Occupational safety

The Idemitsu Group's safety philosophy is to "make people's safety our number one priority, reduce and eliminate risks through appropriate allocation of management Resources, maintenance and improvement of facilities, processes and work systems, and strive to eliminate accidents and disasters while cultivating a culture of safety." Safety based on this philosophy is the result of management efforts, and zero accidents and disasters is the greatest achievement in this field. Based on this recognition, we have made safety the most important and prioritized standard in various value judgment criteria for all business activities, such as production, logistics, sales, and research and development, all work, and all actions in each situation and stage. We have established the following specific policies in our internal regulations, "Basic Principles for Safety, Health and the Environment," and are working to ensure the health, safety and security of all people related to our company.

Furthermore, to ensure the implementation of the "Basic Policy for Ensuring Safety," we have formulated the "Occupational Safety and Health Management Regulations," based on which we have established a system for ensuring safety and occupational health, as well as procedures for formulating, implementing, evaluating, and continuously improving plans (occupational safety and health management system). We strive to ensure the safety of all workers, including employees and employees of affiliated companies, and to maintain and improve safety standards.

The Group has positioned "safety, health, and the environment" as the foundation of its management for some time, and has established the Safety & Environment Division to promote efforts to secure and preserve these areas. The Safety & Environment Division consists of the General Manager of the Safety & Environment Division, the Deputy General Manager, the President of the relevant department Manager and major affiliated companies, and other persons appointed by the General Manager of the Safety & Environment Division, and the secretariat.
The officer in charge of safety and the environment (director) is delegated by the President and Representative Director to supervise the division as the chief officer involved in safety, health, and the environment, and the Safety, Environment and Quality Assurance Department serves as the secretariat.
The Safety & Environment Division determines the Medium-term Management Plan, annual basic policy, and priority issues related to the safety and health environment, and then grasps and evaluates the results of safety and environmental audits, maintains, reviews, and confirms the status of improvement of the safety, health, and environmental management systems. As a corrective action and review, the general manager of the division conducts a management review at the Safety & Environment Division meeting, and reflects it in the basic policy for the next fiscal year.
Within these systems, each Complex consistently pursues and works from top management to always give top priority to human safety.
In addition, we have established a Safety and Security Advisory Committee that includes outside experts to prevent large-scale accidents in Complex, and we are working to build more effective safety and security measures.

●Position of the Safety and Environment Headquarters in the corporate governance system and safety and environment management system

To ensure safety and the environment throughout the company, we have established the "Guidelines for Risk Assessment Regarding Safety and the Environment," which lay out our basic approach to identifying hazards and procedures for risk assessment.
Based on these guidelines, we comprehensively identify potential hazards, including those in processes and equipment, conduct risk assessments, and take appropriate measures based on the results to reduce or eliminate risks.
In addition, for high-risk cases, the Safety and Environment Headquarters Secretariat checks the management status and shares it with the Executive Committee to ensure progress on the action plan.

The Group has built and is operating its own unique management system that takes advantage of the safety and health know-how it has accumulated through its experience and that is based on the international standard for occupational safety and health management systems (ISO 45001) and the certification standards of the High Pressure Gas Safety Act.
We also make continuous improvements through internal audits and management reviews.
Overseas, we will have obtained 10 ISO 45001 certifications by June 2024.

Under the guidance of the Safety and Security Advisory Committee, we have revised our earthquake countermeasures, such as strengthening facility structures, that we have implemented since fiscal 2005, to reflect new thinking and to include measures against storm surges and typhoons in fiscal 2021. Based on this guideline, we have since been examining specific issues, such as measures against major typhoons and seismic evaluation and countermeasures from the perspective of BCP for anticipated earthquakes.

●Idemitsu Group's safety, health and environment performance in 2023 Unit: cases

●Occupational accident frequency rate ^*

●Strength rate ^*

Accident-free efforts

In fiscal 2024, we will continue our "challenge to eliminate accidents" and strive to firmly establish a culture of thoroughly enforcing "rules to protect lives" and following and enforcing rules.
The "Rules for Saving Lives" prohibit five actions that pose an extremely high risk of causing serious injury or death.
In recent years, there have been many accidents caused by partner companies. As a result, we are reminding ourselves that all employees, including partner companies, are our colleagues, and we are working to thoroughly implement the "rules for protecting life" to protect our own lives and the lives of our coworkers.
Additionally, we hold company-wide case study meetings to review cases that have resulted in serious injury or death or that could have potentially led to serious injury, and are working to prevent the recurrence of such accidents.

Preventing the recurrence of fatal accidents

Our company has set the goal of "achieving zero accidents" and is working to achieve "zero serious accidents." However, in fiscal 2023, one fatal accident occurred during construction of a solar power plant at Complex under the jurisdiction of a group company.
In this accident, a partner company employee who was driving a transport vehicle made a mistake in operation and was crushed between the platform and the driver's seat, resulting in his death. As the client, we worked with the prime contractor to investigate the cause and take measures to prevent recurrence, while also publicizing the case to prevent similar accidents within our group.

Strengthening the earthquake resistance of existing facilities

The Tokachi-oki earthquake in 2003 prompted the Group to establish an Occupational Safety and Security Advisory Committee. In addition, through activities such as the Facility Structural Reinforcement Study Group, which covers Refineries/Complexes, we have been evaluating and implementing measures against anticipated earthquake strengths that exceed the legal standards.
From fiscal 2020 onwards, we will utilize the government's subsidy program for strengthening our facilities and will be carrying out seismic assessments and measures against anticipated earthquakes at oil terminal in addition to Refineries/Complexes from the perspective of BCP ^*, and working to reinforce our facilities. Going forward, the Group will continue to consider and implement further earthquake resistance enhancements.

Super certified Complex

Our group's Refineries/Complexes are working to improve their safety capabilities in light of the increasing sophistication of safety technology, including the use of advanced technology, advanced risk assessments, and advanced education and training. As a result, the following Refineries/Complexes Complex been certified as "Super Certified Businesses" that are implementing advanced safety initiatives under the High Pressure Gas Safety Act.

In order to cope with the aging of plants and the decrease in the number of skilled employees, Complex that implement advanced safety initiatives such as the use of IoT and big data are certified as "Super Certified Complex" and are recognized as industrial It is expected that this will also contribute to improving the security capabilities of the entire industry. For certified Complex, rationalization of voluntary safety regulations will be applied, leading to stronger international competitiveness.

●Classification of Complex related to security

Utilizing advanced technology to ensure safety

We are verifying and introducing advanced technologies across the entire company. For example, we are introducing various technologies tailored to the situation at each site, such as the development of equipment diagnostic technology using AI, the use of AI in boiler combustion control to suppress equipment fluctuations, cybersecurity measures, VR-based risk experience education, and practical simulators.

National Safety Week Initiatives

For our company, whose philosophy of ensuring safety is to "ensuring people's safety as the top priority," the National Safety Week, which is held for the purpose of preventing industrial accidents, is a valuable opportunity to inspect workplace safety. Taking this opportunity, the President and CEO sends a message to all employees of our group, expressing his/her determination toward safety, and we are striving to ensure thorough compliance with the "rules for protecting lives" established by our company.

●FY2023

●FY2022

●FY2021

●FY2020

●FY2019

Company-wide education

During new employee training, we use videos of past serious accidents at our company to educate employees about safety. Safety first is the foundation of our company's management, and we strive to keep our employees aware of this at all times.

Education sponsored by the Safety and Environment Headquarters

The Safety Environment & Quality Assurance Department, which serves as the secretariat for the Safety Environment Headquarters, conducts education and training to cultivate leadership skills to autonomously promote the PDCA cycle for safety environment management in each department and office. Basic training is conducted for key persons in each department and office to educate them on their roles based on the company regulations and the basics of safety environment management, as well as training to improve safety environment management capabilities (see table below) (a total of 11 times will be held in FY2023).

● FY2023 List of training sessions conducted under the jurisdiction of the Safety, Environment and Quality Assurance Department (safety field)

Education sponsored by Manufacturing & Technology Department Technical Training Center

[Development of manufacturing equipment operators]

At the Technical Training Center, we provide training for all operators to become production engineers (PE). PE is an operational department that logically understands processes, equipment, and systems, grasps their interrelationships, makes comprehensive decisions, and executes safe and highly efficient optimal operations Refineries/Complexes These engineers are responsible for ensuring the safety of our group's Refineries/Complexes.

[Strengthening safety education]

Practical firefighting training

[Training of disaster prevention personnel at Refineries/Complexes]

In the unlikely event that a fire or explosion occurs, it is extremely important to carry out initial fire extinguishing activities and take measures to prevent the spread of fire in order to minimize damage inside and outside Refineries/Complexes. Therefore, we are focusing on training disaster prevention personnel, recognizing the importance of accumulating practical training based on basic fire prevention theory. For example, we learn the basics of disaster prevention activities through classroom lectures, and then carry out training in handling materials and equipment and deploying hoses according to a plan. In particular, at Hokkaido Refinery, Chiba Complex, and Aichi Complex, we also conduct flame-contact training using live fire training areas.

[Live fire training at Niigata Disaster Prevention Training Center]

The Safety, Environment and Quality Assurance Department owns the Niigata Disaster Prevention Training Center, and we continue to accept a large number of trainees from within the company as well as from companies in the industry every year. The training assumes fires that occur in different types of equipment at Complex, and by learning initial fire extinguishing methods suitable for the nature of oil fires through theory (lectures) and practice (Complex fire training), We are working to strengthen our initial fire extinguishing system.

Utilization of external education

[Training for top management]

In order to prevent serious industrial accidents, it is extremely important that top management at the site, such as Refinery and Complex, have a strong awareness of safety and promote accident prevention measures under their strong leadership. is. Therefore, related organizations in the petroleum and chemical industries and related companies, including our company, appealed to an external training center about the importance of fostering safety awareness among top management. This was the starting point for the center's special lecture, ''Future Safety and the Role of Top Management,'' which has been held regularly since March 2016. At our company, on-site Refinery and Complex as well as top executives from the head office's Manufacturing & Technology Department attend this course every year, and together with Refinery from other companies, mainly from companies around the center, lead the way in industrial safety. We are working to strengthen this.