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Health and Safety Policy
Health and Safety Policy
We are committed to creating workplaces where everyone can continue to work to their full potential by ensuring the physical and mental health of all people at each Sony location, providing a safe, secure and comfortable work environment.
April 1st, 2025
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
Representative Director, President and CEO
Shinji Sashida
Health Management Initiatives at Manufacturing Sites
As a core manufacturing site, Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation is developing health improvement initiatives formulated specifically for manufacturing sites, with the health of our employees as our first priority.
Health Management: A Message from the President
As a corporation engaged in semiconductor design, development, manufacturing, and customer service, Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation aims to provide high-quality products such as CMOS image sensors, for which we have the top global share(money amount)*. We also aim to develop new applications and markets through the fusion of imaging and sensing technologies. It is our employees who uphold the level of craftsmanship that will allow us to achieve this, and we believe that it is crucial to make the health of our employees our top priority and to proactively build a foundation for good health.
By promoting health improvement, we will be able to improve the health and productivity of our employees themselves and to raise motivation and satisfaction while also increasing our brand power, honing our competitive edge, and improving sustainability. By promoting health management, we aim both to help all of our employees to stay healthy and happy and to achieve further growth as a corporation that is able to contribute to society. We hereby declare that the entire company stands united as one in our efforts to promote health improvement initiatives.
*)Sony research
Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Representative Director and President,
Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation
Health Management Initiatives
In order for each and every one of our employees to perform to the best of their abilities and create innovation, it is essential for them to be healthy both physically and mentally. At Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, we promote health improvement initiatives toward further corporate growth in order to help our employees to maintain their health, to prevent illness and detect it early, to improve health literacy, and to build comfortable and pleasant working environments.
Health Management Framework
Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation’s health management framework is headed by the President and Representative Director, who serves as the Chief Health Officer, composed of Occupational physicians, occupational health staffs, and the Human Resources & General Affairs Division, and operated in coordination with the Sony Health Insurance Society.
The Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) Committee handles decision-making related to health promotion initiatives, promotes cooperation among the Health & Safety Committees and employees of all sites, and implements health policies and initiatives.
Health Management Framework Chart
Health Management Strategy Map
From the perspective of making the health of our employees our first priority, we have formulated a strategy map that systematically organizes the relationship between the management issues to address through health management and our specific initiatives (our health investment efforts and the effects we expect to achieve), and we have implemented these strategies.
Analysis and Utilization of Health Checkup Results
At Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, in order to grasp the state of health of employees at all of our sites and verify the effectiveness of our initiatives, we conduct comprehensive analysis, drawing on health checkup results (tests and interview answers), stress check results, and the state of overtime work. We also extract health issues by comparing the characteristics of each of our sites, and we reflect the analysis results in our strategy map.
Key Items
Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation has set key items for health management promotion and monitors the actual values. In the aim of improving these numerical values, we are also developing a variety of initiatives to support both physical and mental health.
| Category | Item | FY2022 results |
FY2023 results |
FY2024 results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Periodic health checkups | Periodic health checkup participation rate | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Post-checkup thorough testing participation rate | 43.0% | 62.7% | 67.9% | |
| Lifestyle-related disease prevention measures※1 | Appropriate weight maintenance rate※2 | 60.3% | 60.8% | 60.0% |
| Percentage of employees at high risk for diabetes※3 | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
| Percentage of employees at high risk for hypertension※4 | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.4% | |
| Specific health guidance implementation rate | 12.8% | 12.8% | TBA in FY2025 | |
| Percentage of habitual exercisers※5 | 22.8% | 24.7% | 25.4% | |
| Smoking measures※1 | Smoking rate | 24.8% | 23.3% | 23.1% |
| Mental health measures | Absence rate※6 | 1.9% | 1.8% | 2.2% |
| Stress check participation rate | 99.3% | 99.5% | 99.3% |
Physical health measures
For promoting physical health, Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation refers employees to medical institutions and takes employment measures based on the results of periodic health checkups, cancer screenings, medical questionnaires, etc. In addition, we are also working to give support for lifestyle improvement such as smoking cessation support and promotion of exercise habituation for the purpose of preventing diseases. Regarding quintuple cancer screenings, we cooperate with the Sony Health Insurance Society to give support for employees who are judged to be in need of thorough testing or re-testing.
Cancer Measures
For improving the cancer screening and re-testing rates, we undertake initiatives such as cancer screening awareness seminars led by occupational physicians to support our employees and streaming of videos summarizing the importance of thorough testing. In addition, in cooperation with the Sony Health Insurance Society, employees who are judged to be in need of thorough testing or re-testing from the results of quintuple cancer screenings (for lung, stomach, colon, breast, and cervical cancers) are referred to a medical institution, both by sealed letter and by email.
| Lung cancer | Stomach cancer | Colon cancer | Breast cancer | Cervical cancer | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | |
| Cancer screening rate | 88% | 95% | 96% | 87% | 90% | 87% | 90% | 92% | 90% | 86% | 84% | 84% | 69% | 70% | 69% |
| National average cancer screening rate※7 (Reference value) |
50% | 42% | 46% | 47% | 44% | ||||||||||
| Lung cancer | Stomach cancer | Colon cancer | Breast cancer | Cervical cancer | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | |
| Thorough testing rate | 83% | 90% | 89% | 70% | 64% | 58% | 66% | 63% | 66% | 88% | 83% | 91% | 93% | 86% | 89% |
Lifestyle-Related Disease Prevention Measures
○Health checkup follow-up system
In the aim of ensuring the health and safety of our employees by building comfortable working environments, we have classified and stratified health risks as in the figure below, and we conduct follow-up after health checkups. For those who require follow-up, we have an Occupational physicians check their health condition, and then we implement workplace considerations, provide referrals for examinations, and offer support to improve their lifestyle habits. For those who are at high risk of myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction, or other serious cerebral or cardiac conditions, we classify them as extremely high risk and provide follow-up, including thorough testing by occupational physicians and support from their workplace superiors from a safety perspective. Thanks to such follow-up efforts, the post-checkup thorough testing participation rate is rising.
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○Specific Health Guidance
For those aged 40 or over who require specific health guidance, we offer customized support by occupational health nurses and registered dietitians through a lifestyle habit improvement app.
To improve the participation rate, we hold advance briefing sessions on specific health guidance and work to improve employee understanding.
We will continue to provide ongoing health guidance in the aim of increasing the participation rate and being able to re-classify these employees out of the specific health guidance category.
Initiatives for female success and health support
We are working to put in place and improve systems and workplace culture for enabling all female employees to perform at their full potential. In addition, for creating an environment where women can work in their own way with peace of mind, we are continuously providing support in consideration of their health, careers, and life events. Furthermore, we value the idea of diversity and support sustainable growth through creation of a work environment where everyone is respected and can thrive.
Measures to Support Women
- ■ Enhancement of health support
- - Established an in-house health consultation contact staffed by occupational physicians specializing in gynecology in 2023.
- - Broadcast videos explaining the importance of cervical cancer screenings
- - Provide information about female health to improve health literacy
- ■ Mindset reform of managers
- - Promote understanding of female-specific health issues and life events
- - Support understanding and use of flexible work systems (shorter working hours, teleworking, etc.)
- - Make training mandatory to encourage action as supporters
- ■ Reflection of employees' opinions in measures
- - Conduct fact-finding surveys to grasp issues and needs
- - Make improvements and enhancements based on the survey results
- - Produce videos reflecting employees' opinions
Project to Promote Female Success
- Survey after the lecture on female health -
'How much more interest do you have now in the health of working women?'
(from male and female respondents)
Mental Health Measures
For mental health measures, we have developed a variety of initiatives focused on primary through tertiary prevention.
For primary prevention, we strive to prevent mental health issues by providing self-care training programs both for new employees and for all employees.
For secondary prevention, we provide stratified ｍental health training for managers. In addition to core training and follow-up training for managers of section chief class and above, as of FY2023, we also provide ｍental health training for managers for subsection chief- and leader class employees, and we have set up an environment that enables early detection of issues and early consultation.
For tertiary prevention, we have occupational physicians conduct interviews for recovery and relapse prevention, and we work together with human resources personnel and the workplace to respond quickly, including taking employment measures.
In the field of occupational health, the priority is on tertiary prevention due to the urgent need to provide care for seriously ill employees. The figure below shows Sony Semiconductors Manufacturing Corporation’s strategy of proceeding to secondary and primary prevention measures as the next step after recovery and relapse prevention.
| FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core training (Newly appointed) |
Participation rate | 97.1% | 91.5% | 87.0% |
| Follow-up training (Participants who completed core training) |
Participation rate | - | 76.4% | 76.8% |
| FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New employees | Participation rate | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| All employees (e-learning) | Participation rate | 99.9% | 99.5% | 98.8% |
| FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presenteeism※9 | - | 20.5% | 20.1% |
| Absenteeism※10 | 153 | 159 | 200 |
| Work engagement※11 | 2.5 points | 2.5 points | 2.5 points |
- ※9
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Formula: 100- SPQ average for overall employees (“The Single-Item Presenteeism Question,” The University of Tokyo).
The lower the number the better.
Number of responses: 8,335 in 2023, 6,464 in 2024.
Response rate: 99% in 2023, 73% in 2024. - ※10
- The number of employees who have had mental-health-related absences (equivalent to annual paid leave or sick leave) of 2 weeks or more and who have submitted a medical certificate (equivalent to annual prevalence).
- ※11
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Formula: Average for overall employees of answers to questions 79 and 80 on the 80-question version of the New Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (BJSQ).
The higher the number the better.
Score: 1 to 4 points
The higher the number the better.
Number of responses: 8,043 in 2022, 8,430 in 2023, and 8,917 in 2024.
Response rate: 99.3% in 2022, 99.5% in 2023, and 99.3% in 2024.
Second-Hand Smoking Measures
Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation has been engaged in anti-smoking and second-hand smoke prevention initiatives for over a decade, and we achieved a total smoking ban on the premises in 2023.
The smoking rate is on a downward trend thanks to initiatives such as those in the figure and our various other initiatives for second-hand smoke prevention and smoking cessation support.
Going forward, we will continue to promote the Manual for Smoking Cessation or Smoking Cessation aid, provide public health guidance, and propose an anti-smoking subsidy system through the Sony Health Insurance Society.
Initiatives Related to Health Improvement
To maintain and improve the health of our employees, the Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation has planned and is implementing health initiatives like those below. Only some of our initiatives are introduced here, and each site also has a variety of health initiatives of its own.
○All Sony Walking event named "ARUKING"
Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation is involved in the holding and management in each area of the All Sony Walking, a walking event held by the Sony Health Insurance Society intended for improving health and strength. It provides opportunities for employees and their families to think about physical and mental health while having fun by exercising ingenuity for "maintenance of health," "weight reduction," "prevention of osteoporosis," and "mental diversion and stress relief," for which walking is expected to produce positive effects.
○Provision of healthy balanced menus at the company cafeteria
The company cafeteria provides various health-conscious balanced menus and regularly streams videos with information about nutrition as tips. We support employees' health by offering information and menus in consideration of nutrition balance to be helpful in maintaining their vitality for every day. In addition, we undertake initiatives leading to improved diet by planning events such as "body fat measurement" and "vegetable intake measurement" making use of meal times.
We plan BMI and body fat measurement events making use of meal times to offer dietary advice for reducing body fat.。
○Fall prevention measures
From the perspective of preventing workplace accidents due to falls, we conduct motor function-based fall risk measurement for all employees, in addition to making improvements in terms of the environment. We conduct measurement of hip joint flexibility and leg muscle strength and recommend fall-prevention education and exercise to employees at high risk. We are aiming to increase awareness of the relationship between motor function and fall risk as well as to eliminate fall-related accidents.
Fall risk evaluation
(to check the lower-limb muscle strength and core function)
Fall prevention exercise
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