The Takuma Group will work to further strengthen its core strengths of technology and expertise as well as relationships of trust with customers while preventing a decline in the quality of its products and services or in the level of trust it enjoys from society by safeguarding workers’ physical and mental health and building an environment in which it is easy for employees to do their jobs. Specifically, we will accomplish these goals by ensuring occupational safety and health, managing employee health, and putting in place an employee-friendly workplace environment.
Reflecting its basic philosophy of “respect for humanity,” Takuma Co., Ltd., strives to conduct itself in a good-faith manner that accords with social ethics and resolves to undertake the following in a spirit of consideration and respect for the law in order to provide a comfortable workplace environment while ensuring the safety and health of its workers:
Since FY2006, we have introduced TK-COHSMS based on an occupational safety and health management system for the construction industry and worked actively and independently to improve our safety and health activities. We believe that among these efforts, the manner in which (1) safety inspections, (2) mandatory safety and health education (education for construction site representatives), and (3) creation of pre-work safety procedure checklists known as SSAs have been steadily adopted by all departments and used to consistently improve the level of knowledge about Takuma's safety and health is particularly noteworthy.
We have adopted the following safety and health objectives for FY2022: eliminating rule violations by activating safety and health education, establishing measures to reduce risks, rolling out new safety patrols with the goal of reducing accidents, and sharing robust safety awareness while strengthening cooperative structures with the Safety and Health Cooperative Association. Takuma and involved contractors worked together to revitalize safety and health activities companywide by reliably fulfilling their respective roles.
We have adopted the following safety and health objectives for FY2023: eliminating failures to identify hazards that could lead to serious accidents during safety assessments; providing precisely targeted safety guidance through safety patrols; strengthening guidance during safety and health management activities by worksite managers, foremen, and safety and health managers; and sharing robust safety awareness while strengthening cooperative structures with the Safety and Health Cooperative Association. Rather than contenting ourselves with the status quo, we will pursue new safety and health initiatives to foster a strong awareness of the concept that underlies our safety and health policy—“understanding the need for respecting people and giving top priority to safety and health”—on the part of everyone who is involved in our operations.
We maintain a system where any construction or installation work starts only after the safety and health manager or other responsible official in each department conducts a successful safety inspection based on safety and health plans for the construction or installation work as prepared by our primary partner companies.
We strive to ensure a safe work environment at all construction sites by eliminating risk factors identified by those inspections before work begins.
Number of safety inspections completed in FY2022:98
Based on an annual plan, safety patrols are carried out at worksites by the Safety and Health Committee (comprised of committee members and advisors), Safety Control Department, and Construction Division along with safety lectures in a precisely targeted and efficient manner.
Safety patrols focus on identifying and eliminating risks as early as possible, while safety lectures are conceived to prevent occupational accidents and raise employees’safety awareness by offering an opportunity to hand out and explain materials such as examples of accidents. Both programs help ensure safety at worksites in the field.
Number of safety patrols implemented in FY2022 : 640
*Total of Safety and Health Committee (members, advisors), Safety Control Department and Construction Division
We continuously provide specialized safety and health education at branches and worksites to increase the levels of safety awareness and knowledge of our employees and partner companies.
We are putting in place mechanisms for preventing accidents, including by assigning workers with extensive knowledge in areas such as safety and health-related laws and ordinances thanks to an education program that began on April 1, 2004, to individual construction sites.
Cumulative number of trainees : 39,352 (April 2004 to March 2023)
Number of trainees passing the completion exam : 22,401 (April 2004 to March 2023)
In FY2020, we began offering education based on Virtual Reality (VR) at the Head Office, Tokyo Branch and other branches and worksites as part of an effort to prevent occupational accidents by increasing sensitivity to hazards and raising safety awareness.
We are promoting a qualitative transformation (DX) as an important technique for reducing accidents while using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to drive effective techniques for reducing workload, for example through development of information databases, acceleration of information availability, streamlining of communications and enhancement of associated accuracy, and visualization.
Takuma recognized employees who worked to prevent occupational accidents at worksites and set zero-accident records at an internal award ceremony held on the anniversary of the company’s founding. Although we had planned to similarly recognize primary partner companies who helped set zero-accident records at the Safety and Health Promotion Meeting, we were forced, with great regret, to cancel the event along with the awards ceremony again in FY2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we were able to recognize award recipients who set zero-accident records by sending them a commemorative award.
The total actual working hours for Takuma in 2022 was about 3.64 million hours. Both the number of occupational accidents and accidents resulting in work stoppages fell from 2021, in terms of both the accident frequency rate and the accident severity rate.
To follow up on employees’ regular check-ups, we work with industrial physicians to recommend additional testing and treatments to individual employees and provide health guidance from industrial physicians. Additionally, we are working to assist employees who work excessively long hours, for example by assessing the conditions under which they work and their subjective symptoms, recommending they meet with an industrial physician, having the Human Resources Department conduct interviews as necessary, and taking corrective action with regard to supervisors. Furthermore, we have created opportunities to consult with the labor union concerning working hours, and we share information about the topic and exchange views about and discuss associated measures. In addition, we offer assistance to defray the cost of using cafeteria plans as an initiative to increase employee health. In addition, we offer assistance to defray the cost of using cafeteria plans as an initiative to increase employee health.
