Occupational Safety

The Central Safety and Health Committee sets the EBARA Group’s overall policy and companywide safety and health plan. Safety and health plans are then created by each in-house company, each group company, and progress is checked and managed through the Plan-Do-Check-Action (PDCA) cycle. Matters deliberated by the Central Safety and Health Committee are reported to the President, Representative Executive Officer and Sustainability Committee, which is attended voluntarily by the directors and overseen by the Board. The entire company is committed to continuous improvement to eradicate occupational accidents and promote health management.

The Central Safety and Health Committee formulates the overall policy and companywide plans based on the results of the discussions held every month by The Safety and Health Promotion Council. The Safety and Health Promotion Council is composed of members selected from each organization, and they identify issues of high priority. These issues are then worked on in-depth by working groups organized under the Council.

Additionally, the President and in-house company presidents hold monthly meetings under the Safety Promotion Project to share information regarding accidents that have occurred throughout the Group, including to non-employee workers, and to share information regarding progress on measures, etc., in order to take prompt action to prevent recurrence or similar accidents.

A specialized organization has also been newly established to link the meeting bodies and promote information sharing and horizontal deployment of prevention measures on a global scale.

Finally, every business site has its own safety and health committee, or other venue as legally required, established to ensure labor and management can share constructive discussions regarding safety and health strategies and initiatives.

In 2023, we launched a safety promotion project increasing the involvement of top-level management in safety and health management. Division executives now report and share information regarding occupational accidents with all executive officers, fostering awareness of common issues in Japan and overseas.

Additionally, to support the success of human resources, enabling all to work with peace of mind, we will establish a new specialized organization to promote occupational safety with the Human Resources Division in 2024, develop group and global reporting lines, and promote horizontal deployment of information sharing and recurrence prevention by systemically connecting all meeting bodies related to occupational safety. We will foster an even more sophisticated culture of safety in the EBARA Group.

EBARA conducts safety patrols internally on a daily basis at workplaces. We also conduct risk assessment activities through on-site patrols by third party industrial safety consultants and experienced plant managers to check for industrial accident risks as well as the status and effectiveness of countermeasures for unsafe conditions or behaviors at plant sites.

Risks identified are immediately assessed on site, priorities are discussed, improvement plans are formulated, and countermeasures are implemented.

After about three months, we conduct on-site inspections to confirm the implementation of countermeasures and manage any remaining risks.

We conduct a global safety awareness survey (safety culture assessment) of all employees working in the EBARA Group and contractors stationed in the plants. We use the results of this assessment to understand the current state of safety awareness and identify areas needing improvement. We then develop and implement our safety and health plan.

We will continue to foster a culture of safety in the EBARA Group and strive to eradicate accidents.

EBARA monitors its safety performance using Lost Time Incident Rate (LTIR) and Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) as indicators, and develops and implements safety and health plans based on reaching reduction targets.

By FY2025, we aim to reduce LTIR to 0.00 and reduce TRIR by 50% from the FY2022 level.

We compare performance against industry standards. In Japan, LTIR compares favorably with the average LTIR for the manufacturing industry published by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

All occupational accidents that occur in the EBARA Group, including those involving contractors, are addressed by the organization in charge of safety and health at each worksite (e.g., the Safety and Health Committee or other organization). In parallel, the Safety Promotion Project supervises the progress of countermeasures from management’s viewpoint to ensure prompt response to prevent recurrence of similar accidents.

Follow-up on the implementation status and effectiveness of countermeasures is also conducted during monthly on-site inspection patrols to prevent similar accidents from occurring or recurring, to bring us closer to the elimination of all occupational accidents/incidents.