Employees' Health and Safety

Basic Approach

The Nikon Group believes ensuring the health and safety of everyone working within the Group leads to higher productivity. Based on this belief, we give top priority to creating comfortable work environments offering health and safety to all workers, including employees of temporary agencies and contractors.

Nikon Group Health and Safety Policy

The Nikon Group Health and Safety Policy includes the Health and Safety Declaration, which sets out the basic approach above and sets three basic policies. We devise health and safety activities each fiscal year, consisting of indicators, targets, and action plans for each basic policy. The Central Health and Safety Committee Meeting, chaired by the Officer and General Manager of Group Governance & Administration Division, deliberates on and approves these activities.
The Sustainability Committee, which includes Executive Committee members, is reported to on basic policies and health and safety activities approved by the Central Health and Safety Committee Meeting.

Nikon Group Health and Safety Policy

— Aiming to Achieve Vision 2030

Central Health and Safety Committee Meeting

Health and Safety Declaration

We will create workplaces where everyone across the Nikon Group can work in good health and safety while fostering an enriched spirit. Furthermore, each employee will take a proactive, self-directed approach to their work to help the Nikon Group achieve our goal of becoming a key technology solutions company in a global society where humans and machines co-create seamlessly.

Basic Policy

  1. 1.Protect and Improve Employee Health (Enhancing Health Literacy)
    We will establish a framework that enables each employee to recognize the importance of physical and mental health and take proactive action to support their well-being.
  2. 2.Create a Vibrant Workplace Environment (Enhancing Comfort and Communication)
    We will create a pleasant and rewarding work environment through promoting mutual understanding, trust, and a sense of unity.
  3. 3.Improve Safe and Secure Working Environments (Ensuring Compliance and Thorough 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.

Strategy

We familiarize all Group employees in and outside Japan with the Nikon Group Health and Safety Policy and the health and safety activities decided upon for each fiscal year. We provide health literacy and health and safety training as part of our health and safety activities, encouraging employees to take steps independently. We also gather information from business facilities in Japan and Group companies on their activities and training, sharing good practices with Group companies in and outside Japan.

In addition to the company-wide annual plan developed by the Central Health and Safety Committee Meeting, each business facility's Health and Safety Committee develops a separate annual plan.

Fiscal Year 2026 Health and Safety Activities

Basic Policy 1. Protect and Improve Employee Health (Enhancing Health Literacy)
Evaluation Indicators: Medical consultation rate for employees identified as needing treatment; lifestyle disease risk factors*1

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Indicators Fiscal Year 2026 Targets Action Plans Fiscal Year 2025 Results
Medical consultation rate for employees identified as needing treatment Improve medical consultation rates
  • Health guidance and recommendations for medical checkups by occupational health nurses
  • Notification via supervisors when consultations with an occupational physician is required
 70.0%
Lifestyle disease risk factors
  • Healthy weight maintenance rate
    (BMI between 18.5 and 24.9)
  • Smoking rate
    (percentage of habitual smokers)
  • Exercise habit rate
    (percentage of employees exercising at least twice per week for 30 minutes or more per session)
  • Sufficient sleep and rest rate
    (percentage of employees who obtain adequate rest through sleep)
  • Alcohol-related health risk rate
    (percentage of employees whose alcohol consumption or frequency increases the risk of lifestyle-related diseases)
 Improve at least one of the five indicators
  • Health education and health-related events
  • Distribution of health information (in coordination with health insurance association)
  • Health management to prevent overwork
 Healthy weight maintenance rate 66.3%
Smoking rate 15.5％
Exercise habit rate 23.3％
Sufficient sleep and rest rate 70.9%
Alcohol-related health risk rate 8.9%
  • *1The first year covers Nikon only. The Nikon Group in Japan will be included beginning in fiscal year 2027. Medical consultation rates cover employees classified under Category D in regular health checkups conducted from January to December 2026 and identified by occupational physicians or other professionals as needing treatment.
Basic Policy 2. Create a Vibrant Workplace Environment (Enhancing Comfort and Communication)
Evaluation Indicators: Percentage of employees with high stress levels; average scores for Energy and Fulfillment in Work*2

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Indicators Fiscal Year 2026 Targets Action Plans Fiscal Year 2025 Results
Rate of employees with high stress levels Below the national average
  • Workplace environment improvements
  • Encourage use of consultation services for physical and mental health concerns and support balancing treatment and work
  • Mental health training (self-care and line-care training)
  • Monitoring of work engagement, presenteeism, and absenteeism
 Rate of employees with high stress levels 13.8
Average Energy score
*Stress check questions: "I have been very active," "I have been full of energy," or "I have been lively"		 Maintain or improve average scores Average Energy score 2.9
Average Fulfillment in Work score
*Stress check questions: "My job is worth doing"		 Average Fulfillment in Work score 3.0
  • *2Covers Nikon only.
    The percentage of employees with high stress levels is compared with the national average published by the stress check service provider. Energy and Fulfillment in Work scores use a five-point evaluation scale based on the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare conversion table. Scores closer to 5 indicate better conditions, while scores closer to 1 indicate greater challenges.
Basic Policy 3. Improve Safe and Secure Working Environments (Ensuring Compliance and Thorough Safety Management)
Evaluation Indicator: Annual number of occupational accidents attributable to work or related to the performance of work*3

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Indicators Fiscal Year 2026 Targets Action Plans Fiscal Year 2025 Results
Occupational accidents attributable to work or related to the performance of work 60 cases or fewer
  • Thorough risk assessments (legal compliance, operations, equipment, and chemical substances)
  • Safety education
  • Sharing of occupational accident cases and measures
 Occupational accidents 43
- Japan 17
- Overseas 26
  • *3Covers Nikon Group companies.

Sustainability Report 2026

See the Employees' Health and Safety section of our Sustainability Report for more information.

Employees' Health and Safety｜Sustainability Report 2026 (PDF:459KB)

Sustainability Report 2026 Data Index

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Society｜Sustainability Report 2026 Data Index (PDF:1.6MB)

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