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 Quality Control 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]
To achieve objectives set out in the “Safety and Health Basic Policy,” we set safety goals and undertake improvement activities at all times with the Health and Safety Committees at headquarters and each office monitoring the progress of health and safety activities on a regular basis.
- 1. Establish basic actions
- 2. Promote safety measures based on risk assessment
- 3. Enhance health and safety education to prevent accidents from occurring
- 4. Promote various activities such as health and safety patrols
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.
In fiscal 2024, Nankai Plant achieved a record of 12.5 million hours of accident-free operation (no accident resulting in accidental death or absence from work for not less than one day) and received the “No Industrial Accident Record Certificate (Class 4)” from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
- 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
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Key initiatives for fisical year 2024
We promoted safety measures based on risk assessment and lockouts during maintenance work, and revised work instruction manuals. We also implemented safety and health education programs aimed at embedding basic safety behaviors and preventing accidents before they occur in order to make all employees safety professionals.
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Promotion of risk assessment and safety measure for equipment
We conducted a comprehensive inspection to eliminate overlooked risks during the current CV-1 period, and also implemented measures to enhance our equipment risk assessment using a risk assessment method that evaluates risks based on the relationship between hazard sources and operations in certain processes. In promoting equipment safety measures, we draw on the results of our own risk assessments as well as examples of recurrence prevention measures implemented by other companies in response to accidents.
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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.
Health and safety patrols are conducted jointly with the labor union in July, and by all executive officers, including the President, in October. We also hold workplace discussions on compliance with safety rules and provide feedback to managers based on the analysis of these discussions, to ensure that employees’ opinions are reflected in our safety measures. -
Safety sensitivity improvement training using disaster simulation equipment
We provide a training 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 the training to the entire Group since fiscal 2014 and installed the disaster simulation equipment in all of domestic plants and affiliates as well as in 9 major overseas production bases to promote similar training.
Thorough implementation of “stop, call, and wait”
Press vulcanization equipment with a safety fence
Bando Safe Day
Safety sensitivity improvement training
