Occupational Safety and Health
KOITO adopts “Safety comes ﬁrst” as the basic approachto safety and health and aims to create the safe, secure,and comfortable work environment with the participationof all employees. Five Safety Rules are also set as thestandard actions to follow in all activities that are to bepracticed by the entire Group.
The Safe and Environmental Committee chaired by the
Representative Director meets monthly to discuss policies
on employee safety and health measures, including
measures to prevent and recur problems or accidents, aswell as other important issues. The matters discussed at
the Safe and Environmental Committee are presented toevery employee through the Safe and Health Committee,
and the Safe and Environmental Committee of eachproduction site, or the worksite safety meetings
conducted at their worksites.
Targeting all personnel working in the premise, KOITO
repeatedly provides education and accident drills todevelop human resources who follow safety rules andincrease their awareness. We are also conducting risk
assessment and risk detection activities to enhance thesenses to ﬁnd potential risks at the worksites. In addition,
Directors and Managers conduct on-site inspections,identify unsafe conditions, and take preventive measureswith the goal of zero labor disaster and trafﬁc accidents.

■Process safety total incident rate (lost worktime)
KOITO MANUFACTURING
Electric machinery and equipment
manufacturing industry*

0.6
0.4
0.2
0

0.51

0.58

0.54

0.52

0.54

000

2020

2021

2022

0.18
0.09

2018

2019

Process safety Numbers of workers due to industrial accident
total incident ＝Total working hoursrate(FY)

1,000,000*Source: The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare■Process safety incident severity rate (lost worktime)
0.05
0.04
0.03

KOITO MANUFACTURING
Electric machinery and equipment
manufacturing industry*
0.02

0.02

0.01

0.01

0.02
0.01
02018

2019

Process safety incident＝severity rate

0.05

0.01

0.01

0002020

2021

2022

Total lost working hours
Total working hours(FY)

1,000*Source: The Ministr y of Health, Labour and Welfare

Initiatives between Management and Employees
A strong relationship based on mutual trust between management and employees is essential for building the workplaceenvironment where individual employee can make the best use of their capabilities, and maintain and improve highproductivity and motivation.
“KOITO Labor Union,” which consists of 3,878 KOITO employees, is a member of the “JAM Shizuoka.” In principle,
KOITO holds monthly labor-management meetings with KOITO Labor Union to discuss various issues such as businessperformance and labor conditions.
In addition, the labor union regularly conducts a union employee awareness survey on workplaces, operations andcareers targeting all union members. The labor union uses the ﬁndings to improve union activities and recommendations
to KOITO.

Respect for Human Rights
One of our management philosophies is to “stepping forward to realize our employeesʼ dreams,” and we declare in theKOITO Group Corporate Behavior Charter that “we will respect the human rights of all persons.”
By respecting human rights of all stakeholders while communicating with business partners, local communities andemployees, KOITO strives to be a company that is trusted by international society.
We provide employee education on respecting human rights as a part of compliance education. Training to address
speciﬁc issues, such as harassment training, is offered when necessary to raise every employeeʼs awareness on respecting
human rights.

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