Workplace Environment, Health & Safety

Health and Safety

Basic Policy

Having established an occupational health and safety policy, Alps Alpine endeavors to create workplaces where all employees can work in safety and in good physical and mental health.

Occupational Health and Safety Policy

Alps Alpine aims for a corporate culture that promotes health and safety, encouraging communication among colleagues in a workforce where everyone plays a role in occupational health and safety activities and ensuring compliance with related laws, ordinances, requests and requirements.

  1. We strive to prevent work-related accidents through the realization of workplace environments where employees feel safe working because recurrence prevention measures are fully implemented and hazard sources are eliminated.
  2. We aim to promote healthy body and healthy mind maintenance by pursuing companywide health and productivity management in partnership with the health insurance association.

Promotion Structure

Alps Alpine has in place a Central Health and Safety Conference with the vice president in charge of administration as the person in charge. The conference sets policy and advances activities relating to health and safety, health promotion, fire prevention and traffic safety. The conference also reports regularly to the Board of Directors and, whenever a serious accident occurs, brings the matter up with the Board of Directors and works to identify the causes and prevent a recurrence.
Overseas, each base carries out its own activities.

Promotion Structure

Response to Work-Related Accidents

Alps Alpine pursues activities with a goal of zero serious work-related accidents (e.g. work-related accidents resulting in death).

[Targets and Results]

FY2023 target FY2022 result
No. of serious accidents (consolidated) 0 0
No. of occupational accidents (parent-only) down 10% year on year increase +45% year on year (FY21 11、FY22 16)
No. of commuting accidents (parent-only) down 10% year on year increase +54% year on year (FY21 13、FY22 20)

[Major Activities in Fiscal 2022]

  • Conducted internal legal compliance assessment and implemented corrective or preventive measures when problems were found
  • Visited workplaces and conducted occupational safety risk assessments; implemented measures for minimizing occupational accident risks in workplaces
  • Implemented occupational health and safety education; encouraged prevention by communicating near-miss case examples
  • Held road safety courses and implemented safe driving education

[Serious Work-Related Accidents in FY2022]

No accidents resulting in death or serious work-related accidents resulting in a long-term disability occurred in fiscal 2022. In Japan, the number of work-related accidents caused by a fall or other such event increased. Overseas, there was an increase in accidents that occurred while engaging in unfamiliar tasks. This was due to the introduction of new equipment and a high job separation rate. We will continue efforts to fully implement recurrence prevention measures and reduce hazard sources.

Unit FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 Scope
No. of work-related accidents case 47 36 65 Consolidated
case 0 4 7 Non-Consolidated
Frequency rate % 0.00 0.28 0.49 Non-Consolidated
Manufacturing Frequency Percentage Average (Domestic Electrical Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing) % 0.52 0.54 0.53 Japan
Severity rate % 0.018 0.032 0.001 Non-Consolidated
Number of serious accidents case 0 0 0 Consolidated

* Lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR): Number of casualties due to occupational accidents (one or more days lost from work) / Total number of working hours x 1,000,000

Management System Introduction

The Alps Alpine Group has adopted ISO 45001, an international occupational health and safety management system standard, and we have been acquiring certification primarily at production sites. In keeping with these systems, we work continually to reduce and manage health and safety risks through risk assessments while managing compliance with laws and regulations. As of May 2023, 66.6% of production facilities were certified globally. Currently, six out of nine bases in Japan are certified.

Health and Productivity Management

Basic Policy

In April 2021, Alps Alpine formulated its Declaration of Health and Productivity Management. Based on the belief that managing the health of our employees is an important management priority, we actively promote health and productivity management. Specific health and productivity management measures include regular health checkups and stress checks as well as efforts to increase the ratio of employees provided with special health guidance.

Declaration of Health and Productivity Management

Alps Alpine regards the well-being of its employees and their families as a foundation for realizing its Corporate Philosophy, “Alps Alpine innovates value for humans and society on a brighter planet.” We are committed to creating safe and comfortable work environments while contributing to improving the mental and physical wellbeing of each individual.

Hideo Izumi
Representative Director, President

Promotion Structure

In fiscal 2022, we launched the Health and Productivity Management Working Group to accelerate our efforts in cooperation with industrial physicians, health management staff, and health insurance societies at our sites in Japan to help workers lead active and fulfilling lives at work and in their private lives.

Promotion Structure

[Targets and Results]

FY2023 target FY2022 result
Smoking rate 2% down from previous year (by 2025, reduce to at least 20%) FY2022: 24%
Stress check health risk Percentage of workplaces with total score above 100 down
10% from previous year (by 2025, down 30%)
FY2022: 33%

Main Activities in FY2022

Specific health guidance implementation rate improvement Health management personnel at each site and the health insurance association collaborated to achieve 63% implementation, well exceeding the 50% target for FY2022.
Expansion of mental health measures Self-care and line care education and training programs were visualized and partially shared. As a result, companywide training for all employees was implemented five times in FY2022, up from one time. The content was also strengthened.
Employee health management system strengthening Health management personnel from different sites joined forces to establish a system to ensure continuity of health management when persons who handle specified chemical substances transfer between sites.

Physical Health

Walk Rallies Twice a year, including at the time of health checkup, when our employees are most concerned about their health, a walking rally is jointly held with the health insurance union as part of efforts to encourage employees to establish good exercise habits.
Reduction of Passive Smoking The Company is working to prohibit smoking at all of its facilities in order to protect employees from the risk of passive smoking. We had initially targeted a complete prohibition by 2025, but this target was later rolled forward to 2022 during which we accomplished this target. At the same time, we continue to offer financial support to employees seeking clinical assistance to stop smoking.
Health-Conscious Cafeteria Menus Our employee cafeterias promote health awareness through food by clearly indicating the calorie and salt content of each menu item, offering a choice of rice portions, offering healthy menu items that reduce the use of salt and oil, providing health information about food on table-top signage, and encouraging the use of meal health apps.

Mental Health

Self-care education Self-care education is implemented to give employees the ability to quickly notice anything different from their normal selves and cope at the outset.
Line care training Managers receive education on mental health matters to allow early discovery and response to issues their employees might be dealing with.
EAP Employees have opportunities to talk with a counselor about establishing ways to deal with any mental health issues or fatigue, as well as improving communication with colleagues and supervisors. Full-time counselors are on-hand at all business locations.
Stress check implementation and use Effort is made to raise employee awareness and encourage self-care, for example by following up on mandatory stress checks with emails helping employees learn from the results and recommending EAP* or health room consultation.

*EAP: Employee Assistance Program

COVID-19 Response

The Alps Alpine Group set up a crisis task force to respond to COVID-19. All bases in Japan have introduced safety confirmation systems and all employees report information such as temperature readings and incidence of close contact online each morning. Other measures include changes to the internal layout of company premises to prevent the 3Cs (closed spaces, crowded places and close-contact settings) and encouraging employees to work from home and conduct meetings online. At the same time, we place importance on looking after the mental well-being of employees working from home, routinely communicating news related to health management and enabling online access to EAP* consultation services. In addition, COVID-19 workplace vaccinations were provided for employees and their families at three bases in Japan in July 2021 and March 2023.

*EAP: Employee Assistance Program

Workplace vaccinations in progress

Workplace vaccinations in progress

[FY2022 Results of Health Maintenance and Promotion Efforts]

FY2020 FY2021 FY2022
Smoking rate 27% 25% 24%
No-smoking challenge success rate 60% 84% 80%
Stress check implementation rate 97% 96% 95%
Regular health check rate 100% 100% 99%
Specific health guidance implementation rate 16% 21% 63%
Metabolic syndrome observation rate 20% 20% 21%

Alps Alpine Recognized as Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization for Four Years in a Row

Alps Alpine has been recognized as an outstanding enterprise engaging in efforts for health and productivity management within the large enterprise category of the Certified Health & Productivity Management Organization Recognition Program run by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi*.
The program recognizes large enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, and other organizations making outstanding efforts in health and productivity management in line with health-related challenges in communities or health-conscious activities led by the Nippon Kenko Kaigi.
Positioning employee health maintenance and promotion as an important theme for management, Alps Alpine will continue to act proactively in this area.

Alps Alpine Recognized as Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization for Four Years in a Row