Activities in FY2025 (Company-wide Targets and Key Initiatives)

Company-wide Targets

1. Promotion of initiatives toward achieving a workplace injury frequency rate of 0.2 or less
2. Achieving zero serious accidents

Key Issues

Efforts to achieve a workplace injury frequency rate of 0.2 or less

1. Improving non-technical skills
2. Preventing behavioral hazards (carelessness and rule violations) through ongoing learning
3. Systematic workplace inspections (patrols and communication) and corporate audits for workplace environment improvement

Efforts to Achieve Zero Serious Accidents

1. Implementation of measures to prevent recurrence and mitigate risk of accidents focusing on high energy hazards
2. Company-wide security capability enhancement through inspection and reconstruction of security infrastructure

Establishment and implementation of ideal corporate governance

1. Extracting various issues and establishing and operating rules (group, head office/office/department) and systems
2. Streamlining of safety and security management and improvement of accuracy through digitalization and DX

Safety performance data

Basic Policy

All employees^※  of the Denka Group understand and practice that workplace safety and health and facility security and disaster prevention are the top priorities in all production-related activities.

• ※All officers, employees, dispatched employees, contractors, and employees of contractors of the Denka Group

Established: April 2025

Guidelines fo Actions

Legal Compliance

All officers and employees will fulfill legal requirements such as safety laws and regulations, and will establish and comply with their own rules and standards.

Communication from Management

The management teams of each group company will take the lead in sending messages and will establish and comply with their own rules and standards.

Securing Management Resources

The management teams of each group company will secure and invest the necessary human, technical, and financial resources to create a safe and secure working environment.

Identifying Hazards and Eliminating and Reducing Risks

All officers and employees strive to reduce and eliminate risks by identifying, risk assessment, and countermeasures for sources of danger (especially high-energy hazards) that can lead to serious accidents and accidents in the workplace.

Promote Effective Occupational Safety and Health Activities Based on Evidence

The Environmental Safety Departments of each group company will collect and analyze internal and external information regarding occupational safety and health, and select and promote highly effective activities based on this evidence.

Ensuring Psychological Safety and Mental and Physical Health

The management teams of each group company will foster a psychologically safe work environment where all executives and employees can communicate what needs to be communicated, demonstrate empathy for their coworkers, and continually implement effective measures to ensure mental and physical health.

Implementing Systematic Education and Training

The environmental safety departments of each group company will strive to improve safety awareness by establishing an occupational safety and health education system that clearly targets the target audience, and planning and implementing education and training based on this system.

Continuous Improvement based on Audit and Support System

The Environmental & Safety Department at the group headquarters will continually improve our safety culture through regular audits, monitoring, support, and follow-up of each group company.

Established: April 2025

Safety management System

Supervision of safety by the Board of Directors

Denka has appointed the President as the head of the Safety Measures Headquarters, which is the core of safety and health management, and established a monitoring system for safety through the Board of Directors.
As the management system of the Safety Measures Headquarters, important matters reported from each business establishment including the Health and Safety Committee are reported to the Executive Officer in charge of Environment and Safety, and reported to the Board of Directors once a month.
The Executive Officer in charge of Environment and Safety oversees safety, security, health, quality, and sustainability.

Safety Review Meetings

Safety review meetings are held regularly by the officers in charge of environment and safety in order to motivate each business site regarding occupational safety and health, security management, and to coordinate policies. At these meetings, we confirm priority implementation items for each business site based on company-wide policies, discuss progress and issues, and also have dialogue with people at all levels to identify health and safety management issues and provide feedback to company-wide policies.

Safety Management Conferences

Conferences aimed at identifying potential dangers related to explosion, fire and leakage posed by each manufacturing process and formulating countermeasures.

Safety risk assessment

At Denka, we have established company-wide risk assessment guidelines based on our basic policy on occupational safety and health and security and disaster prevention. We regularly conduct risk assessments including the safety of existing facilities and plants. Specifically, we conduct risk assessments including safety management systems, unsafe behaviors of workers at the site, and the safety of existing facilities and plants at manufacturing bases within the Denka Group on a regular basis and make improvements. In daily activities at each base, regular patrols, fixed-point observations, etc. are conducted by safety and health personnel and on-site supervisors at each business establishment. Furthermore, we conduct overall reviews at meetings led by executive officers in charge of safety and check the progress of improvements.
At each stage from research and development to commercialization, we hold design review meetings to extract and eliminate risks prior to commercialization. We conduct risk assessments when developing new products, introducing new equipment, and starting new projects. By conducting pre-emptive safety assessments, we strive to prevent occupational accidents.

Occupational Health and Safety Committee

Denka has appointed the President as the head of the Safety Measures Headquarters, and the Environmental & Safety Department, which is a corporate department of the Denka Group, oversees and supports the Group's safety and health activities.
At each of the Denka Group's business sites, Safety and Health Committees are held every month with representatives from labor and management as members, and matters related to safety, health, and the promotion of health for all employees at the business sites are investigated and discussed, and specific measures are considered and promoted in a collaborative manner by labor and management. The minutes and decisions of these Safety and Health Committees are shared with all employees at the business sites.
At the meeting bodies of group companies in Japan and overseas, personnel from the Denka Mother Factory also participate to share safety and health policies and activities.

Ensuring safety in transportation

Number of occupational injuries

Denka has set the target of 0.2 or less for the frequency rate of occupational injuries and illnesses by fiscal 2030 in accordance with the Basic Policy on Occupational Health and Safety and Security. We are promoting various initiatives to achieve this target. No serious accidents occurred in fiscal 2025. For details on occupational injury and illness and safety performance data, please refer to the following.

Safety record