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Occupational safety and health

Occupational Safety and Health

Occupational safety and health

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.

 

Safety, health, and health management promotion structure

Organization

The Komatsu Group promotes safety, health, and health management as per the following structure.

Meeting committee structure

The Komatsu Group holds various meetings to discuss and share information on safety, health, and health management, including the following:

Group Safety and Health Conference (Safety conferences at Group companies, presentations by small groups which implement “zero accidents” activities, etc.)

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. The conference engages in activities that help all the participants to share the policy, priorities and best practices of Safety and Health activities, and incorporate these practices into the daily operations at other divisions. This is also the administration of presidential awards related to Safety and Health.

Group safety and health committee (Safety and health committees at group companies, Plants and operation sites)

This committee was formed to enhance cooperation between labor and management to examine, discuss and make decisions on measures aimed at eliminating risks in workplaces and preventing health risks. This committee formulates regulations concerning Safety and Health, examines, debates and decides on related policies for the fiscal year. This is also the occasion to manage the progress of these activities.

Major items to be examined and discussed:
  • Formulation of safety and health regulations
  • Action plan for the fiscal year and activity progress management

Conference for safety and health in the community

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 FY2022, we held the conferences in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and China.

Group health representatives meeting

  • Formulates and makes proposals for all company policies related with safety and health practices.
  • Promotes and implements practices based on company policies in locations of each business operation.

Health Promotion Committee

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.

 

Basic policy on safety, health, and health management

Komatsu communicates the message of “Safety First” to the Komatsu Group and addresses occupational safety and works on mental and physical health care to create a safe and comfortable work environment.

Considering our obligation to occupational safety and health, we have implemented the following guideline: All the Komatsu Group companies, including all top managers and employees, shall promote occupational safety and health activities so that everyone can work in a safe and comfortable work environment in accordance with the policies described below.

Occupational safety and health policies

  1. Observe the laws and regulations concerning occupational safety and health as well as internal rules, key items common to the Komatsu Group about occupational safety and health, and particularly items agreed as a result of labor-management consultations in each workplace.
  2. Set up targets for activities based on occupational safety and health policies, review their progress, and endeavor to continuously improve and enhance occupational safety and health activities.
  3. Carry out occupational safety and health activities in management-and-labor partnership on a full participation basis and keep good communication with stakeholders with regard to occupational safety and health.
  4. Identify and evaluate the risk for occupational safety and health of a workplace and take appropriate actions accordingly.
  5. Actively promote employees' healthcare management and support the maintenance and promotion of employees' health.
  6. Actively promote education, training and qualification acquisition necessary for employees' occupational safety and health activities, and endeavor to develop human resources for safely carrying out their responsibilities in the workplace.
  7. Subject to appropriate protection of personal information, publicly offer the knowledge and information about occupational safety and health activities obtained through the business activities in order to secure safety and health in society.

In addition to our existing health management programs, the Komatsu Group strives to create a corporate Health Culture and has been promoting its Five-Year Health Development Plan, a medium-term health development plan that was established in FY2014 and the Second Health Development Plan which was established in FY2019. The goal of the Health Culture is: to look after one's own health and the health of one's colleagues, and to consider and take action on what is necessary for leading a better life. The president announced the Komatsu Health Declaration in June 2014 to effectively promote this goal. The declaration was revised in April 2019.

Safety, health, and health management initiatives

Safety and health key initiatives of Komatsu group in FY2022

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

  • Enhancement of compliance risk management.
  • Elimination of accidents involving inexperienced workers
  • Activities to maintain and improve occupational safety and health management systems.

[Health management]

Improvement of employees’ health literacy

  • Extension of healthy life expectancy

▷ Tobacco-related diseases

▷ Lifestyle improvement

  • Mental health

Working to achieve a mid-term health development plan

In FY2022, 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.

  • Capability of voluntarily practicing healthy actions (lifestyle improvement/maintaining an appropriate exercise regimen and diet, etc.)

Major accomplishments in FY2022 are listed below:

Item Initiative KPI FY2021 result FY2022 result Goals
(FY2022-FY2024)
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 98.2% 98.5% 100%
Milestone checkup consultation percentage 85.4% 88.2％ 95% or more
Female cancer checkup consultation percentage 61.1% 56.9％ 80% or more
Tobacco-related diseases Reduce secondary exposure to cigarette smoke and smoking percentage Percent of the Komatsu Group in Japan that smokes 28.3％ 28.4% 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* 51.4% 52.7％ 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 99.9％ 99.0％ 100%
(Reference) Stress check implementation percentage 99.8% 99.1% -
Percentage responding to high-stress workplaces 97.6％ 97.0％ 100%

(Scope of aggregation: All employees of the Komatsu Group in Japan)

  • Capability of voluntarily practicing healthy actions (lifestyle improvement/maintaining an appropriate exercise regimen and diet, etc.)

Introduction of the Komatsu health promotion 100 (KHP100)

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 receives the "Sports Yell Company 2023" award

 

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.

Supporting supplier's safety activities

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" .

 

Status in FY2022

Educational training for occupational safety and health (in Japan)

Education regarding mental health

Contents FY2022 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.
  • Stress tests/awareness training
    implemented in 13 companies, with approximately 22,837 employees
  • “Support Letter for the Heart”, which is motivational material for management personnel, is distributed every other month (even months) to management personnel within the Group.

Education based on job levels

Contents FY2022 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 (285 people)*
3rd year of employment with the company (448 people)
7th year of employment with the company (30 people)
Mid-career recruitment (107 people)
New Assistant Managers (351 people)
Foremen/Senior Foremen (132 people)
New Managers (215 people)
  • Total for head office employees

Education based on Function

Contents FY2022 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 (15 trainees)
Education for production engineers (47 trainees)
ISO 45001 standards understanding training (58 trainees)
ISO 45001 internal auditor development training (45 trainees)
ISO 45001 internal auditor level-up training (33 trainees)

Number of major work-related accidents (fatal)

    FY2017 FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022
Komatsu group consolidated companies Subtotal 1 3 1 3 0 2
Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0
Overseas 1 3 1 3 0 2
Non-consolidated sales companies Subtotal 0 0 0 1 0 0
Japan 0 0 0 1 0 0
Overseas 0 0 0 0 0 0
Contractors Subtotal 0 0 0 1 0 1
Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0
Overseas 0 0 0 1 0 1
Total 1 3 1 5 0 3

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.

 

Data

Incidence rate of occupational accidents (Frequency rate of lost worktime)


 
  1. The data for all industries (Japan) and construction and mining equipment manufacturing industry (Japan) are provided by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
  2. The scope of the Komatsu Group (Japan) includes Komatsu Ltd. and group companies in Japan.（Excluding Komatsu Safety Training Center, KCS and KBS)
  3. The scope of the Komatsu Group (global) includes "Komatsu Group (Japan)" and overseas production plants.
  4. Some data has been revised due to reviewing the past data. 

Frequency of occupational accidents (occupational illness frequency rate)

  1. Occupational illness frequency rate (OIFR): Number of occupational illness absences (times) / Total of working hours (hours) x 1,000,0000
  2. Occupational illness: Back problems, heat illnesses, chemical poisonings, infection, etc. specified by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
  3. Komatsu Group (Japan): Komatsu alone + group companies in Japan（Excluding Komatsu Safety Training Center, KCS and KBS)

Occupational Safety and Health Management System ceritification and renewal of certification

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 FY2019.

ISO 45001 certification requires the following activities to be properly managed by the company's occupational safety and health management system:

  • Occupational safety and health risks and hazards assessments to identify potential hazards in the workplace.
  • Prioritization and integration of action plans with quantitative targets to address occupational safety and health risks.
  • Actions to prepare for and respond to emergencies.
  • Assessment of progress toward goals for reducing and preventing health risks.
  • Internal audit.
  • Investigation of occupational injuries, illnesses, and accidents.
  • Occupational safety and health activities for employees and other stakeholders to raise awareness and reduce occupational safety and health accidents.
  • Introduction of occupational safety and health standards in procurement and contractual requirements.
  • OSHMS: Occupational safety and health management systems
  • OHSAS 18001: Occupational health and safety assessment series
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