Creating a comfortable workplace

Health management philosophy

• Health management philosophy

  • 1. We will eliminate the causes of injuries and diseases from the workplace and strive to create a healthy and safe working environment.
  • 2. We will comply with laws and regulations, company regulations, and workplace rules related to occupational safety and health.
  • 3. We will strive to improve the awareness of health management of each employee and strengthen the health management of the entire organization.
  • 4. We will continue to implement education and awareness-raising activities to improve health literacy.
  • 5. We will strengthen measures for mental health care to maintain the mental health of employees.
  • 6. We will promote work style reforms to maintain physical and mental health.

• Health management promotion system

  With the president as the chief health management officer, the Human Resources & General Affairs Division will play the role of the person in charge of promoting health management, implementing measures in cooperation with related departments and external parties, and disseminating the promotion of health management widely both inside and outside the company.

  

Nagase ChemteX's measures
and specific initiatives

• Physical health initiatives

  • Continue to maintain 100% response rate to regular health examination, and improve the return visit rate and specific health guidance implementation rate based on health examination results
  • Enhanced cancer screening by the corporate health insurance society (medical examination option, mail-in examination, etc.)
  • Subsidy system for smoking cessation of outpatients
  • Raise awareness and increase utilization rate of various subsidy systems such as dental examinations
  • Carrying out of preventive vaccination of employees and their family members against various contagious diseases, such as influenza, and a system to cover the cost
  • Heat stroke prevention measures

• Mental health initiatives

  • Improve the working environment by implementing the stress check and the group analysis
  • the mental health training
  • Management training (strengthening Managerial Care)
  • Establish a system to conduct health consultation for workers with mental health problems by an occupational physician and health consultation by a public health nurse
  • Support for returning to work
  • Establishment of a harassment consultation desk
  • Implementation of harassment prevention training

• Health promotion

  • Support club activities
  • Recommend walking events using health apps
  • Introduce a health maintenance system (5 courses: improve physical condition, stop smoking, make it a habit to exercise, make it a habit to measure, and create MY mission)
  • Participate in the National Project “Corporate Action to Promote Cancer Control” with the aim to improve cancer screening rates and provide information on cancer control
  • Promote the use of recreational facilities
  • Implement measures to reduce long working hours
  • Set a weekly no overtime day
  • Post the overtime work status of each department
  • Support for balancing medical treatment and work
  • Support for balancing childcare and work

Recognized as a Health and Productivity Management Organization (large enterprise category)

We have been continuously certified as a Health and Productivity Management Organization (in the large enterprise category) since the first time we were certified in2022.The Health and Productivity Management Organization certification system is a system for commending companies that carry out particularly excellent health and productivity management based on initiatives that address local health issues and health promotion initiatives promoted by the Nippon Kenko Kaigi.

The Company lays out a policy of providing “a safe and comfortable work environment” as a value to employees in the medium-term management plan “ACE 2.0” and promotes health management.

Efforts to reform the way we work

We believe that it is important for individual employees to work flexibly based on productivity and efficiency to enhance productivity and work-life balance.

With this in mind, the NAGASE Group promotes discussions and initiatives to improve its employees' working styles.

Compliance with international labor standards

The NAGASE Group supports the basic principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, and the four labor principles of the United Nations Global Compact, and guarantees basic labor rights to its employees. It also supports freedom of association and the union's ownership of the three rights of labor: the right to organize, the right to collective bargaining, and the right to collective action.

Efforts on labor issues

Preventing child labor and forced labor

We have not used any child labor or forced labor to date. In addition, in order to prevent the occurrence of child labor and forced labor in the future, we are thoroughly observing laws and regulations in each country and conducting regular monitoring.

Minimum wage and living wage payment policy

We conducts labor management in compliance with the labor laws and regulations of each country. In terms of wages, the basic policy is not only to comply with the minimum wage regulations in each country, but also to pay wages in excess of the minimum wage.

Reducing long working hours

We keep track of our employees' working hours and internally disclose the overtime hours in each department. In addition, to curb overwork, the Human Resources Section issues an alarm to employees who are approaching the overtime limit and guides improvements.
Furthermore, from the perspective of employee safety considerations, when a certain number of consecutive work days are reached, in addition to alert notifications on the work schedule screen, employees are encouraged to secure their days off.

Labor-management relations

Our labor-management relations are stable and positive, with smooth discussions taking place as we work together to resolve issues.

Nagase ChemteX Labor Union holds the three rights of labor: the right to organize, the right to collective bargaining, and the right to collective action. We have entered into the labor-management agreement with the Labor union.

We regularly conduct labor-management meetings to share information and discuss issues such as working conditions and the working environment. Additionally, we organize labor-management study sessions on specific themes to deepen understanding and foster discussions, contributing to the development of positive labor-management relations.

Futhermore, all employees, except those representing the interests of the employer as defined by the Labor Union Act (such as those in managerial or supervisory positions, those hanling confidential matters, and those directly involved in determininig working conditions), are members of the labor union.