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Occupational Health and Safety

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As part of the Group Management Philosophy and the Basic Code of Conduct, the IHI Group believes ensuring a safe and comfortable environment for everyone is one of its most important corporate responsibilities. In particular the Group considers ensuring health and safety as one of the foundations of its business activities and one it has positioned as an extremely important human rights issue toward “respect for human rights” outlined in the IHI Group ESG Management. Every month, the Group shares the progress of Group-wide occupational health and safety as well as health management with all Officers.
In addition, its initiatives are undertaken according to the IHI Group Health and Safety Policy as a way to ensure a healthy and safe workplace for everyone who works with the IHI Group whether they are a Group or partner company employee.

Policies

IHI Group Health and Safety Policy

Based on the following policy approved by the Officer in charge of Health and Safety, the IHI Group is methodically promoting risk assessment, which is the most important issue in terms of safety and health, by determining risk priorities and allocating management resources to respond to risks under the leadership of senior management.

Based on our management philosophy of “Contribute to the development of society through technology” and “Human resources are our single most valuable asset,” the IHI Group is committed to establishing a corporate culture that puts safety as the first priority. Specifically, based on the Basic Code of Conduct for the IHI Group, the following initiatives will be implemented to ensure a workplace environment in which all employees can work safely and in good health.

  1. The “Safety 5 Principles” will be taken as a principle shared throughout the Group and managers as well as all employees will engage in safety and health activities to prevent accidents.
    [Safety 5 Principles]
    — Safety is the highest priority
    — Don’t do or ask others to do dangerous work
    — Eliminate things that could lead to an accident
    — Follow the rules
    — Take the initiative
  2. We will endeavor to prepare facilities and provide opportunities to promote and maintain the mental and physical health of our employees, and create ideal workplaces in which employees can work in good health.
  3. While complying with relevant laws and regulations on safety and health, we will give full consideration to how our business activities affect local communities and endeavor to ensure safety and health as a member of society.

IHI Group Health Management Declaration

The IHI Group will implement management that values the health of employees based on the management philosophy of “Human resources are our single most valuable asset.”
We will support the proactive improvement of employee health and aim to energize the organization by maximizing employee vitality and capabilities.
By doing this, we will contribute to the development of society through the growth of the IHI Group.

July 1, 2020
Hiroshi Ide
President and Chief Operating Officer
IHI Corporation

Specific Initiatives

The IHI Group will work on both corporate health management and work-style reforms.
We will actively cooperate with labor unions and health insurance associations to spearhead the key measures below.
IHI asks every employee to strive to better their own health and take part in building an enthusiastic working environment.

  1. Reduce individual and organizational health risks.
    1. Enforcement of working conditions according to the results of medical checkups.
    2. Ensure the implementation of reactive mental health care measures.
      (Improve the working environment through stress checks, workplace surveys, and a clear response to illnesses.)
    3. Encourage employees to stop smoking and prevent second-hand smoking.
  2. Improve individual and organizational health to invigorate the working environment.
    1. Assist each person to actively manage their own health.
    2. Proactively implement active mental health care measures. (Build a working environment where enthusiasm and professional growth is felt so that everyone cultivates an enduring spirit.)
  3. Promote better health for both employees and their families.
    1. Expand activities to better health of employees and their families.
    2. Increase employee participation in medical checkups and health guidance.

Governance

The IHI Group has established the IHI Group Health and Safety Committee as a Group-wide committee. The Committee meets once a year, and whenever a serious accident occurs. The Committee discusses and drafts important policies and promotes occupational health and safety activities.
The committee is chaired by an Officer in charge of Health and Safety, and is vice chaired by both the General Manager and Deputy General Manager of Monozukuri System Transformation Division, who provides opinions from a general manufacturing perspective, and the President of Social Infrastructure Business Area, who handles multiple construction sites. Additionally, presidents of other business areas participate as Committee members, bringing together views from a wide range of perspectives.
In regards to matters related to health and safety, the measures being implemented are reported to the Management Committee which is held monthly depending on the level of risk, and in the event of a serious disaster or other incident deemed to be important, a report is also made to the Board of Directors. This enables the Committee’s chairperson, the Officer in charge of Health and Safety, to evaluate and manage health and safety risks.

Occupational Health and Safety Structure

IHI Group Health and Safety Committee

Chairperson Officer in charge of Health and Safety
Deputy Chairperson President of Social Infrastructure Business Area, General Manager and Deputy General Manager of Monozukuri System Transformation Division
Members President of Resources, Energy & Environment Business Area, President of Industrial Systems & General-Purpose Machinery Business Area, President of Aero Engine, Space & Defense Business Area, General Manager of Corporate Research and Development Division, Chief Occupational Health Physician, and other persons nominated by the chairperson
Secretariat Human Resources Division
Number of meetings convened in FY2024 2

Strategy

Risks

The IHI Group takes every possible measure to manage health and safety at our offices and construction sites, but in the unlikely event that an unexpected accident or disaster occurs, production activity may be disrupted, possibly having an adverse affect on the Group’s financial standing as a result. Although the Group has adopted measures such as taking its various types of liability insurance, in the event of a large-scale accident or disaster, it is possible the Group may be unable to recover all damages.

Opportunities

The IHI Group believes that ensuring occupational health and safety is not only essential to supporting sustainable business continuity and business transformation, but is also paramount to improving employee engagement and well-being*.
When employees can make full use of their abilities in a workplace where occupational health and safety are ensured, the IHI Group’s competitiveness increases, which leads to enhanced corporate value.

Well-being: condition where body and mind are healthy, a person is able to work in a lively manner, and both employees and organization are full of vitality

Risk Management

Workers Protected Under IHI’s Occupational Health and Safety Management System

The IHI Group has established standards laid out in both the occupational health and safety management system at works and research facilities and the occupational health and safety management system at construction sites.
These standards apply to all Group works, research facilities, and construction sites, and extend to all workers at these sites, including Group employees and partner company employees.

Health and Safety Management

The IHI Group has established health and safety policies, goals, and plans according to the standards set as part of its occupational health and safety management system. A monitoring system that complies with international guidelines such as ISO 45001 has also been established. Through annual health and safety management evaluations based on data such as the number of occupational accidents and injuries frequency rate, the IHI Group is supporting reforms to eradicate occupational accidents.
Additionally, the IHI Group rolled out the Safety General Principle for the six most common types of occupational accident in fiscal 2020 and are focusing on eradicating these occupational accidents throughout the entire IHI Group.
Furthermore, in order to eliminate occupational accidents, the IHI Group regularly provides employees with health and safety education, and supports business partners at works and construction sites to improve health and safety management in a cooperative effort to ensure safe working environments.

Occupational Accident Risk Management

The IHI Group’s works and construction sites conduct risk assessments to ensure risk reduction by prioritizing fundamental and physical measures. Specifically, all sources of danger in the workplace are identified and the risk level is evaluated based on the magnitude of the energy each source has. Based on the results of the assessment, priorities are set according to the level of risk, and effective safety measures that can be implemented by investing management resources are considered and implemented with the involvement of senior management. This enables the Group to gradually and methodically lower the risk of occupational accidents.

FY2025 IHI Group Health & Safety Management Priority Policy

Prevent accidents and disasters from occurring by strengthening risk assessments and risk responses.

  • Identify and evaluate risks with a focus on the relationship between risk sources and work
  • Involve senior management in risk response decisions
  • Establish an implementation system and invest in other necessary management resources

Management Targets

  1. Total injuries frequency rate
    (Works divisions) Less than 0.6, (Construction divisions) Less than 1.2
  2. Construction status of the risk assessment process
    Risk assessment has been established in works as well as the construction and service sectors in Japan
IHI Group’s Safety General Principle
  1. Prevention of Fall from Height
  2. Prevention of Fall from Medium and Minor Height
  3. Prevention of Caught-In/Pinched-In Between Machines and Devices
  4. Prevention of Caught-In/Pinched-In During Handling of Heavy Object
  5. Prevention of Hand Tools-Related Accidents
  6. Prevention of Grinder-Related Accidents

Due Diligence to Occupational Health and Safety during Construction and Other Projects

Concerning construction and other project execution, the IHI Group strives to identify and evaluate occupational health and safety risks in advance and take any necessary steps to reduce them.
Moreover, the Group carries out safety measures, which include the IHI Group’s Safety General Principle, with our business partners.

Investigation Procedures and Observations in the Event of an Occupational Accident

The IHI Group assesses and analyzes factors of any occupational accidents through Group-wide accident investigation procedures as well as standardizing the use of accident report formats, which allows for swift sharing of information about an accident in the Group.
Additionally, an analysis and evaluation of the accident information collected helps put in place measures to prevent any recurrence of the same or similar accidents throughout the Group.
In fiscal 2024, 66 accidents occurred in Japan without lost time or other serious consequences. In light of the hazards that led to these accidents, the Group is working on countermeasures for direct causes and indirect causes, focusing on root cause analysis including any background factors, and is working to strengthen countermeasures against them.

Occupational Accident Breakdown

(Unit: Incidents, Scope: IHI and 31 affiliated companies)

Item FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
Fall from height 2 2 1 0
Fall from medium and minor height 4 5 6 2
Caught-in/pinched-in between machines and devices 6 7 6 4
Caught-in/pinched-in during handling of heavy object 12 7 6 8
Hand tools-related accidents 1 6 6 6
Grinder-related accidents 1 2 2 2
Others 26 27 54 44
Total 52 56 81 66

Health Management

The IHI Group aims to achieve a “Good + Strong” company and individual “Growth + Happiness” as set out in Group Human Talent Strategy 2023, and believes that greater employee well-being helps improve individual productivity and invigorate the workplace, which is why the Group strives for health management from both a physical and mental perspective.
The Group’s mental health education takes approaches as defensive measures, such as detailed follow-up with individuals suffering from mental illness, programs to help employees return to work, and reintegration support programs, as well as approaches as offensive measures, such as resilience programs (programs to enhance peak performance, improve resilience and integration), etc. Through these educational programs, the IHI Group is working to build an enthusiastic workplace for everyone, from new employees to management level.

FY2025 IHI Group Health Care Priority Policy

Carry out both offensive and defensive measures to improve each individual’s energy and create a workplace where they can feel the joy of working from the perspective of physical and mental well-being.

  1. Offense measures:
    1. Improve individual vitality
    2. Create a workplace where people can feel joy in working
  2. Defense measures:
    Establish a system that can promptly address physical and mental illness stemming from a change of environment

[KPI]

  1. Employee engagement: 1 point improvement
  2. Increase the percentage of employees ready to perform at their best (sleep, exercise, nutrition): 1% up

Promoting Workplace Improvement Activities

The IHI Group is working on activities that improve the well-being of its employees and the organization.
In fiscal 2025, in addition to the work it has already done, the Group is strengthening the involvement of organizational leaders and corporate divisions in workplaces that for multiple years have been identified through stress checks to have high stress levels and is taking measures to address these issues.

Topics Covered Under the Main Dialogue Between Employee Representatives and Management on Health and Safety

The IHI Group convenes the Central Health and Safety Committee every year to engage in a labor-management dialogue about employee health and safety.

Initiatives to Reduce Long Working Hours

The IHI Group has established policies regarding working time management and are making efforts to reduce long employee working hours.
In particular, when it comes to monthly working hour management, the Group has set the following two goals, monitored monthly conditions, and reported to Management Committee as needed. (1) Zero employees exceeding 60 hours of overtime in a month; (2) Zero employees exceeding 80 hours of overtime in a month.

Health Management of Employees Involved in the Nuclear Power Business

The IHI Group has an established set of Radiation Control Standards for preventing radiation hazard to our employees. Based on these standards, the Group regulates the exposure of all IHI Group employees and partner company employees engaged in radiation work at nuclear power plants, nuclear fuel cycle plants, and other sites to evaluate radiation damage caused by exposure (exposure dose control).
Based on recommendations from the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), the Group has established an internal value standard (20 mSv/year) far stricter than the exposure limit for radiation workers set by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (50 mSv/year).
In fiscal 2024, 0 employees were exposed to this internal standard. Furthermore, IHI’s industrial physicians provide health checkups along with health advice.

Metrics and Targets

Occupational Accidents

Occupational Accidents*

(Unit: Incidents (figure inside parentheses indicates fatal incidents), Scope: IHI and consolidated subsidiaries in Japan)

Item FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
Total 52 (1) 56 (0) 54 (0) 66 (1)

Employees

 31 (1) 25 (0) 26 (0) 39 (1)

Temporary employees

 3 (0) 4 (0) 2 (0) 8 (0)

Partners (contractors)

 18 (0) 27 (0) 26 (0) 19 (0)
Minor incidents (Scope: IHI and 31 affiliated companies) ─ ─ ─ ─

Fatalities caused by occupational accidents.

Total Injuries Frequency Rate*

(Scope: IHI and consolidated subsidiaries in Japan)

Item FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
Total injuries frequency rate 1.23 1.37 1.33 1.50

Fatalities or injuries caused by occupational accidents per million working hours

Lost Time Injuries Frequency Rate*1

(Scope: IHI and consolidated subsidiaries in Japan)

Item FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
IHI Group average 0.38 0.39 0.34 0.42
National average in manufacturing industry*2 1.31 1.25 1.29 1.30
  1. Fatalities or injuries caused by occupational accidents per million working hours (excluding injuries with no time lost).
  2. Scope: Business sites with at least 100 people (sample survey based on the Survey on Industrial Accidents).

Occupational Health and Safety

Occupational Health and Safety Rate

(Scope: IHI and consolidated subsidiaries in Japan)

Item FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
Works divisions

Target value

 Under 0.6 Under 0.6 Under 0.6 Under 0.6

Results

 0.95 0.89 0.95 1.21
Construction divisions

Target value

 Under 1.2 Under 1.2 Under 1.2 Under 1.2

Results

 1.75 2.30 2.10 2.13

Severity Rate of Occupational Health and Safety

(Scope: IHI and domestic consolidated subsidiaries in Japan)

Item FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
IHI Group average 0.18 0.01 0.01 0.15

Number of Administrative Penalties Due to Labor Standards Act Violations

(Unit: Cases, Scope: IHI and affiliated companies in Japan)

Item FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
Number of administrative penalties due to Labor Standards Act violations 0 0 0 0

Health Management

Medical Checkup Related Items

(Unit: %, Scope: IHI and consolidated subsidiaries in Japan)

Item FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
Participation rate of medical checkups 97 96 98 98
Rate of diagnoses made as a result of medical checkups 71 72 72 73
Participation rate of stress checks 95 97 96 97
High stress rate 9 9 10 7
Absenteeism (Ratio of employees who take three or more months of leave) 0.7 1.3 1.4 1.4
Presenteeism (Ratio of employees with restricted hours) 1.8 1.7 2.3 1.9
Smoking rate 28 25 25 25

Rate of Occupational Diseases*

(Unit: Incidents, Scope: IHI and consolidated subsidiaries in Japan)

Item FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
Rate of occupational diseases 0.118 0.098 0.098 0.098
Deaths due to occupational diseases or illnesses 0 0 0 0

People suffering from occupational diseases per million working hours.

Initiatives

Education/Awareness Building

Employee Training and Education

The IHI Group provides education on health and safety specific to each position to everyone from new employees to management as follows.
The works division employees undergo Supervisor Safety Training (SST) to learn about health and safety when promoted to assistant foreman or foreman.
Design and development employees on construction sites undergo Construction Safety Standard Training (CSST) to learn the ins and outs of construction health and safety as new and senior employees or group leaders and management.
Employees who are candidates for construction site director or supervisor undergo Supervisor Safety Training (SVST) and Site Manager Safety Training (SMST) to learn about on-site health and safety. The Group also provides follow-up training thereafter to expand knowledge about health and safety
The IHI Group also cultivates trainers for the SST, CSST, SVST, and SMST programs as a Group.

IHI Group Health and Safety Training System

Construction Divisions
Eligible Participants New employees Training upon entry on new construction sites Construction supervisors and test driving coordinators instructing operators Small-scale construction site and service construction managers Health and Safety Officer Head office Health and Safety Manager On-site Health and Safety Manager
Details New Employee Training CSST Training Supervisor Training
(SVST Training)		 Site Manager Training
(SMST-I)		 Site Manager Training
(SMST-II)
Works Divisions
Eligible Participants New employees Work safety leaders, acting assistant foremen, etc. Upon appointment as an assistant foreman Upon appointment as a foreman Upon appointment as a plant manager
Details New Employee Training SST-1 SST-2 SST-3 New Manager Training

Health and Safety Training Participants

(Unit: People, Scope: IHI and consolidated subsidiaries in Japan)

Item FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
SVST ─ 268 209 365
SMST-I 69 56 109 157
SMST-II ─ ─ 22 38
SST-1 ─ 131 136 93
SST-2 ─ 109 98 78
SST-3 ─ 31 42 65
SST and SMST Trainer Courses 14 27 15 31
Safety Management Appointment Training ─ 26 71 48

Health Management

Management Resilience Program

The IHI Group has implemented a Resilience Program for its management beginning in fiscal 2021. The industrial physicians give lectures throughout the year covering four topics where workers learn about the body (sleep, exercise, and nutrition), emotion, consideration, and spirituality and put them into practice. The purpose of this program is not only to maintain and improve physical strength, but through these initiatives, to further build an individual and organizational vitality and strengthen cooperation among management. To broaden the program’s reach, starting from fiscal 2023, we have started providing derived programs run by the managers who have completed the course. By making changes within the management that leads the organization, the Group will continue making efforts to improve the health of the organization as a whole by striving for the happiness of its employees and improving the organization’s corporate value.

Initiatives Related to Various Health Issues

When the IHI Group dispatches employees to overseas areas where there is risk of contracting infectious disease, the Group recommends that those employees receive vaccinations against measles, rubella and other diseases in accordance with the recommended standards set by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Quarantine Station (FORTH).
In addition to this the Group is working on a thorough system for preventing infection in the workplace, including administering in-house mass vaccinations for seasonal influenza. During annual medical checkups, chest X-rays are performed to detect early respiratory and circulatory diseases, including tuberculosis.

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