Safety

Through our “Safety First” culture, we focus on
keeping everyone safe and continually improving
our working environments.
As a manufacturer of semiconductor and flat panel display (FPD) production equipment, TEL places
the highest priority on the safety of everyone involved in its operations. Our objectives include
providing safe products, continually improving the working environments, educating them about
safety, and eliminating workplace accidents.
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Highlights
TCIR*

Percentage of employees
completing basic and advanced
safety refresher training

0.21

100

* Total Case Incident Rate (thenumber of workplace accidents
per 200,000 work hours.)％

Goals and results for fiscal year 2016
ThemeGoals

Results

Appropriately address equipment
safety compliance requirements
through customer request for quotation (RFQ) process.
●Develop knowledge and skills ofproduct safety engineers.
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Verify safety compliance of newly
developed equipment.
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Productsafety

Comply with local safety laws andregulations in a timely manner.

Responded to customer inquiries on specifications of emergency stop, material safety standards, remote operations,etc.
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Expanded service areas of product safety engineers to extend safety support.
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Continued safety compliance support for evaluation equipment.
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Attained a 38% reduction in TCIR.
Number of incidents that could lead to serious injury: 12 infiscal year 2016 compared to 8 in fiscal year 2014 (figures include incidents that did not result in serious injury or disease).
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Conducted safety monitoring and new fab safety checks
globally.
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Disseminated preventive measures through Global Safety
Council, Field Safety Council, Manufacturing Company Presidents’ Council, etc.
●Reduce Total Case Incident Rate(TCIR) by 38% over fiscal year 2014.
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Reduce incidents that could lead toserious injury by 50% over fiscal year2014.
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Continue safety patrols, new fab
safety checks, and dissemination of
preventive measures.
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Accident
prevention

Prevent accidents. If accidents
occur, perform root cause analysis
and share this information toprevent similar accidents.

Safetyeducation

Improve overall safety skills throughpractical training, etc.

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Provide basic and advanced safety refresher training to all employees.
Provide web-based accident prevention training to over 15,000 employees (cumulative).

Implement the PDCA continual
improvement cycle through theglobal EHS Council and through eachcompany’s Safety Council.
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Check and revise safety activities in all
TEL companies.

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Provided basic and advanced safety refresher training to all
employees globally.
Provided web-based accident prevention training to 47,000
employees (cumulative).

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Safetymanagement

Clarify policies and set organizationalframework for sustainability program.

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Evaluated the current situation of safety at TEL and implemented remedies and improvements through the global EHSCouncil.

Framework
Increasing the safety awareness of individual workers is crucial
for providing worksites where everyone can work safely. To
fully support our “Safety First” culture, TEL has established theequipment safety promotion meeting and the work safety promotion meeting under the supervision of the EHS council. The
equipment safety promotion meeting revises TEL’s design rules
based on international laws and local regulations for equipment safety. It also determines TEL’s compliance with new
regulations and administers corrective measures. The worksafety promotion meeting investigates work safety issues atcustomer sites and TEL Group locations and implements appropriate remedies. These meetings also examine incidents involving
personal injury or property damage, determine whether the incidents were caused by equipment trouble or other work-related
factors, and take measures to ensure similar incidents do notoccur in the future.

Representative Director, President & CEO

Senior Executive Vice President, General Manager,
Development & Production Division
Development & Production Division
Manufacturing companies presidents’council

EHS councilEquipment
safetypromotion
meetingWorksafetypromotion
meeting

Product
environment
value
meeting

Product
environment
compliance
meeting

Operation
environment
value
meeting

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Safety
Improving employee safety
Initiatives for safety improvement
To ensure the safety of its employees, customers, and all others involved in its operations, TEL places astrong focus on preventing work-related accidents.
At each TEL factory and office, monthly safety and health committee meetings are held to discuss safety
monitoring and to manage any workplace safety or employee health issues. In addition, representatives
from appropriate departments monitor safety performance at least once a month at each manufacturingsite as part of an overall systematic effort to solve problems at their sites.
Also, TEL has implemented a management system based on OHSMS1 to identify and analyze potential
workplace hazards. The knowledge obtained from this system is shared throughout TEL. Before starting
work, all workers discuss the risks involved and the required actions to prevent mistakes. The group leader
oversees the work at all times to eliminate any unsafe conditions or behavior that could lead to accidents.
In addition, whenever employees perceive that workplace safety is at risk due to lack of preparation or an
unplanned event, they are encouraged to stop work and implement any needed corrective action. Additionally, safety managers regularly give advice on how to manage hazards, further raising worker safety
awareness.
As a result of these initiatives, the TCIR (Total Case Incident Rate) improved from 0.24 to 0.21.

1 OHSMS: Occupational Healthand Safety Management System. A management system
to reduce the potential risk ofwork-related accidents andimprove the overall level ofsafety and occupational health.
Based on the policy set by senior management, a series of
PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act)
processes for safety and occupational health management isdrawn up and implemented on
the employees’ own initiative.

Safety education
To improve employee safety awareness, TEL provides a wide variety of web-based training.
In fiscal year 2016, TEL provided basic safety refresher training to all employees. Advanced safety refresher training was also provided. This advanced training used actual incidents as learning examples with a goalof preventing similar incidents from happening again.
To eliminate accidents, TEL also provides risk assessment training and 13 additional web-based training
courses2 (statistically proven to be effective) at offices and factories worldwide. TEL also provides safety
information to suppliers as part of ongoing activities to prevent accidents.

Response to workplace accidents
When a workplace accident occurs, TEL analyzes the cause, or causes, and takes appropriate countermeasures. In addition to the principal cause, further causes are also identified through multi-faceted analyses ofthe state of injured persons , facilities, environment, co-workers, and the actual work. The results are sharedwith the entire company through safety promotion meetings and other forums to prevent recurrence.
Workplace accidents that could lead to serious injuries are classified as critical workplace accidents, andtheir circumstances, causes, and remedies must be reported to the executive in charge. When concern ishigh, the accident is also reported to the President. Information about these accidents is shared at the global EHS council meetings to ensure organization-wide prevention efforts.

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2 Web-based training courses focus on 13 themes: preventing
equipment confusion; preventing falls from openings; stop work
authority (SWA); preventing being caught in a drive unit; preventing work-related back pain;
pointing and calling; preventing exposure to liquid chemicals;
work safety rules; detailed worksafety instructions; rules for accident reporting; assessing risks;measures against ergonomic incidents; and criteria for SWA.

Improving customer safety
Giving assurance to customers
Because TEL’s products often require the use of hazardous chemicals and high voltage electricity, TEL provides the relevant safety information to customers.
All products supplied by TEL come with a standard TEL Safety and Environmental Guidelines manual. Thismanual describes the risks associated with the use of TEL products by category, such as chemical, electrical,mechanical, and ergonomic, together with the methods for averting those risks. The manual also describes
the safety measures built into the products and the recommended methods of product disposal. The manual is prepared in 10 languages including Japanese, English, five EU languages1, and three additional Asianlanguages2 to ensure the content is understood by a wide range of customers. Also, each product comeswith a manual detailing the procedures for avoiding product-specific risks and securing safe operation andmaintenance, thus providing an additional safeguard for customers.
TEL also assists customers in learning how to operate and maintain the equipment. Our training centerslocated in Japan and abroad offer practical skills training for TEL equipment. TEL also provides on-site training at customer sites.
When we deliver our products to new customer plants and production lines, we check the facilities,
equipment, and workplace safety standards beforehand, as dictated by internal TEL rules. This process allows TEL to resolve any safety concerns and secure a safe working environment.

1 EU languages: German, French,
Italian, Dutch, Russian
2 Asian languages: Korean, Chinese (traditional characters),
Chinese (simplified characters)

Improving product safety
Initiatives for improving work safety
Taking the entire product life cycle into consideration, TEL carries out product risk assessments as earlyas possible in the development phase. Based on the assessment results, TEL implements intrinsically safe
equipment design3 to reduce the risks posed to humans. TEL also examines and ensures compliance withchanging laws and regulations around the globe, abiding by all safety regulations of the regions where ourequipment is shipped, and allowing inspections by safety certification organizations as required.

3 Safe equipment design: Innovative machinery designs eliminatescauses of machinery-related
hazards posed to humans.

Safety education
In recent years, it has become increasingly important for TEL to ensure compliance with international safety
standards and guidelines early in the equipment design and development processes. Since fiscal year 2008,
TEL has been offering its engineers web-based training on safe equipment design. Through risk assessment
exercises and examples of actual accidents, the participants acquire basic safety knowledge for equipment
design. In fiscal year 2016, we revised the education program using updated information, including new
safety standards. In addition to the training for design engineers, we are also promoting equipment safety
education for all workers in areas such as manufacturing, start-up, service, and off-site logistics. This allows
these employees to apply the knowledge to the handling of equipment as well as assist in the developmentof safer equipment. For fiscal year 2017, lectures and training by outside experts are also being planned.

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