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Occupational Health, Safety, and Fitness Initiatives
The Kyocera Group is undertaking various measures to raise health awareness among all employees and support overall well-being.
Total Health Promotion (hereinafter: THP) Plan Activities
The Kyocera Group carries out total health promotion activities, under the overall control of the president and the leadership of the Corporate General Affairs Human Resources Group. THP activities aim to help employees maintain and improve their physical and mental health so that they can lead healthy and fulfilling lives, and to make the company more productive and energetic. In line with our Health and Productivity Management Declaration, we are implementing various ongoing initiatives to improve employee health, including measures to promote healthy eating habits, exercise, quitting smoking, and good mental health. We are aiming to be a company with excellent health management, where every employee can work energetically and enthusiastically.
Kyocera Group Health and Productivity Management Declaration
The Kyocera Group declared as its corporate principle, "to provide opportunities for the material and intellectual growth of all our employees, and through our joint efforts, contribute to the advancement of society and humankind," in the Management Rationale and has conducted management based on this philosophy since its foundation. Since the physical and mental health of employees is indispensable to realize this management rationale, the Kyocera Group carries out total health promotion (THP) activities to engage in "health and productivity management." Kyocera aims to remain a lively and energetic group where all of its employees are empowered to work healthily while achieving their maximum performance potential.
July 3, 2018
Kyocera Corporation
Hideo Tanimoto, President
● Kyocera Group Health Promotion Group
Main Initiatives in the THP
- 1. Dietary measures: Healthy menu options in the cafeteria, promoting the sale of designated health foods and sugar-free products in the store and vending machines, awareness activities on proper nutrition, etc.
- 2. Exercise measures: Awareness activities to develop exercise habits, etc.
- 3. Measures for passive smoking prevention and smoking cessation promotion: Completion of smoking ban on the premises (completed in March 2021), implementation of No Smoking DAY/WEEK, awareness activities for smokers, promotion of smoking cessation clinics, and consultation subsidies for smoking cessation clinics (shared by the company and health insurance union), etc.
- 4. Mental health measures: Enhancement of mental health education for employees.
- 5. Strengthening the health management system: Increase in industrial doctors, mental health specialists, health nurses, etc.
- 6. Others: Kyocera Group Health Promotion Month (every September).
- 7. Support for Women's Health: Implementation of a system that allows employees to undergo regular health checkups and gynecological examinations at the same time, as well as awareness-raising activities on breast cancer and cervical cancer targeting female employees.
Installation of Relaxation Areas
To provide employees with more meaningful break time, we have set up relaxation areas within the Global Headquarters, Tamaki Plant, and the Vietnam Plant.
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