1. Declaration on Health
One of the most important ingredients for a rich life is “good health.”
Naturally, our employees are a precious asset and key driving force for our Company.
Good health is the foundation for employees both while at work and in order to lead long lives after retirement.
By maintaining good mental and physical health as individuals, employees also contribute to better health and greater fulfilment for their families and customers.
We believe that our ongoing health promotion activities will steadily make a positive impact on the wellbeing of numerous people right across the globe.
Lifestyle habits developed in one’s 20s and 30s are said to affect mental and physical health outcomes in one’s 40s and beyond. Because the average age of employees of our Company is relatively low, we believe that the first step is to raise our own awareness of health related matters.
We are raising health consciousness and vigorously advancing health management initiatives in order to promote better mental and physical health among our employees.
1. Preventing severe illness
We have adopted a thoroughgoing approach to the management of health examination results, and are bolstering programs to encourage employees to undergo examinations to prevent the onset of severe illness and raise the proportion of employees receiving specific health guidance.
2. Promotion of mental health
We are strengthening education programs essential to the maintenance of mental and physical health, and promoting the use of external counselling service, etc.
3. Diverse measures for work style reform
We are working actively on measures such as rectifying excessive work hours, and securing adequate intervals between work shifts, and conducting surveys and analysis of employee motivation.
2. Health initiatives for employees
Managing workplaces to safeguard the personal health of diverse workers is an increasingly important priority in corporate management. We believe that rather than leaving the maintenance and promotion of health solely up to individual employees, their families, and health insurance associations, pursuing proactive involvement at the company level can help invigorate our organization and thereby raise the human capital competitiveness of the SUNDRUG Group, ultimately contributing to the achievement of sustainable growth.
Based on these ideas, we are collaborating with industrial health professionals such as industrial physicians and public health nurses, health insurance associations, labor unions, and employees to establish organizational structures and deliver systems and programs in areas including the development of healthy work environments for employees, routine health management to prevent the occurrence of health-related problems, and ascertainment and provision of support for employees in poor health.
We believe that health examinations are the cornerstone of health management, and one of our health management goals is to have 100% of employees undergoing such examinations. Reservation rates for health examinations are announced in the Department Managers’ Meeting and Safety and Health Committee, which is attended by the President, who personally contacts departments with low rates to ask for explanations and request improvements. For our stores, this engagement is handled by supervisors in charge of overseeing combined groups of stores. As a result, SUNDRUG has been able to maintain a health examination participation rate of close to 100%.
We collaborate with industrial physicians and public health nurses to follow up with employees on an individual basis after their health examinations, from recommending further examinations to receiving examination reports. The results and other details of health examinations are stored in a database and rendered visible using a health management system that enables both employees themselves and health managers to review data chronologically. We are pursuing further health promotion initiatives by cross-referencing our own data on working conditions with medical treatment and prescription statements and results from specialized examinations held by health insurance associations, etc.