Health Management

In March 2017, we declared our commitment to Health and Productivity Management, and under the guiding principles of management that values and nurtures people, we aim to maintain and promote the health of our employees and their families.
We are convinced that healthy and energetic employees, both mentally and physically, who perform their duties at their best will enhance labor productivity, promote company growth, and lead to wider contributions to society.

March 26, 2025
Naoki Nakamura, President & CEO

We work with internal and external organizations, primarily Human Resources, to implement various measures

The Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program is a program that recognizes major corporations and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that practice particularly outstanding health management, through initiatives refl0ecting community health issues and efforts toward good health as promoted by the Nippon Kenko Kaigi.

Assessment of The Pack’s health management (FY2025 application)

• Overall ranking: 2,801-2,850out of 4175 companies
• Overall assessment: 45.3(down 1.8 points from the previous score of 47.1)

As the number of companies participating in this program increases, there is a need for more advanced and proactive health management efforts. Under our policy of management that values and nurtures people, we will strive to maintain and improve the health of employees and their families.

We provide regular health checkups for all employees. In FY2024,100% of employees received regular health checkups, while 70.4% received secondary exams. More than one-fifth of our employees, or 22.1%, were eligible for secondary examinations. To increase the percentage of employees undergoing secondary examinations, we provide all employees with paid time of (unpaid for those not paid monthly salaries) for the time needed to undergo examinations during working hours. We will continue to develop environments that make it easier to get health checkups.
※Part-time employees are not included because they may join and leave the company throughout the year.

Regular health checkups (checkup period: April 1 of year indicated ‒ March 31 of following calendar year)(Subject: All employees excluding part-time employees)

Secondary examinations (examination period: April 1 of year indicated – March 31 of following calendar year)(Subject: All employees excluding part-time employees)

We’re promoting a smoking cessation challenge program for the health of employees and their families. The Human Resources Dept. plays a leading role in surveying the smoking status of employees and raising awareness of smoking cessation programs and other initiatives of the Health Insurance Society.

Smoking rate over time(Subject: All employees)

We ask all employees, including part-time employees, to undergo annual stress checks. We aim to identify any mental-health concerns swiftly through analysis of individual groups of employees, in addition to encouraging eligible persons to receive in-person guidance from a physician based on the results of their stress checks.

Stress checks(Subject: All employees)

In 2025, to maintain and improve employee health, we began providing partial subsidies for copayments on complete medical checkups for employees aged 35 or older who are members of the health insurance society and dependent family members aged 35 or older.

To establish healthier and more comfortable workplaces, we held physical and mental healthcare training for all employees. This training deepened employee awareness of mental and physical health by providing basic knowledge related to stress management, women’s health, menopause, and other topics. The training also helped employees better understand their colleagues’ health, in addition to their own.

We practice occupational health and safety management to provide safe, healthy workplaces for all employees, and are striving to enhance safety measures in manufacturing workplaces in particular.

Establishing and using an occupational health and safety management system manual

We have prepared an occupational health and safety management system manual to establish safe and healthy workplaces based on active improvements in occupational health and safety performance and to prevent job-related injuries and illness at manufacturing sites. Additionally, we developed systems to minimize occupational health and safety risks by preparing and enhancing subordinate documents under the manual on topics like training and education, risk assessments, and managing change. Operations based on this manual began at our four plants in Japan in 2025. This change has integrated activities previously carried out by each plant independently, making it easier to share matters related to improvements and specic issues. Additionally, under the new system, the results of annual activities and issues for the following year at each plant are reported to the Manufacturing General Manager for use as foundations for further improvements across the organization.

Enhancing health and safety education

Previously, each plant implemented its own health and safety education. Since FY2025, we have provided safety education based on the manual established on standardized topics at the four plants in Japan for both newly appointed forepersons and newly hired employees. Data on past on-the-job accidents showed that employees with less than three years’ tenure had higher accident rates. In response, we’re striving to raise safety awareness through quarterly health and safety education for employees who meet this description.

Enhancing response to on-the-job accidents

In the event of an on-the-job accident, discussions are held at the four plants in Japan not just to share information but to review incidents, issues, and countermeasures to enable response across the whole organization. The number of on-the-job accidents at the four plants in Japan dropped from FY2024 to FY2025. We will continue to work to prevent accidents through an ongoing plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle to eliminate all on-the-job accidents.