OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

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System for Occupational Health and Safety

We want employees to feel engaged in their job and to reach their full potential. A necessary condition for this is providing employees with a safe, secure, and pleasant working environment, with safety measures in place for times of disaster. On this belief, the KOKUYO Group Central Safety Health Committee—which has the function of overseeing safety and health within the KOKUYO Group—coordinates with the health and safety committee of each workplace to establish the necessary systems and processes for employee safety, incorporating the opinions of employees themselves. The goal of our health and safety efforts is to reduce occupational accidents to zero.
We participate as a board member company in the labor standards association and job-creation association at the head office location to stay up to date with latest announcements and guidance from public authorities so that we avoid violating the Labor Standards Act. We also have a dedicated internal team that monitors regulatory developments to ensure that we comply with the latest regulations and manage regulatory risks effectively. If an occupational accident or incident does occur, it will be reported to senior management without delay so that steps can be taken to minimize the risk impact.

ISO 45001 Certification

We have a system in place for managing occupational health and safety in compliance with legal requirements applying in the territories where we operate. The system includes organizational processes for protecting employee safety. It also includes group-wide processes for cases where an occupational incident occurs. These incident processes ensure the timely communication of information and ensure that processes are rectified as necessary in light of such information.
In May 2025, two KOKUYO Group companies obtained ISO 45001 certification: Kokuyo Camlin Ltd. and Dongguan Lamex Furniture Co., Ltd.

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• KOKUYO Group Construction Industry and Plants Health-and-Safety Conferences
• Zoomed-In Central Safety Health Committee
• Management Training for Plant Staff

KOKUYO Group Construction Industry and Plants Health-and-Safety Conferences

During Japan’s National Safety Week* (July 1 to 7), we organize health-and-safety conferences to enhance safety-consciousness across the corporate group. The conference programs are intricately designed for each region. The 2024 conference included presentations about cases that occurred during the year and instructions about preventing similar cases. It also included a presentation of awards to commend excellence in health and safety. Each conference concludes with a pledge to make the ensuing year incident-free.

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  Run by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Japan Industrial Safety & Health Association, National Safety Week is a campaign that calls upon employers to take voluntary actions to prevent workplace injuries. It also aims to raise awareness about health and safety and entrench workplace safety.

Construction Industry: KOKUYO Group Construction Industry Health-and-Safety Conferences

The KOKUYO Group Construction Industry Health and Safety Promotion Committee organizes health-and-safety conferences at seven venues for our construction partners in the KOKUYO Group. It does so on the belief that employee health and safety is foundational to business growth. The first half began with presentations about best practices during 2024 followed by the presentation of awards to exemplary health and safety staff. For the second half, a guest speaker delivered a presentation about health and safety. The conferences concluded with attendees reciting en masse the conference slogan and pledging to make the ensuing year incident-free.

Plants: Health-and-Safety Conferences and Safety Patrols in Plants in the KOKUYO Group in Japan

We held safety conferences and safety patrols at six key plants in Japan. The conferences presented occupational accident data from 2023, gave briefings about safety initiatives, delivered themed training, and declared a pledge on safety. We will also continue to provide opportunities to take a pause and think about safety once a year at each site over our entire group in the future. We will do that to connect a culture that protects safety with the future.

Development: Manufacturing Safety Conference and Safety Patrol

Manufacturing safety conferences and safety patrols are organized in a hybrid format by connecting the workshops held in Osaka that develop our products and inspect quality to Shinagawa X-stage. The purpose is to keep employees ever mindful about occupational accident prevention and about what needs to be done to prevent such accidents, as we handle mechanical tools and various chemical substances in product development processes as well as in plants. The conferences and patrols used a hybrid format. This format resulted in a higher number of attendees, as it was possible for remote workers and staff at the Shinagawa office to attend online. The conference therefore succeeded in raising safety awareness among many employees.

	2022		2023		2024
	Permanent employees	Non-permanent employees	Permanent employees	Non-permanent employees	Permanent employees	Non-permanent employees
KOKUYO (Mie Plant)	124	233	129	222	144	194
KOKUYO (Shibayama Plant)	129	164	140	167	144	172
KOKUYO XT and WS	98	5	110	4	107	6
Construction Industry Safety Conference	370	276	253	300	247	323
KOKUYO Logitem Co., Ltd.	-	-	86	121	97	141
KOKUYO Product Shiga Co., Ltd.	147	33	145	33	145	25
KOKUYO MVP Co., Ltd.	172	65	163	50	159	48
IWAMI Paper Industry Co., Ltd.	49	27	46	25	46	23
Origin Co., Ltd.	-	-	109	3	107	7

Zoomed-In Central Safety Health Committee

In November 2024, KOKUYO’s Mie Plant and KOKUYO Logitem’s Mie distribution center held a meeting of the Zoomed-In Central Safety Health Committee for staff in charge of health and safety in relation to forklift operation in manufacturing and distribution sites. Invited to the event was an outside instructor with expertise in forklift safety. On the day of the event, the instructor listened to the safety practices in each workplace, toured the workplaces, assessed the risks, and gave detailed feedback. The instructor’s feedback included important perspectives for managing workplace safety, observations about risks that can easily get overlooked, and other valuable knowledge that is rarely gained in everyday work. The participants found the event very useful. In this way, the participants gained many valuable tips and insights. Further meetings of the Zoomed-In Central Safety Health Committee will be held with a flexible approach to setting the them. These meetings will help improve safety awareness and workplace effectiveness across KOKUYO Group.

Management Training for Plant Staff

To help develop the talent pool for plants over the medium and long term, the KOKUYO Group Central Safety Health Committee and KOKUYO Academy provided leaders with management training. For young staff with leadership potential, they ran a two-day training camp focusing on communication and problem-solving. The programs involved tasks in which attendees practice expressing their ideas, communicating with others, and solving problems, all of which helped the attendees discover their leadership potential. The training programs were delivered at Mie Plant and Shibayama Plant. They will be rolled out to other plants across KOKUYO Group.

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