Relationships with Society

• Initiatives for Respecting Human Rights
• Human Resource Development Diversity
• Diversity
• Diverse Work Styles
• Health and Productivity Management
• Occupational Health and Safety, Disaster Prevention
• Quality Management
• Contribution to Local Communities

The Dexerials Group implements employee training, along with reinforcement and improvement work to facilities, in an effort to prevent or minimize damage from disasters and accidents which potentially could have a serious impact on business. We are also making various efforts to ensure that our employees work in a healthy and hygienic manner.

Occupational Health and Safety Policy

To enhance occupational safety, we have established an education and training environment that enables employees to learn efficiently and effectively. By introducing and updating our occupational health and safety management systems and risk assessment processes, we are strengthening training programs for managers and safety officers, providing instruction that deepens their understanding of risk management and safe behavior. Through these initiatives, we aim to raise safety awareness, equip employees with practical skills, and maintain a safe workplace environment.

We have a permanent “Safety Workshop” where employees can learn about occupational safety in a comprehensive manner, and safety education is provided to each and every employee. At the “Safety Workshop,” we can experience simulated industrial accidents that have occurred in the past using special equipment. We are also enhancing the quality and environment of education on health and safety and disaster prevention by introducing a “virtual reality (VR) hazard experience system” that allows employees to virtually experience serious industrial accidents.

As a new digital tool to prevent traffic accidents, we conduct education that utilizes virtual reality (VR).
By experiencing in virtual form, a variety of content, such as the causes of traffic accidents and road layouts, participants are improving their sensitivity to hazards, understanding the importance of safe driving, and changing their behavior to be more careful when actually driving. At Dexerials, commuters by private car account for the majority, at 76%. We are aiming to prevent traffic accidents by placing VR tools at each location and creating environments that enable flexible experiences.

By utilizing actual equipment that reproduces past workplace accidents, we are conducting education that enables employees to experience in a realistic manner the impact on human lives and operations as well as the hazards that can lead to physical injuries to workers.
Focusing on human factors, which are one of the causes of workplace accidents, as well as impatience, arrogance, and overconfidence due to work experience, participants can learn about the importance of prioritizing human life and adhering to rules. By having participants actually experience, for example, the ignition and explosion when static electricity is charged or discharged or being caught by a rotating cylinder, we are aiming to improve their ability to predict hazards by reproducing in visual form the amount of charge and intuitively feeling the impact of a piece of equipment.

In addition to the existing hazard simulation equipment, we are conducting education using VR to experience hazards. Although we have maintained a record of zero workplace accidents caused by equipment, there are still accidents caused by supplementary tasks. At Dexerials, we conduct VR education that makes use of content tailored to the sources of hazards in the workplace, based on the causes of past workplace accidents and risk assessments.
Through this VR training, participants experience the fear of disasters through “Scared Straight,” an educational method that dares them to experience fear in order to change their behavior, and learn safety awareness, understanding of the importance of procedures, and how to follow work procedures, leading to safe work and behavior.
In fiscal year 2024, 1,321 participants attended the training.

We have digitalized our occupational health and safety management system and internal audits. In fiscal 2024, we advanced the central management of audit results, enabling the visualization and quantification of activity levels. Building on these initiatives, we aim to further enhance the sophistication of our safety management.

At all sites, Health and Safety Committee and workplaces collaborate to identify and analyze risks related to occupational accidents, including the possibility of similar accidents or accident recurrence, using a risk assessment system.
Based on this system, expert-led patrols help to share findings across organizational boundaries and translate them into effective countermeasures. Through these efforts, we have been able to prevent the recurrence of workplace accidents caused by excessive-strain movements and contact with high temperatures that occurred in the past.
In addition, risk assessments are conducted when new equipment is introduced or new tasks are added, and effective countermeasures are systematically implemented by leveraging past cases.

Based on Occupational Health and Safety Policy, Dexerials is implementing initiatives to prevent serious industrial accidents by setting annual targets. In fiscal 2024, the Dexerials Group had no work-related fatal accidents or occupational illnesses resulting in lost working days; however, one accident accompanied by lost workdays did occur. The cause was insufficient anticipation of risks in the work environment and procedures. In response, we reviewed equipment specifications, reinforced the use of protective equipment, and conducted retraining on operational procedures at all sites, thereby strengthening the preventative safety management system.

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