The mental and physical health of employees is the TATSUTA Electric Wire & Cable Group’s first priority, and we establish safety and health management policies each year. Aiming to realize comfortable and safe workplace environments, we have established an action plan based on policies that reflect the actual circumstances of each workplace, and implemented various measures for safety and health.
At the TATSUTA Group, we have established a framework for the promotion of safety and health measures.
Central Safety and Health Committee(Biannual)
Deliberates on basic matters related to companywide safety and health
Workplace Safety and Health Committees(Monthly)
Deliberates on matters related to safety and health corresponding to the work and region unique to each workplace
Workplace Safety and Health Council(Monthly)
Deliberates on specific matters related to safety and health in the workplace
Safety activities to achieve Zero occupational accidents
The TATSUTA Electric Wire & Cable Group manages the status of occupational accidents with the goal of zero serious accidents and zero lost time accidents. We endeavor to promote inherent safety and raise danger and safety awareness among employees by continuing safety and health improvement investments, strengthening hands-on danger education and risk assessment, and other activities.
Implement hands-on danger education
We encourage intuitive understanding through the human senses of sight, hearing, and touch to increase danger awareness and prevent accidents. We promote education that enables simulated experiences of potential dangers in everyday work through our introduction of simulators including an experience of the danger of being caught in machinery and VR danger experience.
Safety and health improvement investments
We have worked since the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 to promote the increase of inherent safety (the idea being to increase safety, first by eliminating dangerous sources of harm to humans), identify safety and health issues, and implement safety and health improvement investments in accordance with the importance and urgency of these issues.
Risk assessment
The TATSUTA Group conducts risk assessments based on internal rules for the purpose of reducing occupational safety and health risks in the workplace. In risk assessments, we identify the dangers and hazards, evaluate risk, and implement risk mitigation measures based on the risk evaluation. At workplaces that use chemical substances, we also engage in risk assessment of chemical substances and compliance with amendments to laws.
In addition, we regularly hold risk assessment workshops led by external instructors to strengthen on-site monitoring (of dangers and hazards).
Status of risk assessmentRisk assessment workshop
Initiatives to prevent accidents
At our Osaka Works, we carry out a “patrol for disaster and accident eradication,” focusing on intersections within the grounds of the works. We hold safety lectures for officers and managers, safety seminars for internal forklift and reach truck drivers, and kiken yochi (hazard prediction) training (KYT) workshops for on-site workers, to raise safety awareness.
When there is an accident, we take measures for working environments and processes to prevent recurrence. We have also prepared an internal hazard map to indicate where contractors have had collisions in the past and alert entering vehicles. Initiatives to ensure works safety include checking that protective gear is worn according to works safety rules.
A patrol for disaster and accident eradication
A patrol for disaster and accident eradicationSafety lectureSafety seminar for forklift and reach truck drivers (held online)Kiken yochi (hazard prediction) training (KYT)Measures to prevent collisions by indicating height limits
Support and enhance mental and physical health
The TATSUTA Electric Wire & Cable Group supports employees to work in good mental and physical health.
Initiatives for mental health
Annual stress checks are carried out with the aim of preventing mental health disorders. In addition to promoting employees’ awareness, we endeavor to reduce sources of workplace stress using group analysis. We also provide mental health support in the form of annual mental health education.
Establishing consultation services
Industrial physician consultations
Industrial physicians conduct consultations for employees at each major facility, including post-health check interviews, medical consultations, consultations regarding leave, return to work, and stress check responses. In addition, industrial physicians interview employees who engage in overtime work exceeding a designated level to prevent health disorders resulting from excessive workload.
Mental Wellbeing Counseling Rooms
We engage in preventing mental health disorders and supporting employees returning to work through counseling by counselors.
Initiatives to increase the percentage of annual paid leave consumed
We introduced five days of planned annual paid leave and established a biannual “Wellness Month” program that promotes consumption of annual paid leave to support and enhance the health of employees. We continue to engage in widely promoting annual leave through company newsletters and our portal site. We make the results of annual paid leave consumption available to general managers and encourage employees to be certain to take annual leave.
