Social Report

Health and Safety
Health and safety are corporate social responsibilities and the basis for a comfortable work environment.
We are supporting Health and Safety in every aspect of our corporate activities by giving high priority to the health of
our employees and customers, and ensuring the safety of our equipment.

For the Safety of Everyone

Handling of Accident Reports

Based on our view of the importance of Health and Safety, we

Any accident involving TEL employees is reported to our head-

have integrated these ideals into our management philosophy. TELquarters. When the accident report is received, the seriousness ofthinks that the good health and safety of our employees, customers

the incident is judged based on a set of criteria (human injury,and all the people involved in our corporate activities are one of ourfire/explosion, gas/chemical leak, degree of damage to the customer,social responsibilities as a company and a policy that translates intoetc.) Accidents with a strong element of urgency are reported to top

good business. In other words, the safety of people, equipment andmanagement and TEL companies immediately.

facilities must never be compromised by profits, delivery date dead-The following graph indicates the frequency rate of accidents, notlines or time limitations.

including first aid case accidents. It reveals a lower figure for the entire
TEL than electric machinery manufacturing industry average in Japan.

In addition, in order to convey our view on this topic to customers
and a wide range of other stakeholders, we have printed a brochure,

Number of Accident and Frequency Rate

“Introducing Safety First Culture(Number of accidents)

Awareness.”

Manufacturing industry average in Japan
Electric machinery manufacturingindustry average in Japan
TEL100

1.02

0.97

0.98

0.984841
0.38

0.34

0.36

0.18

0.15
03

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01020.2404* Frequency rate: Number of occupational accidents per one million labor hours
Number of accidents that required the employee to miss work
for more than 4 days/total labor hours x 1,000,000* Number of accident injuries in FY 2001 is considered to be 100

The “Introducing Safety First
Culture Awareness”

TOPICSRequiring personal protective equipment (helmet and inner helmet, safety glasses and safety shoes)
In order to prevent accident injuries, it is important to formulate
danger reduction strategies ahead of time through safe design ofequipment and improved work procedures based on risk assessments.
However, there are some cases where employees are exposed to
unexpected dangers; namely those encountered by producing andinstalling large-sized new equipment in special areas such as clean
rooms. In order to prevent accidents and minimize damage, TEL
encourages wearing protection gear while working at TEL’s manufacturing

plants as well as customer sites. Apart from the conventional helmet
used for the head, an inner helmet is worn inside clean suits. We
actively encourage safety/protection glasses be worn to protect theeyes and safety shoes for the clean room be worn to protecting thetoes. As a result, the number of incidents of injury resulting in cuts tothe head, or damage to the eyes or toes is decreasing.

Incidents of Head Injury over the Past Four Years* FY 2001 is set to be 100
100
10080

9080

6070 percent
reduction

40
2030
Safety glasses

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Safety shoes forclean rooms

Inner helmet

Product Safety
1) Risk assessment2) Compliance (SEMI S2 & CE Marking)All of our products are tested prior to shipment using our own

In order to secure the safety of the equipment we sell, TEL has

risk assessment criteria based on SEMI standards. At the time of theadopted the SEMI S2 standard, a semiconductor industry safety stan-completion of the product, people including designers, equipment

dard, for producing our equipment. Furthermore, to demonstrate ourmaintenance service specialists and others gather to identify thelevel of safety, TEL has third parties perform inspections and cer-dangerous areas of and evaluate the risk of the product. There aretifications for SEMI S2 standards. For exports to European regions,many risk assessment methods, such as SEMI S10, EN-1050 and

we declare that we are in compliance with the CE Marking EuropeanLACS, and we keep taking countermeasures and evaluating thesafety standards outlined in EU directives and apply a CE Mark on ourequipment until it is deemed safe. We have recently started perform-products prior to shipping. This compliance declaration can only being risk assessments at the design and development phase with theexecuted when it is reviewed and approved by the CE Marking review

aim of building safe equipment.

team, our in-house auditing body.

SEMI S-10 Risk Ranking Matrix
LikelyRisk Ranking
MatrixFrequent
A

LikelyB

Possible
CRare
D

UnlikelyE
Equipment CE Mark seal

Severity

Catastrophic 1
Severe2Moderate3

Minor4

Risk Assessment Categories (RAC)
5Very High4High3

Medium2Low

1Very Low

CE Mark approved equipment

TOPICS
Product EHS Training for Sales Representatives
TEL has distributed and publishes the “Product EHS Handbook
for Sales People,” which summarizes product EHS knowledge relevant to equipment for sales representatives. Basic knowledge about EHS
for existing equipment is essential forsales representatives to be able todiscuss EHS specification needs withplants in order for new equipment tobe developed. We have also executedtraining for all sales representatives
so that they can effectively use thishandbook. The actual contents of thetraining book includes complianceand industry required items, explanaCover page of Producttions for product EHS requested by
EHS Handbook

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customers, RFQ (Request for Quotation) handling, understanding ofproduct EHS for sales representatives and providing feedback on
product EHS design.

Sales representative training

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