As an industry-leading integrated logistics firm, the Company is keenly aware of its role in securing transport safety. Under the leadership of the Board of Directors and the General Safety Manager, it strives to strengthen its safety culture through internal training and education and publicity activities. In addition, to ensure safe and reliable transportation, it sets shared targets for all employees and implements systematic safety management in activities toward these targets.

1. We’re committed to complying with all laws and regulations and internal Company rules related to safety.
2. We’re committed to prioritizing transport safety above all else in our business operations.
3. We’re committed to implementing safety management in which top management plays a leading role.
4. Each business year, we set transport safety targets and implement systematic safety management toward their achievement.
5. We analyze various aspects of safety efforts, including target achievement. We strive at all times to improve the safety management system.
6. We take steps to confirm that all employees understand this Policy and various safety rules and provisions. We disclose these efforts to the general public in various ways, including posting them to our website.

Article 1Purpose

Based on the provisions of Article 16 of the Motor Truck Transportation Business Act as amended by the Act on partial Amendment of the Railway Business Act etc. to Improve Transport Safety, these Rules (“Rules” hereinafter) seek to stimulate initiatives to further transport safety. By clearly establishing compliance requirements, these Rules advance efforts to implement and continually update safety management to further strengthen the Company’s safety culture and to ensure transport safety.

Article 2Scope

1. These Rules apply to business activities related to the Company’s general truck transportation business.
2. These Rules apply to Company executives, permanent full-time employees, part-time employees, temporary employees, and contracted employees.

Article 3Basic policies

1. Based on the keen understanding that securing transport safety is a vital part of Company management, the Company’s Board of Directors will play a leading role in taking action on building internal safety systems while seeking out and incorporating the viewpoints of the General Safety Manager and all employees. In addition, over the course of the full cycle consisting of implementation, inspection, and improvement of internal safety management, all employees will work together as one under the leadership of the Board of Directors to secure transport safety.
2. To secure transport safety, the Company will prepare Companywide targets and plans and strive to achieve these targets. It will also proactively publish information related to transport safety through the Company website and other media.

Article 4Priority transport safety measures

1. Based on the basic policy described in the preceding article, the following measures will be continually implemented as priority measures:
   1. Compliance with these Rules and with laws and regulations related to transport safety
   2. Proactive investment in transport safety
   3. Periodic internal audits and corrective and preventive measures based thereon
   4. Building internal communication and reporting structures for transport safety and striving to communicate and share information
   5. Planning and implementing internal training and education related to transport safety
2. In cooperation with Company subsidiaries and affiliate companies, the Company will strive to secure transport safety throughout the Company’s entire Group of companies.
3. The Company will refrain from actions that impede the transport safety of subcontractors to whom it entrusts business activities.

Article 5Targets and plans related to transport safety

1. Companywide targets related to transport safety will be prepared based on the basic policy under Article 3. In addition, each branch office will set targets based thereon in accordance with its own specific requirements and conditions.
2. Plans related to transport safety will be formulated to achieve the targets described in the preceding paragraph and to ensure the steady implementation of the priority measures described in the preceding article.

Article 6Duties of the Board of Directors

1. The Board of Directors will bear ultimate Company responsibility for securing transport safety.
2. The Board of Directors will take all necessary measures in connection with securing transport safety, including developing structures, implementing measures, and securing budgeting.
3. The Board of Directors will respect the opinions of the General Safety Manager and other employees in securing transport safety.

Article 7Internal organization related to transport safety

An overview of the Company’s internal organization for securing transport safety is provided below.

Board of Directors

As described in the preceding article, the Board of Directors bears ultimate responsibility for transport safety and plays a leading role in securing transport safety.

General Safety Manager

Elected from Directors satisfying statutory requirements, the General Safety Manager will guide and manage measures implemented to secure transport safety and oversee Company operations management and maintenance management structures.

Assistant General Safety Manager

Handles operations related to transport safety in place of the General Safety Manager when the General Safety Manager is unable to do so due to unforeseen events.

Secretariat

Under the leadership of the General Safety Manager and the Assistant General Safety Manager and staffed by Head Office administrative personnel, the Secretariat will handle administrative operations related to transport safety.

Coordinating Operations Supervisors/Assistant Coordinating Operations Supervisors

Coordinating Operations Supervisors/Assistant Coordinating Operations Supervisors oversee operations management structures and maintenance management structures at each Company branch office and business site.

General Operations Supervisors/Assistant General Operations Supervisors

General Operations Supervisors/Assistant General Operations Supervisors assist the Coordinating Operations Supervisors/Assistant Coordinating Operations Supervisors and oversee operations management structures and maintenance management structures at each Company branch office and business site.

Operations Managers/Maintenance Managers

Operations Managers/Maintenance Managers are statutory managers appointed in accordance with the Motor Truck Transportation Business Act, Road Transport Vehicle Act, and other applicable legal provisions to manage vehicle operations and maintenance at each branch office.

Article 8Appointing and dismissing the General Safety Manager

1. A Company Director who satisfies the conditions under Article 2-6 of the Motor Truck Transportation Safety Regulations will be appointed as the Company’s General Safety Manager.
2. The General Safety Manager will be dismissed from the position of the General Safety Manager if any of the following comes to apply to him or her:
   1. The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan orders his or her dismissal.
   2. Physical disability or other such factors make it difficult for him or her to continue to perform his or her duties.
   3. It is recognized that the continuing undertaking by the General Safety Manager of his or her duties may impair transport safety, whether due to violations of applicable laws and regulations, neglect in confirming matters related to transport safety, or other such reasons.

Article 9Duties of the General Safety Manager

1. Under the leadership of the Company Board of Directors, the General Safety Manager will have the following duties:
   1. Work toward the widespread promulgation and thorough understanding of awareness of transport safety among all Company employees.
   2. Implement and manage basic policies, priority measures, and plans related to transport safety.
   3. Develop and review internal communication and reporting structures and organizational structures for securing transport safety.
   4. Implement internal audits and improvement/corrective measures for transport safety.
   5. Supervise Operations Managers and Maintenance Managers.
   6. Plan and implement employee training and education related to transport safety.
   7. Undertake other coordination and management related to transport safety.

Article 10Periodic review of rules related to transport safety

To ensure that the structures for securing transport safety are suited to actual current conditions and to the Company at all times, the Company will periodically review and revise as necessary its safety management rules, basic policy on transport safety, priority measures, targets and plans, and organizational structure.

Article 11Implementing priority measures related to transport safety

To ensure transport safety, the Company will set targets and formulate plans related to transport safety as described in Article 5 of these Rules and, in so doing, implement priority measures as described in Article 4 of these Rules.

Article 12Sharing and communicating information related to transport safety

Based on the organizational structures described in Article 7 of these Rules, the Company will secure two-way communication and information sharing between the Board of Directors and the General Safety Manager on the one hand and Company employees on the other. The Company will develop structures to secure transport safety that reflect the views of its employees. Employees who discover and report any circumstances with safety implications will suffer no disadvantages for having done so.

Article 13Communication and reporting structures for accidents and injuries

1. Coordinating Operations Supervisor of the branch office or business site will report accidents or injuries occurring at his or her site to the General Safety Manager via the Central Health and Safety Council as specified in the internal communication structure.
2. In the event of an accident, injury, or other incident subject to the Vehicle Accident Reporting Rules, an appropriate report will be submitted without delay to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in accordance with those Rules.

Article 14Implementing priority measures related to transport safety

The Company will plan and implement training and education to train the human resources needed to secure transport safety.

Article 15Internal audits of transport safety

1. Under the leadership of the Board of Directors, the General Safety Manager will conduct periodic internal audits of transport safety to assess the state of safety management implementation within the Company.
2. Internal audits will be overseen by the General Safety Manager jointly with the Internal Audit Department.
3. Emergency internal audits will be undertaken as deemed necessary by the Board of Directors or the General Safety Manager in cases involving serious accidents or injuries or recurrence of past accidents or injuries.
4. The General Safety Manager will report to the Board of Directors on the results of internal audits and propose to the Board of Directors any due improvement and corrective measures.
5. The Board of Directors will deliberate on the proposals described in the preceding paragraph, make decisions on improvement and corrective measures, and have the General Safety Manager carry out the relevant measures.

Article 16Managing documents and records to secure transport safety

The Company will establish methods for recording and retaining and properly retain and manage minutes of meetings in business operations related to transport safety; related basic policies; priority measures; communication and reporting structures; reports on accidents and injuries; results of internal audits; and other information concerning transport safety.

Article 17Matters related to release of information

1. The Company will release the information enumerated below without delay via the Company website in accordance with the timing stipulated in applicable laws and regulations:
   1. basic policies related to transport safety
   2. targets related to transport safety and the state of their achievement
   3. plans related to transport safety
   4. priority measures related to transport safety
   5. information concerning these Rules and the General Safety Manager
   6. organizational structure and command-and-control structure related to transport safety
   7. communication and reporting structure for accidents, injuries, etc.
   8. accident statistics as described in Article 2 of the Vehicle Accident Reporting Rules
   9. actual budgets for transport safety
   10. plans for training and education related to transport safety
   11. results of internal audits related to transport safety and related improvements and corrective measures
2. On reporting to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism the state of improvements implemented to secure transport safety following administrative sanctions, such as measures implemented after an accident to prevent similar accidents, the Company will issue notification of such action via the Company website.

Article 18Amendment and abolition of these Rules

1. Amendment and abolition of these Rules will be proposed by the General Safety Manager and deliberated on by the Board of Directors.
2. The preceding paragraph will also apply to the methods of review and amendments of the basic policy, organizational structures, and other matters under Article 10 of these Rules.

Article 19Effective date

These Rules will take effect as of December 1, 2006.

General Safety Manager

Pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, Paragraph 2, Subparagraph 4 of the Motor Truck Transportation Business Act, the Company has appointed Representative Director Toshihiro Horiuchi as the General Safety Manager to oversee the Company’s management of transport safety. The Company has notified the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of his appointment.

*Toshihiro Horiuchi meets the requirements to serve as General Safety Manager under Article 2-6 of the Motor Truck Transportation Safety Regulations.

G-Mark certification as an outstanding safety business is a program established by the Japan Trucking Association to recognize trucking companies that meet specific standards for traffic safety and other matters. We’re currently in the process of gaining certification under this program as another way to strengthen transport safety. We’ve already won G-Mark Certification for 25 of our branches.

To manage driving safety, the Company is proactively installing dash cameras on its vehicles. As of May 2023, dash cameras had been installed on 824 vehicles (a total of 1,102 vehicles in the Group companies). Managers use these devices to review braking, steering, and other events and to provide guidance on improving driving safety.
In a key part of operations management, we also confirm that all drivers without exception are checked for alcohol consumption in roll calls before and after they drive. The results of these checks are recorded and the state of their implementation confirmed in internal audits.