HEALTH AND SAFETY
The YKK Group strives to create work environments where everyone finds it easy to work.
Health and Safety Pledge
In accordance with its Health and Safety Pledge, the YKK Group strives to create work environments where employees can work safely and with reassurance by taking health and safety into consideration and promoting a strong awareness of health and safety by every employee.
Enhancement of corporate quality is needed today so that we may respond appropriately in all of our business activities to the rapid changes occurring in social circumstances.
The YKK Group will aim to eliminate causes of hazard and harm at all of its workplaces, and maintain and promote good psychological and physical health by creating working environments that are friendly to all employees.
We proclaim that the YKK Group will forge ahead, with all participating, to realize workplaces that are suitable for today's age.
February 1994
We have established an occupational health and safety management system and are working to prevent occupational accidents by complying with applicable laws, regulations, and other requirements related to occupational health and safety, as well as the YKK Group Health and Safety Standards.
Mid-Term Health and Safety Policy (2025-2028)
- YKK Health and Safety Policy
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Safety is the top priority before everything else
We will ensure that every employee has a strong awareness of safety and health, and that everyone participates in safety and health activities, while promoting the creation of a safe and secure working environment that supports employee engagement.
- Guidelines for Action
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- We will strive to improve safety awareness and ensure safe behavior among all employees, and eliminate occupational accidents caused by human error.
- We will eliminate occupational accidents caused by machine by identifying hazards in equipment and the work environment and taking appropriate measures to eliminate or reduce risks.
- To ensure safety and health compliance, we will establish a system for safety and health activities and continuously improve it.
- We will thoroughly inspect, maintain, and clean equipment with a high risk of fire, and eliminate fires by minimizing the risk of fires occurring.
1st April 2025
Koichi Matsushima
President
YKK Corporation
Seeking to Create Work Environments Where Employees can Work Safely and with Reassurance
The YKK Group implements a variety of health and safety measures at domestic and overseas sites with the aims of eliminating industrial accidents (achieving zero accidents) and creating workplace environments where employees can work safely and with reassurance.
Examples of Activities
- Implementation of YKK Group Safety Patrol Day
Safety Patrol Day, an event when company presidents, plant managers, and top management conduct workplace safety patrols as an annual, Group-wide program intended to foster motivation for conducting health and safety measures with the participation of all personnel and raising employee awareness regarding safety.
- Operation of Safety Management Special Instruction Designation Program
The Safety Management Special Instruction Designation program comprehensively identifies potentially unsafe conditions and actions in the workplace as well as management shortcomings at worksites determined to have serious safety management problems such as frequent occurrence of industrial accidents or occurrence of serious accidents. The objectives are to reduce and eliminate the identified causes of accidents and raise safety management levels.
The objective of this program is not simply to provide instruction to workplaces with high accident occurrence rates, but also to serve as an opportunity to improve facilities, establish educational structures, and review the optimal status of safety management including approaches to management. We anticipate that through this process, the awareness of safety by managers and every employee will change, and by undertaking self-initiated safety measures with the participation of all personnel, workplace communication will be invigorated.