Maintaining and Improving Employees’ Health
From an early stage, our Group has made securing the safety and health of officers and employees a priority from the standpoint of occupational health and safety. To ensure that all employees in our Group can work with greater health and motivation, we established the Sumitomo Metal Mining Group Health and Productivity Management Policy in August 2022, and in October of that year, we formulated the Employee Health Promotion Roadmap, which specifies medium-to long-term initiatives and targets, and a one-year Health and Productivity Management Plan. Based on his plans, we are undertaking and rolling out effective maintenance and promotion measures for mental and physical health in cooperation with the Sumitomo Metal Mining Health Insurance Association.
Sumitomo Metal Mining Group Health and Productivity Management Policy
The Sumitomo Metal Mining Group recognizes that the ability of officers and employees to exert their capabilities to the fullest in good physical and mental health is an important foundation of our management. Accordingly, we promote efforts for the maintenance and improvement of health for every individual.
■ Sumitomo Metal Mining Group Health and Productivity Management Framework
Health and Productivity Management Plan
■ Employee Health Promotion Roadmap
- 1We plan to set a KPI on alcohol consumption risk starting in FY2024
FY2021 and FY2022 results are data on the amount of alcohol consumed on days when alcohol is consumed
Addressing Mental Health Care
In 2007, we issued our “ In-House Guidelines on the Prevention of Health Disorders Due to Overwork and on Mental Health Care. ” We take action to prevent overwork from an early stage onward, and promote four types of mental health care: self-care, care by line management, care by staff, and care by external organizations. To support early return to the workplace, we are also developing systems for leave from work and trial return to work.
■ Percentage of Employees Taking Leave due to Mental Health Disorders
| FY | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage of employees taking leave1 | 0.45% | 0.40% | 0.37% | 0.43% | 0.41% |
- 1Percentage of employees taking leave: Total number of days of leave taken ÷ number of scheduled working days x number of employees at end of fiscal year x 100
Reporting boundary: Employees of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
Utilization of Stress Checks
To make effective use of statutory stress check systems, we conduct stress checks for all employees
every year in accordance with our “Regulations for Promotion of the Stress Check System.” We also
carry out workplace analyses and workplace environment improvements for which efforts are mandated,
and report the results to management.
We developed a stress check system beginning in 2008, before systems were made mandatory
in 2015. As the importance of the checks are well known, the rate of employees undergoing checks
has remained very high.
Based on results of the checks, we study and implement initiatives to improve the motivation
of employees (i.e., increase the health and well-being of employees). Stress checks are a tool for
evaluating employees’ psychological load and stress factors. The data is kept anonymous and
confidential by outsourced companies. To an extent that does not specify individuals, we assess
and analyze trends and issues in departments, workplaces, and employee attributes, and feed the
results back to organizations so that effective initiatives can be carried out at each business site. Employees identified in the checks as having high stress receive follow-up e-mail communication
from physicians regarding early response, checkups by specialists, and early recovery (shortening of
the leave period). Upon request from individuals concerned, the Company also provides individual
engagement and support.
■ Percentage of Employees Receiving Stress Checks and Percentage of Employees with High Stress1
- 1Reporting boundary: Employees of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
■ Initiatives for Mental Health Care
Personal information is handled with due care in all of the initiatives
Illness Prevention and Health Promotion Initiatives
In cooperation with the Sumitomo Metal Mining Health Insurance Society, we are making initiatives
for illness prevention and health promotion for our employees and their family members (dependents).
To prevent lifestyle-related diseases, we promote the implementation of specific health
checkups and specified health guidance, and encourage those at particularly high risk of serious
illnesses to undergo checkups. We also subsidize all or part of the costs of various medical examinations,
comprehensive health checkup system (Ningen Dock), and complete brain checkups. When
undergoing complete medical checkups, employees can take health management leave (up to
two days per year).
Furthermore, to promote smoking cessation, we have reduced the number of smoking areas
and offer an online smoking cessation program for those who wish to quit. About 70% of participants
in the smoking cessation program have successfully quit smoking.
Main Projects for Illness Prevention and Health Promotion
- Specified health checkups and specific health guidance for the prevention and remediation of metabolic syndrome
- Comprehensive health checkup system (Ningen Dock), brain checkups, colon cancer screening, abdominal ultrasound screening, gastric X-ray screening, dental checkups, HPV self-checks
- Encouraging employees at high risk of worsening of lifestyle-related diseases to undergo checkups and providing health guidance to employees at high risk of diabetic nephropathy
- Online smoking cessation program
- Intermediary sales of household medicines
- Determination of disease risk through genomic analysis
■ Smoking Rate and Target1
- 1Reporting boundary: Employees of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd., age 40 or older (results of specific health checkup interview)
■ Percentage of Employees with Abnormal Findings1, Obesity Rate2, and Targets
- 1Reporting boundary: Insured persons of the Sumitomo Metal Mining Health Insurance Society
- 2Reporting boundary: Employees of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd., age 40 or older
■ Percentage and Number of Employees Receiving Health Checkups
- 1Reporting boundary: Insured persons of the Sumitomo Metal Mining Health Insurance Society who are 18 years old or older
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