Wellbeing・Health Management

The NSG Group think “People are our most important asset”, and health promotion is indispensable for employees to maximize their individual abilities, and it leads to the sustainable improvement of the company’s value. In January 2020, we made a “Health Management Declaration” in Japan.

Based on this Health Management Declaration, we are considering Health Management activities from a management perspective to create an environment where employees can thrive, promote employee health, increase engagement, and are strategically implementing and promoting a variety of initiatives.

Structure

The promotion of health management is carried out through an organizational structure led by Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO, Munehiro Hosonuma. We implement initiatives that deepen collaboration with related organizations, such as steady efforts based on each business, collaborative health with the Nippon Sheet Glass Health Insurance Association, and discussions with the labor union from a medium-term perspective.

Main Initiatives

1. Improving health literacy (health awareness) and promoting health among employees and their families
   We aim to enhance health awareness by implementing education and seminars on various topics for health promotion and disseminating information on health. Every year, we strive to ensure that our health management policies, initiatives, and progress are carried out in a unified manner through explanations to employees at general meetings at our workplaces and discussions in committee activities attended by employee representatives.
2. Medical Checkup
   We identify and improve those with abnormal findings by conducting regular medical checkups twice a year and specific health guidance. Through collaborative health with the health insurance association, we follow up on various medical checkups and specific health guidance, and the results of the scoring report show that there has been an improvement in health scores. These activities are not carried out for a single fiscal year, but rather are undertaken with a focus on the medium term, in consultation with medical staff, labor unions, and health insurance associations.
3. Measures against lifestyle diseases
   We offer menus that reduce salt and correspond to calorie intake in the employee cafeteria, and also improve nutritional balance, provide nutritional guidance, and set up consultation desks and provide information.
   Regarding exercise habits, we are working to improve them by improving our training facilities, partnering with external institutions, and holding various events.
   Regarding measures to reduce smoking habits, we hold in-house events such as seminars, provide ongoing health guidance to employees who wish to quit smoking, and subsidize outpatient smoking cessation treatment costs.
4. Improved mental health and employee engagement
   Stress Check Program has been conducted in Japan since 2016. While the Group results are available, we provide feedback to each organization since employees’ stress levels actually vary by organization and job role, in order to improve employees’ stress at work. We aim to improve employees’ satisfaction (engagement) with their work and the company, which are related to employee well-being (being in good physical, mental and social condition) since this leads to employees working with enthusiasm.
   We also believe that it is important to hold various events to heighten a sense of unity and bond within the group and to improve communication in the workplace, and we implement trainings for managers and supervisors.
5. Work Style Reforms
   We believe that enabling a diverse workforce to choose diverse working styles, such as creating an environment where employees with childcare or elderly care responsibilities can work comfortably, strengthening working hours management and reducing total working hours, and increasing the rate of paid holiday taken, will lead to the vitality of the company, and we are working on these initiatives through discussions between labor and management.

(Reference) Initiatives undertaken over the past few years

6. Expanding the age range for which short-time working for childcare apply (up to sixth grade, up to third grade of high school for special needs schools/classes)
7. Partially making childcare leave paid
8. Activities to promote taking childcare leave (creating guidebooks, holding seminars, etc.)
9. Introducing a subsidy system for using babysitters
10. Expanding the conditions for taking sick/injured childcare leave (including injuries and illnesses of family members)
11. Expanding the scope of application of nursing care regulations (for those requiring nursing care/support care under LTCI)
12. Increasing the number of days of nursing care leave taken
13. Initiatives to increase the rate of taking paid leave
14. Initiatives to improve work hour management
15. Introducing and expanding teleworking (mobile work, working from home)
16. Introduction of flexible time without core time
17. Improvement of IT environment for working from home (Promoting meetings online)
18. Setting up a remote counter for health consultations, etc.

We have been recognized as Certified Health and Productivity Management Organization since 2019. The NSG Group is working to improve the environment for realizing diverse working styles, and we are reviewing the way organizations and individuals should be and aim to shift to a new work style that maximizes productivity and performance.

* "Health Management" is a registered trademark of the NPO Kenko Kanri Kenkyukai.

The Link Between Our Management Challenges, Specific Health Management Initiatives, and the Expected Effects on Addressing the Challenges through Their Implementation

Strategy map of Health Management

The key indicators related to Health Management for the FY2024 are as follows:

*Percentage of employees who were absent or on leave due to personal injury or illness out of the total number of employees