1. Management System, Advancement Structure and Policy

(1) Safety Management System and Advancement Structure

JSR has developed and operates a “Safety Management System” that establishes regulations and procedures concerning security, accident prevention and occupational health and safety, all of which are based upon the “Security Management Manual” and “Occupational Health and Safety Manual / Health and Safety Manual” created in accordance with JSR’s security management regulations.
Internal audits are conducted within JSR’s business establishments to confirm the effectiveness of this management system. Additionally, an auditing team led by the president conducts annual Headquarters Environment and Safety Audits in plants and laboratories, and the heads of these plants and laboratories conduct annual management reviews, to verify the effectiveness of each site’s health-and-safety and security-management activities according to the management system.

Advancement Structure

Activity policies and action plans related to the JSR Group’s occupational health and safety, security management, and other matters are deliberated and formulated by the Responsible Care (RC) Promotion Committee, which is chaired by the officer in charge of environmental and safety affairs. The RC Committee also oversees the results of those activities. Please refer to the following link for more information about the Responsible Care (RC) Promotion Committee.

• Responsible Care “2. RC Advancement Structure”

(2) Occupational Health and Safety Policy

Philosophy and Courses of Action for Occupational Health and Safety

JSR has established a “Course of Action for the Philosophy for Occupational Health and Safety” which presents specific actions demanded of the company and each of its employees. It is based on the “Philosophy for Occupational Health and Safety” that is spelled out in the “Top Commitment” issued by JSR’s top management and which serves as the basis for creating workplaces where everyone can work “healthily,” “safely,” and “with peace of mind.”

Philosophy for Occupational Health and Safety

At JSR Corporation, safety is our highest priority and the foundation of all of our activities.
Accordingly, we will create safe worksites and strive to maintain physical and mental health, with the goal of ensuring a safe return home at the end of each workday.

Courses of Action of the Philosophy for Occupational Health and Safety

1. No matter the situation, we will act with safety foremost in mind.
2. We will comply with established rules and never fail to act in accordance with safety basics.
3. We will maintain safety by identifying and eliminating both actual and potential hazards.
4. We will strive to create comfortable work environments and promote physical and mental health.
5. Through communication and ingenuity, we will aim to achieve 100% employee participation in all safety activities.

2. Promotion of Risk Assessment (Occupational Health and Safety)

Risk management serves as the foundation for process safety and workplace safety, and an important part of risk management is risk assessment (risk identification and evaluation). At JSR, we incorporate HAZOP^*1 as part of our plant risk assessment protocols, and, when combined with our conventional risk assessment protocols, this ensures the completeness of risk identification in terms of security and accident prevention, as well as workplace safety. The identified risks are prioritized according to their potential damage and rate of incidence, and countermeasures for each are developed and introduced into business site planning. In cases where a new and particularly large risk is identified, countermeasures are introduced on an expedited schedule to quickly mitigate the risk and ensure safety.

*1 HAZOP: An acronym for “Hazard and Operability Study.” It is a method of safety assessment used to identify the sources of hazards in processes and operations

3. Compliance Confirmation and Certification

(1) Compliance Confirmation

At every business site within the JSR Group, a department is assigned to handle legal and regulatory management, and it is the responsibility of these departments to identify applicable security management and occupational health and safety-related laws, regulations and ordinances, as well as standards and guidelines established for plants, and to then develop and implement procedures for raising awareness of these laws, etc., among employees and for ensuring ongoing compliance.
Please refer to the following link for more information about compliance confirmation.

• Responsible Care “5. Disclosure of Legal and Regulatory Violations”

(2) Certification Renewal

Please refer to the following link for more information about certification of JSR's three plants according to the High Pressure Gas Safety Act, Fire Service Act and Labor Standards Act.

• Security and Accident Prevention “3. Compliance Confirmation and Certification”

4. Targets and Planning

(1) Medium-Term Plan for Health & Safety and Security Management

JSR uses a two-sided approach comprised of “safety infrastructure” (equipment, organizations, and mechanisms) and “safety culture” (people and climate) to help examine and improve safety activities in our organization, recognizing that “safety infrastructure” + “safety culture” = “safety competency.” Towards that end, we have established and put into effect the “JSR Roadmap for Health & Safety and Security Management,” which is a medium-term plan to create safe, secure and accident-free workplaces via activities which promote the “re-cultivation of safety culture” and the development of human resources possessing strong safety awareness. Please refer to the following link for more information.

• Security and Accident Prevention “4. Targets and Planning”

(2) Plant Safety Policy

We use the “Philosophy for Occupational Health and Safety” and “Course of Action for the Philosophy for Occupational Health and Safety” as the basis for establishing safety policies in each JST plant that are matched to the individual characteristics of each plant in terms of its organizational makeup, workplace environments, and other traits. Please refer to the following link for more information.

• Security and Accident Prevention “4. Targets and Planning”

(3) Activity Targets

Using the “JSR Roadmap for Health & Safety and Security Management,” we implement activities by establishing action plans comprised of annual targets, annual policies, and priority measures that take into account actual performance and activities of the previous fiscal year. In FY2019, we focused attention on the “elimination of unsafe behaviors” and “safety education and awareness-raising activities for accident-prone job ranks” with the aim of finishing the year with “zero workplace accidents (lost time accidents).” We also strengthened the support we provide to Group companies for the safety activities.

(4) Action Plans

We establish and implement annual action plans at each JSR business site, based on their individual policies and targets. Please refer to the following link for more information.

• Security and Accident Prevention “4. Targets and Planning”

5. Education

At JSR, we use hands-on safety and practical-skills courses in technical education, as well as “miniature plant” training, to improve security management-related knowledge, skills and sensitivity. We also work to improve employees’ knowledge, skills and sensitivity by providing education on health and safety as part of new employee training, mid-career employee training, and leadership training, which is in addition to that legally required under the Industrial Safety and Health Act.
In order to ensure the success of our education and training, we review the education and training structure, organize a safety education-related skill map and develop and maintain a safety education curriculum.
Please refer to the following link for more information.

• Security and Accident Prevention “5. Education”

6. Communication with Local Communities and Society

JSR is a member of the Japan Chemical Industry Association, Japan Petrochemical Industry Association, Japan Society for Safety Engineering and Japan Safety Competency Center, and we engage in information exchange and information sharing, both in Japan and overseas, via the following responsible care and safety activities.

• Hold information exchange meetings with administrative bodies
• Hold/participate in disaster drills involving the fire department and nearby companies
• Participate alongside nearby companies in cooperative disaster prevention organizations
• Participate in local Disaster Prevention Councils
• Participate in responsible care community dialogs

In addition, our business sites both in Japan and overseas pursue communication with their local communities in order to facilitate mutual improvement in disaster prevention and safety-related awareness and technology.

7. Activity Record

Safety Ceremony and Safety and Health Activity Forum

The JSR Group believes that safety is linked to the daily lives of all stakeholders and is also the bedrock of business activity for companies. With this in mind, the JSR Group has made it a goal to achieve “zero facility accidents” and “zero lost time accidents”. However, a serious workplace accident which claimed the life of an on-duty employee occurred at the JSR Yokkaichi Plant on July 23, 2014. With a pledge to aim for “zero accidents” and keep the lessons learned from this serious workplace accident alive, and with a promise to continue developing a strong safety culture into the future to protect precious lives, we erected a safety monument in front of the Yokkaichi Plant’s main building and also hold a safety ceremony as well as a forum for presenting case examples of safety activities by business sites each year at around the time of the accident.

In FY2019, we held a Safety Ceremony and Safety and Health Activity Forum on July 23. The Safety and Health Activity Forum is an annual event in which we select presentation themes after carefully screening safety activities that were nominated by each business site. The following presentations were made in FY2019.
Also, as this was the five-year anniversary of the Safety and Health Activity Forum, a safety seminar presented by an outside instructor was trialed for the first time. The invited instructor was Dr. Shigeru Haga, Senior Technical Advisor at the Research Institute for Social Safety and Professor Emeritus at Rikkyo University, who spoke on the topic of “Human Error and Accident Prevention.”
Both the ceremony and forum were held at JSR Yokkaichi Plant and a video relay was provided for the JSR Headquarters, Chiba Plant, Kashima Plant, Tsukuba Laboratory, as well as for Group companies JSR Micro Kyushu and JM Energy^*. Video and materials from the proceedings were also made available on the company intranet for those who were unable to participate on the day.

* As of July 2019. On April 1, 2020, 80% of the company's shares were transferred to Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd.

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  Safety Memorial

Presentation Themes of the FY2019 Safety and Health Activity Forum:

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Safety Initiatives of Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Councils

Within each plant of JSR and domestic Group companies, a Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Council (normally referred to as “Disaster Prevention Council) is set up with manufacturing partners that carry out construction and various operations in company facilities. The two sides team up to smoothly promote occupational health and safety activities.

Introduction of Disaster Prevention Councils’ Safety Activities

Council-organized safety education

Disaster Prevention Councils provide group education to safety instructors of member companies using workplace accident case studies. They also provide hands-on safety education and hazard-prediction training (KYT).

Activities timed with National Safety Week

Disaster Prevention Councils raise safety awareness during National Safety Week by holding safety conferences, presenting safety activity reports prepared by subcommittees and member companies, and presenting awards for safety slogans. They also urge employees to engage in safe behavior by organizing active communication campaigns in the workplace.

Special patrols

Disaster Prevention Councils conduct “special patrols” led by council executives during periodic repair work.

8. Handling of Emergency Situations (Workplace Accident Incidence)

Among domestic Group companies, an increasing trend is seen in terms of both the number of all workplace accidents and the number of lost time accidents. Accidents involving tripping, falling, and entanglement are increasing. Among overseas Group companies, workplace accident incidence continues to resemble that of domestic Group companies. We will make pertinent improvements by deepening collaborative safety activities throughout the entirety of JSR Group.

Number of Workplace Accidents in FY2019

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9. Inspection and Monitoring

JSR uses an auditing team led by the President to conduct annual Headquarters Environment and Safety Audits in plants and laboratories. From FY2015 onward, stimulation of environmental and safety activities has been promoted by changing to an auditing style which incorporates sharing and discussion of the audited departments’ issues and, on top of this, by establishing opportunities for dialog between top management and employees where both sides can share their thoughts with one another.

Please refer to the following link for more information.

• Security and Accident Prevention “9. Inspection and Monitoring”