Occupational Health and Safety Initiatives

Based on the Toyota Tsusho Group's Policies on Safety and Health, the Group promotes occupational health and safety initiatives that are designed to ensure the continuity of operations by ensuring the safety of all people who work at Toyota Tsusho and all those who are involved in its operations, including business partners and investees.

Toyota Tsusho Group's Policies on Safety and Health

  1. Recognizing that good communications are paramount for ensuring safety and health, top management places a high premium on dialogue with employees.
  2. While strictly adhering to relevant safety and health laws and the internal workplace business rules and procedures of our customers, we have established our own standards, as we work to raise the level of our safety and health management.
  3. We utilize occupational safety and health management systems and work to continually improve and maintain these systems as we aim to raise safety and health levels.
  4. To promote safety and health activities at all companies throughout the Toyota Tsusho Group, we will establish the necessary organizations and structures and clarify the locations of responsibilities.
  5. To progress with the creation of comfortable and healthy workplaces, we will provide all employees with sufficient and necessary education for ensuring their safety and health.

We have safety management systems in place and promote the creation of a corporate culture that prevents accidents from occurring.

Mikio Asano
Executive Vice President
Safety and Health Management
General Supervisor

Toyota Tsusho believes that ensuring the safety of its employees, as well as all other workers involved in its business, is a fundamental corporate responsibility, as well as a prerequisite for business continuity. Over the two-year period from fiscal 2009 through fiscal 2010, Toyota Tsusho experienced no serious workplace accidents. We thank all those who have been instrumental in achieving this excellent result.

In reaction to major accidents that occurred since fiscal 2006, Toyota Tsusho issued safety and emergency declarations in August 2008 and rebuilt its framework for safety management. We established a Safety Management Improvement Committee and a Weekly Safety Meeting, creating a system for the regular sharing of initiatives related to occupational health and safety. We also set up the Toyota Tsusho Group OS&H Promotion Committee as an organization to manage occupational health and safety throughout the Group. One example of this committee's efforts is the Conventions for "Zero Accident" Team members, which are attended by more than 150 "Zero Accident" Team members from sales divisions.

On the training front, we sought to redouble awareness of potential dangers and prevent accidents from occurring by providing various types of occupational health and safety training in Japan and overseas. For example, we set up the Practical Safety Workshop and began producing safety training DVDs. Furthermore, for Group companies involved in manufacturing we began conducting plant inspections, safety diagnoses and risk assessments to keep dangers from materializing. When investing in new operations, we also screen for the existence of safety management systems and countermeasures, thereby ensuring that safety is incorporated into operations from the planning stages.

One safety and health activity introduced in 2010 was the eradication of traffic accidents. In November 2010, Toyota Tsusho issued an emergency declaration on traffic safety and enacted divisional countermeasures.

Via its safety initiatives, Toyota Tsusho pursues a "zero accident" policy throughout all Group operations. We are building a corporate culture that encourages people to speak out in the interest of accident prevention. In essence, we are pursuing a policy of "zero danger."

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