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Health Management Guidelines

衛生管理指針

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 Health Insurance Society to enhance the health literacy of each employee and work on Health and Productivity Management
  • Promote health through mental health measures, measures against metabolic syndrome, improvement of physical function, and support for smoking cessation in line with the Medium-term management plan

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
  • Maintain 50% or below rate of anomaly observation rate in periodic medical checkup

Key Issue Items

  1. Improvement of health literacy
  2. Continuation of mental health measures
  3. Continuation of measures against metabolic syndrome
  4. Maintenance and improvement of physical function
  5. Support for smokers to quit smoking and the reduction of smoking rate
  6. Thorough measures to prevent heatstroke

Progress of Previous Initiatives

We have worked for many years to raise the level of safety and health under the principle of "Safety First”. For health activities in particular, we have been appointed a dedicated occupational physician who oversees the health activities since 1957 and we have since actively promoted our efforts based on a team system centered on the occupational physicians and nurses. Recognizing that the "promotion of employees’ mental and physical health" is an important health issue, we have been promoting Health and Productivity Management company-wide since 2017 in order to further advance the health activities we have been working on as part of our safety and health management activities. We selected the following five items as elements that enable employees to face work in good mental and physical conditions: "health literacy, mental health, smoking, physical function, and metabolic syndrome". We promote the Furukawa Electric style of Health and Productivity Management company-wide by continually approaching the five items throughout the year.

In addition, in order to promote the development of Health and Productivity Management not only within the Company but also within the Group companies in Japan, we changed the name of the “Health Meeting ,” which had been held for many years, to the “Furukawa Electric Group Health and Productivity Management Meeting” in 2020.

Our Group also holds "Partners' Meetings" where our key partners* assemble. We held a lecture on the theme of Health and Productivity Management by the supervising occupational physician in FY 2023.

* The group calls our business partners as "partners" who co-create value.

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