To Employees
Ensuring Occupational Safety & Health
Occupational Safety and Health Management System Strives for Zero Risk
We recognize that supervising the occupational safety and health of our employees is essential to business management. Based on a spirit of respect for all human beings, we feel that, as a matter of policy, it is a corporate responsibility to establish an atmosphere that prioritizes occupational safety and health in all social and corporate environments.
From zero accidents to zero risk -- Mitsubishi Electric is dedicated to developing a new culture of safety. Based on our proprietary system for managing occupational safety and health, we are enhancing our management system and promoting a variety of initiatives that include risk assessments.
In fiscal 2008 we developed our system for managing occupational safety and health with the goals of raising the standard for safety at sites and offices and moving forward with the creation of a system that actively promotes the planning and continuation of safety management.
As a result of activities such as these, the frequency of labor accidents within different categories of business have been lowered (based on the number of accidents requiring leave per million hours).
Preventing Lifestyle-related Diseases
Since fiscal 2003 we have carried out activities under the Mitsubishi Electric Group Health Plan 21 (MHP21) for our approximately 100,000 Group employees. These activities are inspired by the slogan "Change Your Lifestyle Habits, Extend Your Healthy Years!" and involve setting company-wide improvement goals in five categories: maintaining proper body weight, creating an active lifestyle, stopping smoking, maintaining proper dental care and improving stress management skills. The degree of achievement of these goals is evaluated every three months. Individual achievements are also evaluated every three months. In addition, activities are lent vitality by yearly health surveys, campaigns throughout the year, leadership training for MHP21 promotion aimed at passing on success stories and health competitions between business divisions.
From this fiscal year we are actively taking part in physical examination and special health guidance activities in response to the so-called "metabolic syndrome."
Promoting Mental Health Care
Mental health is a top priority for health management at Mitsubishi Electric. The head office and each of our business sites have a counseling program in place, which works to help employees with their everyday worries related to work and family and other emotional issues. Each business site also holds lectures on mental health, autogenic training (how to prevent stress from building up), and other related topics.
We began carrying out a company plan for maintaining mental health from April 2007. Based on the creation of a mental health care promotion system at each business site, the plan involves practicing of four measures: self-care, care by staff in the business units, care by nursing staff and other staff on the business site and care using resources outside the business site. In fiscal 2008 we further enhanced our employee assistance programs. Enhancement measures include counseling face-to-face or by e-mail in addition to counseling over the phone, as well as revision of annual surveys to attain more detailed results on employees' stress levels. We will also carry out care initiatives with a priority on overseas workers by assigning designated counselors.
* EAP (employee assistance program): An employee assistance program is a system by which a company provides support for its employees, their mental health in particular.
Workplace Environment Standards that Exceed Legal Requirements
We recognize that people spend a large part of their lives at their place of employment, so we make people-friendly enhancements to the workplace environment and promote the creation of pleasant spaces that give consideration to people with disabilities and older workers.
We have established our own workplace environment standards for air, lighting, noise and facilities that exceed legal requirements. We are also working to attain information on whether the standards are achieved as we seek to achieve and maintain the standards. The standards include a section on regular workplaces that is targeted at business offices and a section on special workplace environments targeted at sites that handle hazardous substances and the like.
