Creating a Safe and Sanitary Working Environment
Company-wide occupational safety and health committees have been established to improve employees’ intuition and awareness of danger to achieve zero casualties (Figure 4).
At factories, by adopting risk assessment methods based on the occupational safety and health management system, potential risks (work operations and facilities where danger is lurking) are identified and understood numerically as risk points. By doing so, we endeavor to prevent accidents and improve operations.
To improve the ability to predict risks, all sections of our plants are working on averting risks through KYT (risk precognition training) and a “hiyari hatt sheet” to report new risks discovered or experienced by each employee.
We are also trying to achieve a safe and easy-to-work-in environment by thoroughly implementing the 4Ss (seiri (organized), seiton (orderly), seiso (cleaning), seiketsu (cleanliness)).
Figure 4: Frequency of Worker Injuries Resulting in Leave from Work
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Fiscal 2000
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Fiscal 2001
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Fiscal 2002
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Fiscal 2003
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Fiscal 2004
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| All Industries |
1.82
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1.79
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1.77
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1.78
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-
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| Food and Tobacco Industries |
2.51
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2.25
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2.77
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2.72
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-
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| Takara Shuzo |
0.00
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0.00
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0.00
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0.00
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0.83
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* The number of worker injuries resulting in leave from work in Fiscal 2004 at Takara Shuzo was one (one-day leave from work).
Frequency: Calculated as the number of cases per million man-hours of work, this number represents the frequency of work-related accidents. (Source: Industrial Accidents Survey, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
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