安全面的工作开展
The Kuraray Group has a safety management system for detection of risks of occupational and safety-related accidents to prevent any such occurrences. We operate this system to make workplaces that are safe and free of accidents and disasters by heightening the safety awareness of employees. Similarly, in preparation for the event of accidents and disasters, we conduct drills to curtail damage to the minimum. We also attempt to prevent any recurrence through sharing of information on actual cases and their lessons.
Concepts and Basic Policy on Ensuring Safety
- Concepts on Ensuring Safety
- The spirit of the slogan from our 2006 Special Safety Activities, “Safety is the Cornerstone of Everything We Do”, is alive and well. Every year, Kuraray sets a basic policy which is implemented in occupational safety and disaster prevention activities.
- Basic Policy on Ensuring Safety (Fiscal 2009)
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- (1) Ensuring “Safety First, Production Second”
- (2) The most important thing in implementing “Safety First” is to make sure you CHECK
- (3) Involvement of all employees in cooperation for attainment of zero accidents and disasters
Safety Management
In accordance with the Safety Activity Management Regulations determined in May 2007, the domestic Kuraray Group companies prepare safety plans every fiscal year in their efforts to assure occupational safety and disaster prevention.
Each year, at a meeting of our Safety Promotion Committee attended by the president and the assigned executive officer, we make an overall assessment of the results of safety activities and determine policy for such activities in the coming fiscal year. We have each plant and division reflect this corporate policy in its concrete action plans and pursue activities in accordance with it. Twice a year, a group headed by the assigned executive officer conducts Site Safety Inspections in aspects such as the drafting of action plans, action based on these plans, and the results. The findings of this inspection are reflected in the activity policy for the next fiscal year.
The inspection in fiscal 2008 was conducted at five domestic plants and the plants of three major subsidiaries in Japan. It confirmed that the safety activities are steadily yielding results on agenda such as reinforcement of control of the safety level by individual employees and approaches to risk assessment for assurance of security and disaster prevention. It also found that management based on the PDCA* cycle is taking root.
- * PDCA
One of the major management cycles, enabling ongoing improvement by performance of the sequence of planning (“Plan”), execution (“Do”), assessment (“Check”), and improvement (“Act”).
