The creation of a workplace environment where employees can work safely with a sense of security is a challenge that is profound and most important for companies.
The TANAKA Precious Metals strives to ensure the safety and health of employees while focusing on the development of relationships that facilitate mutual cooperation between them.

Review of Safety Activities

We promoted various safety activities while setting “Give top priority to safety, and establish a secure and cheerful workplace” as the central policy for fiscal 2022. The number of accidents in fiscal 2022 was 21, which included 9 accidents resulting in four or more days of lost work time. The frequency rate, which is the number of casualties per million actual working hours, and the severity rate, which is the number of workdays lost per million actual working hours, both increased from previous years.
We analyze the causes of the accidents that have occurred and discuss permanent countermeasures in the meetings of the Safety Managers Sub-committee, in which safety managers of our plants and facilities participate, to prevent the recurrence of such accidents. While we have taken safety measures to address priority issues every year since fiscal 2017, the plants and facilities set the challenges that they will address individually, such as “getting caught” and “cut and graze,” in addition to “prevention of falls,” which is a common challenge, and take measures to tackle them.
The number of traffic accidents has been on a downward trend with 49 in fiscal 2020, 49 in fiscal 2021 and 37 in fiscal 2022. While we have supported the installation of a dashboard camera in cars, we also started to support the installation of a collision-reducing brake and a rear-view monitor for those commuting by private car as a measure to promote traffic safety.
Along with measures to prevent accidents, we are also committed to the development of an environment where employees can work with a sense of security. We have defined an operation where employees belonging to the same department cannot confirm the presence of another employee working for the operation or contact such an employee easily as an isolated one-man operation. To avoid such an operation, we have introduced a mechanism to detect any fall and obtain location information of workers and enhanced daily work management and personnel deployment to establish a system where we can respond to accidents immediately while giving the highest priority to saving the lives of employees.
For the numbers of occupational and traffic accidents, see CSR Performance

Introduction of Examples of Safety Measures Taken to Address Priority Issues