Occupational Safety and Health Policy

The Daikin Group's Group Compliance Guidelines state our top priority of ensuring a safe, healthy workplace where employees can work in peace of mind. To achieve this, we constantly strive to create a "zero accident" workplace where Daikin employees and subcontract employees work safely, both for their own sake and to instill a feeling of safety in the minds of residents around our factories.

Frequency Rate^*1 (Daikin Industries only)

*1: This shows the frequency of work-related calamities, expressed in number of casualties for every 1,000,000 working hours.

Severity Rate^*2 (Daikin Industries only)

*2: This shows the severity of the calamity, expressed in man-days lost per 1,000 hours worked.

Number of Accidents Resulting in Time off Work (Daikin Industries only)

Occupational Safety and Health Management Structure

Occupational Safety and Health Committee at Each Daikin Site Leads Safety and Accident-Prevention Efforts

The chart below shows the Daikin Group's system for occupational safety and health and security. An Occupational Safety and Health Committee at each Daikin site leads efforts through the creation of voluntary annual policies and slogans.

These committees also ensure the safety of facilities and prevent accidents through risk assessments, conduct site patrols to make sure rules are being followed, and raise employee safety awareness through hand-on workshops. The committees also send members to other sites to exchange safety information with committee members there.

System for Occupational Safety and Health

Employee Education and Training

Raising Safety Awareness through Danger Prediction Drills

Each site of Daikin Industries conducts courses and training in occupational safety and health.

Special training is offered to licensed operators of equipment such as presses and forklifts. We also have danger prediction drills for all employees as well as employees of on-site partner companies with the aim of eliminating human error.

We also carry out near-miss educational activities to prevent accidents during work commutes and raise traffic safety within the premises.

• Ensuring Plant Safety for Business Partners (Responsibility to Business Partners)

Employee Health Management

Supporting Employee Health through Checkups and Counseling

Daikin Industries strives to maintain employees' health by providing all employees with semi-annual health checkups, as well as semi-annual special checkups for those engaged in specialized work.

Employees who are found to have problems are put under the direct guidance of the company health clinic, while employees with lifestyle-related diseases are taken care of by a public health nurse and nutritionist. We are trying to provide more opportunities for the employees themselves to use this health and nutrition advice for their own self improvement.

Employees working excessive hours are checked by an industrial physician, and if the employee needs special attention, he or she and his or her superior will receive guidance from the physician.

We also work to increase employees' health awareness by holding seminars on preventing metabolic syndrome and lifestyle-related diseases, and providing information designed to reduce smoking among employees.

Mental Health

Awareness of Individuals and Organizations Dealing with Mental Health Issues and Provision of Specialist Care

Daikin Industries strives to maintain the physical and mental health of employees. Based on guidelines from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, four types of mental health care measures are implemented at all bases: self-care, care by managers, care by dedicated in-house staff, and care by dedicated outside staff.

Specialized staff work closely with each workplace to create a working environment conducive to mental and physical well-being. Industrial physicians provide mental health checkups to employees who are transferred and to newly hired employees after three months, as well as to employees who questionnaires have showed are facing problems. We also have once-a-year mental health lectures for managers.

Shortening Working Hours

Shortening Work Hours by Obligating Employees to Leave at Closing Time and by Boosting Work Efficiency

Since fiscal 2003, as an initiative to eliminate long working hours, Daikin Industries has obligated employees to leave the office at closing time once a week and prohibited employees from coming to work on their days off (unless absolutely necessary and approved by the department head ).

In this way, we are making a concerted effort to improve both work rule compliance and work efficiency. Yearly plans are made for each employee's duties and working hours, and to ensure that work and personnel management are in line with the plans, checklists are filled out to manage daily work.

Furthermore, by implementing a planned 5-day paid work leave system and establishing 3 days of general paid leave, we aim to promote respect for work-life balance and a more vibrant work environment.

In fiscal 2009, we introduced a work attendance tracking system that enables us to easily comprehend the day-to-day circumstances of employee overtime and paid leave use. This system has advanced employee workload control by managers and boosted the use of paid leave among employees.

We will continue to do everything we can to shorten working hours and boost work efficiency.

Percentage of Employees Taking All Paid Leave (Daikin Industries only)

Average Hours of Overtime per Employee (Daikin Industries only)

Measures to reduce working hours