Workplace Environment, Health & Safety

• Health and Safety
• Health and Productivity Management

Health and Safety

Basic Policy

Promotion Structure

Alps Alpine has in place a Central Health and Safety Conference with the vice president in charge of administration as the person in charge. Through the conference, the company sets policy and advances activities relating to health and safety, health promotion, fire prevention and traffic safety in Japan, and endeavors to prevent accidents, identify accident causes, and prevent recurrence. Results of activities are regularly reported to the Board of Directors through the Sustainability Committee. Overseas, each base carries out its own activities.

Health and Safety Assessments

Health and safety assessments, which also cover chemical substance management, are conducted once a year. Assessments (initial, follow-up or change assessments) are also carried out when establishing, or making changes to, new equipment or facilities and efforts are made to reduce the risk of accidents. In cases where an accident is narrowly avoided, problems are discovered, or an accident has occurred, corrective action assessments and preventive measures are shared across the organization and used to prevent a recurrence.

Work-Related Accidents – Occurrence and Countermeasures

Alps Alpine pursues activities with a goal of zero serious work-related accidents (accidents resulting in death and work-related accidents resulting in a long-term disability). No such accidents occurred in fiscal 2024 (scope: employees, temporary employees, and subcontractor employees based on site). The number of workplace accidents increased with the number of falls reaching a new high for the third year in a row. In addition to measures to reduce hazard sources, activities were expanded to encompass measures at the individual level. This was done by encouraging workers to have greater knowledge of their own bodies and habits through posture, gait and body composition measurements. And because the number of commuting accidents was higher than the previous year, we seek to raise road safety awareness. The aim is 100% participation in road safety courses for workers who commute by car or bicycle.

Work-Related Accidents – Targets and Results

*1 Workers covered are workers under Alps Alpine supervision (incl. contract and temporary employees).
*2 Accidents resulting in death and work-related accidents resulting in a long-term disability
*3 Occupational/commuting accidents: Work-related accidents with or without absence from work

Education and Training

Health and Safety Education

To help prevent work-related accidents, health and safety education is provided to all employees, including temporary employees, once a year. In fiscal 2024, health and safety education was provided to around 9,000 employees (in Japan).

Road Safety Courses

Road safety courses were implemented to help prevent road accidents. Around 8,800 employees (in Japan) took part. Other measures include bicycle safety education and gait and body composition measurements, which are used to help prevent accidents due to falls.

Drink-and-Drive Eradication Campaign

Efforts to eradicate drinking and driving in Japan include the provision of warnings to all employees in morning assemblies and via health and safety bulletins. We also work to raise awareness by having individual employees sign a declaration of support for the eradication of drinking and driving.
Additionally, alcohol testing is mandatory prior to driving on the job.

Introduction of Occupational Health and Safety Management System

We have acquired ISO 45001 certification, an occupational health and safety management system standard, mainly at our production sites, and strive to reduce and manage health and safety risks through risk assessment and compliance with laws and regulations. The certification rate for all global production sites is 68% (as of October 2025).

Health and Productivity Management

Basic Policy

Targets and Results

Mental Health Initiatives

Stress Check Implementation and Application

Employees in Japan, or seconded overseas from Japan, routinely undergo stress checks to promote self-awareness about their own stress levels. When implementing stress checks, the opportunity is taken to communicate the purpose of stress checks to employees and teach them about self-care. After implementation, employees are encouraged to build awareness and engage in self-care. Depending on the results, employees might receive a follow-up consultation, or perhaps a recommendation to partake in an employee assistance program (EAP) or visit the health room for advice.
Additionally, correlations between engagement survey findings and findings of organizational analysis of stress checks are identified, and steps are taken to reduce stress in workplaces, for example through the formulation of workplace environment improvement plans for high-stress workplaces with the assistance of general affairs and health rooms. These efforts led to improvements at four out of 10 high-stress workplaces in fiscal 2024.

Mental Health Measures

Training is provided to help enhance awareness about mental health. Line care training for managers follows a more practical, effective curriculum, covering the interpretation and use of organizational analysis findings and incorporating case studies. Support for new employees is provided through post-placement interviews and monthly pulse surveys during their first year. For mid-career recruits, additional pulse surveys, roundtable meetings and a mentor program were introduced, enhancing frameworks allowing them to hit the ground running. Effort also goes into assisting a return to work after a leave of absence. This involves reviewing return-to-work programs and reminding returning employees about support service contacts.

Approaches to Health Issues

Reducing Passive Smoking

Specific Health Guidance

Alps Alpine collaborates with the health insurance association to provide specific guidance to employees to promote better lifestyle habits. The framework in place allows employees to choose to receive guidance either face-to-face or via one of three online methods. The implementation rate in fiscal 2024 was 70%. From 2025, we are putting further effort into collaborative preventive care alongside the health insurance association, including through new measures to prevent severe cases.

Protecting Employees from Cancer

Workplaces that Understand Women’s Health Issues

To support the health of female employees, Alps Alpine makes it possible for women to receive gynecological checkups at all bases in Japan. We also assist with checkup costs and cover the costs of tests taken through local authorities.
In addition, we have facilities such as nursing rooms and showers at each base. We create environments where even the child-raising generation finds it easy to work.

Raising Health Awareness

Dealing with Infectious Diseases and Other Global Health Issues

In Japan, we strive to prevent infectious diseases through measures including provision of influenza vaccinations, opportunities for rubella antibody testing, routine reporting of infections by employees, and provision of rubbing alcohol as an antiseptic in appropriate locations on company premises.
For employees seconded overseas, we also provide vaccinations for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, Japanese encephalitis, rabies, and typhoid fever, as well as the MMR vaccine, and hold annual health checks. Depending on the overseas location, we have arrangements in place to ensure that employees depart for their overseas posting feeling secure, for example with the provision of the hepatitis A vaccination.

Physical Exercise

As an initiative addressing lack of physical exercise as a health issue, the company teams up with the health insurance association to hold walk rallies twice a year, making use of an app, and to run an annual My Health Improvement Challenge, in which employees set a health target to attempt over a one-month period. Commemorative items are presented to employees with the best results and those who achieve their targets.

Health-Conscious Cafeteria Menus

Health-Related Events

Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization – Six Years in a Row

Health Management Data

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