Based on Japan's Industrial Safety and Health Act, various other legal requirements, and Casio's employment regulations, the entire Casio Group is dedicated to building an environment which ensures that all employees can work with peace of mind. Casio strives to maintain and enhance employee health and to prevent occupational injuries and eliminate any chance of recurrence if one does occur. Similar measures have been adopted at group companies outside Japan in compliance with each nation's laws and regulations.

Casio has established Occupational Safety and Health Committees in all of its business locations. The committees' industrial physicians, occupational health managers, and labor and management representatives design and implement policies tailored to each workplace, doing all they can to keep employees physically and mentally healthy and to ensure occupational safety. Committee activities are reported to employees via the intranet. Casio also runs campaigns to raise employee awareness about occupational safety and health.

Healthy menu selections in the cafeteria

Casio goes beyond employee health management. It also seeks, by taking active measures to promote better health, to improve employee motivation and raise productivity.

Employees receive regular health checks that are more thorough than legally mandated, in order to maintain and enhance their health and to help prevent lifestyle-related diseases. An increased number of industrial physicians have been stationed at principal Casio sites, and careful health management activities are being carried out, including offering health guidance to employees after their regular health checks.

In the effort to prevent lifestyle-related illnesses, Casio is promoting initiatives that focus on exercise and healthy eating. From September to November every year, Casio holds a Walking Campaign at its sites across Japan: 2,321 people participated in fiscal 2012. In this way, Casio is providing opportunities for employees and their families to improve their health through exercise.

The employee cafeterias provide healthy menu choices featuring a balance of calories and nutrition. Wellness Fairs are also held at all Casio cafeterias.

Casio holds "employee cafeteria conferences" attended by the employees and medical staff of company sites as well as those who run its cafeterias. The purpose of the meetings is to report and share information on conditions and initiatives in different regions, in order to create menus that meet needs and develop recommendations for improving employee health.

In a new initiative for fiscal 2012, Casio held a total of 16 “Seminars to Improve Your Eating Patterns” at its Japanese sites, and 450 employees took part.

Casio is carrying out an initiative to prevent the damaging health effects to the brain or heart which can be caused by accumulated fatigue due to long working hours. In order to ensure proper work schedules, all employees that work 80 hours or more of overtime in a month must be interviewed by an industrial physician. The physician then checks the employee's health condition, and provides the person with advice and guidance. In this way, Casio is working to prevent health problems from overwork, and to ensure employees observe appropriate working hours. Going forward, Casio will keep working to transform the employee mindset, encouraging the adoption of more productive working styles.

Casio has established a mental health education system to support the mental health of its employees.

As part of this system, Casio Computer Co., Ltd., has initiated an e-Learning Program, a Self-Checkup, and a Stress Test by Organization for all its employees. A separate e-Learning Program and a Program for Managers have also been created for those in leadership positions. All of these programs are designed to improve awareness of mental health issues.

In addition, Casio has an in-house mental health physician and an external Physical and Mental Health Hotline in place to offer counseling in and outside the company.

Casio has been steadily establishing the same kind of support system for group companies in Japan, in order to ensure that employees are able to work with vigor and satisfaction.

Under the Japanese Health Promotion Act that came into effect in 2003, smoking is prohibited in all company buildings. Since fiscal 2011, Casio and its Health Insurance Association have been cooperating in the implementation of a practical Quit Smoking Encouragement Program that provides smoking-cessation aids. A number of employees have been able to quit through the program.

Occupational injuries at Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (in the last five years)

Effectively appointing and deploying employees