Occupational Safety and Health
- Initiatives Based on Top Management’s Safety and Health Management Policy
- The Meiden Group Organization System for Occupational Safety and Health and Health & Productivity Management
- Supervision of Safety and Health Led by Top Management
- FY2023 Results
- Occupational Safety and Health Management System
- Health and Safety Risk Assessments
- Safety and Health Indicators
- Safety and Health Initiatives
- Initiatives Based on Top Management’s Safety and Health Management Policy
- The Meiden Group Organization System for Occupational Safety and Health and Health & Productivity Management
- Supervision of Safety and Health Led by Top Management
- FY2023 Results
- Occupational Safety and Health Management System
- Health and Safety Risk Assessments
- Safety and Health Indicators
- Safety and Health Initiatives
The Meiden Group develops the “President’s Safety and Health Policy” and the “President’s Health & Productivity Management Policy” every year, and rolls out occupational safety and health and health management activities based on them. The President’s policies form a comprehensive code of conduct. They cover all employees (including part-time and temporary employees) of Meidensha and Meiden Group subsidiaries in Japan and abroad as well as employees of our partner companies.
We have explicitly stated that ensuring the health and safety of each employee is at the core of corporate management, and we work to eliminate industrial accidents and maintain and improve health.
◇ The Meiden Group Occupational Safety and Health Action Guidelines
“Safety comes first before anything else” and “Nothing is more valuable than good health”
1. Basic Occupational Health and Safety Policy
At the Meiden Group, employee health and safety are core management values. We work to “ensure a safe environment that is conducive to work, as well as achieve comfort and affluence for employees,” as it says in the Meiden Group Corporate Code of Conduct and aim to be a leading health and safety company with zero industrial accidents.
2. Health and Safety Action Guidelines
- (1)Create a safety culture built on good communication, in which everyone anticipates the risks of industrial accidents, avoids unsafe actions, and communicates well with each other.
- (2)Comply with relevant laws including the Industrial Safety and Health Act, as well as business unit and workplace rules.
- (3)Conduct ongoing health and safety initiatives based on the Occupational Safety and Health Management System.
- (4)Identify health and safety risks in all workplaces, including near-miss incidents, and practice thorough risk assessments (including chemical risk assessments) to eliminate or reduce risks.
- (5)Develop a sensitivity to danger and help each employee develop the ability to avoid danger by providing health and safety training and training in which employees experience safety issues with their senses.
- (6)Conduct hazard prediction activities for all work from preparation to cleanup and perform work only after safety is ensured. After work is finished, review the hazards and take measures for the next day’s work.
- (7)Thoroughly train inexperienced and other new employees on work procedures and safety rules and check that they understand. In addition, review past industrial accidents and educate employees to prevent the same accidents from recurring, thereby enhancing employee safety awareness.
3. Basic Health Management Policy
Recognizing that the health of each employee is the foundation of the Company and facilitates sustainable corporate growth, the Meiden Group is committed to creating a workplace and running health promoting programs that enable employees to be healthy in mind and body, feel a sense of purpose, and lead fulfilling lives (well-being).
4. Guidelines for Health Management Action
- (1)Promote work-life balance and diverse, flexible workstyles
- (2)Increase each employee’s health awareness and health literacy
- (3)Strengthen systems for promoting mental health and create workplaces designed to help prevent mental illness
- (4)Promote passive smoking control and smoking cessation programs
- (5)Support prevention and response to ensure long, healthy careers for all employees

Supervision of Safety and Health Led by Top Management
In Japan, we comply with laws and regulations, hold monthly meetings of the Safety and Health Committee at each site, where we encourage participation by unions and employees, and conduct consultation and information sharing relating to matters such as causes of and responses to industrial accidents, the status of employees that have taken leave due to illness, and other matters that require attention. Also, the Central Safety and Health Committee, chaired by the officer responsible for occupational safety and health as appointed by the President, discusses and makes decisions on matters relating to Group-wide policies and targets.
● Results of Occupational Safety and Health Initiatives
Certification status of the occupational safety and health management system
Not applicable: MEIDEN ENGINEERING CORPORATION, MEIDEN FACILITY SERVICE CORPORATION (and other than Numazu, Ota and Nagoya Management Center), MEIDEN CHEMICAL CO., LTD., EAML Engineering CO., LTD.
Occupational Safety and Health Management System
In FY2015, the Meiden Group obtained OHSAS 18001 certification for each of the four main Japanese production sites, Numazu Works, Ota Works, Nagoya Works, and Kofu Meidensha Electric Mfg. Co., Ltd., including on-site affiliates. Furthermore, MEIDEN SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. obtained certification in FY2013, and the four remaining main overseas sites, MEIDEN ZHENGZHOU ELECTRIC CO., LTD., SHANGHAI MEIDENSHA CHANGCHENG SWITCHGEAR CO., LTD., P.T. MEIDEN ENGINEERING INDONESIA, and MEIDEN T&D (INDIA) LIMITED, obtained certification in FY2017.
Since FY2018, we have promoted penetration of the Occupational Safety and Health Management System to the entire Group, as well as transition to and expanded application of ISO 45001 certification due to the need for international standards.
In FY2019, we acquired joint certification for the four main Japanese production sites (Ota Works, Numazu Works, Nagoya Works, and Kofu Meidensha Electric Mfg. Co., Ltd. *including on-site affiliates) under ISO 45001. In FY2020, we expanded ISO 45001 certification to Japanese workplaces other than production sites (Tokyo office, branches) and construction business units (Plant Construction Headquarters).
In FY2021, we plan to acquire certification for four Japanese affiliates. (MEIDEN PLANT SYSTEMS CORPORATION, MEIDEN AQUA BUSINESS COMPANY, M WINDS CO., LTD., and MEIDEN NANOPROCESS INNOVATIONS, INC.)
Going forward, we will continue to maintain and improve our occupational safety and health management system at all Meiden Group locations.
Rate of ISO 45001 Acquisition (as of March 31, 2024)
Health and Safety Risk Assessments
Conducting Health and Safety Risk Assessments
The Meiden Group conducts risk assessments to ensure a work environment where employees can work in health and safety.
We have established and are using rules and systems to manage not only workplaces that require measurement of the work environment and workplaces where chemicals must be managed, but also workplaces engaged in light tasks and office work. We use common risk assessment standards within the Group and are systematically taking steps to eliminate and reduce risks.
We also strive to identify sources of danger from past cases of industrial accidents and day-to-day near-miss initiatives, where our goal is to get participation by all employees. Once the dangers are identified, we visualize the health and safety risks in every workplace and tie them in with risk assessments. Then we take preliminary measures and work to improve the workplace environment.
Preliminary Risk Assessment System
The Meiden Group established the preliminary risk assessment system to provide information that benefits management decision-making. When screening business investments, a preliminary risk assessment meeting carefully examines investments that may have a significant impact on the Meiden Group. The system follows our Basic Policy regarding Establishment of a System to Ensure the Appropriateness of Business Activities.
During the assessment, we evaluate financial risks, responsibilities (such as product guarantees), and feasibility (such as systems). The Corporate Policy Planning Group and the Internal Control Promotion Division serve as the secretariat for preliminary risk assessment meetings, and their supervising officers determine whether a meeting needs to be held. Other units involved include the General and Legal Affairs Division, the Accounting and Financing Group, and the Sales Planning & Administration Group.
During M&A, a third-party unit performs the due diligence. Besides doing a financial investigation of the target company, we also evaluate it from an ESG perspective to strengthen risk management. This includes the target’s corporate culture, legal compliance systems including human rights concerns, compliance with environmental regulations, labor conditions, occupational safety and health, and other factors.
Occupational Safety and Health Indicators (Meiden Group)
- *1“Accident frequency rate” is the number of casualties with at least one day of absence per million actual working hours caused by industrial accidents; it is an indicator of the frequency of accidents.
- *2“Accident severity rate” is the number of workdays lost for every 1,000 work hours; it is an indicator of the seriousness of accidents.
- *3“Number of accidents per 1,000 persons each year” is the ratio of the number of casualties resulting in four or more days of absence occurring per 1,000 workers in a year.
- *4“Total accident frequency rate” is the total number of casualties caused by industrial accidents, including both those resulting in no absence and those resulting in a day or more of absence, for every 1,000,000 work hours.
- *5Includes temporary workers and contractors.
- *6Overseas working population and hours do not include on-site workers, which differs slightly from the calculation method used for Japan.
Occupational Health and Safety Indicators (Entire Meiden Group in Japan)
- *1Percentage of employees with absences or sick leave of at least one month
Safety Record (only Meidensha)



Safety and Health Initiatives
The Meiden Group has experienced industrial accidents throughout its long history and takes various measures to eliminate them. Measures include safety training, KYK (hazard prediction), risk assessment, safety patrols, a health and safety management system, and hands-on safety training.
Safety Patrols to Identify Risks
The Meiden Group continues to actively conduct safety patrols, which is a long-standing practice. For these, we depend on not only our own eyes, but also bring in health and safety consultants to provide an outside perspective and offer their knowledge.
Since FY2021, we have been using digital equipment to conduct remote patrols from all over Japan.
Remote communication tools connect a single site (the subject of the patrol) with multiple sites and subsidiaries. The system enhances workplace safety and health by allowing many remote observers to offer new insights and give advice. In addition, since the Japanese government has downgraded COVID-19 to a Class 5 Infectious Disease and public travel has resumed, we are actively resuming on-site safety patrols in each region at each Group company in Japan.


In addition, we launched Safety and Health Initiatives Reporting Meetings in FY2022 to enhance safety and health in the Meiden Group. This event seeks to share information on the best safety and health initiatives in the Meiden Group with sites and subsidiaries to create an improvement spiral in the Group.
Each meeting includes a Group discussion, with a different theme each time. Each group shares its opinions with all the rest to increase their motivation.


Enhancing sensitivity to danger through hands-on safety training
In November 2019, we built hands-on safety experience truck No. 2 for employees’ hands-on safety training, which we give at production sites (Numazu, Ota, Nagoya, and Kofu). Hands-on safety experience trucks are fitted with a VR system combined with a three-axis simulator to enable a more realistic experience of simulated industrial accidents.
We aim to eliminate industrial accidents by enhancing employees’ sensitivity to danger through this hands-on safety training.
We also offer VR safety experience training to parties outside the Company by subscription.
Following the March 2021 development of Metaverse Hands-On Safety Training, in October 2022 we opened the new Metaverse Safety Promotion Center. Even trainees in remote locations can participate, represented by an avatar. The format brings past cases of occupational injuries back to life and raises employee safety awareness.


In 2023, we established the VR Safety Experience Training Evaluation System because we had been receiving many inquiries on the educational benefits of introducing VR safety experience training. The system features a storyline in VR that describes how accidents can be avoided by safe behavior. It also includes education to enhance understanding by providing feedback on behavior. Another characteristic of the system is that it visualizes the effectiveness of training by comparing against the results of previous training sessions.


Safety Information Management System
The Meiden Group started operating the Safety Information Management System in 2020. This tool effectively gathers and analyzes safety and health management information as it accumulates in the Group and uses it to improve health and safety management (with the PDCA cycle). The system can manage industrial accident reports, traffic accident reports, near-misses, safety patrols, risk assessments, number of days with zero accidents, safety training, safety indicators (accident frequency and severity rates, number of accidents per thousand persons each year), and more.
Using the system allows Group employees to easily access safety information and encourages their safety awareness and activities.

Safety Promotion Center Preserves Lessons from Industrial Accidents
Immediately following an industrial accident, the entire company comes together and vows never to repeat the same mistake; this resolve, however, fades as time passes. In particular, when there is a change of managers in workplaces where an industrial accident has occurred, the lessons learned from the accident fade even more quickly.
In February 2020, we established the Safety Promotion Center as a place to encourage story-telling and thinking about industrial accidents that have occurred.
We believe it is our mission to never turn our eyes away from the sad facts and to keep telling our stories so that our employees and their families will never have to suffer tragedy again.
The Meiden Group strives to raise safety awareness and eliminate industrial accidents by training the body (with our hands-on safety experience trucks) and the mind (through the Safety Promotion Center).
In October 2022, we developed the Metaverse Safety Promotion Center, using virtual space to further increase employee safety awareness.
The original Safety Promotion Center has struggled to bring in more visitors and trainees in recent years, in part because its location at the Numazu Works is too far for employees working at distant locations to travel for the training and also because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Metaverse Safety Promotion Center was opened to solve the problem.
To access the Metaverse version of the Safety Promotion Center, participants just need a VR head-mounted display. Multiple employees, regardless of location, can gather on the Metaverse and exchange ideas with each other. The aim is to enable all employees to participate, both at Japanese manufacturing sites and overseas subsidiaries.


Safety AI Camera System
Finding unsafe behavior by on-site patrol is an important way to prevent industrial accidents, but in terms of resources, it is difficult to constantly check worker movements and images sent by cameras. To address this issue, in FY2023, we began using our Safety AI Camera System to check for all unsafe behaviors.
AI detects speed violations or driving in the opposite direction when operating a vehicle on premises, walking outside the green belt, not wearing a helmet in the factory, dangerous forklift operation, working at heights, presence of persons at night, and so on. It then provides guidance to those who are acting in an unsafe manner.


