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Health & Safety

Main Activities and Results (Fiscal 2013)

From fiscal 2013, the foregoing fundamental principle and policies will be shared across the NEC Group, with the aim of strengthening corporate governance and the NEC Group’s platform for OH&S activities, in addition to activities within the Company. At the same time, NEC is striving to enhance the quality of OH&S activities at various NEC Group companies, by clearly indicating the scope and methodology of OH&S activities through the addition of an OH&S category to the NEC Group Management Policy, which has been established separately.

Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S)

OHSAS 18001 Specification Certificate

NEC Corporation conducts OH&S activities at the business site level. The Company that addresses companyCompany-wide OH&S issues as well as specific issues reflecting unique conditions faced by individual Group companies and business sites.
As part of plans to introduce OH&S management systems across the entire NEC Group, NEC has been working to acquire the OHSAS 18001 certification, an international OH&S management system specification. NEC has already obtained this specification at the Sagamihara plant, the Abiko plant, the Tamagawa plant and the Fuchu plant.
In addition, in April 2012, NEC established the NEC Group Occupational Health & Safety Management Rules, which set forth basic rules for the NEC Group’s OH&S activities. Based on these rules, NEC is working to introduce OH&S management systems at NEC Group companies.
Furthermore, NEC is considering obtaining OHSAS certification or implementing equivalent systems as necessary, focusing on companies with production lines or exposure to similar risk, including overseas Group companies.

Health Management (Industrial Health)

Prevention of Health Impairment Due to Overwork

NEC manages workplaces to make sure that workers are not working too many hours based on agreements between labor and management. Specifically, such efforts include using a work management system to ascertain the number of hours employees are working on a daily basis at worksites and personnel affairs divisions, and automatically issuing a monthly an alarm e-mail from the system around the middle of each month to workers who may be working long hours.
For employees who have worked long hours, based on the Comprehensive Program for the Prevention of Health Impairment Due to Overwork by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, we use a Web-based interview sheet (health check sheet) to ascertain accumulated fatigue. The Health Care Centers select employees for compulsory follow-up on the basis of the working hours (long hours) and health check (regular checkup and metabolic syndrome examination) data, and have them consult with an industrial physician/health professional, and restrict work hours, among other measures.

Mental health care initiatives

NEC Corporation positions mental health care as a key health care priority. Accordingly, NEC conducts measures focused on prevention and is creating healthy workplaces by maintaining the mental health of employees.
In February 2005, NEC Corporation introduced the Mental Health Support Program. This program consists of three elements: 1) early stage support focused on early identification and treatment of mental disorders; 2) follow-up support for people receiving treatment for mental disorders; and 3) a return-to-work support program that helps people on leave make a smooth return to work.

In fiscal 2011, NEC worked to enhance initiatives to help employees on leave smoothly return to work. This was achieved by clarifying the process and standards for determining whether an employee on leave may return to work through revision of the return-to-work support program. By making these sorts of programs known As a result, early stage consultations from individual employees and their worksite supervisors have increased, instilling a stronger recognition of mental health care within NEC.

Since fiscal 2012, NEC has been implementing primary care training for management-level employees as a prevention measure. This training program is designed to enable management-level employees themselves to consider how to provide care and manage their staff in order to prevent mental health impairment and disorders, including increasing communication, building even better human relationships, and developing worksite environment conducive to consultation. These considerations formed the basis for the participants to devise future action plans.

Moreover, NEC has put a system in place where employees and their supervisors can promptly consult with someone when they notice an irregularity, comprising consultation desks both in-house and outside the company. The in-house consultation desks are staffed by industrial physicians and health professionals using dedicated internal telephone lines called the “Mental Health Consultation Hotline” installed at the health care center of each business site. The external consultation desk is provided by a specialist external institution based on an agreement with the NEC Health Insurance Association. It provides a system for employees themselves as well as their families (dependents) to consult on mental health via the telephone and other means.

NEC Health Innovation21 Activities

NEC Corporation has focused attention on metabolic syndrome since 2004. For employees* with many risk factors for cerebrovascular or heart disease, we have provided lifestyle improvement advice.
Furthermore, from April 2008, partly in response to Specified Health Examinations and Specified Health Guidance accompanying the amendment of laws, we have been enhancing NEC Health Innovation21 (NHI21), a program of activities designed to prevent metabolic syndrome.

* Persons who have four or more of the six risk factors (obesity, high blood pressure, hyperlipemia, diabetes, smoking, and age) in the danger range, based on questions and test results from health examinations.

Looking at achievements from fiscal 2009 to the end of fiscal 2013, NEC made significant strides particularly in the area of metabolic syndrome. NEC achieved a metabolic syndrome reduction rate of 15.8%, far surpassing the target established by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in this area. In addition, NEC achieved a 5% reduction in the men’s smoking ratio.

From fiscal 2014, besides initiatives centered on metabolic syndrome countermeasures implemented to date, NEC plans to implement mental and physical health enhancement measures for each age group. These measures will include mental health countermeasures, cancer prevention measures, and dental (oral hygiene) care.

Major Employee Training and Awareness Raising Initiatives in Fiscal 2013

  • Implementation of education of new recruits and health consultations for all new recruits (health guidance based on results of health examination results provided when joining the company)
  • Education of OH&S Committee members (held at individual business sites)
  • Web-based mental health education (for all employees)*
  • Mental health training for managers (for managers with subordinates who have mental health disorders)
  • Mental health training for managers (primary care)
  • Lifestyle disease seminar (conducted by business site, for certain designated ages or by request)
  • (Example: the Fuchu business site has health improvement programs aimed at people of 25, 30, and 35 years of age (incorporating lectures, stretching, physical fitness measurement, etc.)
  • Smoking cessation seminar (conducted separately by business site for smokers or people who wish to quit)

* Group courses in all cases except web-based mental health education