The Takuma Group will work to further strengthen its core strengths of technology and expertise as well as relationships of trust with customers while improving the quality of its products and services and the 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, Takuma’s occupational health and safety management system for the construction industry, and worked actively and independently to improve our safety and health activities, in order to ensure the safety and health of workers in the workplace and to develop a comfortable working environment. We believe that among these efforts, the following are particularly noteworthy: (1) safety inspections, (2) mandatory safety and health education (education for construction site representatives), and (3) creation of pre-work safety procedures (SSAs). They have been steadily adopted by all departments and used to consistently improve the level of Takuma’s safety and health.
Review of FY2023
We 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. By working together with involved contractors to fulfill our roles, we worked to energize safety and health activities throughout the Company.
Initiatives in FY2024
For FY2024, we have adopted the following safety and health objectives: thorough detection of danger points that lead to serious accidents in safety inspections and measures to reduce them, participation in various training programs to raise safety awareness, and revitalization of safety and health activities by strengthening cooperation with partner companies. We will pursue further safety and health initiatives to foster a deep 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 FY2023:127
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 seek to raise employees’ safety awareness by covering Takuma’s safety and health activities and offering an opportunity to hand out materials such as examples of accidents. Through both programs, we strive to ensure safety at worksites in the field.
Number of safety patrols implemented in FY2023 : 600
*Total of Safety and Health Committee (members, advisors), Safety Control Department and Construction Division
We offer specialized safety and health education to employees and supervisors from partner companies so that they can offer precise safety guidance and fulfill their responsibilities as site supervisors.
We are putting in place mechanisms for preventing accidents, including by assigning supervisors 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 : 41,225 (April 2004 to March 2024)
Number of trainees passing the completion exam : 23,952 (April 2004 to March 2024)
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 recognizes employees who have worked to prevent occupational accidents at worksites and achieved zero-accident records on the anniversary of the Company’s founding. For primary partner companies making similar contributions, we recognize them at the Safety and Health Promotion Meeting. Under the shouts of the representatives of the awarded companies, the meeting was concluded after pointing at and calling out the slogan for the entire company in an effort to raise awareness of safety.
In 2023, total actual working hours were approximately 2.97 million hours, and both the number of occupational accidents and injuries involving work-days lost increased from 2022.
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.
