As the first of its Corporate Guiding Principles, Toray Group places top priority on safety, accident prevention and environmental preservation, ensuring the safety and health of our employees, our customers and local communities, and actively promoting environmental preservation.
Toray Group Safety Meetings are held annually for the heads of Group companies, offices and plants in order to align safety activities and raise safety awareness. All employees are united in their efforts to achieve zero accidents with the thorough guidance of senior managers.
- 2010 Safety Slogan
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IT-II We Should Achieve “Zero Accidents” Keep the Basics and Work Safely!
- Main Priority Activities in 2010
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- Emphasize safety action
- Strengthen prevention measures against recurrence of similar accidents
Toray Group Safety Record
Safety records have been retained by Toray since 1980, and by Toray Group since 1990. Information on occupational accidents is shared Group-wide, and used to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. As a result, safety standards have improved at subsidiaries and affiliates both in and outside Japan to similar levels as Toray.
In 2010, the occupational accident frequency rate was 0.00 for Toray, and 0.20 and 0.11 for its subsidiaries and affiliates in Japan and overseas, respectively. Toray achieved a perfect record of zero occupational accidents (resulting in either lost work time or no lost work time) for the first time since the Company began keeping safety records.
- Number of Occupational Accidents: Toray Group
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- Occupational Accident Frequency Rate*1: Toray Group
*1: Occupational Accident Frequency Rate: Casualty toll per million man-hours worked
Improved Education and Training for Safety and Accident Prevention
Toray Group is committed to increasing safety education for employees. Occupational safety and accident prevention training is incorporated into the curriculums of specialized and level-specific organizational education programs.
It includes direct safety training, an effective method for raising hazard awareness through employee participation in crisis situation simulations. Each Toray Group company and plant uses sophisticated training methods, which include simulated production-roll entanglement accidents and explosion demonstration.
Additionally, Toray Group conducts ongoing awareness raising activities through a section in the Company magazine PEOPLE dedicated to safety and accident prevention.
Thorough Checklist Use for Accident Prevention
Fire safety at Toray Group centers on the use of an FP checklist (fire prevention checklist) for fire and explosion hazard inspections. The checklist consists of 906 items including lessons learned from past accidents. It is used consistently for safety inspections at Toray’s Japanese and overseas subsidiaries and affiliates.
Distribution Safety Initiatives
As part of safety management efforts in the transportation of hazardous substances, Toray concludes security agreements with certain customers and transporters that outline specific safety responsibilities and roles. Handling manuals are also shared in order to ensure distribution safety.
- Health Effects and Response to Asbestos
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Toray Group has manufactured and imported building materials containing asbestos in the past. In addition, certain buildings and facilities were constructed using such materials and thermal insulation containing asbestos. Starting in FY 2005 when asbestos-related heath hazards became a social concern in Japan, Toray took action to address the issue of its own asbestos-containing facilities. The health program offers medical examinations to any of the approximately 3,600 current and former employees who handled even small amounts of asbestos, and wish to undergo an examination. Toray Group is working in good faith with individuals diagnosed with asbestos-related health issues by assisting with their application for workers' compensation , and providing an ongoing program of medical examinations. The Group has not been contacted about health issues by residents living near affected facilities.
The health effects on former and current Toray Group employees as of March 31, 2011, are described in the table below.Number of individuals (Fatalities) Certified occupational accidents
(Toray Group)46（32） Certified health victims based on
the Asbestos Law (Toray Group)5(5)
