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[ISO 26000 Core Subject] Human Rights and Labour Practices

We are fostering occupational safety and health activities across the Group, positioning safety as the basis of all our business operations.

In fiscal 2011, management and all employees made a concerted effort to ensure health and safety to achieve zero work accidents, focusing on (1) KY and 2S, (2) essential safety of machinery and facilities, (3) safety and health education, and (4) promotion of mental and physical health. As a result, we were able to achieve zero lost-time injuries.

To further reduce occupational safety risks, we studied what kind of occupational health and safety management system we should build and actually launched one in fiscal 2010. In addition, we formulated a basic health and safety policy for the entire Fujikura Group in fiscal 2011 our sites formulate and implement their own health and safety plans according to the basic policy and also based on the annual health and safety action policy set by the Group for each fiscal year.

At the beginning of a new fiscal year and during the national safety week, all employees attend a safety meeting held at their sites, where the head of the site announces the site's commitment to ensuring safety and to raising employees' safety awareness. In particular during the national safety week, directors visit the sites to read out the President's message to employees and ask them to ensure a safer working environment.

Indentifying invisible risks and implementing improvements helps create a safe working environment. Based on this recognition, we work to find out and assess any risks and hazards and so eliminate potential risks in the workplace. This process also helps raise the safety awareness of individual employees.

To raise individual employee's awareness of risks and prevent human errors, we incorporate KY (kiken yochi) risk prediction training into the small-group activities conducted daily at our workplaces. In the training, employees discuss how to identify and deal with potential risks in their daily business operations.

In addition to inspecting our delivery vehicles on a daily and regular basis, we also carry out one-time checks on their inspection and maintenance status. We use simulations to provide employees with opportunities to experience the risks caused by sudden braking, abrupt steering changes, and other dangerous operations to raise their ability to predict and avoid risks.

Using reference materials on behavior that might cause safety risks while working, we provide employees with one-to-one education at our workplaces. As a follow-up, our health and safety staff visit the workplace to check on the effectiveness of the education and provide advice as required.

Many employees who drive to the workplace are given traffic safety tips by fellow employees working in rotation both on the premises and at the entrance to the parking lot during morning commuting hours. Specifically, they are given advice on use of seatbelts, turn signals, parking lot approach speeds, etc.

We give managers and supervisors training on mental health problems, including the symptoms, causes, early detection methods, and how to respond to employees suffering these problems.
We give employees access to our industrial doctor and health experts at the clinic and arrange for them to talk to industrial counselors, while ensuring privacy.

We provide employees with regular physical checkups so that they can maintain their health based on knowledge on health risks and disease. These checkups not only cover the health check items designated by law, but also special checks that Fujikura has added for early detection of lifestyle-related diseases. Employees who pose a high health risk are provided with the necessary advice. These measures help employees avoid being ill and maintain their health.

In fiscal 2009, we began to examine the introduction of an occupational safety and health management system (OSHMS) in order to conduct occupational safety and health activities continuously in an organized manner, and have actively been introducing this system since fiscal 2010. Since then, each site has been monitoring progress, reviewing details, and raising member awareness of the system. In fiscal 2011, we executed a PDCA cycle to implement additional measures for the system. At present, we are working to introduce this system across the Fujikura Group.

As one of the many traffic safety week activities, our sites hold traffic safety seminars for employees, inviting traffic officers from local police departments as lecturers. Participants in these seminars raise their awareness of traffic safety by listening to the lecturers, watching DVDs and gaining experience from "virtual traffic accidents." The seminars help increase the safety awareness of employees who drive during their commute to work or for their business operations.

Our sites conduct emergency drills based on the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake. Each site independently conducts drills on effective evacuation, employing their individual geographic features to predict the damage that might be caused by a future earthquake. These sites will continue to conduct such drills on a regular basis.