Human Resource Strategies
Human Resource Strategies
Trust & Respect
Kaneka is a Human Driven Company
Promotion of Wellness
To be able to boldly take on challenges, each employee must be healthy in body and mind.
We have defined Vision for Health based on which we are working to improve the wellness of our employees and our organization.
The Engine of Sustainability Management will lead a company-wide task force to promote wellness and create a healthy organization. This initiative focuses on three perspectives: prevention of lifestyle-related and other diseases, mental health, and ties between people.
Health Management in the Kaneka Group
Wellness Promotion System
Prevention of Lifestyle-Related and other Diseases
We monitor the health status of people and the organization through health checkups and interviews, stress checks, and self-reported employee questionnaires.
Depending on an individual’s health status, we offer health guidance, arrange visits to medical institutions, and set up interviews with industrial physicians for employees experiencing a high degree of stress.
Rate of Taking Medical Checkups and Interviews/Stress Checks
| Program | Fiscal 2020 | Fiscal 2021 | Fiscal 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rate of taking medical checkups and interviews | 100.0％ | 100.0％ | 100.0％ |
| Rate of taking stress checks | 96.8％ | 97.2％ | 96.6％ |
| Rate of receiving specific health guidance | 13.8％ | 29.2％ | - |
Absenteeism
| Fiscal 2020 | Fiscal 2021 | Fiscal 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Absenteeism（*1） | 1.9％ | 1.8％ | 1.5％ |
*1 Percentage of people absent from work for 30 days or more due to illness, injury, mental illness, etc.
Mental Health
We have enhanced our systems so that employees can choose flexible working styles while maintaining a positive balance between work and their private lives.
Number of Days and Rate of Paid Leave Taken
KANEKA Wellness Center Kaze no Mori
In July 2022, Kaze no Mori was completed at Takasago Manufacturing Site. It will serve as a base for promoting the wellness of our employees and the local community. We want to treasure humanity (Nature) through improving health. This is the idea behind establishing KANEKA Wellness Center.
We plan to provide health literacy education and other programs concerning health themes specific to women (menstruation, childbirth, breast cancer, etc.), mental and physical health support seminars during periods of physical change, and physical measurement sessions and training seminars on the importance of maintaining and improving leg muscle strength for seniors.
Ties Between People
Wellness centers around the ties between people, organizations and the Group.
We are working to break down the physical and psychological barriers created by the COVID-19 pandemic and to restore the ties between our employees and the Group.
Participation of Group Employee Runners in the Hokkaido Marathon
The Hokkaido Marathon, of which Kaneka is a sponsor, was held for the first time in three years.
Approximately 100 runners from the Kaneka Group ran the Sapporo course.
Run, Run, Run. Kaneka 2022
The group ekiden was held for the first time in three years. Around 2,400 employees and family members of the Group attended the event.
In keeping with the theme of the event—to breathe the same air, laugh, cheer, and celebrate—there were smiles all around and ties between people were formed.
Fiscal 2021 Performance
We provide various opportunities to help individual employees raise their health awareness and change their behavior so that they can improve self-care awareness and establish a healthy lifestyle. Even under the situation where all of us must coexist with viruses, many employees actively take part in them by using AI tools and other methods.
- In “Ekiaru (*2)”, an event using a health application, 403 teams consist of total 2,007 people from our Group companies participated.
*2 Ekiaru: An event that focuses on “walking”. Its participants walk for total 1,163.3km (equal to the distance between Tokyo Station and Sapporo Station) during the 1 month-long event period (5 persons/team)
- Conducting initiatives for improving “health” as per situation of each site, to enhance health awareness, maintain and improve fitness, and increase physical strength.
- Online marathon training sessions and seminars
- Constantly delivering programs such as sleep seminar and yoga seminar
- In cafeterias of our sites (Takasago Manufacturing Site, Osaka Manufacturing Site, Shiga Manufacturing Site, Kashima Manufacturing Site), we provide healthy menus for our employees.
There are smart meals which are certified for “healthy meals and dietary environment”. Every Friday is a “non-fry day” while 8th, 31st (30th) of every month is a “vegetable day”.
- Our activities for raising awareness of health include online courses targeting different age groups (25, 35, 45 and 55 years old), promoting self care method, issuing a health-related newsletter, and seminars held by nursing professional for understanding health issues at each life stage.
- At the Tokyo and Osaka offices, we have offered two programs— RIZAP 15-min. training and Challenge+15min.—that allow employees working at the office or from home and their families to enjoy a period of refreshment during their lunch breaks.
- At Takasago Manufacturing Site, we have appointed a health promotion leader for each workplace and have developed and implemented activities across workplaces to achieve the health objectives of each individual and team.
- Strengthening subsidies for outpatient visits to stop smoking and flu vaccinations.
