Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) |
Health and Safety Initiatives |
Health and safety is one of DISCO's top priorities. For that reason, we have established Principles of Health and Safety in order to prevent accidents and disasters, and to enable employees to live healthy and safe lives. We are continuing to promote initiatives in this area.
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Principles of Safety and Health |
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| Principles of Safety and Health |
| Safety and health principles clarify the direction of individual and corporate actions, for the purpose of preventing accidents and disasters as well as protecting our health. |
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Safety and health are among our top priorities. |
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Protection of safety and health concerns not
only our employees but also all people*1 involved with our products and services. |
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From "zero accidents" to "zero risk" |
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We must, naturally, comply with all laws and regulations; but we aim to go beyond
that level. |
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Safety and health outside working hours*2 are also important. |
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We should always be conscious of safety and health. |
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Any deficiency in safety or health is to be immediately corrected. |
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Even in case of emergencies, we try our best to avoid all risks in order to accomplish our mission*3 |
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When you sense any danger, you should immediately stop your work and wait until you are totally satisfied about the safety and health conditions to restart your work. |
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When you are in a new situation, sufficient study and full preparation are needed. |
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All people means everybody who manufactures,
uses, or maintains our products.
Thus, customers and suppliers are also included. |
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Outside working hours means commuting and break time.
When you drive to work or for business, you are required to drive safely. We also encourage you to place first priority to safety and health even when off-duty or on holiday. |
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We should not easily abandon our mission
in order to protect our safety and health.
We need to mobilize every possible means to both
accomplish our mission, and at the same time, protect our safety and health. However, in case
there is no way to avoid risk, we should, also, have the courage to abandon our mission. |
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"Zero Accident" Campaign
DISCO started its "Zero Accident" campaign in fiscal 2004, with the aim of eliminating accidents
and having health and safety take root in our corporate culture. More specifically, this focuses on reducing risks
specific to each division that lead to accidents, zero traffic accident exercises, safety training and fire-prevention
activities. |
Driving safety seminar |
Safety Training
In order to achieve zero accidents it is absolutely vital to raise safety awareness of each and every employee. To this end, DISCO provides safety training.
Recently, particular focus has been on safety training for customer engineers when they carry out service maintenance. DISCO
provides a consistent level of safety training at all its domestic and overseas local affiliates.
DISCO is continuing initiatives to achieve zero accidents throughout the entire group. |
Equipment maintenance safety seminar |
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OHSMS (Occupational Health and Safety Management System) |
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DISCO received OHSAS certification for the Hiroshima Works in 2004 (revised in 2007).
As to overseas offices, DISCO HI-TEC (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD did it in 2007, and DISCO HI-TEC EUROPE GmbH in 2008.
DISCO HI-TEC CHINA CO., LTD. received in 2009 the Chinese standard "GB/T 28001-2001" which conformed to "OHSAS".
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Creating Healthy Workplace |
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DISCO is engaged in a variety of initiatives to encourage every employee
to maintain or improve his or her health and enable them to work with cheerfulness and vigor. These include
expanding the scope of regular medical checkups domestically, and implementing medical checkups at overseas
affiliates.
Also, DISCO has set up facilities to help employees refresh their minds and bodies by, for example,
establishing a fitness gymnasium at its Head Office/R&D Center and places ping-pong equipment at each site.
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Head office R&D Center Fitness Gymnasium |
Mental Health Initiatives
DISCO is not only focused on physical health but also on mental well-being.
Employees are able to access to counselling from oppupational counselors or psychosomatic physicians besides telephone couselling by special institutes.
We also provide regular mental health seminar by psychosomatic physicians for employees and managers.
Mental Health Support System
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Katsuya Morishita
Psychosomatic Physician |
Importance of Early Detection |
Depression and other psychological disorders have skyrocketed in Japan over the last 10 years.
Depression is not a special illness; it is a disorder that can afflict anyone. Just as with physical illnesses, early detection is key.
If you see any signs of depression in yourself or those around you, as discussed in the seminars, you should talk with your manager or a specialist. If anything feels wrong, I encourage you to go see a counselor right away. |
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