Occupational health and safety

Employee safety and health a top Priority

Under the core principle of placing safety and health above all else, Aisin Seiki is doing its utmost to prevent occupational accidents from occurring by carrying out regular, voluntary workplace inspections under an occupational safety and health management system (OSHMS). The Company also performs risk assessments for all facilities, including newly built, renovated and existing facilities, and work processes.

Furthermore, the Company has formulated the AISIN Global Safety Standards (AGSS), which set out detailed safety standards for all equipment and tasks, and which guide the plant staff in making improvements to the Company’s equipment safety measures and workflow procedures. AGSS applies to all Group companies, including those outside of Japan.

Aiming to eliminate serious work accidents through the "Safety Roller Strategy"

Beginning in FY2010, Aisin Seiki launched the "Safety Roller Strategy," in which, led by the managing officer in charge of the production promotion, the factory sub-chief as well as the head of manufacturing and the head of production engineering set up a team to undertake thorough inspections of each production plant on a monthly basis with the mission to completely eliminate serious equipment-related work accidents^*.

Although cases of equipment malfunctions in FY2011 totaled 1,135, remedial measures for each have already been completed.

* Serious work accidents: Caught between machinery, contact with heavy objects, contact with vehicles, falls, electrocution, contact with high temperature objects

Developing health and safety activities at Group companies

Reforming employee mindsets with the aim of achieving zero work accidents

The results of Aisin Seiki's safety activities to date have been a drop in work accidents from equipment-related factors each year. The next challenge the Company faces is addressing careless work accidents from human factors, such as coming into contact with objects or tripping, and as such the Company will continue to undertake relevant activities for this cause.

Specifically, Aisin Seiki has established four fundamental safety behaviors including (1) no running; (2) walk only in designated areas; (3) do not walk with hands in pockets; and (4) stop momentarily to check both directions for safety. The Company decided to implement a safety declaration performed by employees participating in meetings and conferences in which participants verbally state these four behaviors, which each and every employee must follow, in an act of reaffirming our safety-first philosophy.

AISIN aspires to be the world's foremost corporate group in terms of safety and to this end it promotes relevant occupational health and safety activities.

Maintaining or enhancing employee health

A multifaceted approach to mental health care

Safeguarding the health of employees — "Well-center" established

To support employee efforts to maintain, manage and enhance their health, Aisin Seiki made the Health Care Center an independent entity by separating it from the Health Promotion Group of the Safety & Health Department in January 2011, and established the Well-center in April 2011 as a focal point of the center's activities.

Aisin Seiki conducts regular physical exams of its employees to monitor as well as maintain and enhance their health. The Health Care Center stands at the core of our activities to enhance our health management system so as to maintain the physical and mental health of our employees and also undertakes mental health countermeasures. In particular, the Company focuses on preventative measures and activities to ensure that employees maintain a healthy work and private life.