Workplace safety and hygiene
The effort to prevent workplace accidents is integrated in a comprehensive OHSMS* program that combines conventional safety initiatives—such as tidiness/orderliness/cleanliness, reporting of near-accidents and potential hazards, hazard prediction analysis, safety patrols, and case studies—with risk assessments and a prevention-oriented plan-do-check-act system.
- *Occupational Health and Safety Management System. A standardized management system used to confirm that continuous improvement is being applied to measures to minimize the risks of workplace injuries and to prevent the emergence of future risks.
Frenquency rate1
Saverity rate2
Note: The severity rate was revised as an accident in 2008 was found to have caused lasting injury.
- 1Number of accidental deaths and injuries resulting in the loss of one or more workdays, per million man-hours worked. Our goal of 0.1 or less is extremely ambitious. At a plant with 100 workers, it would mean only one worker in 50 years suffered from a workplace injury which resulted in a day off.
- 2Lost workdays, severity-weighted, per thousand man-hours worked.
- 3Fiscal years for the Asahi Kasei Group, calendar years for the chemical industry and manufacturing industries in Japan.
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