In addition to basic legal compliance, Furukawa Electric Group prioritized initiatives that promote "becoming a safety conscious person" and "realizing fundamental safety." Our basic approach is to aim for zero accidents and zero illness through safety activities focusing on three initiatives, that is, safety management in addition to the abovementioned two initiatives.
* SIDIS cycle: Stare & Imitate, Dialogue, Improve, Standardization, coined term by Keiichi Kobayashi, the former president. It refers to safety activities in particular to imitate the working posture and eyes of workers to identify sources of danger and dangerous behavior, discuss them with workers, clarify their causes, and take essential measures. This is called SIDIS cycle.
Furukawa Electric Group has established the Furukawa Electric Group Occupational Health & Safety Committee, chaired by the president, as the highest body for promoting occupational health and safety at a group level. The committee membership is composed of executives, and carries out deliberation, decision-making, and follow-up activities on policies and initiatives in health and safety for the entire Furukawa Electric group.
We hold presentation meetings on Furukawa Electric Group’s safety and health activities and awarding the best with commendations. In fiscal 2022, 11 teams were selected from the SBUs (including 5 teams from group companies) to give presentations and receive awards from the president.
Furukawa Electric’s safety officers make site inspections at Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. and group companies whenever an accident occurs depending on the safety performance in the previous fiscal year. They confirm how appropriate the safety measures are and what extent the measures have become established. In addition, they exchange opinions on how to promote fundamental safety in order to prevent any recurrences. They conducted site inspections of 4 sites in fiscal 2022. However, in cases where it was not possible to visit the site to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, they watched streamings of the sites and held online meetings to exchange opinions.
Furukawa Electric‘s safety performance in fiscal 2022 was three accidents with lost working days, and failed to meet its target of “zero accidents with lost working days”. The frequency rate of accidents resulting in time off work*1 was 0.32 in Furukawa Electric, the same as last year, and increased to 0.38 among all Group companies in Japan*2. Meanwhile, the accident frequency rate in fiscal 2022 for the whole Group including overseas Group companies was 0.44. This included accidents both resulting in and not resulting in time off work.We will continue to work on safety and health activities with the aim of achieving zero accidents with lost working days.
*1 Frequency rate = (Number of casualties / Total actual work hours) x 1,000,000
*3 Data on all industries and the whole manufacturing industry is from Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare survey results
Targets and Results (Accidents)
| Scope | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of accidents with lost working days | Furukawa Electric | Target | Result | Target |
| Zero | Three | Zero | ||
We promote Health and Productivity Management in which we strategically address our employees’ health management/promotion from a managerial viewpoint.