In our Group, which has many labor-intensive businesses, we recognize that in addition to our efforts to ensure the health and safety of our employees, it is important to ensure the safety of all stakeholders who work together with us for the sustainable growth of our Company. In order to protect the safety of all stakeholders involved in the Group's business activities and to support the maintenance of the mental and physical health of Group employees, we comply with relevant laws and regulations such as the Industrial Safety and Health Act. In the Group Charter of Corporate Behavior, we have set a policy to improve the health and safety system to eliminate occupational accidents. In addition, we have declared that we will work to promote health throughout our offices (Healthy Company Statement), and we strive to create a work environment where everyone can work safely, in a healthy and lively manner both physically and mentally.

We have established the Central Health and Safety Council as an organization that promotes and manages accident prevention and health promotion in the Group. Under this council, the country is divided into 5 blocks (Kanto, Chubu, Kansai, Chugoku, Kyushu), and under this umbrella, each branch office makes plans to develop health and safety activities.

The Central Health and Safety Council Secretariat sets the health and safety activity policy of each branch office every year, with an annual slogan, key goals, and key implementation items, and each block and each branch office plans annual health and safety activities based on the activity policy. As an activity, at the all-branch office meeting hosted by the Central Health and Safety Council, we confirm the progress of each block, analyze the causes of accidents and occupational accidents, and share measures to prevent recurrence. In each block, health and safety conferences are held four times a year with patrols as the main axis. The secretariat conducts safety patrols for business sites with deficiencies in the safety system such as branch offices with many accidents. Depending on the results of the patrols, the safety management systems, including the systems of the partner companies of the business site, are corrected according to the improvement guidance document. In addition, during national activities such as National Safety Week, the results of the safety activities of each branch office are reported to the secretariat, and the secretariat evaluates the activities.

■Initiatives

1. Initiatives related to ensuring safety

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   * The Company has listed the number of occupational accidents as one of the materiality (important issue) KPIs, and as a target value, the number of occupational accidents in FY2023 is set at a frequency rate of 0.80 or less and a severity rate of 0.03 or less. For more information, please refer to our Sustainability Report 2022.

2. Pre-emptive safety based on KY and risk assessment

   1. We estimate the risks of daily work by KY (hazard prediction), implement changes in work methods according to risks, and strive for pre-emptive safety.
   2. At times such as new work and introduction of new equipment, a risk assessment is conducted, a work standard document specifying the work method for the tool to be used is prepared, and workplace rules are thoroughly communicated via the work standard document.

3. Implementation of safety education

   1. In order to make new employees understand the characteristics of the port work site, we conduct health and safety training for new employees on topics such as accident case study education, hazard prediction training, risk assessment training, and audio-visual education through safety videos.
   2. We have established a mechanism to report monthly accidents and near-miss incidents that did not result in accidents within the Group and a system to share it within the Group. We strive to prevent recurrence and prevent similar accidents by disseminating the case studies horizontally at each branch office and using them for safety education.

4. Initiatives related to health management and health promotion

   1. Measures for prevention and control of infectious diseases

      ①Assistance for influenza vaccination costs
      In order to promote vaccination and reduce the burden of vaccination, we partially subsidize the costs of influenza vaccination at medical institutions for our employees and dependents in cooperation with the Sunny-Pier Health Insurance Association, which is the health insurance association of our Company.

      ②Workplace vaccination with COVID-19 vaccine
      In 2021, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic that has raged in various countries around the world, we implemented the COVID-19 vaccination in the workplace for company and group employees who wished to take it.
      ●Achievement: 202 people

5. Mental health measures

   1. Implementation of stress checks and provision of interview opportunities for those who wish to have them
      In accordance with the law, we conduct stress checks for all employees who wish to take them. In addition, we have prepared an environment so that employees who wish to have an interview with an industrial doctor after receiving the results of their stress test can receive one.
   2. Implementation of training for employees in line with the plan for the promotion of mental health
      In order to advance the plan for the promotion of mental health, we conduct training on the themes of harassment prevention and mental health for all employees.

6. Others

   1. Implementation of the Hyogo Health Company Declaration
      Focusing on health management and with a view to obtaining certification as a Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization in the future, we issued a Health Company Declaration in 2020, as the first step.
   
   
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