Health and Safety Programs

Basic Approach

The Hitachi High-Tech Group is committed to maintaining and improving health and safety management standards, such as the enhancement of health management and prevention of work-related accidents for all employees (including employees of other organizations who perform work under the management of business sites, contractors, and others) involved in all business activities at all business sites and in all business organizations that make up those business sites based on the Hitachi Group's health and safety policy, Health and Safety Always Comes First, with the formula S (Safety) >> Q (Quality) > D (Delivery) > C (Cost). With regard to measures against large-scale disasters, we regularly identify risks in the same manner as workplace safety patrols and business site safety inspections and take advance measures to minimize damage.

Organization

At Hitachi High-Tech, the status and results of activities relating to health and safety including those at Group companies are periodically reported to the Board of Directors, and information on management conditions is shared.
The officer responsible for health and safety management makes proposals on matters to be undertaken throughout the Group and matters that require an immediate response, and Group-wide health and safety measures are undertaken throughout the Group with the approval of management.

At Hitachi High-Tech, we hold a Group Health and Safety Conference each half-year for the people responsible for the promotion of health and safety in the workplace, led by the officer responsible for health and safety (CHRO*/CRO* , Vice President and Executive Officer Yosuke Sakurai), so that we can improve health and safety activities and the level of health and safety throughout the Group. The officer responsible for health and safety acts as the chair of the conference. If it is determined that there have been any major accidents or that there are notable issues with safety management, the workplace in question will be designated as a priority safety management workplace, and we will ensure that reforms are implemented swiftly, in accordance with the standards related to the priority safety management designation system. We also investigate and deliberate on matters relating to disaster prevention and health management at each workplace, and to make improvements, the Hitachi High-Tech health and safety committee actively conducts measures including risk assessments and the implementation of intrinsic safety* in production equipment, primarily at our manufacturing sites. By operating the Hitachi Health and Safety Management System, which is compliant with ISO 45001, we undertake voluntary and systematic measures that cover all persons who work under our organizational management or engage in activities relating to work (including the employees of cooperating companies, contractors, and temporary workers).

Performance Data

Hitachi High-Tech along with Group companies undertakes various safety measures with a target of zero occupational accidents. In 2024, the total number of disasters across the group was 25 (including one resulting in work stoppage), showing an increasing trend with 14 more cases compared to 2023.
In addition to taking measures intended to prevent accidents, we implement a cross-department approval that includes comply with and requiring compliance with set rules, creating mechanisms and conducting education that allows each individual including subcontractors to act with an awareness of safety. Furthermore, we will continue to reinforce measures and implement thorough safety management to raise safety awareness and completely eliminate occupational accidents by fostering a health and safety culture and climate and sharing best practices through safety inspections at manufacturing sites, which was launched in FY2019.

Occurrences of Occupational Accidents

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(Scope: consolidated Group companies in Japan)

Lost-time Incident Rate

Initiatives

To improve the standard of health and safety activities throughout the Group, we have established the High-Tech Group Health and Safety Liaison Committee. This committee helps to revitalize Group-wide health and safety activities through presentations introducing examples of health and safety initiatives at each Group company, and the exchange of opinions on measures to address common Group-wide issues.

As with our safety activities, we proactively undertake Group-wide disaster risk reduction activities. During regular evacuation drills, we confirm the safety of employees who come to work and those who work at home, and we also conduct regular drills to confirm the locations of fire hydrants and fire extinguishers and how to use them. In addition, we are working to raise awareness of disaster preparedness and establish systems that will enable employees to act autonomously in the event of a disaster.
We have also set up in-house fire brigades at each manufacturing base. These conduct regular firefighting drills to ensure that they are prepared for any unforeseen situations.

To prevent occupational accidents, the Group has the Health and Safety Committee members at each workplace convey communications to, and educate all employees on occupational health and safety issues a regular basis.. In particular, we conduct safety-focused training at each organizational level, as well as education and drills tailored to each organization and business type, for line managers and safety staff and for workers engaged in specific hazardous activities in the field. In addition, we provide individual guidance to new hires and temporary workers who may be unused to the work or environment, as they are at a higher risk of injury. We perform this education and training through on-the-job training after education and training to increase awareness and understanding of work procedures and dangers before engaging in work

All Group employees in Japan are members of the Hitachi Health Insurance Society.
In addition, periodic health examinations are conducted once a year, and we appropriately manage the health examinations by recommending employees to take the examinations. Additionally, for employees age 35 and older, we recommend and promote comprehensive medical examinations that include statutory health examinations, as well as screenings for specific body parts according to their age, to aid in the early detection and treatment of lifestyle diseases and cancers.

We aim to be a company "trusted" by all stakeholders, leveraging each individual's "power of knowledge" to accurately understand the true challenges of society and our customers, continuously provide solutions, and contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.
To achieve this, we consider each employee's "health and safety" as the foundation of management and strive to realize well-being, enabling all employees to lead fulfilling lives both at work and in their personal lives, with sound physical and mental health, brightness, and vitality.

President and Chief Executive Officer Yoshimitsu Takagi

In promoting health management, we created a "Health Management Strategy Map" that clearly outlines the story of identifying health issues and what measures will be implemented to address and solve those issues.

Based on our vision of improving employee wellbeing and corporate value, we believe it is important for each and every employee to recognize the importance of mental and physical health, and to improve their health literacy and practice healthy behaviors.
In order to achieve this, we have set KPIs for “increasing the percentage of employees undergoing specific health guidance” and, because the percentage of employees with mental illness who took time off from work has been increasing yearly, “reducing the percentage of employees with mental illness who took time off from work.” We are taking the following initiatives to address these challenges.

• Mental health measures (care for high-stress individuals through stress checks, promotion of measures to improve the workplace environment through stress check results briefings and training for line managers, interviews with industrial physicians for employees who work long hours, establishment of internal and external hotlines, implementation of seminars on mental health measures, etc.)
• Measures to prevent lifestyle-related diseases and improve health (collaborative health care with health insurance societies, establishment of health consultation hotlines, promotion of specific health checkups and specific health guidance, implementation of walking events, and smoking cessation programs)
• Measures to promote workstyle improvement (promotion of annual paid leave use [setting recommended annual leave days] and annual leave use targets, promotion of time efficiency through use of flextime, and promotion of work-life balance through use of teleworking systems)

Hitachi High-Tech was recognized as a 2025 Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization in the large enterprise category under a program administered by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Nippon Kenko Kaigi. This is the eighth consecutive year that the company has received this certification, and this year, seven other Group companies in Japan received certification for a total of eight companies throughout the Group.
In addition, we actively used telework systems including working from home, strictly enforce no overtime days, curtail work-related email at night and on days off, encourage employees to take paid leave, and implement other workstyle reforms to enhance employees’ work-life balance so that we can create environments where employees can work comfortably and achieve well-balanced methods of work.
Our group thoroughly implements S (Safety) >> Q (Quality) > D (Delivery) > C (Cost), prioritizes workplace safety and the health maintenance and promotion of each employee, introduces a safety and health management system (compliant with ISO45001), focuses on reducing risks in high-risk operations and preventing disasters before they occur, and in health management, promotes initiatives to reduce the proportion of high-stress individuals in the stress check system to below 10%, and strives to prevent diseases and improve lifestyle habits by further increasing the implementation rate of specific health guidance (with a target implementation rate of 55% or higher).

FY2023

The company, including Group companies, aims to reduce employee health and safety risks by conducting periodic (once a year) risk assessments with regard to work methods, and handling of machinery and chemicals during assembly, production, etc., mainly at manufacturing sites. We also conducted prior identification of risks and dangers and assessments (estimations) of risks relating to new installation and improvement of equipment, and changes in chemical substance handling (including work safety and reduction of environmental impact) in accordance with various laws, regulations and guidelines. We established work procedure manuals for safe work, loaned protective equipment for the purpose of preventing work-related accidents and ensuring employee safety, and linked them to risk reduction measures including work training.
In addition, we encourage individuals who work under our organizations to report accidents, sources of danger, risks, and opportunities and we take measures to ensure that those who make reports do not experience any disadvantage.

To further improve health and safety activities and the standard of management throughout the Group, experts in electronics, mechanics, chemistry, heavy equipment handling, and other areas patrol each site and evaluate the risk of accident occurrence. In addition, they will seek to improve health and safety management throughout the Group by developing and sharing good practices and examples of necessary improvements at each workplace across the Group. In FY2024, safety inspections were conducted at manufacturing and Co-Creation Sites (8 sites), and safety patrols were carried out at laboratories and other locations (7 places). We will continue to aim for improvement of safety and health standards on a global basis through the operation of the safety and health management system.

Periodic Risk Assessment

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