Healthcare Declaration

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Healthcare Declaration

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Having the corporate mission of being a company trusted and counted on by people around the world, HAMANAKODENSO CO., LTD. is proactively committed to ensuring each employee’s health.
Making combined efforts and continuing to advance to achieve targets and develop a brilliant future,
we herewith declare our commitment to building a corporate culture to enable employees to work in a healthy and vital manner.

Key Healthcare Actions

1Physical health

We build a workplace where employees can be healthy both mentally and physically, by creating a comfortable environment using measures that ensure safe handling of heavy objects and reduce exposure to noise.
We also commit ourselves to improving employees’ health by ensuring that they have a physical checkup and by providing various healthcare programs.
Since 2019 we recommend that employees have a comprehensive physical checkup, to raise their awareness of their own physical condition.

2Mental health

We provide employees with both stress and physical checkups for overwork-caused problems, and we aid those on leave because of illness through a work rehabilitation program during the leave and before and after they return to work.
In the future, we will more closely analyze stress checkup results for each workplace and reduce health risks together with the members of the workplace.

3Work style reform

The employer and employees together have established a work style reform committee. The members of each workplace have taken the initiative in reforming their work style with “awareness improvement,” “work improvement” and “environment improvement” in mind, and employees today take more paid holidays than before with less overtime work.

By enabling employees to maintain a better work-life balance and stay physically and mentally healthy,
and by helping them to be more refreshed, we hope to be a stronger and more attractive company in the future.

HAMANAKODENSO CO., LTD.
President

Shinsuke Yamaguchi

Organizational system

DENSO Corporation maintains and promotes the health of its associates through cooperation between different organizations, including the safety, health and environment committee, and the labor union.
We actively work on measures to promote health in all its forms, with support from DENSO Corporation’s Health Care Promotion Div. and DENSO HEALTH INSURANCE SOCIETY.

Organizational system Organizational system
Organisational system meeting

Health management issues and indicators

Health management strategy map

Health management strategy map

Numerical targets for health management (group-wide targets)

We set group-wide health management targets for DENSO group companies with the aim of promoting efforts to maintain employee health.

Activity items
Category Item Group/company target
(taken from the special medical checkup standard questions)
Healthy behavior (1) Eating breakfast I skip breakfast at least three times per week
→ Percentage replying ‘No’
80%
or higher
(2) Early dinner I eat dinner less than two hours before going to bed at least three times per week
→ Percentage replying ‘No’
(3) Proper exercise In my everyday life (work, housework, commuting, etc.), I walk or do similar physical exercise for at least one hour per day
→ Percentage replying ‘Yes’
(4) Appropriate drinking I drink no more than the equivalent of two standard cups of sake (180 ml per cup)
each day, and have at least two alcohol-free days per week
Percentage not meeting the criteria for “heavy drinking”
* Heavy drinking: A person who drinks the equivalent of more than two standard cups of sake per day on drinking days, either occasionally or every day
(5) Sufficient sleep I get sufficient recuperation through sleep
→ Percentage replying ‘Yes’
(6) Discouraging smoking I currently smoke as a habit
→ Percentage replying ‘No’
Health data (1) BMI Maintaining an appropriate weight
Percentage of people with a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9
70%
or higher
(2) Blood pressure Reducing the number of people with high risk and no treatment
Percentage of people with systolic blood pressure of 160 mmHg or higher, or diastolic blood pressure of 100 mmHg or higher, and who are not receiving treatment
2%
or lower
(3) Blood sugar Reducing the number of people with high risk and no treatment
Percentage of people whose fasting blood sugar level is 126 mg/dl or higher, or whose HbA1c is 6.5% or higher, and who are not receiving treatment

Status of health measures implementation

Item FY2020 FY2021 FY2022
Percentage of associates undertaking periodical health checkups 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Percentage of associates undertaking stress checks 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Stress check results(support from superiors) 7.5 7.4 7.5
Percentage of associates aged 40 or older receiving specified health care instruction 26.3% 96.5% 97.5%
Percentage of associates at an appropriate weight 58.6% 62.4% 64.4%
Percentage of associates exercising regularly 29.9% 28.9% 43.7%
Average number of days of paid leave taken(days/year) 18.4 days/years 17.6 days/years 17.9 days/years
Average number of hours of overtime work 14.0 hours/month 19.2 hours/month 16.7 hours/month
Average years of consecutive service 14.8 years 15.4 years 16.8 years
Percentage of high risk untreates illness 3.3% 2.1% 1.4%
Absenteeism(physical)
*Percentage of associates who take a month or more off work after submiting a doctor's diagnosis
3.3% 2.1% 1.4%

Measures related to health promotion

1Exercise seminar

Since FY2021, we have held webinars to promote exercise opportunities for associates.

FY2021
Webinar [1] Toning up for women
[2] Starting exercise
[3] Preventing stiff shoulders and back
[4] Healthy eating
[5] Training
Number of times the video wa watched 1,209
Satisfaction level among participants 100%

FY2022

Toning up for a beautiful body seminar
We held a seminar for women, with a focus on the beauty of a healthy body. Number of seminars held: 1

2Walking event

We hold walking events with the aims of raising awareness of associates’ exercise habits, and establishing exercise habits.
In FY2020 and FY2021, the walking events were single competitor events.
In FY2022, teams competed in groups of three(11 teams took part).

  Participants
FY2020 17
FY2021 57
FY2022 33

3Providing healthy menus

At our Headquarter and Kibi Plant canteens, we provide healthy menus every day, taking into account associates’ health needs. We offer two types of meal, tailored to production associates and office associates.

Production associates menu

【Production associates】

Office associates menu

【Office associates】

4Implementation of specified health care instruction

We promote the use of ICT to give interviews. In FY2021, we gave specified health care instruction to 100% of eligible associates.

5Health mileage

In FY2022, we started running a health mileage system with the aim of increasing associates’ health awareness.
We assess the implementation of health measures, including exercise and diet, over a one-year period, and provide rewards to the associates based on the results, thereby increasing their health awareness.
We also issue the “Health Mileage Newsletter” to participants with the aim of increasing health awareness (once every two months).

FY2022
Participants 117
Rewards Average of 1,315

6Smoking measures

As a way of encouraging people to stop smoking, we have developed a system of subsidies for “Ascure”, a program that helps people to quit.

  Non-smoking rate
FY2020 68.1%
FY2021 69.6%
FY2022 70.5%

7Follow-up after periodical health checkups

We implement follow-up measures. For example, an occupational physician checks the results of health checkups and interviews everybody who requires follow-up based on the results. We also carry out progress checks of all eligible associates to confirm whether or not ongoing treatment might be necessary.

8Influenza vaccinations

We offer the opportunity to receive an influenza vaccination at the company to everybody who wishes to receive one.

FY2021 FY2022
Number of people 989 885
Invested amount 4,500 yen/person
Number of people
FY2021 989
FY2022 885
Invested amount 4500 yen/person

9Promoting health maintenance

  • Preventing mental health problems: Holding self-care education; increasing the number of support staff (from two to three); correcting long working hours; and workplace patrols
  • Early detection of mental health problems: Holding managerial class education; increasing the hours of interviews with occupational physicians (extra eight hours per month)
  • Supporting associates suffering from mental health issues who want to return to the workplace: Reviewing the work return program; developing systems to allow a smooth return to work, such as work simulations and half-day work

10Third-party certifications related to health management