For the benefit of employees
Creating a comfortable workplace
Health and Productivity Management
Nagase ChemteX Corporation formulates, publishes, and promotes the "Nagase ChemteX’s Health Declaration" to help employees maintain and improve their health.
Nagase ChemteX’s Health Declaration
Nagase ChemteX Corporation believes that “ensuring the safety and maintaining and improving the health of our employees” is one of our important responsibilities and is an important management base.The physical and mental health of each and every employee is essential for the realization of our management philosophy. The Company not only wishes that employees playing an active role in various regions in Japan and overseas and their family members are safe and healthy, but also declares that we will strive to build an appropriate system for health management so that our employees can work with peace of mind.
Health management philosophy
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Health management philosophy
- 1. We will eliminate the causes of injuries and diseases from the workplace and strive to create a healthy and safe working environment.
- 2. We will comply with laws and regulations, company regulations, and workplace rules related to occupational safety and health.
- 3. We will strive to improve the awareness of health management of each employee and strengthen the health management of the entire organization.
- 4. We will continue to implement education and awareness-raising activities to improve health literacy.
- 5. We will strengthen measures for mental health care to maintain the mental health of employees.
- 6. We will promote work style reforms to maintain physical and mental health.
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Health management promotion system
Nagase ChemteX's measures and specific initiatives
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Health support policy
- Continue to maintain 100% response rate to regular health examination, and improve the return visit rate and specific health guidance implementation rate based on health examination results
- Enhanced cancer screening by the corporate health insurance society (medical examination option, mail-in examination, etc.)
- Subsidy system for smoking cessation of outpatients
- Raise awareness and increase utilization rate of various subsidy systems such as dental examinations
- Carrying out of preventive vaccination of employees and their family members against various contagious diseases, such as influenza, and a system to cover the cost
- Heat stroke prevention measures
- Establish a response headquarters as a countermeasure against COVID-19 and set guidelines for the introduction of telework, staggered working hours, and the establishment of a consultation desk
- Implement measures against infectious diseases, such as provision of alcohol disinfection and installation of acrylic boards, and distribute masks and disinfectants
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Mental health measures
- mprove the workplace by performing stress checks and group analysis
- Implement mental health training
- Establish a system to conduct health consultation for workers with mental health problems by an occupational physician and health consultation by a public health nurse
- Support for returning to work
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Health promotion
- Support club activities
- Recommend walking events using health apps
- Introduce a health maintenance system (5 courses: improve physical condition, stop smoking, make it a habit to exercise, make it a habit to measure, and create MY mission)
- Participate in the National Project “Corporate Action to Promote Cancer Control” with the aim to improve cancer screening rates and provide information on cancer control
- Promote the use of recreational facilities
- Implement measures to reduce long working hours
- Set a weekly no overtime day
- Post the overtime work status of each department
Recognized as a Health and Productivity Management Organization (large enterprise category)
Our company was certified as a Health and Productivity Management Organization (in the large enterprise category) for the first time in 2022.The Health and Productivity Management Organization certification system is a system for commending companies that carry out particularly excellent health and productivity management based on initiatives that address local health issues and health promotion initiatives promoted by the Japan Health Conference.
The Company lays out a policy of providing “a safe and comfortable work environment” as a value to employees in the medium-term management plan “ACE 2.0” and promotes health management.
Efforts to reform the way we work
We believe that it is important for individual employees to work flexibly based on productivity and efficiency to enhance productivity and work-life balance.
With this in mind, the NAGASE Group promotes discussions and initiatives to improve its employees' working styles.
Various systems and measures to create a comfortable working environment
| Systems and measures | Overview |
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| Superflex work |
A system that allows employees to autonomously decide
their arrival and departure times according to their
business needs. Core hours are being eliminated starting in fiscal 2019. |
| Hourly paid leave system | A system that allows employees to take paid leave in increments of one hour, up to five days per fiscal year. |
| Refresher leave | Leave granted to employees who have been with the Company for 15 years or 25 years for mental and physical refreshment. |
| Life support leave | Leave that can be used for non-work-related injuries and illnesses, volunteer work, childcare, nursing care, self-development, etc., by accumulating forfeited paid leave. |
| Anniversary vacation | Encouraging employees to take two days of anniversary leave per year to promote the use of paid vacations. |
Labor-management relations
We keep track of our employees' working hours and internally disclose the overtime hours in each department. In addition, to curb overwork, the Human Resources Division issues an alarm to employees who are approaching the limit and guides improvements.
With the labor union, in addition to regular labor-management consultations, we hold labor-management study sessions on specific themes to deepen understanding and discussion of issues, thereby building good labor-management relations.
Local employment and local procurement
The NAGASE Group believes that employment creation and local procurement by hiring local employees play a vital role in building good relationships with various countries and regions where we operate and in contributing to local economies and communities. Based on this approach, we will promote local employment creation and procurement and contribute to developing the various countries and regions we operate.