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Our Approach / TDK Occupational Health and Safety Charter

As the health and safety policy of the Group as a whole, TDK has compiled the TDK Occupational Health and Safety Charter, consisting of the Basic Principle of Occupational Health and Safety and the Occupational Health and Safety Policy with the aim of forming safe and healthy workplace environments. On the basis of this charter, as a basic plan for specific activities, TDK has formulated the Health and Safety Basic Plan, which it strives to implement with the aim of reducing the number of significant labor accidents to zero.

Structure

TDK has set up a promotional structure based on the Occupational Health and Safety Management System headed by the president.

Promotion of Occupational Health and Safety Management System

Believing that continuous activities to reduce risks from hazardous factors in the workplace leads not only to the formation of safe and healthy workplace environments and improvement of work performance and productivity but also to quality stability, TDK has built an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (TDK OHSMS) conforming to ISO 45001:2018, an international standard for occupational health and safety, and is conducting activities accordingly. TDK also takes account of exposure to chemical, biological, and physical pharmaceuticals, heavy work that places a physical burden on workers, and the checking and assessment of the safety of production machinery. In addition, TDK endeavors to conduct activities in conformity with the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), which is partly an international standard for corporate social responsibility. In countries and regions around the world, TDK clearly displays health and safety information within facilities and provides educational training in the native language of employees or a language that they can understand.

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Fiscal 2020 Goals and Achievements / Evaluations and Future Activities

Evaluations and Future Activities

With the goal of creating safe, healthy working environments, we are implementing thorough safety measures at facilities to improve working conditions, establishing basic safety procedures, and working to reduce risks based on risk assessments. We will also work to maintain a record of zero significant labor accidents.
In addition, we have appointed safety and health activity promoters (EHS coordinators) for each region, such as Japan, China, ASEAN, Europe, and the United States, so that we can develop safety and health activities which is suitable for the circumstances of each region. We keep improving the level of safety and health activities by conducting factory safety tests and sharing best practices at safety and environment meetings.

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Concrete Activities

Global Deployment of Experience-Type Safety Education

TDK has begun the global deployment of the experience-type safety education based on the concept of “look, listen, and feel” implemented by the TDK Safety Training Center set up at the Nikaho Factory South Site in the Akita district of Japan in 2017. As a forerunner of this initiative, the EHS Training Center was established in 2020 at the factory of TDK Electronics in the Zhuhai Free Trade Zone, one of TDK’s sites in China. The center implements health and safety education for employees and, among other things, has introduced a system enabling simulated accidents using full-body virtual reality. In addition, in response to cases of factory fires recently both in Japan and overseas, the TDK Group carries out fire-prevention inspections globally and is taking steps to reduce the risk of fire.

Employee Health Management (TDK Corporation)

To keep our staff healthy, we not only conduct physical examinations of employees on a regular basis, we also have industrial physicians, health maintenance technicians, and dentists on staff at our major locations, creating an environment in which employees can address their health concerns and have dental checkups on an everyday basis. Also, the employee health insurance union has arranged for an outside service that offers telephone health consultations 24 hours a day, besides implementing various initiatives such as the "Health Challenge Campaign" aimed at supporting lifestyle improvements among employees.
In the Akita region, the company is implementing a Total Health Promotion (THP) Plan, mainly through its health management centers. Through this program, which offers employees health guidance and exercise programs tailored to their individual needs, we are boosting awareness of health-related matters, such as the importance of exercising and leading a healthy lifestyle.
Furthermore, in fiscal 2018 we set up a health management project promotion committee that is composed of people from the company, health insurance associations, occupational health workers, and labor unions. The committee will study various proposals and will develop activities to promote health.

Mental health care

Besides regular health management, we take an active interest in mental health issues, a subject that has become a focus of social concern in recent years. We have implemented a “return to the workplace support program,” which includes measures to facilitate rehabilitation and enable a smooth transition for returning employees. Also, to make counseling more accessible, we have established mental health consultation centers staffed by specialists at major locations, and we hold periodic seminars for employees concerning mental health.
TDK will continue to conduct stress checks and mental health related training programs for its employees.
As of fiscal 2016, we are conducting stress checks to assess stress levels of individual employees and to prevent mental health issues before they have a chance to happen. Through stress checks and various kinds of training, the goal is to foster a dynamic workplace where each and every employee is able to deal effectively with stress.