Occupational health and safety management is the basis of all our activities, as well as an important corporate foundation and corporate value itself.
The management and all employees of the Fujikura Group will place the highest priority on safety in work practices and work on creating a safe and comfortable work environment, maintaining and enhancing mental and physical health. (The basic principle has been translated into English, Thai, Chinese, Spanish, and German as well as Japanese, and is being rolled out to group companies.)

In this regard, the Fujikura Group will implement the following:

The Board of Directors oversees risks in the safety and health activities of the Fujikura Group. The president and representative director oversees the operations, and the EHS Management Center works to strengthen group governance and improve health and safety management.

　In response to the serious accidents that occurred at our domestic affiliates in April 2016, we have established April 11, the day of the accidents, as the "Safety Pledge Day" for the Fujikura Group, as a day for all Fujikura Group employees to pledge their strong commitment to safety to "never cause another serious accident". In addition, we issued the "Safety Pledge" on the same day. On the same day every year, the "Day of Safety Pledge" (message from the president) is distributed to all Fujikura Group companies in Japan and overseas to renew the pledge.

　In health and safety management, proactive activities such as risk assessment are positioned as important activities to reduce occupational accidents. since 2016, we have been continuing these activities in a common way across the Fujikura Group, including overseas, and they have become established as activities with a sense of unity regardless of the nature of the business or the size of the site The activities have become firmly established as a unified activity, regardless of the nature of the business or the size of the site. For the identified risks, risk reduction activities are conducted based on the concept of intrinsic safety. All risks are managed and analyzed in a database system and used to promote risk reduction activities.
We will continue to strengthen our activities to identify potential risks and reduce all risks to an acceptable level. We believe that this is a never-ending activity with the goal of fostering a culture of safety based on the common issue of "making all risks at an acceptable level.

We have been operating an OHSMS (Occupational Health and Safety Management System) since FY2010, and acquired certification for the Occupational Health and Safety Management System standard (ISO 45001 - 2018) in FY2022 within the framework of integrating the head office and each business site. We will effectively incorporate the requirements of the standard into the improvement of operations and efficiency of each business, and operate the management system so that we can make continuous improvements toward building and fostering a mutually enlightening safety culture in which all employees can proactively point out each other's dangerous behaviors and so on.
*OHSMS: Occupational Health and Safety Management System

The EHS Control Center conducts periodic health and safety inspections at all Group company sites to check health and safety management activities, identify risks, and provide various types of guidance. In fiscal year 2021, the inspections were conducted at about 50 Group company sites in Japan and overseas, although many were held remotely due to COVID-19.
In fiscal 2021, as part of these activities, we held lectures on occupational health and safety management systems and chemical substance management, as well as hazard simulation training.
The Fujikura Group Safety and Health Conference is held twice a year to align the direction of such activities, communicate messages from management, and provide an opportunities to share various kinds of information and discuss them among team members.

The Fujikura Group established its business continuity policies in March 2012, and also formulated the business continuity master plan as well as the plan to maintain a functioning headquarters for business continuity.

On January 27, 2020, a disaster headquarters drill was conducted at the head office. The purpose of the drill was to ensure that the disaster information gathering and system would function effectively by actually performing the initial response to the establishment of a disaster headquarters at the head office in the event of an earthquake directly under the Tokyo metropolitan area.
The drill starts with the gathering of all task force members after the occurrence of the earthquake. Through this training, participants will confirm and learn how to quickly assemble each team member, quickly set up the equipment necessary for the headquarters to function, and start up the equipment.
The activities of the task force will also be included in the training. Through the training, participants will learn how to confirm the safety of employees, gather information on building conditions, infrastructure, traffic conditions, etc., and how to respond quickly and accurately to various problems that may arise.
During this drill, we also used an emergency power supply for backup in case of a power outage at the head office during the drill.
After the drill, each group reflected on their experiences and identified areas for improvement for the next drill, leading to improvements in the head office's Basic Plan for the Continuity of Functions (BCP).

In fiscal 2021, while it has become difficult to conduct conventional overall action drills due to measures to prevent new coronavirus infection, we conducted web-based training drills, referring to guidance from the fire department and public trends. The training exercise consisted of viewing videos and Tokyo Fire Department training videos to help participants visualize the changes in in-house disaster prevention activities and initial actions in consideration of the corona disaster and post-corona.

When elevators stop working due to fire or earthquake, it is necessary to evacuate physically disabled or injured employees from the upper floors of the building to the outside of the building by using the stairs. Fujikura's head office is equipped with "stairway evacuation equipment" to enable safe and quick evacuation in such cases, and although we cancelled an employee training session on this equipment in fiscal 2021 due to the Corona disaster, we plan to hold the session in fiscal 2022.

Based on the idea that individual employees are important assets for Fujikura, we are implementing a range of disaster control measures against large Nankai Trough earthquakes as well as inland earthquakes in the metropolitan area, all of which are predicted to occur in the near future. The disaster control measures include the distribution of "disaster control cards," which employees are expected to carry, and the operation of the safety confirmation system.

Since 2010, Fujikura has introduced a safety confirmation system to confirm the safety of employees and their families in the event of a disaster. The information gathered by this system is promptly reported to top management and utilized in our BCP.

The Fujikura distributes disaster control cards to employees. To help employees protect themselves in the event of a disaster, the card contains information on items that are essential for the protection of their lives, such as actions to be taken in each region during a large earthquake, a checklist to prepare for disasters, and responses to be made with regard to the safety confirmation system.

On October 9, 2019, the Suzuka works conducted a comprehensive disaster drill at the plant under the guidance of the Suzuka City Fire Department on the assumption of a large-scale earthquake. After evacuation drills, first aid drills, firefighting activities, and water spraying drills by the self-defense fire brigade were conducted. We will continue to conduct daily drills to be prepared for "unexpected disasters.

Numazu works conducted a disaster drill on September 26, 2019, assuming the occurrence of a sudden earthquake.
The training included primary and secondary evacuation drills, firefighting drills, and a lecture on how to use an AED by a specialist. We will further improve our awareness of disaster prevention on a daily basis so that we can respond calmly in case of an emergency.