Materiality9

Employees' Health and Safety

Relevant SDGs

3 Good health and well-being 8 Decent work and economic growth

Vision

Allowing each individual to fulfill their potential with a sense of physical and mental health in a safe and comfortable working environment

Strategy

Raising awareness of the Nikon Group Health and Safety Policy and implementing health and safety activities

Basic Approach

The Nikon Group aims to ensure the health and safety of our employees, the foundation of our corporate activities, to lead to better employee productivity. To do so, we must give priority to creating comfortable work environments offering health and safety to all people working for the Nikon Group, including employees of temporary agencies and contractors. This idea is also an essential element of the Nikon Group's three pillars of human capital management: acquire talent, develop talent, and leverage talent.

Nikon Group Health and Safety Policy

The Nikon Group Health and Safety Policy includes the Health and Safety Declaration, which advocates the above basic approach and sets three major issues. Besides this policy, Nikon decides on Health and Safety Activities for each fiscal year, which include success criteria for each major issue and examples of specific measures to be taken.

Nikon Group Health and Safety Policy

Aiming to Achieve Vision 2030

Health and Safety Declaration

We will create workplaces where all employees who work in the Nikon Group can feel safe in the knowledge that their health, safety, and general enriched spirit are a priority for the respective companies. With that knowledge, each and every employee will perform their duties willingly and enthusiastically to help the Nikon Group achieve its goal of becoming a key technology solutions company in a global society where humans and machines co-create seamlessly.

Major Issues

  1. 1.Maintaining and promoting good health of the employees (increasing health literacy)
    Employees will be aware of the importance of good physical and mental health, and will take an active role in checking, maintaining, and improving their health.
  2. 2.Preventing occupational accidents through thorough legal compliance and safety management
    Under the respective health and safety management systems, we will carry out preventative measures, such as safety patrols, work risk assessments, safety education, and activities that develop employees' ability to sense and identify danger in the workplace. We will share Nikon Group safety activities and accident case studies from around the world and deploy recurrence prevention measures globally.
  3. 3.Creating a vibrant work environment through dialogue (making two-way communication easier and more comfortable for both parties)
    We will create a pleasant and rewarding work environment through promoting mutual understanding, trust, and a sense of solidarity.

Indicators and Targets

Indicators and Targets (Target Fiscal Year) FY2024 Plan FY2024 Results FY2025 Plan
Average rate of health issues discovered with regular medical checkups (Nikon Group in Japan): Below the previous national average*1 (every fiscal year)

58.9% or less of the 2023 national average

  • Health guidance and recommendations for medical checkups by occupational health staff
  • Health education
  • Managing excessive overtime
Average rate of health issues discovered: 54.5% (Nikon Group in Japan)

Less than the 2024 national average

  • Health guidance and recommendations for medical checkups by occupational health staff
  • Health education
  • Managing excessive overtime
Annual number of occupational accidents attributable to work or related to the performance of work: 60 cases or less (FY2025)
  1. 1.Risk assessments
  2. 2.Safety education
  3. 3.Sharing of health and safety information
Number of accidents: 59 (29 in Japan and 30 outside Japan)
  1. 1.Reduction of potential risks by performing risk assessments (operations, equipment, chemical substances)
  2. 2.Safety education
  3. 3.Sharing of occupational accident cases and measures
High stressed person rates in stress checks (Nikon): Below the previous national average*2 (every fiscal year)

14.8 % or less of the 2023 national average

  • Individual counseling
  • Mental health education
High stressed person rates: 13.5%

Less than the 2024 national average

  • Individual counseling
  • Mental health education
  1. *1National average for the manufacturing industry as published by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
  2. *2National average as published by stress check contractors.

Sustainability Report

For more information, refer to Employees' Health and Safety in the Sustainability Report.

  • Indicators and Targets

Employees' Health and Safety

  • Basic Approach
  • Strategy
  • Governance
  • Risk Management
  • Major Initiatives