EH S R E P OR T

Health and Safety

Health and Safety
The Tokyo Electron Group promotes a variety of measures to contribute to the healthand workplace safety of everyone associated with the Group.

Our Approach to the Safety of All■ Injury accident classification

As part of our CSR activities, the TEL Group places a great

11%emphasis, on the health and safety of its customers,

4%

employees, and everyone else involved in our business, in

Ergonomics-related
Bruises
Lacerations
Falls
Exposure to liquids
Other35%

11%

order to contribute to workplace safety, safe products, andFY2009

the healthy lives of our stakeholders.

14%

Ten years have passed since the TEL Group, in

25%

December 1999, added a section entitled “Health, Safety,and Environment” to its management philosophy, based on
our belief in the crucial importance of health and safety.
And that belief remains a key aspect of our EHS activities.
We also believe that dealing with the issues of health,

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safety, and the global environment leads to positive
business results. Our commitment to profit and delivery
times should never take precedence over human life or thesafety of our facilities andequipment. In order to for all of■ Frequency of Occupational Accidents andNumber of Injury Accidents(Number of injury accidents)(Frequency)
1.95 1.90
1.83 1.75
1.77 1.78 1.85
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43
41
39
37
1.12
1.09
0.98 0.98 0.99 1.01 1.02
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23
20

our stakeholders, including

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customers, to gain a better
understanding of that concept,

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and of the Tokyo Electron Group’s
approach to safety, we havecreated a booklet entitled “SafetyFirst Initiative” and have been
Safety-First Initiative
bookletdistributing it to our stakeholders.

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0.39

0.40

0.39

0.32

0.24
’04

’05

’06

0.37

0.39

0.18

0.19

’07

’08

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0.29
’09

0.0(FY)

Number of injury accidents that occurred in the TEL Group
Average for all industry accidents in Japan
Average for Japan’s manufacturing industry
Japan’s electromechanical manufacturing industry
Target for the number of injury accidents
TEL Group
Note: The number of injury accidents is shown, taking the number in FY2001 as100.
Frequency of occupational accidents: based on the number ofoccupational accidents per one million labor hours

Preventing Accidents
In FY2009, the TEL Group achieved a 18% year-on-year
decline in the number of injury-related accidents (excluding

Safety Education
Since July 2000, the TEL Group has been promoting theminor accidents), due in part to the decline in sales andconcept of safety education throughout the entire Group.

product shipments compared to the previous year,

For example, we have created a textbook for Groupalthough this result fell short of the goal of a 30% year-on-employees that is used as a tool for conducting basic safety

year reduction. An analysis of the injury-related accidents

education; and we provide more advanced safety educationthat occurred in FY2009 revealed that a large percentage offor our technical employees, such as those who work inaccidents and minor injuries were related to ergonomics,

cleanrooms. Our educational efforts make use of the SEAJ

so the focus in FY2010 will be on preventing those cases.

recommended service safety training textbook, created byIn Focus

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Placing of Environment and Safety Idea Box
With the goal of incorporating employees’ ideas into future environmental and safety initiatives, weplaced Environment and Safety Idea Boxes and encouraged all employees to submit theirenvironment- and safety-related suggestions. The suggestions, which were made during a period
limited to three months, were submitted anonymously to ensure that employees would be able toprecisely describe problems. Many suggestions were received, spanning a wide range of topics,
from ideas on improving the workplace environment (related to air conditioning, etc.) to thoseconcerning methods for safely transporting heavy objects. The suggestions that employees made about conserving
resources and energy at the workplace, and making the workplace more comfortable, were very valuable, and will beincorporated into our future environmental and safety activities.

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performed near large openings in the floor and in highplaces as well as work involving heavy lifting. Furthermore,

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safety seminars in order to prevent accidents during workin the case of accidents that cannot be easily describedthrough words or illustrations, we are employing 3D virtual
reality technology to realistically reproduce a visual imageof workplace accidents, thereby providing an overview of
the accident, its cause, and the sequence of communicationthat took place. In this way, trainees can see, hear, and feel
Advanced safety education

the actual measures that were implemented. We are alsoplanning to share these accident descriptions and(SEAJ); follow that textbook’s guidelines; and include

statistical data with others in the industry. We believe thathands-on training during the first educational session. In

these activities will lead to improved safety awarenessthe case of the SEAJ guidelines the training received iswithin the industry as a whole, while also fostering avalid for three years, whereas the TEL Group divides theworkplace where engineers working at worksites

educational content into three separate sessions that arethroughout the world will be able to work safely andconducted online every year. We are aiming to raise the risk

comfortably, thereby fulfilling one of the TEL Group’s CSR-awareness of those attending the course and provide them

related tasks.

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with content that is useful for their everyday work
situations by including case studies of accidents or nearmisses that have occurred within the Group. Conducting
them at their convenience; and since their progress incompleting the course can also be tracked online,
supervisors can easily verify that the employees required to

Virtual reality image

take the courses are actually doing so. We are alsoplanning to include hands-on sessions in the courses.

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the safety courses online allows our employees to takeLearning from Past Accidents
In order to prevent the reoccurrence of accidents, the TELGroup provides an illustrated summary of past accidents

Accident
Summary
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that have occurred within the Group. The Japanese andEnglish versions of the summary are distributed toemployees and also made available in our intranet to beshared globally within the Group. The summary is also
being used as a safety education tool for various types ofIn Focus

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Promoting Health through Walking
As part of its effort to prevent lifestyle-related illnesses, the Tokyo Electron Health Insurance Society (HIS) is encouraging
employees in Japan, as well as their spouses and parents, to participate in a walking program. Participants set their own
goals, with a total of 600,000 steps or more in a 90-day period as the general guideline. Using pedometers provided by theHIS, they can record their daily step counts and report the total to HIS. Those who achieve 600,000 steps receive a prize. InFY2009, 2,252 people participated, of whom 71% achieved the 600,000-step goal.
Positive feedback was received from the participants, with comments such as: “The program motivated me to walk everyday”; or: “Using the pedometer to record my progress helped me adopt a lifestyle that is more focused on health.”25