Occupational Safety and Health

Target

Materiality

Safety

Basic stance

All Nidec Group business bases, including newly established offices and organizations that joined the group via M&A, regard securing safety for their employees as the top priority, as they target to eliminate serious disasters and keep their work environment safe.

Systems and actions

The Nidec Group’s Japanese domestic organizations have a safety and hygiene committee to deliberate measures to keep all of their business bases safe. Our overseas organizations have in place a system based on the EHS (Environment, Health & Safety) to promote procedure-organizing, education, training, and other activities. Based on 3Q6S activities^*, which are part of Nidec’s corporate culture, those business bases’ leaders inspect their workplaces regularly, and instruct their people on site, as part of their daily activities to spread the message, “Safety precedes everything else.”

*Activities that the entire Nidec Group implement as part of its code of conduct for its employees. The “3Q” means “quality employees,” “quality company,” and “quality products,” and the “6S” stands for “seiri (sorting),” seiton (tidiness),” “seiso (cleaning),” “seiketsu (hygiene),” “saho (etiquette),” and “shitsuke (discipline),” which is an addition to the usual “5S” method.

Third-party Audit

In the Asian region, where more than 70% of Nidec employees work and which is regarded as a high-risk region based on the Global Rights Index of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), we regularly conduct an audit based on our internal standard, which is based on the RBA Code of Conduct*, through a partnership with a third-party certifier. We checked a total of eight audit areas, including “emergency preparedness,” “labor disasters and diseases,” and “mechanical safety measures,” and, based on the FY2018 audit results, we launched our improvement actions based on the following priorities we identified.

• ・Schedule a regular check of first aid kits to ensure immediate assistance to workers suffering from occupational accidents or illnesses
• ・Implement risk-relief measures to protect pregnant and breastfeeding workers against occupational safety hazards

*Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) (former Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition: EICC):The RBA, renamed from the EICC in October 2017, is an organization established with the aim of resolving social, environmental and ethical issues in supply chains. The RBA Code of Conduct established referencing major internationally recognized norms and standards focuses on the following aspects: respect for human rights, improvement of the working environment, assurance of safety and health, environmental conservation, establishment of corporate ethics, and improvement of management systems.

ISO45001 (an international standard on occupational safety and health management system) certification status

Audit results

Labor disaster elimination project

To eliminate labor disasters, the Nidec Group engages in activities to seek reasons for those incidents, and share information on them with the rest of the group to help launch similar measures. From FY2023, we enhanced these activities under a “labor disaster elimination project,” to launch comprehensive inspections on all business bases for their common issues to prevent similar labor disasters. FY2023’s comprehensive inspections led to the following results:

Promoting labor safety education

The Nidec Group’s business bases provide its employees with safety education (e.g., lectures for employees newly assigned to a department, lectures on labor safety risk assessment, and selecting and properly wearing PPE (personal protective equipment) based on the risks in the workplace) based on the individual organization’s characteristics. FY2023 saw more than 49,000 employees of Appliance and Automotive Division receive safety education. In addition to such lectures for those newly assigned to a department, the Division’s Chinese business bases ensure that all of its members always act safely by checking if everyone follows the rules after the long-term vacation (the Chinese Lunar New Year period), frequently followed by labor disasters). Further, the Division distributes cards on basic safety rules to its staff to increase their awareness on safety.

Our achievements

The Nidec Group saw 122 disasters accompanied by lost worktime occur in FY2023, but no fatal accidents. To eliminate labor disasters, all Nidec Group employees, led by the top management, remain committed to constantly addressing labor safety issues.

Lost-time injury frequency rate

Health

Basic stance

The Nidec Group’s CSR Charter stipulates that, “based on cooperation between our management and employees, we strive to ensure workplace safety and good health to establish a work environment that brings out the best in each individual. Nidec’s health-oriented business management is based on the promotion of making a safe and comfortable work environment, and securing safety and good health for its employees. In addition, to build a flexible health promotion system, we prepared for an in-house corporate health insurance society for the Nidec Group, and officially lunched it in April 2024.

Nidec’s Declaration on Promoting Good Health

The Nidec Group, which considers its employees’ good health and work satisfaction to be an important source of its business management, promotes actions for a “health-oriented management.” A good health is extremely precious for an employee and his/her family. In addition, our employees’ lively and continued action to achieve success will be the basis of Nidec as a “company to grow sustainably for the next 100 years.” We hereby declare to work in good health, which is an infrastructure for our employees and their families to support the next-generation society, so that each employee continues to work with passion and enthusiasm to demonstrate his/her highest-level performance.

Systems and actions

Health management promotion system

In March 2025, Nidec Corporation was certified as an “Excellent (Large-scale) Health-Conscious Corporation 2025” for the fifth consecutive year for its strategic health management measures for its employees based on a management perspective.

Strategy map

A “strategy map” is a plan that explains management issues a company hopes to solve based on its health-focused management style, and that shows measures to solve the issues. Nidec promotes health-focused management based on its strategy map.

Strategy map

Issues regarding the company’s overall health-focused management and specific numerical targets

Issues: Helping employees feel “more comfortable working,” launching mental health measures, and better addressing of high-risk employees

Target vs. status：

How we set our targets

To achieve the objective of “becoming a global company growing sustainably for the next 100 years and beyond,” it is essential for us to build a highly engaging corporate organization where each employee can work actively and sustainably. Among the results of the analysis of the “Nidec Health Survey (an internal health awareness survey),” we focus on the scores of “Engagement” and “Comfort of the work environment,” to promote measures to improve the latter in particular in our company’s health-focused management. In our opinion, improving our score of “Comfort of the work environment” requires us to maintain and enhance our employees’ physical and mental well-being in addition to having in place better organizational development and productivity enhancement systems. We will therefore design and implement actions for high-risk employees and for promoting mental health.

Actions towards the targets

To improve our score in “Comfort of the work environment,” we have introduced one-on-one meetings and career plan sheets to expedite supervisor-staff communications, while holding workshops for each workplace to rejuvenate organizations. Our other activities include reforming staggered work shift, home-working, and other systems. To help our employees maintain and enhance their physical and mental well-being, we effectively provide, for example, individual high-risk people with health instructions, and recommend a detailed medical examination based on their health checkup results. In addition, to prevent injuries and sicknesses, we have our industrial doctors and health instructors hold online seminars to help improve our employees’ health literacy, while reforming their behavior by eliminating the smoking areas on the company’s property, and recommending fitness habits. In addition, to address mental health issues, we will perform a post-stress check group analysis, and follow up on its results, to improve our scores in “Pleasantness in the workplace” and create a high-engagement business organization. With these actions, we will improve our “Comfort of the work environment” score, and establish a highly engaging corporate organization.

Promoting a non-smoking environment

The entire company is promoting a smoking ban to curb smoking- and secondhand-smoking-caused health risks. This non-smoking campaign designates no-smoking hours on a three-month basis, and expands them, to achieve a total smoking ban in all the business bases in FY2021. Thus, the company supports this campaign based on a mutual understanding so that both smokers and non-smokers promote the ban for their own health and their loved ones.

Health seminar

Since fiscal year 2020, to improve our employees’ health literacy, and improve and enhance the health of the entire workforce, we have been distributing videos of health seminars by our company’s industrial doctor, while holding e-learning classes for managerial employees (FY2023 saw 378 of the company’s employees attend the health seminars). For these videos, we utilize the results of the “Nidec Health Survey,” the annual survey on our employees’ health, to select topics requested by many employees and those directly linked to health-related issues (e.g. stiff shoulder, lower-back pain, sleeping, and quitting smoking). In addition, during new-employee lectures, the Nidec Group educate newly joined employees and others on mental health and occupational safety and health. 69 people attended the lectures in FY2023.

Health management

Our health and safety managers conduct safety patrols in our workplaces to anticipate and instruct on risks detrimental to employees’ health.
An industrial doctor and a health nurse pay monthly visits to inspect our workplaces with us monthly, and provide instructions, mainly after checking mechanical equipment’s operational status, employees’ working positions, and the level of workload on employees. Inspection results are reported to the monthly health and safety committee meeting, where we share good practice and important points with one another. The committee also listens to comments by the industrial doctor and the health nurse to make workplaces more comfortable for employees. In addition, the committee holds health and safety seminars by an industrial physician and a health nurse to provide a better work environment for our employees.

Preventing infectious diseases (including tackling global health-related issues)

To prevent infectious diseases among its employees, the Nidec Group’s Japanese domestic business bases offer mass influenza vaccination to their employees. The group also offers chest X-ray to the employees during health checkup to help prevent tuberculosis infection. In addition, as a company with business bases in various countries and regions around the world, the Nidec Group recognizes the importance of addressing HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other infectious diseases, all of which are global health issues. When dispatching an employee overseas, the Nidec Group advises that he/she be vaccinated as recommended by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to lower the risks of the employee and his/her accompanying family members being infected.
Further, the Nidec Group has in place strict health management standards for its employees to be dispatched overseas or those working overseas. This is how the group checks its employees’ health checkup results to see their status of health to ensure that employees can work free of health-related concerns. In addition, the Nidec Group has a global medical insurance program available for employees working overseas and their accompanying family members. In this program, which provides various types of support including an assistance program for those in an overseas country/region to have tele-health and mental counselling services, users can enjoy easy access to medical services despite language and cultural barriers.

Mental healthcare

Maintaining good health requires one to keep a good balance between physical and mental health. It is for this purpose that, in addition to an annual health checkup, special health checkup, and stress check, we hold a mental health lecture for employees to help them learn what they need to do to maintain good mental health conditions, while providing employees with opportunities to see the industrial doctor or the health nurse if they so wish.

Health-focused management in numbers