Safety and health form the foundation of a company’s existence, and ensuring safety and health is one of a company’s fundamental responsibilities.
NGK strives to minimize hazardous risks and prevent occupational accidents by obeying laws and regulations and by partnering with employees to conduct activities in line with our Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems (OSHMS*). In this way we are working to ensure truly safe and pleasant workplaces.
* OSHMS: These are safety and health management systems that aim to contribute to a rise in the level of safety and health at factories and offices by endeavoring to reduce the potential risk of labor accidents, promote the health of workers, and encourage the formation of a comfortable workplace environment.
Safety chorus at Company-wide
Safety and Health Committee
(March 2011)
NGK is constantly striving to eliminate work-related accidents. To this end, NGK implemented OSHMS as a mechanism for systematic and ongoing safety and health initiatives in fiscal 2007. Since then, NGK has worked extensively to embed and operate this system.
Major themes governing our fiscal 2010 activities included patrols conducted at each worksite and the prevention of workplace accidents through risk assessment.
The main thrust behind worksite patrol initiatives in this fiscal year was to improve the consistency across diff erent worksites of health and safety standards governing patrols, and thereby improve overall standards across the Group. Steps taken to prevent workplace accidents centered on the use of risk assessment in reducing potential risk and enhancing the level of safety.
Domestic Group companies ensure compliance with laws regarding occupational health and safety at the same time as taking steps commensurate with each workplace to further improve the level of safety and comfort.
improvements to occupational safety and health. Workplace patrols will be carried out at each worksite on a voluntary basis to enhance the ability to identify issues for improving occupational health and safety. We will also look to enhance risk assessment and strive to avoid omissions or shortfalls in our evaluation of latent risk in work performed. In addition, we intend to renew the outside certification for OSHMS at the Nagoya Site.
NGK has reinforced eff orts to raise awareness of occupational health and safety among employees in a push to enhance levels of health and safety.
In fiscal 2010, NGK held an experiential safety education program attended by approximately 250 people, including all new hires and young employees, to promote a firsthand understanding of the importance of safety in the workplace. New hires also underwent a test of their driving aptitude in order to raise their awareness of traffic safety. In fiscal 2011, the experiential safety education program will be held for all new hires.
Domestic Group companies will continue to expand safety and health education tailored to the existing level of awareness at each company.
