1. Basic Policy
In the Companywide Basic Health and Safety Policy, SAKATA INX states to ensure the safety of working people in all business activities as well as their physical and mental health is an important management issue. The company designates maintaining and enhancing employee health to be a material issue alongside building a sustainable working environment.
By advancing the health and safety activities that we have been conducting and proactively undertaking initiatives to build health that enables employees to work vibrantly both mentally and physically, we aim to build a sustainable society and increase our corporate value.
2. Activity policy and initiative details
In our implementation of Health and Productivity Management®, we shall follow the activity policy described below.
- SAKATA INX shall work together with health insurance societies to maintain and increase employee health and prevent illness.
- We will strive to increase employees’ health consciousness through health and safety education and awareness raising.
- We will work to build a comfortable working environment that enables employees to work in good health both physically and mentally.
- We will provide support for activities to enable employees to independently work on building their health.
- SAKATA INX shall also work to maintain and improve the health of the families who support our employees.
List of initiatives
| Regular medical checkups / Various medical examinations |
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| Lifestyle-related disease countermeasures (metabolic syndrome) |
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| Mental health |
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| Prevention of infectious disease |
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| Awareness raising |
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| Other |
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Specific Initiatives
(1) Health promotion seminar
Health promotion seminar was held with the aim to increase understanding and health awareness regarding the importance of health.
The contents were based on the value of health, dietary habit, exercise and sleep.
(Osaka Head Office)
(2) Provide information on health
As part of the enlightenment activities, we have set up a website related to health in the company's intranet. The following contents are provided to employees.
- Videos on our initiatives on health, preventive measures for heat stroke, health effects of smoking on your body, women's health, etc.
- Newsletter related to health, column from the nurse, etc.
(3) Exercise habit
- Health challenge event
We held a health challenge event using a smartphone app. About 30% of employees participated in the event in 2023.
(4) Decrease in smoking rate
- Support to non-smoking
As one of our targets is to decrease smoking rate, we give support to non-smoking – employees who want to stop smoking can experience actual life without smoking by using a nicotine gum.
3. Promotion framework
[Target values/strategy map]
(1) Target values
The following targets are set around three important elements (dietary habit, sleep, and exercise) for maintaining and improving mental and physical health.
| Result *(％) | Target (％) | Activities in 2024 | ||||
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| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2026 | ||
| Percentage of people with a high health consciousness | 56.3 | 55.5 | 59.0 | 66.0 | 80.0 |
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| Percentage of people who pay attention to nutritional balance in their diet | 75.0 | 73.3 | 72.5 | 75.0 | 80.0 |
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| Percentage of people who exercise habitually | 36.0 | 36.6 | 41.1 | 44.0 | 50.0 |
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| Smoking rate | 20.9 | 20.4 | 19.2 | 18.5 | 15.0 |
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| Percentage of people who are getting the right amount of sleep for themselves | 46.6 | 47.3 | 56.6 | 64.0 | 80.0 |
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| Persons receiving specific health checkups | 96.0 | 98.0 | 99.0 | 100 | 100 |
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| Persons receiving specific health guidance | 48.0 | 32.0 | 56.0 | 57.0 | 60.0 | |
* The results for 2021 to 2023 are based on the results of SAKATA INX's annual health awareness survey.
②Strategy map
In order to promote health management, we have out a strategy map that shows the connection between detailed health initiatives, expected effects and management issues, which we would like to resolve through health management.
