| Provision of a safe and healthy work environment is a major requirement for achieving the material and intellectual growth of employees, as set out in the Management Rationale. Therefore, the Kyocera Group actively promotes safety and health alongside disaster prevention activities, while concentrating on building a corporate climate embodying the concept of "Safety First." |
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Approaches to Occupational Safety & Health / Fire & Disaster Prevention | OHSAS18001 Measures | Kyocera Group (Japan) Safety Record
Applying an Earthquake Early Warning System | Deployment of Kyocera Perfect 5S Promotion Activities |
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Approaches to Occupational Safety & Health / Fire & Disaster Prevention |
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To advance measures for occupational health and safety plus fire and disaster prevention, the Kyocera Group implements three-year promotion plans. Targets are clarified for each year, and diverse measures are being continuously deployed.
Completed in March 2011, the 6th Environment & Safety Promotion Plan (FY2009 to FY2011) produced definite progress in realizing a safe work environment in which employees can enjoy peace of mind. Advances included increasing numbers of personnel qualified in matters relating to safety and disaster, mental health promotion leading to reduction of work-leave, and strengthened standards and measures relating to storage and handling of dangerous materials. Furthermore, thorough analysis of work-related injuries and fire or explosive accidents over the past three years revealed various causes and contributing factors.
The 7th Environment & Safety Promotion Plan, commencing in April 2011, targets further revision of risk assessment. The Plan aims for reduction of work-related injury and eradication of fire and explosive accidents. This is to be achieved via training to improve leadership ability of people in charge, enhanced basic safety training for employees with less than five years in the company, implementation of concrete countermeasures appropriate for causes and contributing factors of accidents, and other steps. |
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In October 2005, the Shiga Gamo / Shiga Yohkaichi plants became the first facilities in Kyocera to receive OHSAS18001 certification. (Implementation of the OHSAS18001 standards began in April 2005.)
Thereafter, OHSAS18001 standards were progressively introduced in other companies. Today, almost all 127 Kyocera Group bases (Japan) have obtained certification.
Over the six years from April 2005 to March 2011, more than 50,000 hazard sources (pertaining to work practices, machinery or equipment) were registered, with improvements subsequently implemented.
From FY2012, our Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems are being revised and enhanced. Policy and goals are being detailed further. Among other measures, regulations relating to risk assessment are being revised to enable more effective identification of hazards that could lead to work-related injury. |
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Kyocera Group (Japan) Safety Record |
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In FY2011, the rate of absence from work due to work-related injury in the Kyocera Group (Japan) was 0.29% (Kyocera Corporation: 0.24%). The safety record was better than the overall safety records for the entire manufacturing industry and the electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing industry.
Kyocera will continue to analyze factors with potential for causing or increasing potential work-related injury and fire or explosive accidents, and consider concrete countermeasures. |
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Work-related injury absence rate: No. of injured / 1,000,000 hours |
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Calculation of no. of days' absence is based on standards used by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan). |
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Work-related injury absence rates produced by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare use calendar year data
(absent from work for 4 or more days) . |
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Work-related injury absence rates for Kyocera and the Kyocera Group (Japan) are based on fiscal year data.
(Absent from work for 4 or more days) |
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Applying an Earthquake Early Warning System |
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In an attempt to mitigate damage from a major earthquake, the Kyocera Group (Japan) has installed disaster warning systems in 50 plants, offices and sales offices. The systems use the Earthquake Early Warning system established by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Each facility receives a terminal with an internal seismograph corresponding to the Meteorological Agency's Earthquake Early Warning system. When an earthquake is about to strike, the terminals broadcast advance warning of the expected arrival time and magnitude throughout the facility. The system was put to use when the Great East Japan Earthquake struck on March 11, 2011. Employees received early warning and had time to take shelter.
Kyocera endeavors to minimize earthquake damage in other ways, through regular drills using the Earthquake Early Warning system, disaster prevention training for employees, disaster drills held with local fire stations, and other means. |
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Disaster drill (Kyocera Headquarters) |
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Deployment of Kyocera Perfect 5S
Promotion Activities |
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| The 5Ss (Seiri: Sort / Seiton: Set in Order / Seiso: Shine / Seiketsu: Sanitize / Shitsuke: Sustain) are at the heart of work. Kyocera Group efforts to implement the 5S system perfectly are called Perfect 5S Promotion Activities, and are being introduced globally. |
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| Promoting "Visibility" Activities |
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The emergence of product defects, work-related injury and other issues can be traced back to many latent problems in the workplace. To help prevent product defects and work-related injuries, the Kyocera Group is applying measures to raise the visibility of such problems, and share the information promptly with all concerned.
By promoting activities that raise the visibility of problems, Kyocera aims to heighten problem awareness. The goal is to establish a climate of awareness, as employees take increasing notice of issues in their workplace and take independent steps to effect improvements.
This has the benefit of strengthening capability on the workfloor, improving problem-solving ability as an organization, and attaining overall qualitative improvement of business.
The "Visibility" handbook was prepared in August 2010. This booklet contains a summary of concrete measures and examples from the production workfloor, where the benefits of such activities are significant. The handbook is distributed to leaders in the workplace, where it is used to promote further "visibility" activity on the workfloor. |
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