Ensuring the health and safety of our employees is a fundamental requirement for the operation of our company's business. Under the Basic Health and Safety Policy, Sumitomo Metals each year determines guidelines for health and safety activities, and works to continually raise the levels of health and safety. In addition to improvements to equipment safety and the work environment, each workplace safeguards employee safety by observing strict safety standards, and operates a range of actions including Kiken Yochi(KY : risk assessment) activities and reporting of near-miss accidents.
In order to improve safety knowledge and sensitivity among employees, we carry out health and safety education, hands-on safety training, and other systematic training.
[Philosophy]
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Ensuring the health and safety of the persons who work in the Sumitomo Metals Group is a fundamental requirement for the operation of our business. |
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Under the concepts of the respect for humanity in the Sumitomo Spirit, our company philosophy of “respecting the value of persons and skills,” and the comprehensive principle, which has been the basis of our health and safety management for many years, that “safety is the starting point for employee welfare, and the foundation of all management,” we will continually strive to ensure the health and safety of all persons working in the Sumitomo Metals Group. |
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We are proud of our history of playing a leading role in national health and safety policy in Japan, and will continue to contribute to society through health and safety. |
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It is our goal always to carry out ceaseless improvements to the health and safety performance of the Sumitomo Metals Group. |
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Sumitomo Metals provides support and training for cooperating companies in order to improve the health and safety level and ensure the safety of employees at these companies. Specifically, a cooperation committee is established for each steel works. This committee conducts health and safety training (such as new arrival training, leader training, and SKY practical training), provides information related to health and safety, gives instruction and examinations as part of on-site visits, offers staff support to management staff and supervisors, and conducts other programs. We will work to further expand and improve these programs in the future.
In order to maintain and improve our employees' health, in addition to providing systematic health guidance based on the results of medical evaluations, health training and health workshops, we also conduct annual fitness tests in order to raise health awareness among all employees.
Our mental health programs not only provide ample support for employees by ensuring that they can enjoy a fulfilling company life, but also are expected to make an active contribution to improving company performance. We have expanded our mental health programs that are based on improving workplace communication. Specifically, we are conducting training conducted principally by supervisors for all employees, and have established a company consultation system. We also utilize outside EAP (employee assistance programs) and conduct mental health examinations of both individuals and workplaces. In the future we will continue to take steps so that all employees are able to remain vital, active, and healthy in their workplaces.
On request from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), at the Wakayama Steel Works we accept overseas trainees, primarily from Southeast Asian countries, who study work environment management in order to prevent workplace illnesses.
The training involves measuring dust and noise at the plant, evaluating the measurement results, and implementing our company's environmental improvements, thus contributing in each country to improved labor health and safety levels and preventing illnesses caused by harmful factors in the workplace.
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