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Furukawa Electric Group Health Management Declaration

Basic Policy

Furukawa Electric Group Health and Productivity Management Declaration

Furukawa Electric Group recognizes that the “promotion of employees’ mental and physical health” is an important management issue, and we will further advance the activities that we have been working on as part of our safety and health management.
In order to embody Furukawa Electric Group Purpose, it is important for employees to be able to face their work in good physical and mental conditions as the basis of their work style. For this reason, the Group will build "a company where everyone works vigorously, keeps growing and is proud" by prioritizing safety and health over everything, promoting various activities of Health and Productivity Management throughout the Group.
We will also strengthen our work style reform and cooperation with the health insurance program of our health insurance society. Through these initiatives, we will work even more actively to support employees' health promotion and take measures to raise health consciousness.

President

Health Management Guidelines

Furukawa Electric Group establishes policies and issues as the “Health Management Guidelines” every year, which focus on health management including work environment management and work management. We encourage the Group companies and each Furukawa Electric works to promote health management activities.

Furukawa Electric Group Health Management Guidelines

<Basic Policy>
Strengthening Cooperation with the Health Insurance Society Promote mental and physical health by activating the Group’s health management activities
<Key Issues>
  1. The Furukawa Electric Group will work to maintain and improve the health of employees as a management issue.
  2. We strengthen cooperation with the Health Insurance Society to improve the level of the Group’s health promotion activities and our employees’ health literacy.

Furukawa Electric Health Management Guidelines

<Basic Policy>
  • Cooperate with the work style reform and with the Health Insurance Society to enhance health literacy of each employee and work on Health and Productivity Management
  • Promote health through mental health measures, improvement of lifestyle habits, maintenance and improvement of physical functions, and support for smoking cessation in line with the Medium-term management plan
<Key Issues>
  1. Improvement of health literacy
  2. Continuation of mental health measures
  3. Improvement of lifestyle habits
  4. Maintenance and improvement of physical functions
  5. Support for smokers to quit smoking and the reduction of smoking rate
  6. Thorough measures to prevent heatstroke
  7. Response to the revision of the Industrial Safety and Health Act regarding chemical substance management
<Goals>
  • 1.0% or below of newly long-term absence rate due to sickness/injuries
  • 0.5% or below of newly long-term absence rate due to mental illness
  • 40% or below rate of anomaly observation rate in periodic medical checkups 
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健康経営の推進体制

Promotion System

Safety and Health Promotion System

Furukawa Electric Group established the Furukawa Electric Group Occupational Health and Safety Committee, chaired by the President. The committee deliberates, decides and follows up on policies and measures for safety and health activities.

Collaborative Health Promotion System

Together with the Furukawa Electric Health Insurance Society, Furukawa Electric has set up a collaborative health promotion team  to discuss collaboration between the company's health promotion activities and the society’s healthcare business at regular meetings. The company also holds a review meeting to reflect the opinions of occupational physicians and nurses.

In addition, in collaboration with the “Health Events” business of the Furukawa Electric Health Insurance Society, each Furukawa Electric corporate works and branch office implements various innovative health promotion activities.


<"Health Events" of the Furukawa Electric Health Insurance Society>

  • Jun.: Month for oral hygiene improvement 
  • Oct.: Month for health promotion by walk rally 
  • Mar.: Month for review of sleep habits

<Efforts at each Furukawa Electric corporate site>

  • ・Sleep improvement seminar
  • ・Women's health seminar 
  • ・Walk rally
  • ・Sporting event
  • ・Distribution of smoking cessation aids, etc.
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健康づくり活動とコラボヘルスによる取り組み

Initiatives

In-House Greetings is “Go-Anzen-Ni! Go-Kenko-Ni!”

For Furukawa Electric’s greetings, we say "Go-Kenko-Ni!" (stay healthy) along with the manufacturing industry’s beloved greetings, "Go-Anzen-Ni!" (stay safe) among employees to raise each employee’s awareness of health.

Industrial Health Medium-term 5-Year Plan

In “Five-Year Medium-term Plan for Occupational Health ” toward 2025, the Company promotes health promotion activities based on the five pillars of improving employees’ health literacy, physical function, mental health, metabolic syndrome, and smoking cessation, aiming to realize “a company where everyone works vigorously, keeps growing and is proud.“
In order to visualize the relationship between the issues we wish to solve through health management and various measures, including the five pillars, we have created a health management strategy map to enhance the effectiveness of our efforts.

Improvement of Business Performance Such as Presenteeism, Etc.

In order to evaluate and analyze business performance, we use the Work Functioning Impairment Scale (WFun) as a presenteeism indicator to calculate the percentage of employees with 21 or more points (moderate or higher). The percentage, which was 24.5% in FY2020, is decreasing to 23.3% in FY 2021, 21.0% in FY 2022, and 19.6% in FY2023. The absenteeism indicator is calculated based on the number of days of absence from work due to long-term illness per employee, which was 5.73, 5.13, 4.81 and 5.68 days during the same four-year period. The work engagement assessment, where the three items of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale were measured, is shifting 3.09, 2.99, 3.03 and 3.04 points respectively during the same four-year period.

Short Message of Health Declaration

The Company started a " Short Message of Health Declaration" by all executives and employees to promote health and improve health literacy in 2018. Every employee considers what they will carry out to improve their own health and gives a message at their workplace.

Healthcare for Employees Working Long Hours

In accordance with the Guidelines issued by the Labor Standards Bureau, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, entitled “Measures to be taken by employers to prevent health impairment due to overwork”, we strive to manage the health of employees who work long hours by implementing strict limitations on working hours based on the health checkup results and by arranging consultations for such workers with occupational physicians.

Mental Health Measures

Mental health measures started at the Company in FY 2002. We have introduced a counseling system based on an external employee assistance program (EAP) and company-wide mental health education programs, including line-care and self-care training, and have rolled out various mental health education company-wide. We introduced a stress check system in FY2016 in accordance with the revised law. We also provide the opportunity for employees to consult with a doctor.

<Rate of employees undergoing stress check>
FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023
97.7% 97.3% 97.0% 96.1% 96.2%

Strengthening Passive Smoking Measures

The company has been fully implementing measures for smoking prevention including prevention of passive smoking and promotion of smoking cessation since FY 2003. We have achieved the company-wide goals of “no smoking during working hours (FY2017)” and “no smoking on the premises (FY2020).” The percentage of employees who smoke continued a downward trend from 48.2% in FY 2003, reaching 20.3% in FY 2021, 19.7% in FY 2022, and 19.2% in FY 2023 showing that our initiatives have had a positive impact on the lifestyles and habits of the employees. Going forward, we will continue to provide employees with education and consultations by occupational physicians on smoking cessation guidance to help smokers quit smoking.


Smoking cessation poster

Introduction of Measures to Prevent Falling Accidents

The falling accident increases with age. There is a risk of an increasing number of falling accidents as the members of the Company are aging; We have introduced education to prevent falling accidents and exercises (workout) since FY 2016.

Support for Sleep Improvement

We hold seminars, etc. to help employees have quality sleep, introducing a portable kit for the early detection of sleep apnea syndrome.

Measures against Infectious Diseases

For overseas business trips and assignments, in accordance with the "Guidebook to Health Management for Overseas Workers" established by Furukawa Electric Group, the Group conducts medical checkups (before and after the business trip, periodical checkups during the assignment), provides vaccinations (hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, Japanese encephalitis, rabies, measles and rubella, typhoid, polio, etc.), and publishes a Health Management Handbook for expatriates. The Guidebook is made by the supervising occupational physicians and occupational health nurses, collecting and analyzing various information from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Health Organization (WHO), etc. The contents are revised as necessary. We respond to a variety of health risks including infectious diseases associated with overseas business trips and assignments by continuously implementing these in-house measures.

The world has been facing global health challenges caused by the three major infectious diseases: HIV (AIDS), tuberculosis, and malaria since before Covid-19 started spreading. The increase in the number of infected people and deaths is leading to a decline in the labor force, economic stagnation, increased poverty and orphans. It also leads to social problems such as human rights issues of the infected people. The Group plans and implements various training programs to ensure that employees have the appropriate knowledge of these issues, and will proactively respond to these global health issues.

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External Evaluation and Certification

The Health & Productivity Stock Selection and the Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization

Furukawa Electric has been certified as a “Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization (Large Corporation Division)” for nine consecutive years since 2017; the company was also certified as a “White 500” in 2017-2020 and 2023, which is awarded to the top 500 companies.

The company was also selected as a "Brand for the Health & Productivity Stock Selection 2023", and "Brand for the Health & Productivity Stock Selection 2019” by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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