Safety
The Tokyo Electron Group performs a range of business activities including development, manufacturing,transportation, installation, and maintenance with the highest priority on the safety and health of all
personnel from top management to frontline staff and makes proactive and continuous improvements toenhance safety and promote good health.

Safety Promotion Framework
Raising safety awareness for all individuals is crucial if we are to provide worksites
where all employees can work safely. With the safety slogan of “safety first,” theTEL Group has established the Equipment Safety Promotion Meeting and the WorkSafety Promotion Meeting under the supervising EHS Meeting. The Equipment Safety
Promotion Meeting enhances safety by ensuring compliance with safety standards andequipment-safety-related laws and regulations. The Work Safety Promotion Meeting
discusses, and puts into practice, matters related to work safety at customer locations
and TEL Group locations, from a global perspective. These meetings identify causesof accidents resulting in injury and/or damage, due to either equipment or human error,
and make efforts to prevent similar incidents from reoccurring.

EHS promotion framework
Representative Director,President & CEO
General Manager,Development &Manufacturing Division
EHS Meeting
Equipment
SafetyPromotion
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SafetyPromotion
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Environment
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Equipment Safety Design
The TEL Group carries out risk assessments in consideration of the product life cycle,
even from the development phase. Based on the assessment results, the TEL Group
implements intrinsically safe equipment design1 to reduce the risks that machines poseto humans. The Group also examines and ensures compliance with changing lawsand regulations around the globe, abiding by all safety regulations of the regions ourequipment is shipped to, and allowing inspections by safety certification organizations
when necessary.
Safety considerations in the phases of equipment design and development havebecome increasingly important in recent years. Today, compliance with internationalsafety standards and guidelines is a requirement for equipment to be recognized as
being safe for use. Since 2007, the TEL Group has provided web-based equipment
safety education to help its engineers learn about safety in the context of equipment
design. This gives them the basic safety knowledge required in terms of risk
assessment and introduces examples of accidents. In the coming fiscal year, we plan
to revise the education program to include the latest accident cases and new safety
standards to further educate our engineers.
As a result of these efforts, there were no serious injuries caused by product designin fiscal year 2015.
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Intrinsically safe equipment design: Innovative machinery design that eliminates the causes of machinery-related
hazards posed to people.

Topics <TEL FSI, Inc. Received Governor’s Safety Award from Minnesota Safety Council 2>

In recognition of its outstanding activities for accident prevention and labor safety,
TEL FSI, Inc. received the Governor’s Safety Award for Meritorious Achievementfrom the Minnesota Safety Council. The council has presented the Governor’s Safety
Awards every year since 1934 to honor businesses that are conducting outstandingsafety activities. The council selects award winners by comparing recent injury andillness data with national industrial data for past years and examining the operation ofcomprehensive safety programs.
2Minnesota Safety Council: A non-governmental, non-profit organization established in 1928 to improve thequality of life of people in Minnesota through the elimination of preventable work-related accidents.

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Implementation of risk assessment
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0.24[TCIR]

Initiatives for Work Safety
To secure the safety of all people involved in its business, including regular employees,
temporary staff, subcontractors, and customers, the TEL Group continuously improves
its activities to prevent work-related accidents. This is accomplished by identifying andanalyzing potential risks in workplaces and sharing the knowledge group-wide.
Each plant and office is aggressively promoting safety activities by establishinga system under which representatives from each department conduct safety patrols
at least once a month to solve problems by their own initiative. This is in addition toa management system based on OHSMS1. New plants and offices outside of Japan
aim to establish similar systems for safety management. To prevent unsafe conditions
and behavior that may lead to accidents, all workers share details about their work
and work areas before performing their duties. This works as a cautionary exercise,providing countermeasures against possible accidents and mistakes that can occur
during operation. Moreover, each work group has an appointed leader who oversees
the entire worksite to minimize risk factors that could lead to accidents or mistakes.
Additionally, to further raise workers’ safety awareness, a safety manager visits theworkplace to demonstrate how to exercise caution against risk factors.
When we deliver a product to a new plant or production line, we check its facilities,
equipment and safety standards against our Group regulations in advance. This way,
we can identify any ambiguities with regard to safety and solve problems, if any, toimprove the environment for safe operation.
As a result of these continued safety activities in and outside of Japan, the numberof accidents in fiscal year 2015 with the potential for severe injury dropped by about
40% from fiscal year 2014. The overall rate for workplace accidents, including mildinjuries, decreased from 110 in fiscal year 2014 to 80 this fiscal year (a decrease of28%), when including data of the four companies acquired2 in fiscal year 2013. TheTCIR3 value also declined to 0.24 from 0.37.
OHSMS: Occupational Health and Safety Management System. A management system to reduce thepotential for work-related accidents and improve the level of safety and health management by defining
a series of PDCA (plan, do, check, act) processes under the safety and health policy set by senior
management.
2Four companies acquired: TEL Magnetic Solutions Ltd., TEL Solar AG, TEL FSI, Inc., TEL NEXX, Inc.
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TCIR: Total Case Incident Rate. The number of workplace accidents (Occupational Safety and HealthAdministration standard) per 200,000 hours worked.
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The TEL Group carries out accident
prevention activities on an ongoing basis toreduce the number of accidents. As a result,the occurrence rate of injuries from accidents
during work—as indicated by the TCIR
value—has remained at a world-class safetylevel of less than 0.5 since 2005. In fiscal year
2015, we achieved a TCIR value of 0.24.

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Safety Education
To improve individual employees’ awareness of safety, the TEL Group provides webbased education. In fiscal year 2015, we provided update advanced safety education
to all workers involved with our Group. The aim was to renew their awareness of workrules, which were established with reference to past accidents, as well as rules forwearing protective gear.
Additionally, to eliminate accidents, we provide five web-based education courses4at our offices and plants around the world, along with risk prediction training. The latteris designed to prevent accidents by predicting potential risks in the workplace and has
proved statistically effective. In fiscal year 2015, about 1,500 persons participated in thetraining and raised their awareness of accident prevention.
The TEL Group also requires all new hires to take safety education whileproviding safety information to its suppliers as part of its thorough efforts foraccident prevention.
4Web-based education courses focusing on five themes: being caught in a driving unit, ergonomics(backache), pointing and calling, exposure to liquid chemicals, and work safety rules.

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