Toray Group pursues its own safety activities by establishing and operating an audit system that complies with international standards for occupational health and safety management systems (such as ISO 45001 and OHSAS 18001).
Toray Group employees take part in an introductory training session immediately after joining the Group to learn and demonstrate their level of understanding of specific procedures and internal rules related to occupational safety. For mid-level employees and managers, the Group provides education on management and supervisory responsibility for occupational safety at every type of group training it holds, as well as studies of more concrete case studies related to the occupational health and safety management systems.
In addition, officers in charge of production, as well as production engineering and Environment & Safety Department employees, conduct safety and health, accident prevention, and environment audits of all group companies and plants every year and evaluate and seek improvements in the status of activities from a standardized perspective. Best practices are also shared at sites throughout the Group to enhance the entire Group’s performance.
Employees are key stakeholders of Toray Group. Needless to say, ensuring their safety is the prerequisite to their capacity to make the most of their potential. Officers and employees work together to implement persistent safety initiatives with the goal of zero accidents, out of respect for humanity and the sanctity of life.
To raise the awareness, every year, Toray Group creates a group-wide safety slogan. In 2024, the aim was for each and every employee of Toray Group to come together as a concerted group to raise awareness of safety as the top priority and to ensure that basic safety rules and work fundamentals are thoroughly followed on work sites by upholding the Group slogan—Top Priority is Safety, Pursue “Zero Accidents,” Following the rules and thoroughness in fundamentals. By keeping the same fiscal 2024 slogan for fiscal 2025, the Group is working to further enhance safety awareness and promote strict adherence to safety rules.
Due to the potentially serious impact of an accident not only within the company but on surrounding communities, the Group acts with strong determination to prevent accidents such as fires and explosions, making accident prevention a top priority.
Toray Group sets up safety and health committees and works to ensure the safety and health of its employees through united efforts of labor and management, based on occupational safety and health laws in the countries in which it operates. These efforts help to ensure a pleasant working environment.

• Opening of the 2024 Health and Safety Conference (slogan chanting) (Toray Construction Co., Ltd.)
• A deputy general plant manager from Toray Plastics Precision (Zhongshan) Ltd. reports on safety activities at the Toray Group South China Regional Safety Conference in China [Toray Industries (China) Co., Ltd.]

Examples of Workplace Initiatives in Fiscal 2024

Safety Information Exchange Meeting with Suido Kiko Kaisha [Toray Lycra Co., Ltd. (TLC)]

Safety Education for Technical Intern Trainees [Toray Industries (H.K.) Vietnam Company Limited (THKVN)]

Toray Industries has collected data on all occupational accidents since 1980, and for Toray Group since 1990. Both the number of occupational accidents and frequency of occupational accidents resulting in lost work time have declined, compared with when the data was first collected. The frequency rate for occupational accidents resulting in lost work time for Toray Group overall in 2024 was 0.25. Although this is a positive result compared with that of Japan’s manufacturing industry (1.30), it fell far short of the Group target of achieving the world’s highest standard of safety management of 0.05 or lower.
One reason for this is that group companies had many accidents resulting in lost work time. Accordingly, the Group is working to strengthen safety management at those group companies with support and guidance from Toray’s main plant in Japan.
Toray Group will continue to identify the root cause of each accident to prevent reoccurrence, and avoid similar accidents based on the lessons learned in these accidents. Additionally, the Group will raise employee awareness of the need to practice safety first at all times.
Toray Group believes that safety activities depend upon a repetition of simple things. It is important to commit to the basics of safety and for everyone, without exception, to practice the basics at all times. The first step is to work on the comprehensive implementation of the 5S’s—seiri (sort), seiton (set in order), seiso (shine), seiketsu (standardize) and shitsuke (sustain). Through these activities, all employees learn to adopt seiketsu and shitsuke. Seiketsu fosters employees' motivation to keep the workplace standardized and clean, and shitsuke raises employees’ awareness to adhere to the rules. They also take the time to reconsider movement pathways to make work safer. Managers repeatedly go around worksites, praising good behavior in an effort to raise workplace morale.
Next, the Group works to eliminate accidents in routine activities. Managers strive to maintain a sense of alertness in the workplace by continually reminding people to act with safety first, considering what the consequences (accidents) could be under any and all circumstances. In addition, if an occupational accidents does occur, an accident report is sent out to the entire Toray Group. In an effort to eliminate similar accidents, the unit heads and unit chiefs of each workplace take a leading role in discussing the report with workplace team members, imagining the cause of the accident as a specific danger in their own workplace, in order to raise everyone’s safety awareness and ensure commitment to the basics.

1. Major accidents
   In fiscal 2024, at a group company outside Japan, an accident occurred in which molten polymer was splattered onto employees while they responded to an extruder malfunction, resulting in injuries to multiple individuals. In accordance with internal regulations, the incident was treated as a major accident.
   As part of reoccurrence prevention measures, the company first conducted refresher courses on the risks posed by heated polymer splattering and also reviewed protective equipment to ensure such accidents can never reoccur. In addition, in the event of a malfunction such as a machine shutdown, supervisors must be present at the location, personally verify the environmental settings and work procedures required for handling the issue, and provide direct guidance to the employees concerned.
2. Fire and explosion accidents
   While there were no fire or explosion accidents at Toray Industries or group companies in Japan in 2024, there were three such accidents at overseas group companies. These incidents included fires caused by hot work operations and ignition originating from electric utility carts.
   In response, the companies where these incidents occurred reinforced communication of the Toray Group’s hot work standards to employees and strengthened inspection of electrical equipment. In an effort to eliminate similar fire-related accidents, the Group has a system to enable Group companies to rapidly share critical information on fire-related accidents. The Group uses knowledge gained from previous accidents to adopt effective fire prevention strategies and implement unified accident prevention management standards.

1. 1 Data for Japan includes non-regular employees (part-time employees, contract employees, casual part-timers, and dispatched workers). Data from outside of Japan does not include temporary staff.
2. 2 Toray affiliates: Toray Industries’ subsidiaries that provide ancillary services for plant operations

1. 3 Occupational accident frequency rate: The number of fatalities and injuries at worksites per one million cumulative working hours.

1. Identifying danger (hazards) and evaluating risk
   Toray Group has a system whereby employees report any potential risks in the workplace to managers and the managers provide feedback on countermeasures and improvements. Before starting work, hazard prediction information, near miss reports, and safety proposals are shared with employees to confirm and mitigate risks.
   Company inspectors also carry out audits to review the system for preventing occupational accidents and the status of the implementation of countermeasures. If there are any problems, the inspectors give instructions for improvements.
2. Accident investigation
   In the event of an occupational accident, the emergency response review meeting and the countermeasure meeting are convened to clarify the chain of events leading up to the accident, identify the cause, and decide on and execute countermeasures.
   In addition, information about the accident is shared throughout the Group and measures taken to prevent a reoccurrence.
3. Prioritized risk reduction activities
   Since 2023, Toray Group has focused on ensuring thorough workplace rule compliance as a main activity. As a result, in 2024, the number of accidents caused by violations of basic safety rules or work procedures was halved, decreasing from 14 cases in the previous year to six. Compliance with rules continues to be emphasized through the Group’s safety slogans, and efforts will continue to achieve zero accidents.
   Meanwhile, in 2024, Toray Group promoted thorough pre-work safety checks as a main activity. However, accidents due to insufficient operation management only slightly decreased, from 16 cases to 13. Supervisors will continue to provide detailed instructions on work methods and procedures and ensure that employees fully understand them. In addition, employees are being further instructed to rigorously conduct hazard prediction before starting tasks and to stop work and consult their supervisors if any uncertainties arise during an operation.
   In 2025, the Group will continue to analyze the accidents that occurred in 2024 from various perspectives and promote improvement activities aimed at eliminating accidents, by utilizing the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle method.

As part of their safety and accident prevention training, Toray Group companies and plants provide workshops and hands-on simulations to sensitize employees to dangers and hazards. Safety simulators enable workers to experience the dangers of electrocution, residual pressure, and getting caught in rollers. Virtual reality (VR) technology is also used to realistically simulate accidents at worksites. In the area of accident prevention, the Group conducts simulation training to teach employees about the risk of fires and explosions, and provides training on the fundamentals of accident prevention. Additionally, the Group publishes on familiar topics regarding safety and accident prevention in its in-house magazine, People, in an effort to spread understanding of the fundamentals of accident prevention.

• Simulation training at Nagoya Plant (Toray Industries, Inc.)
• Demonstrating the danger of fires and explosions at Gifu Plant (Toray Human Resources Development Center)

All companies and plants in Toray Group are making efforts to improve their accident-prevention capabilities by carrying out fire-fighting drills specifically tailored to each type of fire and explosion. These drills include practice using water hoses, rescuing the injured, responding to a chemical leak, and giving emergency notification to authorities and local residents. Since 2012, Group companies and plants have been conducting annual drills on setting up a company-wide emergency headquarters in response to a large-scale earthquake. The drills also involve checking on employees and monitoring facilities damage and supply chains. The Noto Peninsula Earthquake in January 2024 impacted the Toray Industries Ishikawa Plant and Sowa Textile Co., Ltd. Learning from this experience, the Group established its Fundamental Policy in the Event of a Major Earthquake, which prioritizes preservation of human life above all else. Based on this policy, each company and plant conducts drills for the initial response to a large-scale earthquake, while group plants in seaside locations conduct drills of the evacuations that would be needed if a tsunami were triggered by a large-scale earthquake.

• Fire prevention training (Toray Monofilament Co., Ltd.)
• Firefighting training (Toray Textiles, Inc.)

• Disaster prevention training at a petrochemical complex (Toray Industries, Inc. Nagoya Plant)

Toray Group is further enhancing its disaster prevention capabilities. In 2024, as part of the regularly held activities to strengthen fire prevention for the Fire Prevention Project Part II, Toray Group in Japan conducted certification training for FP⁴ key persons, who play a pivotal role on the frontlines by promoting accident prevention inspections and measures. As a result, a total of 493 individuals were newly certified. Toray Group’s internal accident prevention experts provided support and guidance in identifying the root cause and taking countermeasures to prevent reoccurrence of those fire accidents and near misses for which the experts decided onsite audits and investigations were necessary.
Furthermore, when responding to a large-scale earthquake, the Group’s basic policy is to prioritize human life, taking into consideration not only the seismic intensity but also the impact of aftershocks, the securing of sufficient personnel, and the emotional well-being of our employees and their families. The Toray Group Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for a Large-Scale Earthquake outlines the emergency response to an earthquake and subsequent activities to maintain and restore business operations, as well as the Group’s duties and normal readiness. In particular, for critical products, the Group develops BCPs that encompass supply chains and continually works to reduce risks.

1. 4 FP : Fire Prevention

Examples of Workplace Initiatives in Fiscal 2024

Earthquake Preparedness Drills

Toray Group, with the cooperation of local fire departments and other organizations, conducts fire and earthquake drills with group companies and local residents.

• Evacuation drill using a simulated smoke-filled house (Toray Industries Inc. Mishima Plant)
• Rescue training using a simulated collapsed house (Toray Industries Inc. Seta Plant)

Toray Industries is working to ensure safe distribution in its operations. In an effort to manage safety when transporting hazardous substances, the Company concludes security agreements with certain customers, raw material manufacturers, and shipping companies to designate their specific safety responsibilities and roles with regards to safety.

In consideration of the health risks to employees, including contracted, part-time, and dispatched employees, Toray Group is implementing the following initiatives for the handling of chemical substances.

1. Study the actual handling of chemical substances
   Toray Group collects annual data on the volume of chemical substances handled by offices and plants of Group companies and volume in their possession. Furthermore, the Group clearly indicates the danger of mutagenicity for each chemical substance as stipulated in the Industrial Safety and Health Act, and discloses the risks.
2. Implement chemical substance risk assessments
   Toray Group implements risk assessments using a variety of tools, which include working environment measurements for the chemical substances that it handles, ECETOC Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA), CREATE-SIMPLE assessments, and control banding. The risk assessment results are used to protect the health of employees by implementing comprehensive measures to prevent worker exposure to organic solvents and dust where it is required.
3. Conduct follow-up through internal audits
   Toray Group conducts an annual safety, health, accident prevention, and environmental audit, to objectively evaluate the methods for handling chemical substances and working conditions. The audit is used to identify any oversights or unattended issues and implement necessary improvements.
4. Other
   Toray Group endeavors to maintain and improve working conditions by conducting working environment measurements and on-site monitoring of actual work in accordance with the risk level of handled substances. It also conducts medical checkups to continually follow-up on the health status of employees. To prevent health issues among workers, the Group conducts training on the dangerousness of handled chemicals, and prepares and keeps records of the on-site monitoring of actual work.

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 2005, when asbestos-related health 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 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 applications 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 plants.
The cumulative health impacts on former and current Toray Group employees as of March 31, 2025 are as follows.

Medical examination recipients involving asbestos (Toray Group): 4,045
Certified occupational accidents arising from handling asbestos (Toray Group): 140 (124)^*
Certified health victims based on Japan's Act on Asbestos Health Damage Relief (Toray Group): 8 (8)^*

1. * Figures in parentheses refer to fatalities as of March 2025.