NS United Kaiun Group ("NSU Group") recognizes that ensuring the health and safety of all officers and employees (directors, executive officers, and employees, regardless of employment status) is the highest-priority management issue. This policy was formulated based on this recognition and for the purpose of creating a work environment where all officers and employees can work with a sense of security.
This policy was approved by the Board of Directors on August 28, 2024.
For the purpose of increasing the physical and mental health of employees on land and at sea, we have established the Safety and Health Committee chaired by Manager of the Secretary and Personnel Team. The committee meets once a month.
Shipboard Safety and Health Committee meetings, chaired by the captain and all crew members attend, are held once a month. Issues are discussed and shared in order to help individual crew members lessen their worries.
- Health exams : Conduct efforts to improve percentage of employees taking exams
- Stomach cancer screening : Raise the percentage of employees ages 35 and up getting screened
- Specific health guidance : Give guidance to all relevant persons
- Health exams
Inform those who have not taken their health exams, along with their superiors, of their obligation to take the exam, and strive to raise the percentage of those taking the exam.
- Cancer
Strengthen efforts to have employees get screened for stomach and bowel cancer as designated by the Company in order to ensure early discovery and treatment of cancer.
- Brain and heart diseases
Strengthen efforts in specific health guidance to improve lifestyle habits.
We will pursue the elimination of long work hours*1 (reduce the total work time from 1,916 hours in fiscal year 2020 to 1,850 hours in fiscal year 2025).
- Introduction of a flextime system
Employees can choose their working hours according to their lifestyles.
- Management structure
Emails are sent to supervisors and unions when overtime work exceeds a certain number of hours.
Measures to reduce work load
- Promotion of DX
DX Promotion Committee established in 2020 to improve work efficiency.
System introduced for paperless clearing operations
- Introduction of a new personnel system
Reform from an evaluation system that values long working hours to a performance-oriented evaluation system
We will Aim for employees to take at least one day a month on average, including annual paid and seasonal leave.
- Strengthen and continue initiatives for taking paid vacations
- Introduction of paternity leave
Recommend male employees to use it when their spouse gives birth
- Inform of consultation oportunities
Promoting the use of industrial physicians and consultation services for early detection and response
- Continue mental health check-ups
- Expansion of consultation desks
Internal consultation desks have been set up in Vietnam, the Philippines, and Tokyo.
- Expansion of educational opportunities
Japanese：Implementation of e-learning on mental health
Filipinos and Vietnamese: Started regular mental-health seminars with lecturers
- Efforts on board
Introduced and regularly watched a mental health video program
Set up a forum for discussion and sharing at the shipboard health committee
- Improvement of the environment
Personal mobile subscription options with free data communication available up to 3GB/month, so that crewmembers can easily choose to use the social media and e-mail functions to keep in touch with their family living far away.
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D&I Action Guideline
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