About us
Business overview
| Established | April 1, 1986 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Number of insured persons（*） |
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| Average standard monthly remuneration（*） | 451,100 yen for ordinary insured persons 280,000 yen for Special-Case Retired Insured Persons |
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| Insurance premium rates | General 8.7% (including regulation insurance premium rate) (Employer: 5.0%; insured person: 3.7%) Long-term care 1.76% (Employer: 0.88%; insured person: 0.88%) |
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| Society Committee | The number of committee members is fixed at 38 persons (19 appointed committee members, 19 elected committee members). | ||||||||||||||||
| Board of Directors | The number of directors is fixed at 12 persons (six appointed directors, six elected directors). | ||||||||||||||||
| Auditors | The number of auditors is fixed at two persons (one appointed auditor, one elected auditor). | ||||||||||||||||
| Rules and official announcements | See here for details.(Authentication is required to view this content.) |
(*) Base figures from FY2025 budget
Basic philosophy
Basic philosophy
As the health insurance society for the Hitachi Group, our basic philosophy calls for us to support the healthy and happy lives of members based on the Hitachi Founding Spirit (Harmony, Sincerity, and Pioneering Spirit).
Activity policies
We strive to support the health of our members.
We strive to ensure quality healthcare and information provision.
We strive to stabilize our financial standing through appropriate activity operations.
Code of conduct
We take pride in fulfilling our mission based on a full understanding of the basic philosophy.
- We act in compliance with laws, regulations, and ethical standards as responsible corporate citizens.
- We strive to attain specialized knowledge and improve our working capabilities by taking on the challenge of self-improvement at all times.
- We interact with people in good faith at all times and strive to gain their trust.
- We value the spirit of harmony and strive to achieve activity goals by bringing together knowledge from across the organization.
- We respect personal information of our members and make every effort to protect the confidentiality of this information.
Established April 1, 2010
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
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(1) Promoting workstyle reforms
- ① The goals of managing working hours in FY2024 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)
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(1) Promoting workstyle reforms
Status of initiatives, etc.
| Item | Numerical target | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 |
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| Percentage undergoing periodic health checkups | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Percentage undergoing stress checks | 100% | 83.7% | 98.9% | 97.5% | 95.6% | 94.9% |
| Percentage for whom specific health guidance is provided | 55% | 33.3% | 66.6% | 87.5% | 87.5% | 85.7% |
| Smoking rate | 25% | 18.0% | 13.3% | 11.5% | 15.3% | 16.4% |
| Absences due to | 0 persons | 2 persons | 2 persons | 2 persons | 6 persons | 2 persons |
| Average overtime hours | ― | 8.0 hours | 8.0 hours | 16.0 hours | 16.0 hours | 14.0 hours |
| Annual paid vacation taken | 20 days/year | 16 days | 21 days | 18 days | 18 days | 21 days |
| Percentage undergoing detailed examinations | ― | ― | ― | ― | 66.7% | 64.6% |
| * Absence rate | ― | ― | ― | ― | ― | 0.57% |
| Percentage with medical findings | 10% | ― | ― | ― | ― | 19.7% |
Participation rate of women’s health issue measures |
100% | ― | ― | ― | ― | 96.3% |
Satisfaction with health issue measures |
100% | ― | ― | ― | ― | 96.9% |
| Number of work-related accidents | ― | ― | ― | ― | ― | 1 |
| Number of employees leaving the company | ― | ― | ― | ― | ― | 18 persons |
* Calculation of absence rate:
Absence rate = (Number of days absent ÷ Total number of work days) × 100 [Absenteeism]
| <Measures implemented in FY2023> | Date and time | Number of participants | Cost |
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Stiff shoulders/lumbar pain prevention seminar |
June 2023 |
154 |
165,000 yen (for three sessions) |
Diet seminar |
July 2023 |
158 |
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Team walking rally |
November 2023 |
158 |
158,000 yen |
Health app introduction |
September 2023 |
74 |
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Smoking cessation support training |
September 2023 |
10 |
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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.
Looking at the survey results for fiscal year 2024, there were no major changes from the previous fiscal year, but in terms of diet, the number of people who try to eat a balanced diet increased compared to the previous fiscal year, indicating that employees’ health awareness has improved.
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
