Occupational Safety and Health

DNP Group Safety and Health Charter

The DNP Group established the DNP Group Safety and Health Charter in 2019 to foster the workplace culture to ensure that safety and health take precedence over everything else, based on the awareness that all Group employees working with sound body and mind empower the Group as a whole. This Charter includes the phrase “the will of All DNP members” which incorporates their resolve to ensure that safety and health is firmly in mind, and to think and act from their own position. To prioritize health and safety over everything else, all DNP Group employees undertake activities to ensure time for dialogue and education, based on the firm decisions made by the heads of the divisions.

• DNP Group Safety and Health Charter

DNP Group Declaration on Health

The president of DNP formulated and announced the DNP Group Declaration on Health on April 1, 2021 as the ideal for the DNP Group in the form of a top commitment to showing the company’s ideal state towards its goal of embodying the DNP Group Safety and Health Charter. In accordance with the Declaration, DNP started afresh to implement health measures aimed at health and productivity management.
The DNP Group Declaration on Health is based on the idea that Group employees working energetically in trustworthy teams with sound bodies and minds displaying their individual strengths to the maximum degree possible are essential for the generation of new value and the realization of our Third Corporate Founding.

Structure to Promote Occupational Safety and Health

The DNP Group is promoting safety and health activities in accordance with the DNP Group Safety and Health Charter and the DNP Group Declaration on Health, led by the president. The workers and employers work together to improve the safety and health of the entire Group based on the promotion structure and operating methods prescribed in the DNP Group Safety and Health Management Regulations. While the DNP Group Safety and Health Liaison Council (chairperson: senior managing director of Human Capital Sector, secretariat: Employee Relations Department of Personnel & Employee Relations Division) lies at the center of this structure, safety and health liaison councils and safety and health promotion councils at the individual business units and Group companies, safety and health committees at individual workplaces and others are enhancing the structure’s effectiveness by specifying the details of activities.

The DNP Group is promoting specific activities including the formulation of the Basic Plan for Prevention of Industrial Accidents and Health Maintenance and Promotion as a three-year medium-term plan based on the results of internal activities and the challenges to be addressed, taking trends in society and the industrial safety and health measures taken by the Japanese government into consideration.

The progress of the Basic Plan is overseen by the director in charge of the Human Capital Sector, who reports to the Board of Directors as necessary, ensuring that our safety and health initiatives are effectively monitored and managed.

The health and productivity management the DNP Group seeks to achieve and the Declaration on Health

Health and productivity management refers to the strategic management of employee health from a corporate management perspective. It is expected to improve vitality, creativity and productivity in addition to the maintenance and promotion of health. The DNP Group incorporated this thinking in its formulation of the DNP Group Declaration on Health. The DNP Group is promoting health-related measures to energize Group employees and transform entire workplaces into teams full of life and energy.

The DNP Group is tackling four material issues* to significantly increase human creativity (added value productivity). One of them is health and productivity management that increases the happiness of employees. With the Human Capital Policy, “respecting employees leads to respected employees driving corporate growth and enhancing society,” (nurturing human capital who can be active in society both within and outside DNP,) the Group invests in employee health. The DNP Group broadly defines health, which is the foundation of employees’ success, in consideration of 1) maintaining and improving physical and mental health, 2) developing psychological capital, or a positive mindset, and 3) building psychological safety, or trust-based relationships to ensure health and productivity management that can increase employee happiness. Corporate value will increase if a company increases employee happiness through health and productivity management, and mentally and physically healthy and energetic employees exhibit their capabilities as a team of vibrant people.

• *Four material issues
  “Support for career autonomy of employees and strengthening of organizational capability”
  “Health and productivity management that increases the happiness of employees”
  “Hiring, personnel assignment and reskilling based on human resource portfolio”
  “Promotion of diversity and inclusion utilizing diverse individuality”
  

The Basic Plan for Health Maintenance and Promotion

In the Fifth Basic Plan for Prevention of Industrial Accidents and Health Maintenance and Promotion for the period from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2023, the DNP Group has set targets for the percentage of people that undergo regular checkups, the percentage of people whose results are other than no abnormalities detected, general health risk based on stress test results, work engagement numbers and other targets as indices for the mental and physical health of energetic employees that work as a team of vibrant people. DNP focuses on 1) permeating health management and health measures in the new normal age, 2) establishing a foundation for promoting health measures, 3) promoting illness prevention and lifestyle habit improvements, and 4) creating sound mental health. In doing so, DNP will use the rate of regular health checkups and the rate of abnormal findings, the overall health risk in stress checks and work engagement values, among other indicators.

To accelerate health and productivity management and health measures, DNP is collaborating with its health insurance association, clinics established at the association, the business divisions and Group companies undertaking medical healthcare-/health-related operations. Furthermore, DNP has set up the Health Management Center at the health insurance association for strengthening health management functions.

• *Other health indices, number of subjects, response rate (DNP alone, FY2022, values in brackets are for FY2021)
  -Absenteeism: 2.28 days/year, 10,246 employees, 87.2% (2.42 days/year, 10,574 employees, 92.3%)
  -Presenteeism: 14.4%, 10,246 employees, 87.6% (13.2%, 10,574 employees, 92.9%)
  *Method of determining absenteeism: The number days absent from work due to poor health counted based on questionnaire results. The number of employees taking a leave of absence was 36 as of the end of March 2023.
  *Method of determining presenteeism: Single-Item Presenteeism Question (SPQ)

For the maintenance and promotion of physical and mental health

To promote and maintain physical and mental health, which is the foundation of health and productivity management, DNP is working to thoroughly implement post-medical checkup measures (percentage of employees being reexamined/undergoing a detailed checkup in fiscal 2022: 81.3%) and increase the implementation rate of specific health guidance (implementation rate in fiscal 2022: 25.4%), as a follow-up to those employees with significant health risks based on the results of medical checkups and specific medical examinations. To ensure effective health management based on these medical checkups, DNP updated its health management system (amount of investment: Approx. 50 million yen). The number of employees whose results are other than no abnormalities detected is increasing in medical checkups as the average age of employees increases. DNP is intensively promoting health management in collaboration with health insurance associations so that employees at a certain level of risk can implement specific health guidance proactively and improve their lifestyle to reduce health risks. Additionally, DNP holds walking events (total participants in fiscal 2022: 7468) and health evaluation events (the number of participants in September 2023: 790) to improve lifestyles and set the goal of reducing the percentage of employees that smoke to 15% or less by fiscal 2026 to reduce the health risks caused by smoking.
DNP is committed to supporting and promoting the health of its employees by organizing an annual on-site flu vaccination program and facilitating an easy process for employees who wish to receive a flu shot. In addition, partitions installed in the cafeteria in response to the COVID-19 pandemic remain in some seats to provide a safe dining area even after COVID-19 was reclassified as a class 5 infectious disease, which reduces the required restrictions. These partitions ensure that employees who require infection control measures can safely dine.
DNP is working to improve education and expand its internal consultation desks for the promotion and maintenance of mental health. DNP is offering medical examinations by specialists at its clinics in Ichigaya (Tokyo) and Namba (Osaka), in addition to providing education using online seminars, e-learning programs, original videos and other means. DNP has health consultation offices and counseling rooms that are available to all employees.
Managing working hours is also important for maintaining physical and mental health. As part of preventing health problems caused by long work hours and the implementation of measures to enable a healthy work-life balance, DNP is trying to reduce long work hours (For reference, overtime in fiscal 2022 at DNP alone was 13.4 hours/year.).

The Health Wellbeing Award System

The goal of the newly established Health Wellbeing award in fiscal 2023 is to reward excellent initiatives to create a vibrant working environment and reinforce organizations and teams as a foundation for value creation based on the DNP Group Safety and Health Charter and the DNP Group Declaration on Health. The application of the expertise, etc. presented by awardees to address similar situations will help the whole company create a better corporate culture and enable each and every employee to work with pride and pleasure.
In the first year, ten business sites were selected to receive the White Category (health) award and ten were selected to receive the Green Category (safety) award. 85 business sites applied for the White Category award and 42 applied for the Green Category award.

Enhancement of facilities to promote communication

It is important to build a working environment that increases satisfaction with the work environment to improve the engagement of all employees. Additionally, promoting communication between workers will help improve teamwork and increase motivation. This is why the DNP Group proactively arranges and enhances its facilities for refreshment and collaboration at its locations around Japan.

The Basic Plan for Prevention of Industrial Accidents

For the prevention of industrial accidents, DNP reviews a basic plan every three years based on the industrial accident prevention plan of the national government and trends in industrial accidents within the Company, reviews the plan, and promote specific activities.

For the three years from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2023, DNP has prescribed matters to be addressed as the Fifth Basic Plan for Prevention of Industrial Accidents and Health Maintenance and Promotion and has enhanced initiatives with the three priority measures of 1) fostering a climate of safety, 2) creating a workplace with no industrial accidents, and 3) promoting measures against occupational illness, using the accident frequency rate and working environment measurement results among other indicators.

Cultivating a Climate of Safety and Creating Workplaces with No Industrial Accidents

• Occupational accident data (consolidated)