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Commitment to CSR

Occupational Health and Safety

One of our CSR medium-term policies is to instill in everyone involved that safety is a core value. We make ongoing efforts to ensure all employees fully understand that safety should be their number-one priority.

Occupational Health and Safety

1.Education

・Refresher Health and Safety Training Prior to Assignment to Construction Sites
We conduct the following educational programs to enable construction site supervisors and managers to steadily implement health and safety management during assignments at our construction sites.

Supervisors：

・Elementary Health, Safety and Environmental Management Workshops Training based on the Industrial Safety and Health Law

・Refresher Training for Construction Sites.
Site Managers：

・Advanced Health, Safety and Environmental Management Training for general managers of health and safety

・Conferences between the project managers and the departments in charge of safety

・Construction Site Health and Safety Training
We conduct training for all new workers at both domestic and overseas construction sites, as well as special safety training for those involved in hazardous operations. Safety activities also include TBM* and KYK (kiken yochi katsudo or “hazard identification activities”) prior to the start of construction work. KYK employs a special checklist that workers go over together on a daily basis to confirm hazard prevention measures for the work they will undertake on that particular day.
※TBM (ToolBox Meetings): Meetings held by each work group to confirm safety

・Training to Reconfirm Awareness of Hazards in Daily Life and at Work
In the fiscal year ended March 2011, basic risk training was conducted for all Chiyoda executives and employees. This included hazard identification exercises assuming a number of scenarios one might encounter in daily life to raise sensitivity to potential hazards. A total of 886 people, including senior management, received the training.

2.Management System

Every year, the Chiyoda Group sets occupational health and safety goals and formulates an Occupational Health & Safety Management Program to achieve them. Based on this Group-wide program, project departments create their own health and safety programs to conduct specific safety management activities.

Despite these programs, in the fiscal year ended March 2011 our occupational injury/illness frequency rate was 0.29, worse than in the previous fiscal year, and the severity rate was 0.15. One possible cause was that although the number of accidents decreased, the total number of workers (the denominator) dropped sharply due to the completion of a major project overseas.

3.Awards

・EMDC 2009 Safe Contractor Award from ExxonMobil Development Company
This award recognizes Chiyoda's joint safety initiatives with the customer and subcontractors at an LNG project for Qatargas, which is still in progress. Chiyoda was selected for the top award from among 100 companies involved in ExxonMobil construction projects around the world.

・HSSE Best Contractor Award from Qatar Shell GTL for Second Quarter of 2008
Chiyoda was chosen for this award from among the 18 companies carrying out construction at the Qatar Pearl GTL Project. The award recognizes our various measures and guidance for construction work in the second quarter, and our solid relationship with the customer, which contributed to greater safety awareness at both companies.

4.Personal Safety Goals
Examples of Personal Safety Goals:
・ Goals related to use of stairs, such as
   the “Two Up, Three Down” policy
・ Goals related to exercise, such as
   30 minutes of exercise per week
・ Goals related to walking, such as
   walking at least 10,000 paces per day

Safety in daily life goes hand-in-hand with safety on construction sites. Chiyoda therefore realizes the importance of heightening awareness of and cultivating everyday attention to safety and hazards.

We started a Personal Safety Goal initiative in which employees freely set their own safety goals and consciously act to attain them. In this initiative, all employees formulate personal safety goals and evaluate their own performance at the end of the year. The term “safety” used here is not limited to the narrow sense of the word, but encompasses all aspects of HSE*, and individuals work to attain their personal goals through their daily actions.
※ HSE = Health, Safety and Environment

5.Cooperation in Safety Patrols of Local Construction Sites

As the managing companies of the Tsurumi Sub-Branch of the Kanagawa Branch of the Japan Construction Occupational Safety and Health Association, Chiyoda, Chiyoda Keiso ,Chiyoda Kosho and Chiyoda TechnoAce help prevent accidents by conducting safety patrols of construction sites in the Tsurumi district at the request of the Tsurumi Labor Standards Inspection Office. Chiyoda TechnoAce Co., Ltd. also began participating in the fiscal year ended March 2010.

6.Company-wide Safety Conference

We view safety as part of our corporate value, and have held an annual Company-wide safety conference since the fiscal year ended March 2008 to increase awareness of safety among all employees in the Chiyoda Group.

In the fiscal year ended March 2011, Mr. Yutaka Yamada, President of Kashima LPG Joint Stockpiling Co.,Ltd., who advocates the applicability of the fundamentals of baseball in management and safety, gave a speech on many aspects of safety and management, titled “No Management without Security.”

Chiyoda Keiso's New Safety Tools

As one of its daily safety activities at construction sites, Chiyoda Keiso Co., Ltd, a Chiyoda Group company, works together with workers to devise and utilize safety tools.

Otosazu

 

There have been instances in which items such as tools, materials or instruments being carried to a high place have fallen out when the bag they were in was caught on an object along the way.The otosazu was devised to prevent this. Because the upper part of the carrying bag has a cloth drawstring, the contents will not spill out even if the bag is tilted.

 

Moyasazu

 

This was devised in response to fire accidents that occurred when work involving fire was taking place above or near painting operations at construction sites, and sparks got into paint cans.
A specially made flameproof sheet is used to cover the top of the paint can to prevent fires by preventing sparks from entering the can during painting or transport.