Health and Productivity Management

B-EN-G Health Management Declaration

Our most important asset is the people who support our company's growth.

We believe that for the growth of our company, it is essential to "create a safe and secure working environment where each employee can work enthusiastically and maximize their abilities."

We believe that ensuring that employees are able to continue working with peace of mind and health in both body and mind leads to a fulfilling life for each employee, sustainable development of the company, and ultimately contribution to society, and so we hereby declare our commitment to promoting "health and productivity management."

Masakazu Haneda, Representative Director, President & CEO

Obtained "Gold Certification" as a Healthy Company

Health and Productivity Management Goals

At our company, one of our company-wide OKRs* is "To become a company where employees can work with pride." We are promoting "maintaining and improving physical and mental health" and "creating a comfortable working environment" as key initiatives, aiming to create a workplace environment where all employees can work safely and securely at every stage of their lives, and where they can thrive and make the most of their abilities.

[Three Key Objectives in Health Management]

Health and Productivity Management Promotion System

At our company, we are committed to company-wide health management under a governance system in which the President and CEO serves as the Chief Health Management Promotion Officer and the Human Resources Officer serves as the Health Management Promotion Officer. The Health and Safety Committee functions as a forum for labor-management discussions on health issues and occupational safety and health, and is responsible for formulating company-wide policies, with the Human Resources and General Affairs Department at the core, and relevant departments such as the Health Insurance Association, industrial physicians and public health nurses, and Health Management Promotion Officers working closely together. In actually implementing these policies, we work closely with the Employee Council to promote initiatives that employees can actively participate in, such as improving the office environment, introducing healthy lunch services, and holding walking events. Through top-down driving force and bottom-up collaboration that reflects the voices of those on the ground, we will continue to work on highly effective health maintenance and promotion activities.

Priority measures

In addition to complying with the Industrial Safety and Health Act and other relevant laws and regulations, we have set the following five areas as priority measures and are working on health support activities to maintain and improve the health and health literacy of our employees and their families.

Strategic Map

Initiatives to maintain and improve mental and physical health

1. Measures against lifestyle-related diseases

health check

• Regular health checkups / Lifestyle-related disease prevention checkups / Comprehensive medical checkups / Follow-up health guidance consultations

  At our company, we conduct examinations that exceed the legally mandated items during regular health checkups, and we have established a system where employees aged 35 and over can choose their preferred course from either a "lifestyle-related disease prevention health checkup" or a "comprehensive medical checkup." Furthermore, we do not stop at just receiving the checkups, but also continuously analyze and evaluate the results. Through thorough follow-up health guidance consultations by public health nurses and industrial physicians, we are committed to early intervention and prevention of the worsening of lifestyle-related diseases throughout the company.

  	FY 2021	2022	2023	FY2024	FY2025	FY2030 the goal
  Health checkup participation rate *1	99.0%	99.6%	100%	100%	100%	100%
  Body Mass Index (BMI) *2	70%	70%	71%	70%	－	80%
  Follow-up health guidance consultation participation rate	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%

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  *1 Excludes those who were unable to receive medical treatment throughout the period due to unavoidable circumstances such as overseas assignment, leave of absence due to childcare or illness.

  *2 Individuals with a BMI of 18.5 or higher and 24.9 or lower. This data was calculated based on the most recent integrated data (performance from two years prior) provided by the health insurance association.

  
  

  Cancer screening

  Employees aged 35 and over can also undergo colon cancer screening, stomach cancer screening, and abdominal ultrasound examinations (when selecting lifestyle-related disease prevention health check/health checkup).
  We provide gynecological checkups (breast cancer and uterine cancer screenings) to female employees aged 30 or older, and prostate cancer screenings to male employees aged 50 or older, as an option at no cost to them.

  Starting in fiscal year 2023, we will add a "transvaginal ultrasound examination" to enhance our uterine cancer screening. This will lead to the early detection of gynecological diseases (endometriosis, uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, ovarian cancer, etc.).

• dental checkup

  We provide a dental check-up once a year, with the cost fully covered by the company.

• Spouse Health Check

  Dependents are also eligible to receive a free health check once a year.
  Those aged 35 and over can also choose to undergo preventive health checkups for lifestyle-related diseases and health checkups.

Infectious disease prevention measures

• Flu vaccination

  We provide influenza vaccinations once a year, with the company covering the full cost.

• Support for people assigned overseas

  To ensure that you can live your life overseas with peace of mind after your assignment, we provide full support to cover the costs of all vaccinations and health checkups for accompanying families.

Measures against passive smoking

• We will close smoking areas within our facilities in September 2023 and are working to prevent passive smoking.

2. Promoting mental health

Stress checks

At our company, we conduct stress checks for all employees once a year. By utilizing a web system, we also use it as a self-management tool that allows employees to track changes in their stress levels over time. Through stress checks, we identify signs of mental health problems and high-risk workplaces early on, and promote individual counseling for high-stress individuals and workplace environment improvements based on group analysis. Through these efforts, we aim to reduce the percentage of employees experiencing physical ailments caused by stress and to create a workplace environment where employees can work in good physical and mental health.

Self-care education

You will gain a deeper understanding of stress, learn how to recognize your own stress, and deal with it appropriately.
It is mainly aimed at the younger generation.

Line care education

You will learn about the necessity of safety precautions within an organization, methods for early detection and response to unwell individuals, and the basics of harassment.
This is mainly carried out by leaders and line managers.

Return to work support

To ensure that employees can work with peace of mind, our in-house industrial health staff work together with managers, supervisors, industrial physicians, and primary physicians to support employees in returning to work.

3. Improving health literacy

Health education and information dissemination

• Health portal site "PepUp"

  We use the health portal site "PepUp" as a tool to improve health literacy.
  By visualizing health status and providing health information, we encourage employees to change their health behavior.

• Providing health information

  To provide information on health promotion, we publish "Health News" written by public health nurses and "Health Columns" written by external counselors.
  At the monthly health committee meetings, in cooperation with industrial physicians, we take up seasonal or current themes to improve the health literacy of our employees.

• Health guidance (industrial physician/public health nurse)

  An industrial physician reviews the health check results of all employees and makes employment and health guidance decisions.
  We provide health guidance interviews, primarily to those at high risk of developing lifestyle-related diseases, and encourage them to visit a medical institution as needed, as well as provide advice on sleep, diet, exercise, and smoking cessation.

Online yoga held

As the number of employees working from home has increased, we have been offering "online yoga" classes led by professional trainers since fiscal 2020 to help employees get enough exercise and take care of their mental health. Currently, these classes are held twice a month, in the morning and evening.

Establishment of internal and external consultation desks

• Industrial physician consultation service

  We have appointed an industrial physician at business locations with fewer than 50 employees, and three industrial physicians have been selected and appointed for the entire company.
  We also provide online consultations for those working from home, and have a system in place that allows employees to consult directly with an industrial physician via email.

• Lunchtime health consultations by public health nurses

  A health consultation room run by a public health nurse is open once a week during lunchtime.
  You can consult face-to-face or online about mental and physical health issues, concerns about balancing work and treatment, etc.

• Establishment of External Consultation Desk (EAP)

  We have set up a consultation desk with external counselors that employees and their families can easily use.
  Your personal information will not be made public to the company, and consultations are free of charge.

• Harassment Consultation Desk

  Due to the system reform in June 2022 (strengthening the protection of whistleblowers), the reporting point will be consolidated into an external point of contact (lawyer) and anonymous reporting will also be possible.

Employee welfare service "Benefit Station"

We have a contract with Benefit One Co., Ltd. to provide the employee welfare service "Benefit Station."
Benefit Station offers a wide range of great value services, including not only gourmet, leisure, shopping, and sports, but also educational content such as e-learning, and services related to life events such as childcare, elderly care, health, and moving.

Initiatives to create a pleasant working environment

4. Fostering internal communication and a healthy work environment

At our company, we are committed to creating a safe, secure, and comfortable work environment and promoting communication so that every employee can work with enthusiasm. We promote proactive health promotion and a comfortable working environment through activities such as holding health events that employees can enjoy and improving the office environment. At the same time, we are fostering a culture that promotes healthy working styles throughout the organization by sending messages from management and sharing the results of our initiatives company-wide.

For more information on organizational development and communication facilitation, please see below.

Organizational development and communication promotion

• Holding company-wide events (internal social activities through employee councils, internal awards ceremonies, management meetings, Communication Day, year-end parties, etc.)
• Information dissemination and achievement sharing through company newsletters
• Club activity support system
• Health promotion and improved work engagement
• Holding participatory health events and improving the office environment.
• Fostering a healthy environment

*Items related to health events and fostering a healthy work environment are KPIs newly established for FY2026 and are currently being measured. Results will be disclosed starting the following fiscal year.

5. Work style reform and work-life balance

We are working to expand and promote the use of various systems and measures so that each employee can flexibly choose their working style according to their life events.

Please see below for details on each measure.

Work-life harmony

• B-Work-life balance (work style selection) system

  Reducing long working hours and encouraging employees to take paid holidays

  	FY 2021	2022	2023	FY2024	FY2025	FY2030 the goal
  Average monthly overtime hours	10.2h	8.7h	6.9h	5.3h	6.0h	5.0h
  Annual paid leave utilization rate	67.8%	76.5%	78.5%	78.1%	77.7%	80.0%

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• Telecommuting system

Support for balancing work with childcare, nursing care, and medical treatment

• Support for balancing work and childcare

  Acquisition record	FY 2021	2022	2023	FY2024	FY2025
  Childcare leave acquisition rate (female)	100%	－	100%	300%	100%
  Childcare leave acquisition rate (male)	45.5% (109.1%)	27.3% (72.7%)	62.5% (100%)	90.9% (127.3%)	92.3% (100%)

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  * There were no female employees giving birth in fiscal year 2022. Figures in parentheses include the rate of taking maternity leave.

• Support for balancing work and nursing care

• Support for balancing work and treatment

Support for women's success

• Establishment of female leave (changing the name from "menstrual leave" and promoting its use)
• Female Employee Networking Event
• Working Mothers Luncheon
• Participation in the "Everyone's Menstruation Training" course: All executives and employees (including male employees)