A Business Foundation that Supports Sustainable Growth

Occupational Health and Safety, Employee HealthCreating Safe and Secure Work Environments
As a corporate group with a globally developing business, we must deal with the management issue of creating healthy, safe and secure work
environments at each and every work site. Hitachi believes that its organizational culture, which prioritizes safety, is an important foundation for
creating corporate value and is working to establish a global health and safety system.

Our Basic Policy and Promotion Framework

We had already introduced the Hitachi Group Key Safetyunderlining the Hitachi Group Health and Safety Policy, which is shared

Management Designation System, which promotes the improvementby all Hitachi Group companies around the world. Employees workof safety measures and reinforcement of safety activities at Hitachi

together to create safe, secure work environments that aim to beGroup companies and business sites that have experienced serious

accident-free.

work-related accidents. Under the leadership of top executives, theseIn April 2019, aiming to become an organization whose employees

companies and business sites take on both management-driven andspontaneously promote safety activities with the direct participation ofbottom-up initiatives to formulate specific plans, and the progress ofmanagement, Hitachi, Ltd. established the Safety Management

these plans is monitored by safety officers, who also lead initiatives toDivision, which reports directly to the president on matters of safety

prevent recurrence.

management. This division will hold an annual Safety Strategy

Additionally, because the risk of accident is higher for workers not yetCongress, attended by safety officers from each Group company andaccustomed to their work or environment, employees and temporary

representatives from each division. The congress will set budgets andworkers receive individual health and safety training and on-the-job

objectives for company-wide safety strategy and review the structuraltraining before work begins, to help prevent accidents by ensuring thatsituation of the Hitachi Group’s safety management systems, making

they understand work procedures and dangers. At the same time, onthem an opportunity for top management to share its own

occasions of business restructuring, we share the details of the healthcommitment to safety as the highest priority.

and safety management frameworks and initiatives of the organizations

Furthermore, we hold a monthly “The Safety Strategy Promotion

to be merged in advance, and, paying all due respect for the safety

Council”, attended by safety department managers from each

cultures on both sides, ensure that safety is always preserved duringbusiness unit and Group company. This meeting provides an

the execution of a smooth business launch.

opportunity for us to examine the promotional frameworks for safety

In Japan, a health and safety commission—composed of businessactivities and education in each division alongside standards to beowners, labor union officials, and employees—is convened atshared across the Group.

each business site every month to discuss and share information

Since 2012, the Hitachi Group Health and Safety Portal System has

related to such issues as work-related accident cause analysis andallowed every Hitachi Group company in Japan to track thecountermeasures and health and safety activities in light of the situation

occupational health and safety performance of the entire Hitachi

regarding employees who have taken sick leave.

Group. When a work-related accident occurs in Japan, depending on

This initiative allowed us to achieve zero fatal work-related accidents

its level, the results of analysis on its causes and examples ofworldwide in 2018, but we have not yet eliminated accidentscountermeasures are registered in the system and shared with thealtogether. Taking an honest view of our present situation, we areentire Group as part of the knowledge base. Know-how gained in thiscontinuously striving to improve our safety management system,

way is used globally. By analyzing from many angles the detailed

making use of external consultants to bring in objective, third-party

information about accidents gathered in the system, similar accidents

perspectives, improving our ability to determine the cause of

can be prevented.

accidents, and reviewing our risk assessments.

Initiatives for Preventing Work-related Accidents
Based on the policy above, to prevent work-related accidents among
our roughly 300,000 Group employees worldwide, we set and apply
our own safety standards to be observed at manufacturing sitesaround the globe, where the risks of work-related accidents are high,as well as advancing health and safety measures tailored to theoperations of individual companies. In particular, since theestablishment in April 2019 of the Safety Management Division, we
have worked to improve our safety measures in terms of both policy,
by examining and improving our risk assessment frameworks, and70technology, by using IT and digital technology to prevent accidents.

Ensuring the health and safety of all employees is the basic principle

Hitachi Integrated Report 2019

Hitachi Group’s Global Safety Figures (Occurrence rate*2)
RegionNorth America
South and Central America
EuropeIndia
China
Asia (excluding India and China)
Oceania
AfricaOverseas total
Japan
Global total

2016
27.65
2.33
10.70
2.07
1.59
5.43
39.07
17.26
7.76
1.57
3.95

2017
24.33
1.62
10.82
1.44
1.53
4.41
24.41
9.93
7.42
1.85
4.22

2018
27.96
0.44
6.08
1.44
1.46
3.34
21.94
11.76
7.43
1.64
4.20

* Occurrence rate is the rate of workplace accidents per 1,000 directly contracted employees resulting in fatality
or work-time loss of one day or more.