mental health measures, and strive to develop personnel who can work with vitality while maintaining good physical and mental health.
- Based on data from health checkups, stress checks, and other sources, we visualize health issues, while working on early intervention and the prevention of progression to serious illness, thereby creating an environment where everyone can continue to work with peace of mind over the long term.
- We provide support tailored to diverse work styles and individual health conditions, with the aim of creating a workplace where each and every person can play an active role.
- Through the Group-wide utilization of information and the horizontal deployment of measures, we continuously enhance the effectiveness of health initiatives at each Group company and promote health and productivity management across the organization as a whole.
Learn more about our Group’s Health and Productivity Management policy and initiatives.
Health and Productivity ManagementStructure
In January 2025, Yamato Kogyo has established a new Health and Safety Promotion Group as a central organization for health and safety management, with the goal of further improving safety at its business sites in Japan. Having designated 2025 as “the first year of the era of safety,” we will work closely with operational departments to promote the standardization of control standards, enhance checking systems, and promote other initiatives. Each group company has established its own Health and Safety Committee and is actively engaged in health and safety initiatives. The status of these activities is regularly reported at the Group Health and Safety Meetings, where best practices are shared across the entire Group. These matters are also reported to the Management Committee.
Yamato Kogyo Health and Safety Management Organization Chart
Yamato Steel has established the Health and Safety Committee and the Workplace Health and Safety Conference, formulated the Health and Safety Policy, and is working to promote health and safety management. Yamato Steel’s Health and Safety Policy also applies to relevant contractors, and Yamato Steel conducts health and safety activities in collaboration with its manufacturing divisions and contractors.
Yamato Steel Health and Safety Management Organization Chart
Prevention of Occupational Accidents
To eliminate occupational accidents, our Group has established a management organization system according to the Industrial Safety and Health Act. We also conduct risk assessments through health patrols and other types of patrols, improve workplace risks, and measure the working environment to prevent occupational accidents and illnesses among employees. To ensure safety at work in our factories, we lend safety shoes, work clothes, and all other items necessary for safe work, and AEDs (automated external defibrillators) are installed at each location.
Concerning the prevention of overwork, the attendance management system was changed in April 2024 to comply with the relevant laws and regulations (Labor Standards Act and Industrial Safety and Health Act), as well as to strengthen labor compliance and accommodate diverse work styles.
In addition, we are working to build a comfortable workplace by conducting health checkups (every April) to protect the physical health of our employees and interviewing industrial physicians in case of physical or mental weakness.
Yamato Steel Occupational Accident Prevention Activities
＜Performance Targets＞
- 1. Zero occupational accidents resulting in 4 or more lost workdays
- 2. Total number of occupational accidents below the previous fiscal year’s level
- 3. Total number of occupational accidents among contractor association members : 5 or fewer
Priority Action Items: Initiatives and Achievements in FY2025（PDF:326KB）
Priority Action Items: Targets for FY2026（PDF:218KB）
Mental Health Care
We set a plan for mental health care as one of the priority items to be implemented and introduced a stress check system for all employees to prevent mental health problems by helping employees recognize and cope with their stress and improving the work environment. We have introduced a stress check system for all employees.