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Health management initiatives

Health Management Statement

Identifying as its unchanging approach the basic principle of the Hitachi Group Health and Safety Policy “Health and Safety Always Comes First,” the Hitachi Health Insurance Society promotes both safety activities and health management activities intended to maintain and improve the health of employees.
We pledge to strive to achieve workplaces in which all employees who belong to the Health Insurance Society can work with vitality in healthy and happy ways.

Hitachi Health Insurance Society
Yasuoki Matsunaga, Chairman of the Board

Objectives for promoting health management

• 1. We consider health management to be an important issue from a management perspective, and strategically promote activities related to this field. We aim to ensure the Company continues to be selected to the Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program in the large enterprise category as a proven track record in these activities, and promote health management activities by the Health Insurance Society and improve employee performance.
• 2. The Health Insurance Society's health management themes
  
  • (1) Promoting workstyle reforms
    
    • ① The goals of managing working hours in FY2023 include prohibition of working more than 80 hours of overtime per month, prohibition in principle of late-night work, and ensuring that employees take at least 20 days/year of annual paid vacation.
    • ② Implementing diverse modes of work to accommodate employee childcare and long-term care needs
  • (2) Health promotion initiatives
    
    • ① Supporting employee health through health guidance and lifestyle guidance in cooperation with industrial physicians, based on health examination and specific health checkup results
    • ② Maintaining and promoting health by raising anew health awareness and encouraging behavioral changes
    • ③ Specialist consultation services for employees and their families on health, long-term care, childcare, and other topics via the Hitachi Health Insurance Society's Health Consultation Hotline (24 hours/day, 365 days/year)
      

Status of initiatives, etc.

Organizational structure <Health Management Promotion Committee>

Health management implementation structure chart

Society health issues and health management strategies

Beginning in FY2023, the Society conducts a Health Management Survey of all employees. This survey is intended to help visualize trends in lifestyle habits and identify key factors and obstacles in our efforts to raise health awareness.
The Health Management Survey this time covered employee awareness of behavioral tendencies related to seven lifestyle habits: nutrition, exercise, smoking, mental health, sleep, alcohol consumption, and stiff shoulders/lumbar pain.

The state of employee health issues identified through the survey will be reported in the monthly meeting of the Health and Safety Committee and other occasions and used in efforts toward solutions to health issues (such as seminars, walking rallies, and other activities), in order to improve employee health.

<Details of health survey results>

1. Diet
Do you try to maintain a balanced diet in your daily life?

2. Exercise
On how many days a week do you walk for at least one hour or engage in similar physical activity (e.g., cleaning, laundry)?

3. Smoking
Do you smoke?

4. Mental health
How often do you feel stress in your daily life?

5. Sleep
Over the past month, did you have sufficient sleep to refresh yourself?

6. Alcohol consumption
On how many days a week do you consume alcohol (e.g., sake, shochu, beer, wine, liquor)?

7. Stiff shoulders/lumbar pain
Do you ever experience stiff shoulders or lumbar pain?

Strategy map

Topics to be addressed by health management

• Improving employee performance
• Improving employee health and health awareness
• Preventing drops in productivity attributable to lifestyle-related conditions, injuries, illness, and mental health issues