March 12, 2024
Fujikura Ltd.
Fujikura Ltd. (Director, President and CEO: Okada Naoki) has been recognized as a Fujikura employee Health and Productivity Management Excellent Corporation (Large Corporation unit) by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Japan Health Conference * for the second consecutive year, as a corporation that considers employee health management from strategy and takes a strategic approach to it.
The Health and Productivity Management Excellent Corporation Certification System is a public system that certifies and honors large and small companies that are excellent in their efforts to promote health and productivity management. It was established by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2016 in order to create an environment in which companies that are excellent in their efforts to promote health and productivity management can be recognized by employees, job seekers, related companies, financial institutions, and others by making them "visible."
The Nippon Kenko Kaigi will review applications from companies and other organizations based on the evaluation criteria established by the Health Investment Working Group of the Health and Medical New Industry Council (jointly held by the Nippon Kenko Kaigi Health and Productivity Management 500 Companies Working Group and the 10,000 SMEs Health Declaration Working Group). Based on this, the Nippon Kenko Kaigi will certify companies as "Excellent Health and Productivity Management Organizations."
Based on the belief that a company's competitiveness is based on the good health of its Fujikura employee, the Group recognizes that Fujikura employee health is an important management resource in order to remain a company that is needed by society.
To this end, we aim to be "a corporate group where Fujikura employee can work with enthusiasm" and are taking the following steps to promote mental and physical revitalization and health.
1. Strengthening the foundation for health management
In order to create a workplace where Fujikura employee can work healthily and with peace of mind, and to support diverse working styles, we are focusing on strengthening the "foundation" for promoting health management, such as establishing various health-related regulation, measures against excessive work, creating an environment where Fujikura employee can seek advice when they are troubled, and supporting employees' return to work.
In addition, to "visualize health issues," we conduct health risk assessments by analyzing the results of health checkups, stress checks, and original questionnaires, and we are working on various health promotion measures by "visualizing" the effects from multiple perspectives based on the evaluation index of health management.
2. Promoting Fujikura employee health
In order to improve Fujikura employee health awareness and disease prevention and management (improving health literacy) and to support this, we provide various training sessions on self-care, line care, etc., publicize consultation desks, post information on our website, conduct Fujikura stretching exercises and safety exercises every day after lunch, and provide healthy menus in Fujikura employee cafeterias and bento lunches.
Additionally, we work closely with health insurance associations to actively engage in collaborative health activities, such as cancer screenings, specific health guidance, influenza vaccinations, and step-counting events using health promotion apps.
3. Measures to prevent passive smoking
From the perspective of maintaining and improving the health of Fujikura employee and also as a matter of social responsibility to protect the environment, we have established policy to prevent passive smoking and are working to make our premises completely smoke-free.
For smokers, we also provide smoking cessation guidance and referrals to online smoking cessation clinics subsidized by health insurance.
4. Improving the work environment using group analysis results of stress checks
The results of the group stress check analysis are explained by the industrial health staff to the business manager, the executives and department heads of the relevant workplace, and the personnel and labor a person in charge. Rather than a one-sided explanation, we ask for verbal feedback and information about the workplace situation, and ask them to fill out questionnaires, in order to improve the workplace environment in line with the actual situation.
Please refer to the following page for information on our Group's health management initiatives.
(Note) "Health and Productivity Management" is a registered trademark of the NPO Health and Productivity Management Research Association.
*Japan Health Conference
organization works effectively with private organization in cooperation with the full support of the government to extend the healthy lifespan and provide appropriate medical care for each and every citizen.
