Based on NOF’s belief that “securing the safety and health of employees and creating a pleasant working environment are the foundation for sustainable growth of a corporation,” and toward realizing the outcome of “diverse human resources who embody the values of Challenge, Fairness, and Harmony serve as the driving force for innovation creation,” we are working to address key management issues such as improving profitability, securing and developing human resources, and creating innovation, by positioning health management as the foundation of strategic initiatives. NOF has communicated the Health-Conscious Management Declaration by the President to its employees, focusing on three priority areas (1) Creation of a pleasant working environment, (2) Promotion of mental healthcare, and (3) Maintenance and promotion of health. The Declaration is deliberated upon every year at the Strategic Meeting attended by Directors concurrently serving as Operating Officers, as well as Operating Officers with a title. We are striving to enhance the content of priority areas, etc. depending on each issue.
In addition, we will raise awareness among employees and enhance corporate value by following the PDCA cycle, while working together with health insurance associations and industrial physicians.

【External recognition】

With the General Manager of the Human Resources & General Affairs Dept. serving as the overall supervisor, the Department’ s health management promotion personnel lead efforts on priority areas. In addition, for this promotion, we also collaborate with on-site health managers, occupational physicians, the Health Insurance Association, the Labor Union, etc.

• Promote operational efficiency and curb long working hours
• Further expand programs to support a balance between work and childcare, family care, medical treatment, etc.
• Prevent passive smoking

Encourage employees to take at least 8 days of annual leave [Covered organizations：NOF]

Target annual leave usage rate：75% or more in FY2025

• FY2024：79.1％
  
• FY2025：81.4％

Conduct periodic surveys on long working hours [Covered organizations：NOF]

Target for average overtime hours：Keep within 20 hours per month

• FY2024：13.8 hours
• FY2025：15.0 hours

Continue smoking cessation program and establish “No Smoking Day” [Covered organizations：NOF]

Target smoking rate：20% or lower

• FY2024：23.4％
• FY2025：23.2％

With the aim of helping those employees who are habitual smokers improve their own health and preventing passive smoking damage to nonsmokers, we help habitual smokers quit smoking by inviting them to participate in our online smoking cessation outpatient program. Furthermore, we established a No Smoking Day in January 2025, and are working to encourage smokers to consider quitting.

Participants in smoking cessation program [Covered organizations：NOF]

• FY2023：(Participants) 10 (Successful  participants) 4
• FY2024：(Participants) 5 (Successful  participants) 3
• FY2025：(Participants) 8 (Successful  participants) 6

• Encourage employees to take stress tests
• Raise awareness of self-care through mental health training
• Enhance mental health consultation programs

Promote greater self-care awareness and encourage employees to take stress checks [Covered organizations：NOF]

Target test participation rate: Maintain rate of 99% or more in FY2025

• FY2024：100%
• FY2025：100%

Implement regular mental health training by organizational level, establish external consultation services, and
provide guidance through interviews for employees under high stress [Covered organizations：NOF]

Comprehensive health risk* target：Keep at or lower 100

• FY2024：95
• FY2025：95

NOF is promoting comprehensive measures including the prevention and alleviation of mental health issues and return-to-work support. We have conducted stress tests annually since fiscal 2009, with the results being deliberated upon by the Health and Safety Committees at each site, and examine and implement necessary measures. In addition, we are implementing initiatives such as setting up an outside counseling desk to facilitate early detection and appropriate responses, as well as supporting the smooth return to work of employees on long-term leave due to mental health issues under a return-to-work support program. In promoting the return-to-work support program, we work together with industrial physicians specializing in mental health issues and incorporate their expertise into our initiatives.
In fiscal 2025, we offered mental health care (“line care”) training to 37 people who took part in training for those promoted to career-track managers. We are also promoting measures to maintain and improve the mental health of employees through managers.
In fiscal 2025, the uptake rate of stress tests was 100% and the high-stress rate was 12.2%. The stress check participation rate for NOF and five domestic consolidated companies was 99.3%, and the high-stress rate was 13.7%.

• Ensure implementation of health examinations and appropriate health guidance
• Encourage follow-up examinations and confirmation of results
• Promote exercise in daily life
  　

Encourage participation in the “Health Promotion Walking” program organized by the NOF Health Insurance Association for
health maintenance and promotion [Covered organizations：NOF]

Target participation rate：50% or more in FY2025

• FY2024：55.4％
• FY2025：56.7％
  

Have industrial physicians review health examination results, issue notifications for follow-up examinations,
and encourage participation in interviews with industrial physicians [Covered organizations：NOF]

Health examination uptake rate：100%

• FY2024：100％
• FY2025：100％
  

Specific health guidance completion rate：45% or more

• FY2024：38.5％

Anticipating that we would need to address the lack of physical activity due to working from home and promote the health of senior employees due to the extended retirement age, in FY2024 we began providing support programs in which beginners casually participate. While there may be some locations where sports clubs are difficult to use, over 200 employees have used them.

We conduct periodic health examinations for employees. In addition to the legally required items, we also provide optional tests, such as tumor markers. After periodic health examinations, in cooperation with the NOF Health Insurance Association, we provide specific health examinations and specific health guidance in an efficient and effective manner. In fiscal 2025, the uptake rate of periodic health examinations at NOF was 100.0%. In addition, NOF’s completion rate of specific health guidance was 38.5% in fiscal 2024, with 61.7% of employees aged 40 and over maintaining an appropriate weight.

NOF holds simple health measurement sessions, as we believe that each employee’s awareness and willingness are of the utmost importance for maintaining and improving their health. We use simple methods to measure employees’ vascular age and dietary habits, and provide feedback on information that quantifies vascular age and excessive or insufficient vegetable intake, to encourage employees to improve their health.

NOF regards each employee’s physical and mental health as a source of sustainable corporate growth and greater corporate value. We measure absenteeism and presenteeism to visualize the impact of employee health on work performance and promote more effective health and productivity management. We have begun providing opportunities for individuals to learn about health and conduct health measurement events and other initiatives to raise health awareness, and we will work to improve these values.
Absenteeism refers to an inability to work due to absence or leave caused by illness or poor health. NOF uses the average number of days absent per employee as the indicator. Presenteeism refers to a condition in which an employee is at work but performs below their normal capacity due to physical or mental health problems. NOF measures it based on employee self-reporting.
　

Absenteeism and presenteeism
Absenteeism (Lower is better)

• FY2023：3.3 days
• FY2024：3.4 days
• FY2025：3.0 days

Presenteeism (Higher is better)

• FY2023：82％
• FY2024：82％
• FY2025：82％