Sustainability | SocietyHealth and Productivity Management
- Our Approach
- Governance (TDK Corporation)
- Strategy (TDK Corporation)
- Risk Management (TDK Corporation)
- Metrics and Targets (TDK Corporation)
- Initiatives (TDK Corporation)
Our Approach
We realize that the health of TDK team members (employees) is an important issue directly linked to all kinds of quality in business activities, and we have formulated the TDK Health Declaration to actively support team members’ health management and improvement.
We are conducting health promotion activities to enable team members to continue working in good health both physically and mentally.
TDK Health Declaration
TDK enables the transition towards a sustainable future through our transformational technology, products, solutions, and processes. Our Team Members (employees) support this mission by delivering quality each step of the way. While our quality focus has been critical to our success for generations, global societies have grown complex and evolved at such a rapid pace that humanity and health is suffering. It is clear that “quality of health” is imperative for TDK to live our motto: contribute to culture and industry through creativity.
TDK United is committing to a “Health First” approach with the intention to improve our Team Members quality of health. We will support the culture of health by providing foundational health programs and activities at local, regional and global levels across all businesses and functions. We wish to achieve this sustainable, healthy society by ensuring that our diverse team members from TDK United participate with open hearts and minds.
Health Declaration
TDK United improves quality through a “Health First” approach
Governance (TDK Corporation)
TDK United regards the maintenance and promotion of team members' health as an important management issue and has established a new Health Promotion Section within the Human Resources HQ, with the director in charge of human resources as the person responsible for health promotion. In the future, we will actively report to the Board of Directors and other relevant bodies.
Education and Awareness Rasing
Ongoing health literacy education, including lectures by external experts, is provided to ensure that each team member can take care of his or her own health.
- External expert lectures
- E-learning
Officer responsible for health promotion: Senior Vice Presidents Andreas Keller
To manage and promote the health of team members, TDK not only conducts regular health check-ups, but also has industrial physicians, public health nurses, nurses, and dentists (at some sites) at workplaces to provide an environment where health consultations and dental care are routinely available. In addition, consultations are available from team members via an external telephone health consultation service (available 24 hours a day) set up by Health Insurance Society.
In 2018, a Health Management Project Promotion Committee was established by persons concerned from the company, health insurance union, industrial physicians, public health nurses, nurses and workers unions, and various health promotion activities are discussed and put into action by the committee to develop health promotion activities.
Health Promotion System Flow
Strategy (TDK Corporation)
We consider the improvement of health quality through efforts to maintain and improve the health of team members as an important management issue. TDK United positions the improvement of health quality through efforts to maintain and promote the health of team members as an important management issue and promotes health management by steadily implementing the PDCA cycle based on a strategy map. The members of the Health Promotion Section play a central role in formulating specific measures, the measures are examined and approved by the Health Management Business Promotion Committee, the measures are implemented at each site, evaluated by the members of the Health Promotion Section, and linked to the formulation of the next year's plan.
Risk
Recognizing health issues as below, we would like to support our team members in their health promotion activities to keep them in the best condition and contribute to the realization of a sustainable and healthy society by improving the quality of their health, both physically and mentally, and enhancing the quality of their work as well as their lives.
- 1. Increase in the number of patients with lifestyle-related diseases and pre-morbidities
- 2. High proportion of people at risk of mental illness
- 3. High proportion of people indifferent to health
Opportunity
Health measures to promote awareness and behavior change are implemented to address these issues.
- Improvement of lifestyle
- Reduction in the number of people with mental health problems
- Improvement of health literacy
Risk Management (TDK Corporation)
Within ERM, risks related to talent acquisition and development are managed and health indicators that could lead to them are closely monitored.
Metrics and Targets (TDK Corporation)
Medium- to Long-Term Targets
| No | Index Item | FY3/20 | FY3/21 | FY3/22 | FY3/23 | FY3/24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Percentage of regular health check-ups* | 99.9 | 98.9 | 98.5 | 99.9 | 99.9 |
| 2 | Participation rate of stress check* | 91.2 | 90.3 | 89.2 | 84.6 | 82.1 |
| 3 | Number of participants of walking campaign | ー | 605 | 592 | 885 | 1,248 |
| 4 | Participation rate of measures on women's health issues | ー | ー | ー | ー | 72.0 |
| 5 | Smoking rates | 28.6 | 27.3 | 26.5 | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| 6 | Percentage of persons with an exercise habit | 19.5 | 20.7 | 22.2 | 22.9 | 23.6 |
| 7 | Percentage of persons of adequate weight | 64.6 | 63.2 | 63.7 | 63.6 | 63.8 |
*TDK Corporation
Evaluations and Future Activities
As a result of our health promotion activities, we have been awarded the “Excellent Health and Productivity Management Recognized Corporations” for two consecutive years. In the future, we will strive to realize a sustainable and healthy society by further developing our health promotion activities, so that our team members can be physically and mentally active and improve their quality of health, not only at work but also in their lives.
Initiatives (TDK Corporation)
Strategy Map
In promoting health management, we have identified health issues that lead to improved health quality for our team members, which is the image we want to achieve through health management, and we have created a strategy map that organizes specific initiatives to solve these issues.
Main Health Promotion Activities
Mental Health Measures
In addition to physical health, TDK is actively working on mental health management, which has been a growing social concern in recent years.
We have set up mental health consultation counselling services with specialist doctors at certain sites, and have established a system where team members can easily receive counselling, as well as holding seminars via e-learning.
We have also introduced a program to support returning to work, which includes a rehabilitation work system, to provide maximum support for team members returning to work.
Since 2016, stress checks have been conducted with the aim of enabling team members themselves to ascertain the extent of their stress and prevent mental health problems before they occur. Through stress checks and various training programs, we are working to improve the quality of health so that each employee can work vigorously while coping with stress.
Acquired certification as an excellent health management company
TDK was recognized for the second consecutive year in 2024 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) and NIPPON KENKO KAIGI (Japan health council) in the “Excellent Health and Productivity Management Recognized Corporations (Large Corporation Category)”.
