Occupational Safety and Health Policy

　The whole NOF Group, including the staff of cooperating companies assigned to NOF’s works, is making all-out efforts to eradicate occupational accidents. In order to clearly express the Group’s determination to make its workplaces secure and safe for all the workers involved in its activities and to realize this ideal, NOF set forth its labor safety and health policy in April 2006.

Under this policy, an occupational safety and health management system is organized, under which required management and improvement are pursued.

Occupational Safety and Health Policy
【Fundamental idea】
We, as a group of chemical companies, shall endeavor to secure the "safety" and "health" of our employees and local communities in the belief that "no business can be viable without safety." All the officers and employees shall be committed to the buildup of "workplaces where we can work safely and securely" in close teamwork consistent with responsible care activities, and positively promote activities for occupational safety and health.

【Fundamental principles】
(1) We shall organize an appropriate self-management system regarding occupational safety
　and health,and continue necessary management and improvement.
(2) Our target shall be the eradication of labor accidents by improving the working
　environment, making the equipment intrinsically safe and carrying out risk reducing
　activities in anticipation of future changes in the working environment.
(3) We shall faithfully observe relevant laws and regulations and our own rules and standards.
(4) We shall endeavor for the creation of a pleasant working environment and support efforts
　for keeping and promoting health.
(5) We shall make the Labor Safety and Health Policy thoroughly known to all the employees,
　and review it every year or as necessary.These principles shall be broadly disclosed to the
　public.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 (Revised in March 2013)

Development status of OSHMS＊1

　The NOF Group, under its Occupational Safety and Health Policy, is undertaking buildup of the Occupational Safety and Health Management System. Referencing the guidelines of the International Labor Organization and the Ministry of
Health, Labor and Welfare, we are building up our own system and promoting activities. The Risk Assessment program,*2 which started in fiscal 2008 at every works of NOF, is now adopted by domestic member-companies of the NOF Group as well.

Results of activities in fiscal 2022

　In fiscal 2022, the Group targeted "completely zero accidents,"* and under the slogan of “elimination of unsafe actions＊ and unsafe conditions,” worked to strengthen our hazard prediction skills and to identify hazardous locations at cooperating companies. However, we were unable to achieve the goal of “completely zero accidents.”

Occurrence of labor accidents in fiscal 2022

Safety and disaster prevention facility Occurrence of labor accidents in fiscal 2022 investment

　In connection with measures for safety and accident prevention, the NOF Group is carrying out a program of physical projects for prevention of accidents including explosions, fires and leaks, labor safety, and working environment amelioration. Further, to provide against anticipated heavy earthquakes, projects are under way to strengthen buildings.

RC activity targets

　Recognizing the importance of safety education, the NOF Group strives to enhance its occupational safety and health management system and reinforce its safety activities including safety education, in an effort to secure the safety and health of its employees.


FY2022 safety activity results and FY2023 RC activity targets
　We have been striving for “completely zero accidents” since fiscal 2015. In fiscal 2022, there were 6 labor accidents, and we did not achieve the target.
　Therefore, we set "Thorough enforcement of basic safety actions" as an initiative of the RC activity targets for fiscal 2022, and each company in the Group worked on measures in line with this target. In addition, with the aim of strengthening countermeasures against potential disaster risks in the workplace, we promoted on-site management based on Sangen Shugi (the “three actuals” principle) in which managers actually observe the work sites, recognize problem areas, and make efforts to make the work safer. As a result, compared to fiscal 2021, the number of lost workday-involving accidents decreased to one (down four from the previous fiscal year) and the number of all labor accidents decreased to six (down six from the previous fiscal year), indicating that the measures were effective.
　However, an analysis of the six labor accidents that did occur showed that in many cases they were caused by unsafe actions, and we considered it necessary to continue "Thorough enforcement of basic safety actions" going forward. Furthermore, in fiscal 2023, we decided to instill in all employees an awareness of the importance of “Thorough enforcement of basic safety actions” by focusing on accidents involving falls and working to prevent their occurrence.

【The NOF Group’s targets in RC activities and labor safety initiatives in fiscal 2023】
　①Enhancement of sensitivity toward danger and thorough enforcement of basic safety
　　actions (focus on falls, tumbles, and crash accidents)
　　　●Provide occupational safety education and training
　　　●Strengthen hazard prediction skills
　②Reduction of accident risks
　　［Labor safety］
　　　●Strengthening of responses based on Sangen Shugi (the "three actuals" principle)
　　［Traffic safety］
　　　●In-depth investigation of the causes of injury and self-caused damage*
　　　●Strengthening of education to promote awareness

　　＊Injury and self-inflicted injury: Commute accidents and work-related traffic accidents
　　　with injury and self-inflicted injury

Elimination of traffic accidents
　In order to reduce the number of accidents during commutes and work-related traffic accidents, which occurred frequently during fiscal 2022, we enhanced our traffic safety measures. Each works, plant, and affiliate implements its own traffic safety activities according to its own circumstances. The activities implemented included distribution of pamphlets during a traffic safety week, a safety lecture by the police, and raising a road safety slogan banner.