Occupational safety and health is a core component in Komatsu's business operations. In line with this commitment, Komatsu thus enhances safety at the workplace for our employees and business partners.
The Komatsu Group promotes safety, health, and health management as per the following structure.
The Komatsu Group holds various meetings to discuss and share information on safety, health, and health management, including the following:
This conference convenes with the aim to increase awareness regarding safety and health for employees of the Komatsu Group and partner companies while raising the level of safety and health activities. It involves sharing activity policies, priority items, and outstanding safety and health activities, and disseminating this information within individual departments. The conference also includes the presentation of presidential awards related to safety and health.
This committee, comprising both labor and management, investigates, deliberates, and decides on fundamental measures to eliminate workplace risks and prevent health hazards.
We shall share and discuss information on safety, health, and the environment in each region globally, leading it to the safe and healthy activities of each overseas subsidiary. In FY2023, we held the conferences in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and China.
This committee consists of business owners and employees (organized by Komatsu Union) as well as the Health Insurance Society. This occasion affirms a common recognition of "Health", and formulates measures and policies aimed to enhance the health care for employees and their families.
As a guiding principle for employee actions, “Safety & Health, Compliance, Quality, Delivery, Cost” are prioritized, with safety and health taking precedence. Additionally, based on the President’s “Message concerning Occupational Safety and Health,” the entire group is committed to ensuring a safe and secure work environment and promoting the maintenance and improvement of employee health. To achieve this, all employees work together to actively advance safety and health management activities under the established “Safety and Health Policy.”
Occupational safety and health policies
Health management activities are promoted not only within the group companies in Japan but also in collaboration with the overseas group companies. Furthermore, the domestic Komatsu Group has embarked on creating a “Health Culture” beyond traditional health management. Since FY2014, it has implemented the “Five-Year Health Development Plan” as a medium-term plan for health promotion aimed at “implementing outstanding health management” and “improving employees’ health literacy,” and since FY2019, it has been promoting the “Second Health Development Plan.” The “Health Culture” that the Komatsu Group aims for is one where individuals and their colleagues are attentive to their health, consider necessary actions, and take steps to lead a better life. To strongly promote these efforts, the Komatsu President announced the "Komatsu Health Declaration" in June 2014, and revised it in April 2019.
We set key activity items and our target values and are promoting the following activities throughout the Komatsu Group.
[Safety and health management]
Major disaster elimination activities
[Health management]
Global Health Management Activities
Improvement of employees’ health literacy
▷ Tobacco-related diseases
▷ Lifestyle improvement
In FY2023, the Komatsu Group has promoted activities under the Five-Year Health Development Plan (FY2014) and the Second Health Development Plan (FY2019) to “implement outstanding health management” and “improve employees’ health literacy*.”
For the Second Heath Development Plan, while continuing the activities related to the previous mid-term plan, we have promoted the creation of a lifelong culture of health by strengthening support for work-life balance, primary preventative actions (lifestyle improvements), and by establishing systems and environments to “improve employees’ health literacy,” such as the introduction of ICT tools.
Major accomplishments in FY2023 are listed below:
| Item | Initiative | KPI | Result | Goals (FY2024) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | FY2023 | ||||
| Improvement of Health Literacy | Enhancing the ability to acquire, understand, select, and utilize accurate health information necessary for individuals to engage in proactive health behaviors | Communicative and Critical Health Literacy Scale*1 | 3.54 | 3.55 | 3.7 or higher |
| Cancer and lifestyle diseases | Increase the percentage of employees using the various health checkup consultations for the early detection and treatment of cancer and lifestyle diseases and the prevention of severe diseases | Regular check-up percentage | 100% | 100% | - |
| (Reference) Secondary health check-up percentage | 98.5% | 98.9% | 100% | ||
| Milestone checkup consultation percentage | 88.2% | 84.4% | 95% or more | ||
| Female cancer checkup consultation percentage | 56.9% | 58.2% | 80% or more | ||
| Tobacco-related diseases | Reduce secondary exposure to cigarette smoke and smoking percentage | Percent of the Komatsu Group in Japan that smokes | 28.4% | 28.5% | Not more than the national average of smokers (16.7%) |
| Lifestyle improvement | Establish a system or environment that leads to the improvement of motivation to improve or promote the healthy lifestyles of employees (e.g. diet and exercise) | Percent of employees with Healthy Action Competency*2 | 52.7% | 53.8% | 60% or more |
| Mental health | Reduce the number of individuals with mental disorders, provide early care, appropriately support their return to workplaces, and create a happy and vigorous workplace | Percentage responding to our recommendation to interview employees under high stress | 99.0% | 97.7% | 100% |
| (Reference) Stress check implementation percentage | 99.1% | 98.6% | - | ||
| Percentage responding to high-stress workplaces | 97.0% | 100.0% | 100% | ||
(Scope of aggregation: All employees of the Komatsu Group in Japan)
*1 The figures are calculated based on the average score out of 5 for the five questions in the questionnaire (1. Information collection, 2. Information selection, 3. Understanding and communication, 4. Reliability assessment, 5. Planning and action).
*2 Capability of voluntarily practicing healthy actions (lifestyle improvement/maintaining an appropriate exercise regimen and diet, etc.)
| Item | Initiative | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | FY2023 | |||
| Absenteeism | Average number of days lost per employee per year due to mental health issues | 1.28 days/year | 1.52 days/year | *3 |
| Presenteeism | Evaluate one's own work performance over the past four weeks, assuming 100% performance when there is no illness or injury Presenteeism = 100 - Average score of all employees |
9.9% | 14.8% | *4 |
*3 FY2022: Number of subjects: 23,224 people FY2023: Number of subjects: 23,028 people
*4 FY2022: Number of participants: 19,575 people (response rate: 99.8%) FY2023: Number of participants: 21,334 people (response rate: 98.5%)
As part of the "Lifestyle Improvement Promotion" of the "Second Health Promotion Plan," in FY 2021, we launched the Komatsu Health Promotion 100 (KHP100) in cooperation with the Komatsu Health Insurance Association to further promote employees’ health and health literacy.
Under KHP100, we distribute wearable devices to employees who wish to use them to visualize their physical activity and exercise. We also offer walking and other health events on a health portal that can be linked to the device, providing employees with opportunities to change their health-related behavior.
Komatsu has received the "Sports Yell Company 2023" award sponsored by the Japan Sports Agency in recognition of its efforts in KHP100.
The "Sports Yell Company" is a system that recognizes companies that are actively engaged in promoting sporting activities to enhance employees’ health, encourage hard-working people to play sports, and foster social momentum for sports.
Our efforts to encourage and disseminate activities promoting the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases have been recognized, earning us the Excellence Prize at the "Extend Healthy Life Expectancy Award" organized by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Japan Sports Agency.
The "Extend Healthy Life Expectancy Award" aims to encourage and disseminate outstanding awareness activities and initiatives for the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases. This award system recognizes companies, organizations, and municipalities that are undertaking excellent initiatives.
For details on the safety activities for the member companies of Midori-kai, an organization made up of our business partners (suppliers), please click "Support for Member Companies of the Komatsu Midori-kai" .
| Contents | FY2023 Practice |
|---|---|
| Based on the rules of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, educational training for mental health is conducted. Stress tests were started in FY2006, and stress awareness training were started in FY2007 and is being held for the employees of all Group companies in Japan. |
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| Contents | FY2023 Practice |
|---|---|
| Safety and Health education and mental health education is provided to each level of Komatsu Group companies in Japan including new employees. | New Employees (321 people)* 3rd year of employment with the company (293 people) 7th year of employment with the company (25 people) Mid-career recruitment (118 people) New Assistant Managers (383 people) Foremen/Senior Foremen (156 people) New Managers (231 people) |
| Contents | FY2023 Practice |
|---|---|
| Safety and health education is provided according to function to the production managers, Production Engineering Division, and workplace safety and health promotors of Komatsu group companies in Japan. | Safety and health practical training for production managers (20 trainees) Education for production engineers (54 trainees) ISO 45001 standards understanding training (48 trainees) ISO 45001 internal auditor development training (97 trainees) ISO 45001 internal auditor level-up training (15 trainees) |
| FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Komatsu group consolidated companies | Subtotal | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Overseas | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Non-consolidated sales companies | Subtotal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Overseas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Contractors | Subtotal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Overseas | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
We take these accidents very seriously, and will continue to actively engage in appropriate safety and health activities to ensure that such accidents will not occur again.
Since FY2007, in Japan, the Komatsu Group has taken steps to acquire or renew OSHMS certification at each business site and has been working to obtain ISO 45001 integrated international standards certification since FY2018. The Osaka Plant acquired ISO 45001 integrated international standards certification for the first time in April 2019 and other divisions and Group companies acquired this certification in April 2020. We have also taken steps to acquire or renew OHSAS 18001 certification for our overseas facilities and have been working to obtain ISO 45001 certification since FY2018.
ISO 45001 certification requires the following activities to be properly managed by the company's occupational safety and health management system:
| Certified business locations* | First year of certification | |
|---|---|---|
| Komatsu | Osaka Plant | 2019 |
| Head Office | 2020 | |
| Awazu Plant | ||
| Kanazawa Plant | ||
| Ibaraki Plant | ||
| Oyama Plant | ||
| Tochigi Plant | ||
| Koriyama Plant | ||
| Shonan Plant | ||
| Himi Plant | ||
| Shiga Plant | ||
| Field Testing Department | ||
| Group Company | GIGAPHOTON | |
| KELK | ||
| Komatsu NTC | ||
| KOMATSU LOGISTICS Head Office | 2022 | |
| Certified business locations* | First year of certification |
|---|---|
| Komatsu Chile SA | 2018 |
| Komatsu America Chattanooga Manufacturing Operation | 2019 |
| Komatsu America Newberry Manufacturing Operation | |
| Komatsu UK | |
| Komatsu Italia Manufacturing | |
| Hensley Lingfeng Co., Ltd. | |
| Bangkok Komatsu | |
| Komatsu America Peoria Manufacturing Operation | 2020 |
| Komatsu Mining Peru | |
| Komatsu Mining Wadeville | |
| Komatsu Mining Tianjin | |
| Komatsu Germany (Construction Division) | |
| Komatsu Germany (Mining Division) | |
| PT Komatsu Indonesia | |
| PT Komatsu Undercarriage Indonesia | |
| Komatsu Shantui Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. | |
| Komatsu Mining Longview | 2021 |
| Hensley Industries, Inc. | |
| Komatsu Changzhou Construction Machinery Corp. | |
| Komatsu Shandong Construction Machinery Corp. | |
| Komatsu Dalian Machine Tool | |
| Komatsu do Brasil Ltda. | 2022 |
| Desarrollos Technologicos S.A. | |
| Komasu Manufacturing Rus LLC | |
| Komatsu South Africa (Remanufacturing center) | |
| Distribuidora Cummins Chile S.A. | |
| PT Komatsu Marketing and Support Indonesia | 2023 |
| DESARROLLOS TECHNOLOGICOS S.A |