Occupational safety
Safety and Health Basic Policy
Basic Philosophy
The Bando Group shall conduct its business based on respect for human dignity and promotes continuous improvement in safety and health management activities, by mobilizing the originality, ingenuity and energy of all employees, to ensure our own safety and health.
Action Principles
- 1. Bando and its employees shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations relating to occupational safety and health, as well as any rules in place at particular places of business and shall strive to prevent work-related injuries and diseases and contribute to the maintenance and improvement of health.
- 2. Bando shall recognize that it is directly responsible for preventing work-related injuries and diseases and establish an occupational safety and health management system. Under the proper implementation and operation of this system in conjunction with its employees, Bando shall create a safe, pleasant work environment.
- 3. Bando and its employees shall be actively and voluntarily involved in safety and health activities to protect our own safety and health by mobilizing the originality, ingenuity, and energy of all employees.
- 4. Bando shall inform all employees of the Safety and Health Basic Policy and drive its continuous improvement activities by annually reviewing and updating, as appropriate, the Safety and Health Policy, in response to changes or new conditions in safety and health activities or depending on the results of management system audits.
Material Issue Occupational safety
Targets/Vision
- ●No industrial accidents (including minor injuries)
Management and Promotion Method of Occupational safety
[Responsible Departments] Safety
- Manufacturing Planning Center
- Business facilities
Coordinating office: Company-Wide Health and Safety Committee (Secretariat: Safety and Environmental Promotion Department of Manufacturing Planning Center)
[Policy/Point of view]
Recognizing that it is our responsibility to create a safe and comfortable workplace, the Group established the “Group Code of Conduct” and “Health and Safety Policy” to set health and safety targets and is striving to create a safe and comfortable workplace with the cooperation of our employees.
[Targets/Vision]
- No industrial accidents (including minor injuries)
[Measures]
The Company-Wide Health and Safety Committee and each business facility discuss matters related to health and safety regularly based on the established safety targets.
- 1. Promote safety measures through risk assessment Japan and overseas: All new facilities are subject to risk assessment
- 2. Reduce human errors through health and safety education
- 3. Conduct health and safety patrols
Overseas: Conduct facility inspection based on the examples of health and safety measures and the facility safety standards - 4. Handle chemical substances appropriately and manage them according to the Environmental Guidelines
Health and Safety Trends
Since fiscal 2005, we have received Occupational Health and Safety Management System (JISHA method OSHMS) certification at each of our domestic production bases. We have developed health and safety risk assessments and risk forecast activities.
Major initiatives in fiscal 2020
❶Education on “Basic actions” and “18 ironclad rules to stop 6 major accidents” and safety and health patrols based on checklists
❷Risk assessment: 409
❸Revision of operation manuals: 1,321
❹Group risk forecast activities: 1,298
- OSHMS Certification
Ashikaga Plant, Wakayama Plant, Nankai Plant, Kakogawa Plant - ISO45001 Certification
Sanwu Bando Inc. P.T. Bando Indonesia
Bando Manufacturing (Thailand) Ltd. Bando Belt Manufacturing (Turkey), Inc.
Bando (India) Pvt. Ltd. Bando Korea Co., Ltd. Bando Belt (Tianjin) Co., Ltd.
Set “Returning to the basics of safety” as a priority measure for CV-1
- In addition to ensuring the safety of facilities through comprehensive inspections of the risk assessment and lockouts during maintenance work, we ensure to comply with the “Basic Action Card (Safety Pledge)” and “18 ironclad rules to stop 6 major accidents” for safety with the aim of making all employees safety professionals.
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Promotion of risk assessment
In terms of the risk assessment of equipment, we will conduct a comprehensive inspection during CV-1 with the aim of eliminating risks that have been overlooked.
We also continue to hold practical trainings for risk assessment to enhance facility risk assessment and ensure risk assessment of chemical substances. -
Thorough compliance with safety rules
In addition to health and safety patrols conducted at each office and group company, the President sends a message about safety to all employees every year in time for the National Safety Week in every July and “Bando Safety Day” on October 7. In July, we conduct joint safety and health patrols with the labor union, and in October, all executive officers including the President conduct a health and safety patrol to check routine health and safety activities.
- Compliance with safety rules with health and
safety patrols
In addition to monthly health and safety patrols conducted at each office and group company, executive in charge of health and safety and the chairperson of the labor union tour all production bases in Japan for health and safety patrol to ensure the compliance of safety rules in time for the National Safety Week every July. We set October 7 as “Bando Safe Day,” and on that day every year, the President sends a message about safety to all employees, and all directors, including the President, conduct a health and safety patrol to check routine health and safety activities. - Promotion of safety measures for
facilities
We are implementing measures to prevent accidents related to manual interventions that frequently occur in non-routine works and also to make necessary changes to facilities to ensure the safety of workers even in non-routine works. We compiled examples of safety measures and use them to check safety and make improvement of facilities. - Safety sensitivity improvement training using
disaster simulation equipment
We provide a training on safety sensitivity to enhance employees’ sensitivity to risks inherent to their works through a simulation of potential accidents, such as being caught or stuck in machines, that are likely to occur at the Group’s production facilities. We expanded the scope of this training to the entire Group since fiscal 2014 and installed disaster simulation equipment in all of domestic plants and affiliates as well as in 10 major overseas production bases to promote similar training.
As a result, Nankai Plant achieved a record of 8,400,000 hours of accident-free operation in November 2020 and received the "Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare's Special Award for Outstanding Foremen in Occupational Safety" in December 2020. Overseas, we received the National Occupational Safety and Health Award from the Ministry of Labour of Thailand in October 2020.
Thorough implementation of “stop, call, and wait”
Bando Safe Day
Press vulcanization equipment with a safety fence
Safety sensitivity improvement training
