Health management

Regarding employee health promotion, we have set up a company-wide health promotion office within the Human Resources Department, and are working in cooperation with the health insurance association and each relevant department. The health management regulations define the roles of each department Manager and human resources officer, and we are promoting health management and health promotion in the workplace.
In addition, we have 19 industrial physicians (including one psychiatrist at the head office and one doctor in charge of overseas operations) and 19 public health nurses and nurses throughout the country (including branches with fewer than 50 employees) as specialists. In addition, we receive guidance from a doctor at the University of Occupational and Environmental Health as health management promotion advisors.

●Health promotion system diagram

In order to support employees' autonomous health management, based on the Industrial Safety and Health Act, Complex with 50 or more employees hold health committee meetings once a month to raise awareness and disseminate health promotion activities. Masu.

●Overall picture of health management

Idemitsu Kosan conducts stress checks every year based on the Industrial Safety and Health Act. In fiscal 2022, we surveyed 12,570 Group employees, and the test participation rate was 91.5%. In addition to conducting interviews with highly stressed employees, we analyze each workplace and provide feedback to each department, leading to improvements in the workplace. We also provide ongoing care, including annual interviews with all employees from their first year to their third year with the company. We have also set up an in-house ``Health Support Site'' to support our employees by disseminating information and holding webinars regarding mental health issues during the coronavirus pandemic. Through these activities, we are working to reduce the number of new employees taking leave due to mental illness.

As a company with many overseas bases, our group recognizes the importance of responding to global health issues, including the world's three major infectious diseases (tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV/AIDS), and is responding accordingly. For those assigned to overseas locations, we provide pre-assignment education on health management (infectious diseases, lifestyle-related disease prevention, self-care), follow-up for those with high stress levels after conducting stress checks, check their health status, and provide support to the individual and their family during their assignment. We provide support by providing health checkups, vaccination recommendations, and health questionnaires.
For employees at the Nghi Nghi Son Refinery in Vietnam, we not only vaccinate them against seasonal infectious diseases (influenza, etc.), but also carry out pest control once a month in company housing to prevent zoonotic diseases. We are concerned about the health of our employees. We also conduct health checkups for residents in the surrounding area, and based on the results, we develop health improvement projects such as tuberculosis vaccination.

We have established ''Idemitsu Health Action,'' a desirable habit for preventing lifestyle-related diseases, and are encouraging people to take action. In addition, we have established ''health management categories'' based on the results of periodic health examinations, and we are putting effort into preventing the disease from becoming serious, such as by ensuring that high-risk individuals receive thorough health guidance from industrial health staff.

Since fiscal 2018, we have been comprehensively promoting 0 to 3 prevention. Regarding self-care and line-care, we are providing hybrid group training in real life (face-to-face) and online, as well as e-learning tailored to various situations.

We designate the 22nd of every month as "Swan Swan Day" and encourage employees to refrain from smoking during working hours. We also work with the health insurance association to provide support for quitting smoking, such as subsidizing the cost of outpatient smoking cessation visits.

Refineries/Complexes use radioactive materials in testing equipment and other equipment. When handling these substances, we have established internal regulations based on laws such as the Act on the Regulation of Radioactive Isotopes, etc., and manage them appropriately. By thoroughly shielding with protective gloves, protective clothing, protective masks, etc. depending on the work, and by making sufficient advance preparations such as education and training on work procedures, the work can be completed in a short time and the time for exposure to radiation can be reduced. We are taking measures to reduce this as much as possible. In addition, in order to manage the health and safety of those who handle the product, we prohibit entry into the controlled area, conduct dose measurements at the border of the controlled area (twice a year), and manage the exposure of employees who enter the controlled area (use personal exposure dosimeters). Radiation workers undergo medical checkups twice a year. Furthermore, we ask licensed waste disposal companies to dispose of waste containing radioactive materials appropriately.
Please note that the amount of radioactive materials we handle is not enough to cause radiation exposure in the local community.

●Past efforts

Among the health and productivity management initiatives of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, our company has been highly evaluated for our ''execution status of systems and measures'' and ''organizational structure,'' and has been selected as a ''Health and Productivity Stock 2024'' by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange. We have been selected for the third consecutive year in the large corporation category of the Ministry of Industry and Nippon Kenko Kaigi's 2024 Health and Productivity Management Recognition Organization (White 500).