Health Declaration
Under the corporate philosophy "KYORIN continues to fulfill its mission of cherishing life, and benefiting society by contributing to better health," the Kyorin Group has established the statement "the Kyorin Group will promote diversified healthcare business expansion and by 2023 be recognized both within and outside as a company that supports sound and healthy lifestyles,". The Kyorin Group has enacted the "Kyorin Group Health Declaration," a statement recognizing that our employees are the foundation of our corporate philosophy and long-term vision, and that their physical and mental health is paramount.
* Health Management®” is a registered trademark of the nonprofit organization Kenkokeiei.
The Kyorin Group Health Declaration
- Your Health is Kyorin’s Mission -
As a company that supports sound and healthy lifestyles, the Kyorin Group views the health of its employees as a vital management issue, and is committed as an organization to promoting the health management of each and every employee.
- To ensure that our employees and their families can live active lives, we pursue the maintenance of their sound physical and mental health by working hand in hand with a health insurance association.
- We proactively support our employees’ efforts to maintain and improve their health and to further their health awareness.
- We implement measures to maintain and improve our employees’ health and create safe and comfortable work environments as we aim to build business operations that allow us to fulfill our social mission of contributing to better health.
We strive to maintain and improve the health of our employees and their family members, to create a healthy and lively workplace culture where our employees can live up to their full potential, and to further increase their motivation and work satisfaction.
KYORIN Holdings, Inc.
Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Yutaka Ogihara
Health Management Promotion System
The Top Officer of this structure is the president of KYORIN Holdings, Inc., and the promotion officer is the general manager of the General Affairs & Human Resources Department. When sharing information with Group companies, we have a system in which industrial physicians, public health nurses, the KYORIN Health Insurance Association and the secretariat work together to formulate health promotion measures and coordinate with health committees at individual companies to implement these measures.
In response to health challenges linked to solutions for business challenges, we assess the expected benefits of these measures, as well as the connections between specific activities involved in maintaining and promoting health, and support health management based on a health management strategy map.
Initiatives
The company and the health insurance society will work together to develop further health promotion measures.
1. We will achieve a 100% health examination practice rate and help employees maintain and improve their health.
We continues a 100% health examination practice rate. In addition, we have put in place a system to promote secondary health examination practice, and encourage non-examined employee to receive the secondary health examination in cooperation with the KYORIN Health Insurance Association.
Health examination practice rate
| FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | 100% | 100% |
2. We will implement measures aimed at improving employee lifestyle habits (smoking, alcohol consumtion, exercise, sleep, and diet).
We have set numerical targets for 2023, using 2019 as our reference year, and are currently implementing lifestyle habit improvements.
Numerical targets for lifestyle habit improvements
| 2019 results (reference year) |
2020 results | 2023 targets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage of employees who do not smoke | 80.8% | 81.2% | 85% |
| Percentage of employees who drink appropriate amounts of alcohol | 73.3% | 75.0% | 80% |
| Percentage of employees who walk or engage in equivalent physical activities for one hour or more per day | 44.8% | 44.4% | 55% |
| Percentage of employees who get sufficient sleep | 63.5% | 71.5% | 75% |
3. We will implement measures that cover everything from prevention, early detection and early response to mental health issues to supporting employees returning to work and preventing relapses .
The Kyorin Group provides mental-health education to managers and employees, and promote prevention and early detection of mental illness. We also have created a system for employees and their families to feel free to ask for help. When a mental health issue arises, the employee’s department, industrial psychiatrists, public health nurses, and Human Resources Department work together to help the employee recover, return to work, and prevent relapse. In addition, We perform stress checks on all employees every year to put it use for management their own health.
Stress checks
| FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage of employees who underwent the check | 98.0% | 97.6% | 97.0% |
| Percentage of employees who are highly stressed | 12.2% | 10.6% | 9.8% |
* We also conduct a Presenteeism survey, hereafter will verify the effectiveness of health promotion measures.
* Working while sick. Even if they go to work, their heads and bodies do not work as expected due to some kind of malfunction, and the performance is reduced.
Work environments each and every employee can work in health and safety
Industrial safety and hygiene
The Kyorin Group places the highest priority on the “safety” and “health” of our employees, and we are proactively pursuing activities related to industrial safety and hygiene. One of our EHS activities has been to formulate an industrial safety and hygiene system, and we have set a goal of having zero workplace accidents. As a result of the activities at workplaces across the Group, the frequency and extent of workplace accidents as measured by rate and severity are well below industry average levels.
Recognized as a “2021 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization (Large corporate sector)”
KYORIN Holdings, Inc. and KYORIN Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. have both been recognized as “2021 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations (Large corporate sector)” by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi.
