Employees’ Occupational Health and Safety

Implementation of Occupational Health and Safety Education

■ Education and Training Related to Occupational Health and Safety
Legally mandated education We conduct education at the time hiring as well as special training and training when starting hazardous or potentially harmful work.
Education beyond legal requirements
  • In addition to legally mandated training, the following trainings are provided.
  • Education to foster qualified personnel (e.g., health and safety managers, industrial counselors)
  • Manager training (training for newly appointed site managers, training for safety managers on the section manager level and above at the time of selection, etc.)
  • Hazard simulations, internal workshops, small group activities
    (e.g., development of occupational accident case studies)
  • JCO Study Center training, lectures from external workshops
    (e.g., lifesaving and first-aid, drunk driving prevention)

Education in Hands-on Training Facilities

Since 2010, the SMM Group has been operating a hands-on training facility (Oji-kan Facility) in Niihama City, Ehime Prefecture, which consists of a Hazard Simulation Zone and an Equipment Skills Training Zone. The purpose of the Hazard Simulation Zone is to increase sensitivity to occupational safety and occupational health through simulated experiences of dangers that may be present in daily work, while the purpose of the Equipment Skills Training Zone is to develop operators with strong skills in equipment and devices through hands-on experience with actual on-site equipment, cut models, etc. In both zones, in addition to the curator and full-time instructors, site managers and supervisors, and veteran employees provide training as appointed instructors. Oji-kan Facility staff have been traveling to workplaces since 2013 to conduct on-site hazard simulation training, and we are working to expand the number of participants. In addition, each business site uses Oji-kan Facility based on a risk assessment of its own workplace to conduct safety education through its own unique program.
Also, since September 2023, Coral Bay Nickel Corporation (CBNC) in the Philippines has been offering hazard experience training that makes reference to the Oji-kan at the Safety Skills and Training Center (SSTC), and a total of 100 Filipino employees have participated in the training.

■ Number of Employees Using the Oji-kan Facility and Attending On-site Training (as of the end of 2023)
Oji-kan Facility users 21,790
(Breakdown) Group companies in Japan 17,261
Contractors 4,416
Overseas business sites 113
Attendees of on-site training 9,736
Total 31,526

External Communication

We participate in the health and safety committees of the Japan Mining Industry Association and Kyohokai1 to obtain information on legal revisions and response methods, and to introduce the latest health and safety technologies and improve the level of health and safety through reciprocal visits of members’ factories and by developing good practices.
We also use outside consultants to conduct safety culture assessments at SMM Group’s major business sites, and the Safety & Environment Control Department presents the results to the business sites and discusses them to improve safety initiatives.

  • 1Kyohokai: Consists of more than 200 contractors for Toyota Motor Corporation

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