Sustainability
Employee Health and Safety Management
Health and Safety Policy for Eliminating Workplace Accidents
Health and Safety Basic Policy
Employee health and safety is a top management priority. In line with the Health and Safety Basic Philosophy of putting that health and safety of workers takes precedence over everything else, we formulated the Basic Policy on Health and Safety, and have declared it to all business sites in Japan and overseas.
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Health and safety is one of the most important tasks of corporate management at Fuji Electric. High-quality health and safety activities are practiced to make the workplace safe and comfortable, eradicate industrial accidents and prevent mental and physical diseases.
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Applicable laws and regulations, and autonomous standards established by the Company, individual business offices and departments shall be observed. Health and safety activities sticking to the basics shall be exercised at all times.
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All individuals involved in the business of Fuji Electric shall participate in the voluntary health and safety activities as a team and enroot safety culture in the workplace in order to ensure their own health and safety.
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Health and safety activities focusing on the employees’ health and safety are pursued aggressively in all businesses we conduct. By publicizing these activities, we contribute to creation of a safer, securer and more comfortable society.
Company-wide Health and Safety Management Policy and Yearly Slogan (FY 2026)
Every fiscal year, in addition to formulating a "Company-wide Health and Safety Management Policy" that summarizes issues and specific implementation items in line with the "Health and Safety Basic Policy," we establish a "Health and Safety Yearly Slogan" through open calls for employee submissions to raise awareness among all employees.
The "Company-wide Health and Safety Management Policy" is shared with all employees through each business site and becomes the foundation for annual health and safety activities at factories, the head office, branches, and construction sites in various regions. In addition to domestic subsidiaries, this policy is delivered to overseas subsidiaries in English and Chinese, as the entire company works as one to permeate and establish a "safety culture."
In fiscal 2026, we established the following as the "Company-wide Health and Safety Management Policy" and "Health and Safety Yearly Slogan," and will work toward ensuring safety and preventing occupational accidents.
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Zero work-related disasters
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Zero work-related illness
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Zero traffic accidents
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Occupational Safety
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In order to eliminate unsafe behavior and unsafe conditions, build a safer and more secure workplace environment by having managers provide daily safety guidance and by actively engaging in verbal communication every day in line with the intent of the new behavioral guidelines, "Voice Encouragement, Build Trust," thereby establishing relationships of trust among workers.
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Promote risk assessments led by top management with everyone involved, including indirect departments, to minimize risks in the workplace by ensuring essential safety and implementing engineering measures for dangerous and hazardous work. In addition, if any risks remain, establish countermeasures and comply with them.
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In the event of an occupational accident, top management takes the lead in thoroughly investigating the cause, and then takes effective measures to prevent recurrence and deploys them horizontally to other workplaces to prevent similar accidents. In addition, if residual risks remain, formulate rules for work methods and procedures and observe them.
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When performing non-routine work, do not make decisions on your own, but always discuss work methods and procedures with a manager (supervisor, etc.) to confirm safety before execution.
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Implement safety and health training in a systematic manner, keep a training record after confirming that the trainee has understood and mastered the subject matter, and frequently provide daily safety and health guidance especially to workers who handle dangerous or hazardous substances and workers with less experience.
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Workers must strictly follow rules, conduct pre-work KY (kiken yochi), confirm work procedures in advance, and use pointing and calling. Managers (supervisors, etc.) should provide daily guidance and supervision.
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Prevent accidents and illnesses in advance by improving the workplace environment, utilizing protective equipment, and ensuring proper assignment while taking into account declining physical functions and medical histories, and systematically and comprehensively promote activities by establishing systems in various places in light of legal obligations for older workers.
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Enhance advance measures to prevent heatstroke, such as improving the working environment, utilizing WBGT meters, and wearing air-conditioned clothing, to thoroughly manage the physical condition of workers in detail.
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Occupational Health and Health Promotion
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Thoroughly manage each of the three occupational safety controls (working environment control, work control, and health control) to prevent work related illnesses.
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Conduct a risk assessment in advance using safety data sheets (SDS), and based on the results of the risk assessment, implement risk reduction measures before performing the work.
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The results of working environment measurements shall be based on the first control category, and in the case of the second or third control category, efforts shall be made to continually lower the control category.
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Actively implement company-wide health promotion activities to prevent and improve lifestyle-related diseases, prevent mental health disorders, and maintain and promote the health of older workers and others (including preparation from a young age).
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Traffic Safety
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Safe driving managers and operation managers should manage and supervise the appropriate use of business vehicles in accordance with laws and standards.
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Safe driving managers and others should continuously promote safe driving to qualified drivers of business vehicles through various training sessions and accident case studies (dashcam videos).
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Safe driving managers and others should thoroughly check for alcohol consumption and physical condition using breathalyzers in compliance with laws and keep records. Furthermore, to prevent fatigued driving, fully confirm driver fatigue and operational plan validity, and take necessary measures.
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Drivers should take good care of their physical condition and observe the seven rules of safe driving to avoid the risk of accidents.
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Passengers should participate with the driver in checking for safety.
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Your Awareness Protects Coworkers — Building a Zero-Accident Workplace Together
Occupational Health and Safety Promotion System
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., established the Health and Safety Promotion Committee, made up of officers in charge of labor relations and top management at all operating sites at the pinnacle of the Fuji Electric, and it sets the Company-wide direction of occupational health and safety management while also overseeing specific activities. The committee meets annually to determine the Company-wide Health and Safety Management Policy and a health and safety yearly slogan for each New Year while summarizing various factors, including the number of occupational and business automobile accidents in the previous year. It also steadily implements the PDCA cycle to ensure Company-wide safety and health (Implementation rate 100% for fiscal 2024).
In response to the Company-wide Policy, we established management policies, regulations, and standards for both ongoing operations and fixed-term projects, including new ventures at our plants, head office, and divisions according to their specific environments and attributes. We operate under an optimal safety and health management system PDF(38KB) based on the PDCA cycle for safety and health activities, which sets out requirements for the ideal state of safety and health management, including the development of management systems and various activities such as risk assessment. Each organization implements rigorous top-down command and control. We also conduct health and safety audits through safety departments across the Company. Emphasis is placed on bottom-up functions that reflect the real voices of workers in the field. Moreover, we work closely with our labor union to promote optimal occupational health management at each site.
Additionally, in fiscal 2025, 3 out of 36 companies (8.3%) in the Fuji Electric Group (2 out of 9 domestic consolidated subsidiaries and 1 out of 27 overseas consolidated subsidiaries) have acquired international certifications such as ISO45001 and OSHMS.
Initiatives to Ensure Occupational Health and Safety
Fuji Electric Health and Safety Conference
Based on our basic philosophy, we hold the "Fuji Electric Health and Safety Conference" every year, with representatives from factories, head office, branch offices, the labor union, affiliated companies, and cooperating companies participating to pledge to maintain and develop a safe, secure, healthy, and cheerful workplace.
At the conference, we foster awareness of prioritizing safety and health as a Fuji Electric team together with affiliated companies, as well as the permeation of a "safety culture" where each individual is always mindful of preventing occupational accidents.
The fiscal 2025 conference was attended by many occupational safety and health personnel, including those from affiliated and cooperating companies. We shared messages from top management and the labor union, a review of 2025 safety and health activities, and the Safety and Health Management Policy for fiscal 2026, reflecting them in the safety and health management policies at each business site such as factories, head office, and branch offices.
In fiscal 2026 as well, the entire company will work together on health and safety activities toward achieving our health and safety targets.
Factory Safety and Health Reviews and Business Vehicle Management Assessments
We conduct reviews of factory safety and health practices on a biennial basis, as well as assessments of business vehicle management, in collaboration with our company-wide safety department to ensure compliance and oversight. These reviews include desk-based compliance checks using a common checklist for laws and internal regulations, as well as on-site inspections to provide guidance and proposals.
Similar assessments are carried out at consolidated subsidiaries to thoroughly enforce compliance management across the entire Group.
Inspections from a third-party perspective are effective for noticing risks lurking in familiar work processes. Systematic safety patrols including Group companies and identifying equipment risks are indispensable for this.
In fiscal 2025, we launched mutual risk assessment reviews, where a team formed by the company-wide safety department and health and safety personnel from other factories reviews the content of factory risk assessment activities. In addition to reviewing activity systems and implementation examples, inspecting sites together led to significant results toward workplace environment improvement, such as discovering unnoticed risks and proposing new risk reduction measures.
Safety Patrols for Subcontractors
In plant construction work where we bear safety responsibility for many subcontractors as a prime contractor, we conduct detailed patrols of construction sites in accordance with local health and safety review standards to secure, maintain, and enhance compliance and health and safety conditions.
Ensuring Safety at Overseas Bases
We deploy the "Company-wide Health and Safety Management Policy" and "Health and Safety Regulations" to overseas bases of consolidated subsidiaries and provide safety educational materials to aim for management standards on par with Japan. Mindful of health and safety activities that consider the laws, cultures, and customs of each country, we engage in a company-wide system collaborating with human resources, legal, overseas sales, and occupational health departments in addition to safety departments.
Holding Health and Safety Training
In addition to legally mandated health and safety training, we continuously plan and hold practical safety and health training throughout the year, including open courses for employees of affiliated companies, new employee training, education and drills planned for each business site or construction site, and supervisor/safety and health manager training for frontline leaders of cooperating companies.
Status of Work-Related Accidents
Accident frequency rate: Number of casualties per 1 million work hours = Number of casualties / Total actual hours worked × 1,000,000
Scope: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. and Domestic Consolidated Subsidiaries
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Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. and Consolidated Subsidiaries in Japan
Accident severity rate: Number of lost workdays per 1,000 total hours worked = Total lost workdays / Total actual hours worked × 1,000
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Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. and Consolidated Subsidiaries in Japan
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Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. and Consolidated Subsidiaries in Japan
Accident-free record
In fiscal 2025, Fukiage Factory achieved the "Second Class No-Accident Record," while Suzuka Factory and Mie Factory achieved the "First Class No-Accident Record," receiving commendations from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. We will continue our efforts to realize safer and more comfortable workplaces and to eliminate workplace accidents.
Award for Excellent Safety Leadership
Hideo Miyajima, a frontline supervisor at Matsumoto Factory, received the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Award for Outstanding Safety Leadership in FY 2024. He has achieved a continuous 18-year record with no lost-time accidents or injuries. He is also actively pursuing qualifications such as Level 2 Quality Control (QC) Certification and First-Class Hygienist.
"We are deeply honored to receive the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Award for Outstanding Safety Leadership. This achievement is the result of a long-term, company-wide commitment to safety, with all employees maintaining a high safety consciousness and continuously working toward a no-accident workplace. We will continue to strive for even higher safety standards, with this recognition serving as motivation for ongoing improvement."
Health Management and Mental Healthcare
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［Interview of our contribution activities to SDGs, 'Health Management Initiatives'］
External Evaluation
Our company has been certified as a "Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization 2026 (Large Enterprise Category)" in recognition of our initiatives, such as preventing lifestyle-related diseases by improving the participation rate in specified health guidance, reducing long working hours, and promoting the use of leave.
The Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization Recognition Program aims to "visualize" outstanding companies and organizations practicing health and productivity management, creating an environment where they can receive social recognition as "corporations that consider employee health management from a managerial perspective and address it strategically". The certification criteria are based on five aspects: "Management Philosophy (Management Awareness)," "Organizational Structure," "System / Implementation of Measures," "Evaluation / Improvement," and "Legal Compliance / Risk Management."
To further revitalize our employees and organization, we will continue to maintain and strengthen our health promotion initiatives.
