Promotion of Health Management

Taikisha formulated corporate philosophy, "Establish a company which can continuously grow and contribute to the society" and "Establish an attractive company" for the purpose of corporate management in 1970, together with our mission statement, "Customers First".

In order to maintain and promote the sound mental and physical health of all employees, we constantly implement various effective measures under our health promotion system, maintain the sound mind and body of every one of our employees and enhance their motivation to do so, and develop the creativity and activity of individuals.

Masashi Osada
President

Taikisha is recognized as a “Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations 2024 Large Enterprise Category (White 500).”

The Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program is a system for recognizing “companies that strategically implement initiatives intended for ‘employee health and productivity management’ from a business management perspective” jointly by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi. In addition, the top 500 among the 2,988 companies recognized as health and productivity management outstanding organizations are recognized as enterprises that are practicing particularly outstanding health and productivity management.

Taikisha has been recognized as one of the “White 500” for four consecutive years since 2021, when we were the first company recognized as such in the air conditioning equipment construction work industry.

The President serves as the person in charge of health management, and the Director, Executive Corporate Officer, Chief Executive, Administrative Management Headquarters is appointed as the person in charge of promoting health measures.
The Personnel Administration Dept. of the Head Office has central functions to promote health management measures. It plans and implements various health measures for employees, verifies the results of these measures, and works constantly to improve them in cooperation with the chief medical doctor, regional medical doctors, health nurses, regional health committees, the Taikisha Group Health Insurance Association, and the Corporate Culture Committee in order to help employees maintain sound mind and health and to improve their motivation, as prescribed in the Health Management Declaration.

The chief medical doctor conducts collaborative activities and unifies functions companywide for regional medical doctors working seamlessly with the regional health committees. The chief medical doctor pinpoints characteristic health issues of our employees that arise from the nature of our business type and their working patterns. Then, from a medical standpoint, the chief medical doctor offers suggestions that help solve those issues to company management and the functional departments involved in undertaking health measures inside the Company, and conducts regular monitoring.

Taikisha has established health and safety committees at our seven nationwide bases including the headquarters. The committees prepare and implement basic measures and plans to maintain and further improve the health of employees. They are run independently from the safety committees, which are mainly consulted for onsite safety.

With the Director, Executive Corporate Officer, Chief Executive, Administrative Management Headquarters serving as the chairman at the headquarters, the committees have formulated policy to maintain and further improve the health of employees. In collaboration with the chief medical doctor stationed in our headquarters, the committees make proposals on the health management of employees in general, including such policies and disease prevention, from a companywide medical standpoint. The health committees meet once a month in each region, with medical doctors talking about timely issues and subjects and encouraging employees to take medical checkups, including second ones. The regional medical doctors provide health consultations directly to employees with poor physical or mental conditions, or those who have overworked themselves, as well as promoting medical and special health guidance to those requiring it as a result of their medical checkups.

An independent health insurance association was established in 2014 for employees including members of our four group subsidiaries and family members or dependents covered by insurance.
This health insurance association works with outside medical institutions and medical service providers in coordination with the Administrative Management Headquarters and Career Development Dept. They conduct health surveys to maintain and further improve the physical and mental health of family members, then analyze the data to suggest various health measures. Specifically, they implement health measures such as health checkups, special health guidance, health consultations, and activities to prevent lifestyle-related diseases (smoking cessation outpatient services, encouraging blood pressure measurement, and health index monitoring using wearable devices).

Members of the Corporate Culture Committee act as employee representatives belonging to each region, collecting various opinions and information regarding workplace environments and conditions at branch offices, then provide suggestions to the regional health committees.

Taikisha focuses on characteristic health issues of our employees that arise from the nature of our business type and their working patterns, and takes special measures especially to help solve these issues.
The following are four health issues for maintaining and further improving the sound physical and mental health of our employees. We are engaged in ongoing health promotion activities, formulating specific measures to prevent and solve these issues, setting effective metrics for them, and measuring their cost-effectiveness.

The Strategy Map for Health Management (Japanese)

Overwork is a major medical cause of complaints of physical and mental health. Taikisha must take action to improve this situation.

Please see the Measures for Long Working Hours webpage for details.

Metabolic syndrome, which is caused by poor lifestyle habits, is a cause of serious diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and brain disease. We hope to improve this situation.

We endeavor to enhance the health of our employees through health seminars (including measures against metabolic syndrome, cancer prevention, diet, exercise, sleep, stress, smoking cessation, drinking, infection prevention, fall prevention, headache, eye and dental health, woman-specific health issues) Videos and materials posted are accessible at any time on the company intranet.

If a person has poor mental health, it may be difficult to do normal work tasks and also may greatly affect the person's life. We are responsible for finding an employee showing signs of such disturbance early in order to correct the working environment and solve the interpersonal relationship. We take steps to prevent mental health disorders at each of the following stages.

Taikisha has set up the Taikisha Group Health Insurance Association and opened an online physical and mental health counseling service called Physical and Mental Health Consultation, through which it provides speedy and appropriate support to help employees and their family members eliminate any concerns and worries about physical and mental health. This is done through counseling given by specialized counseling staff who are experienced doctors, health nurses, nurses, registered dietitians, etc., 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Concurrently with the introduction of the stress check system in accordance with the revised Industrial Health and Safety Act, Taikisha has established a mechanism that can provide employees with the opportunity to monitor their mental state and cope with stresses and support employees in doing so.

Based on group analysis data on stress checks through an external organization, each department formulates a Workplace Improvement Plan in accordance with the details of the jobs and employee composition of its workplace, and each division manager is responsible for promoting activities to improve the working environment of the entire division. Since 2021, we have been conducting a Mental Health Survey in questionnaire format with the aim of providing mental health consultation, guidance, and treatment from the early stages to employees who are considered to be facing mental health concerns that cannot be identified by the stress check system due to legal restrictions.

We try to improve the physical and mental health of employees and their families, and take care to prevent illnesses or to achieve a quick recovery through employment and health consultation, and introduction to medical institutions.
We encourage our employees to use our leave programs and flexible work systems to maintain physical and mental health and achieve quick recovery for those suffering from problems.

We will endeavor to disseminate health and productivity management by introducing our health measures and health videos to other companies, including our customers, and jointly holding events, etc.