Safety, Hygiene and Health

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.

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Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Representative Director and President,
Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation

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.

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.

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 cerebrovascular 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.

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.

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 is an annual walking event held by the Sony Health Insurance Society, and Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation is involved in its management in each area. Employees and their families get together to walk a course that allows them to enjoy the local nature of the area. There are checkpoints set up between the start and the goal, and events are arranged at each one. It’s a health promotion initiative that’s also fun. We publicize the event at each of our sites in the aim of attracting more employees and families to participate, and many employees take part every year.

As one of our initiatives for female employees, we established an in-house health consultation contact for women in 2023. We have created a framework where employees can consult an occupational physicians　 specializing in gynecology about any concerns that they might not be able to ask the people in their lives. We also make it known that we offer cervical cancer screenings for female employees aged 20 to 34. We have broadcast videos of occupational physicians explaining cervical cancer screenings, covering how these screenings are performed and why they are important for early detection and response. We will continue to expand these efforts to more age groups in the future.

From the perspective of preventing workplace accidents due to falls, we have occupational health staff and occupational physicians conduct motor function-based fall risk measurement and evaluation for all employees. We are aiming to increase awareness of the relationship between motor function and fall risk as well as to eliminate fall-related accidents. We conducted fall risk measurement for all employees in FY2022 and then conducted follow-up measurement for high-risk employees in FY2023. By utilizing these measurement results to provide fall prevention education and encourage exercise for employees who are judged to be high fall risk based on declining motor function, we have achieved an improvement in fall risk among 80% of subject employees.