Efforts for health management

It is an integral responsibility of the company to consider the physical and mental well-being of its employees. To ensure that each and every employee is healthy and active, we are making efforts to enhance medical examination items, regular stress checks, and follow-up systems. In cooperation with the health insurance society, we are also committed to disease prevention projects such as cancer screenings, subsidies for physical examinations, and free dental examinations. As a preventative measure against infectious diseases, we cover part of the cost of influenza vaccinations and provide in-house group vaccinations so that employees can be vaccinated during work hours. Additionally, we regularly hold health seminars and checkup events to raise awareness of health preservation.

As a company involved in food and the daily diet, it is our mission to contribute to the health of many generations. We collaborated with the Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology to develop a free self-check food app called “Balance Diary: 10 Food Groups,” which is open to the public and is actively used by employees.

Additionally, to support employees’ health in terms of what they regularly eat, employee cafeterias provide the Company’s healthy oils and salad dressings and serve healthy and nutritionally balanced set menus, where the foods used from the 10 food groups are indicated on the menu. These and other efforts have been well received by employees. In 2021, we began offering meals at the employee cafeterias in line with the Smart Meal standards reviewed and certified under the Certification System for Healthy Meal and Food Environment.^* We believe that eating an ideally nutritionally balanced diet will lead to increased vegetable intake and improved sodium intake, ultimately preventing lifestyle-related diseases/disorders (one of our greatest health challenges).

Furthermore, the Sakai Plant and the Mizushima Complex introduced Office De Yasai (Vegetables in the Office), a program that lets employees maintain healthy dietary habits and have nutritionally balanced meals at the office. The Nagoya Plant has begun offering individual salads in cups and side dishes made primarily with vegetables as well as miso soup and other soups containing an abundance of vegetables.

* The Certification System for Healthy Meal and Food Environment certifies stores and establishments that continuously provide nutritionally balanced meals (“Smart Meals”) that help promote good health in healthy spaces for food service, home meal replacements, and meals for corporate cafeterias. The certification is provided by the Consortium for Healthy Meal and Food Environment, which comprises 13 academic societies that support the project, including the Japanese Society of Nutrition and Dietetics and the Japan Diabetes Society.

To encourage employees to quit smoking and prevent health hazards caused by passive smoking, we are in the process of eliminating smoking rooms or restricting their use during working hours. We subsidize the cost of outpatient and online smoking cessation treatment programs and nicotine gum-based short-term introductory smoking cessation programs for employees and their family members who are trying to quit smoking. From FY2022 to FY2023, we held the Team Smoking Cessation Marathon, an event in which one smoker and two nonsmoker supporters teamed up to tackle the challenge to quit smoking. Fourteen teams from across the Company participated, 10 of whom successfully completed the challenge. As of September 2024, a total of 42 employees have used the Company’s support system, which began in FY2021.

We encourage and support volunteer after-hours activities (“clubs”) to physically and mentally rejuvenate employees and invigorate communication at business locations throughout Japan. Employees from different generations gather together in roughly 20 clubs to engage in activities including baseball, table tennis, badminton, and yoga. We have also introduced a welfare program that allows employees to exercise at fitness clubs at reduced rates and have installed training rooms at some of our business locations to facilitate employee engagement in physical activity.

In 2020, we launched The Nisshin OilliO Group Health Portal Site to raise awareness and encourage behavioral change and development of healthy habits. We have developed a points system where points are awarded for daily walking and other efforts to promote health. The points can be redeemed for products. We also put on walking events using this website, publish step count rankings (individual and departmental), and undertake other measures to make health promotion fun and motivating.

As part of our occupational safety and health management system, we regularly hold meetings of the Safety and Health Committee and the Safety, Health, and Disaster Prevention Committee, which are established at each business location. These meetings are attended by representatives of the Company and the labor union, and discussions are held to ensure the safety of employees and to create a workplace where they can work comfortably and with a sense of security.

Based on the policies and plans formulated by these committees, employees in charge of promoting occupational safety and health take the lead in implementing initiatives including preventive management aimed at predicting hazards and eliminating potential hazards in advance from a risk management perspective, improvement of work environments, and maintenance and promotion of employee health. We not only comply with the Industrial Safety and Health Act and other relevant laws and regulations, but also actively develop measures to ensure the safety of all employees and link them with our health management initiatives.

For data on safety, health, and disaster prevention, see our Sustainability Data Book.

White 500 certification We were certified as a 2024 Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization (large enterprise category) under the certification system jointly operated by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi (“Japan Health Council”). Under the system, companies’ level of health management is evaluated, and the top 500 companies in the large enterprise category are recognized as “White 500.” We were first certified as a White 500 company in 2017, and this marks the sixth time we have been certified.