Niterra regards the health of employees as one of its important managerial resources for sustainable corporate growth and is fostering the health of individual employees for “health and productivity management.” In December 2017, we made a declaration on health and productivity management as the entire Niterra Group and are implementing preventive and other measures against lifestyle-related diseases, mental disorders and passive smoking to proactively support the health of employees. In addition, in order to inform as many people as possible about our health and productivity management, we publish a "Well-being Report" that summarizes our initiatives and the results of analysis of the health status of our employees.
Takeshi Kawai
President & Chief Operating Officer
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To prevent lifestyle-related diseases regular health checks are essential.
To help employees maintain and promote their health, we task industrial physicians, medical doctors and nurses with following up with employees who have been found to have problems as a result of undergoing health checkups. Such employees are also referred to appropriate medical institutions as needed. Moreover, we provide employees with a smartphone app, which is linked with the internal health management system, and employees are using the various functions of the app to promote their health.
We are working on in-house and external Line-Care educational programs for managers and implementing to read the Self-care handbook in our workplace to make our employee prevent awareness of disease and self-management of health.
Also, we carry out stress checks to analyze the impact of work environments on employees. Based on the results, we provide them with a safe and comfortable workplace and prevent employees from suffering mental disorders due to stress.
The Self-Care HandbookNiterra has banned smoking on our premises at all of our business sites in Japan since April 2023.
We also provide support, including outpatient smoking cessation services, to those who wish to quit smoking.
To protect employees from the seasonal influenza every year, we strive to prevent the spread of infection. Particularly regarding group infection at workplaces, which may affect our daily operations, we are ready to cooperate with the relevant divisions to implement immediate and intensive measures. During the flu season, we issue weekly reports so that all employees can share the information and take effective countermeasures.
In addition, we are continuing to gather information on new infectious diseases (novel influenza, novel coronavirus, etc.). We stockpile facial masks, disinfectants, and other countermeasures, and have formulated infection prevention measures and guidelines for dealing with infections in the workplace to ensure that all employees are aware of them.
As a priority measures of health and productivity management, "Prevention of lifestyle-related diseases," we are holding the "Health Challenge Campaign" for those who have a BMI of 24 or higher.
Under this initiative, participants report every three months for one year starting in January 2023 on whether they have achieved their weight-loss goals and established exercise habits, and are awarded welfare points according to their level of achievement. We also support the efforts of our employees by holding seminars on improving eating habits and online consultations with registered dietitians.
A total of 267 employees, including those from group companies, have entered the program and are challenging themselves to lose weight in a healthy way.
We issue this monthly newsletter to all employees of our group companies to provide health-related information in an easy-to-understand format.
Working together with the company and the labor union, the health insurance society provides a wide variety of programs to support the mental and physical good health of member workers and their families.
Specifically, health management and disease prevention efforts conducted by the health insurance society include: metabolic syndrome improvement / prevention programs; subsidies for flu vaccination; and other health management promotion programs such as walking tours. As an employer, we also promote collaborative health by providing support for specific health guidance and gynecological checkups, etc.
In recognition of these efforts, our Health Insurance Society was selected as one of the 2022 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations (Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Category) under a program jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Nippon Kenko Kaigi.
in June 2023, 200 companies and organizations working on health management practices across industries came together to launch the "Health & Productivity Management Alliance," and our company also participates in it and promotes health management by sharing issues, methods of planning, implementing, and evaluating various measures.
Thanks to the evaluation with respect to our activities, we have been certified as an “Outstanding Health & Productivity Management Organization” sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Nippon Kenko Kaigi, for the seventh consecutive year since 2017. Of these, a total of six times, we were recognized as one of the "White 500" top-ranking enterprises.
Outstanding Health & Productivity Management Organization is a system that recognizes large corporations, small and medium-sized companies, and other corporations that practice particularly excellent health management based on their efforts to address local health issues and the health promotion initiatives promoted by the Japan Health Council.
We actively support the health management efforts of our suppliers and neighboring companies.
We utilize the Health Management Check Sheet created by our company to understand the health management status of our suppliers and make recommendations for future measures.
