Each year, JSR executes activities to manage risks and ensure safety after formulating a health and safety promotion plan at each plant based on the Philosophy and Course of Action for Occupational Health and Safety.

We formulate these plans based on actual results and issues from the previous fiscal year from the standpoint of the PDCA cycle and then implement activities with the aim of eliminating logistics and workplace accidents.

• Philosophy and Course of Action for Occupational Health and Safety, which includes items pertaining to logistics safety.

We strive to improve the safety of our logistics sites by identifying potential sources of logistics/workplace accidents for both people and infrastructure―such as hazardous operations and locations within worksites―and making improvements. One way we do this is through regular patrols by managers.

We provide hazard prediction training (KYT) to raise awareness of potential risks without carelessness or overconfidence, even in routine and familiar tasks, and improve sensitivity to hazard prediction. We also broadly solicit safety slogans from logistics partners to cultivate and instill safety awareness in each worker.

We provide preventive education based on a horizontal approach to logistics accidents and workplace accidents that incorporates examples from other companies. We also conduct various drills jointly with our logistics partners that simulate crises, such as large-scale disasters and logistics accidents, to improve our ability to respond to crises and raise safety awareness. Whenever points requiring improvement arise after training, we enhance the quality of our education and training by revising crisis management manuals, incorporating improvements into subsequent training, and the like.

We share logistical challenges concerning quality, safety, and the environment and manage the progress of improvement activities by holding quarterly meetings with logistics contractors through our logistics subsidiaries. We also verify, assess, and guide health and safety activities by conducting annual audits of our logistics contractors.

• Logistics-related workplace accidents: 0
• Traffic accidents resulting in injury to others: 0
• Traffic accidents resulting in injury to JSR employee: 0

JSR endorses the “White Logistics” Movement being advocated by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT); the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI); and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) of Japan. We submitted a voluntary action declaration for the movement and are currently engaged in the following activities.

The movement seeks to improve productivity and logistics efficiency in truck transportation and create work environments in which female and elderly drivers can work comfortably. In doing so, its goals are to address ever-worsening truck driver shortages, to bring stability to the logistics services needed in daily life and industrial activity, and to contribute to economic growth.

We aim to work with business partners and logistics providers to reduce the burden on drivers, such as by reducing standby times, and raise logistics efficiencies. We are also taking earnest steps to maintain fair and equitable business relationships with logistics operators while building a supply chain that does a better job of considering the environment and society.
As for the modal shift to ship and rail, which had been taking place at a high rate until last year, the Elastomer Business, which accounted for 90% of our transport volume, was transferred in April 2022. This resulted in a substantial decrease in our product offerings suitable for domestic ship and rail transport. This has resulted in a 1% modal shift at JSR, and we will continue to look into initiatives to achieve sustainable logistics.

• Click here to learn more about the White Logistics Movement

* Written in Japanese

See ESG Data for CO₂ emissions associated with logistics.

• ESG Data