Safety measures are an essential theme in the manufacturing industry. MITSUBA Group thoroughly implements the principle of “safety first” and works to cultivate “culture of safety” keeping in mind that “ensuring safety is the responsibility of the company and compliance with rules is the responsibility of employees”, and strives to create a system that autonomously promotes occupational safety and health measures through labor-management cooperation. We aim to create a safe, healthy, and comfortable working environment by ensuring that each employee considers occupational accidents and mental health as personal concerns, as well as by providing a “safe working environment” and “psychological safety.”
In order to strengthen information sharing between business sites and the implementation of measures, MITSUBA Group has established a “Company-wide Safety, Health, and Disaster Prevention Committee,” chaired by the Executive Officer in charge of production. Furthermore, we have established a “Health, Safety, and Disaster Prevention Committee” at each business site and hold monthly meetings to ensure and improve the occupational health and safety of the employees by taking into account employee opinions and requests.
(*) An index that expresses the frequency of accidents is the number of fatalities and injuries due to occupational accidents, including injuries and illnesses resulting in absence from work, per 1 million actual working hours.
Total accident frequency rate = Number of fatalities and injuries due to occupational accidents including injuries and illnesses resulting in absence from work/Total actual working hours x 1,000,000
Patrol
MITSUBA Group conducts workplace safety patrols and mutual safety patrols between workplaces. Improvement activities based on patrol results lead to the reduction of unsafe acts and the strengthening of safety measures. We carry out risk assessments on newly introduced and all existing equipment, including those that undergo operation change, implementing countermeasures prioritizing areas with a high-risk level, reflecting this in work instruction sheets, and providing operator education to prevent occupational accidents from occurring. Moreover, we are striving to improve our management system by referring to examples of workplaces that have been accident-free for a long period of time.
MITSUBA Group has prepared work instruction sheets that clearly describes the key points of work, protective equipment to be worn, and methods for handling chemical substances, so that anyone can work safely and produce products that meet quality standards. Moreover, we translate work instruction sheets and other notices into the native languages of the trainees (Chinese and Vietnamese) for business sites that operate a foreign technical internship program to ensure that they can work and act safely at their work sites.
At MITSUBA, as an educational curriculum that matches the employee’s rank and role, newly promoted employees increase their knowledge of health and safety through stratified education. Moreover, we apply practical techniques such as KYT (Risk prediction training), and TWI-JS (Safe work methods) for managers and supervisors to acquire skills to lead the workplace.
Furthermore, when dispatched employees are hired, we provide trainings for new hires, as well as educational curriculums and support at the request of partner companies.
When occupational accidents occur, the company-wide corporate general safety and health manager of MITSUBA Group personally visits the site to inspect the situation and pinpoint the underlying cause. We also use an Occupational Accident Analysis Sheet to identify the cause, take measures to prevent recurrence, and verify the effectiveness of the measures. Regarding occupational accidents, the Company-wide Safety, Health, and Disaster Prevention Committee is working to prevent similar accidents from occurring by laterally spreading information to each business site.
MITSUBA Group has undergone third-party verification by SGS Japan Inc. with the aim of improving transparency and reliability regarding the number of work-related deaths and frequency rates of lost-worktime injury of employees. Going forward, we will continue to work on improving data accuracy and continuous improvement while gradually expanding the scope of verification.
MITSUBA has introduced an attendance management system to ensure that employees can properly report their daily working hours. This system is designed to ensure proper management of working hours by displaying an alert when working hours approach the upper limit set by the agreement on overtime and holiday work (36 Agreement) and to incorporate a system that prevents applications from exceeding the upper limit. Moreover, in order to accurately understand the working status of employees, we have introduced a system that records computer log-on and log-off information, which is used to properly manage working hours.
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