Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE)
Placing top priority on health, safety, and environment (HSE) in its business activities, the JAPEX Group has formulated and is implementing policies and plans related to HSE.
We are also working to foster an HSE culture where each employee recognizes and acts on the principle of "HSE first."
HSE Policy
The JAPEX HSE Policy is established to ensure HSE, which is the top priority of our business activities.
JAPEX HSE Policy
Established in December 2007 and revised on June 1, 2020
JAPEX Group is committed to conducting its business in a manner that protects occupational Health, Safety, and the Environment (HSE). Our HSE Policy will not be compromised by other business priorities. Contractors are required to manage HSE in line with this Policy.
To accomplish this, JAPEX will:
- Fully comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
- Identify hazards in the workplace to reduce and control any associated risks.
- Provide necessary HSE training to enhance and foster a HSE culture that puts the highest priority on HSE.
- Make the workplace healthy and comfortable and ensure all the workers are fit for work and in good mental health.
- Maintain the workplace safe and hygienic to prevent incidents and work-related illnesses.
- Establish emergency response plans and organizations. Verify the processes regularly to ensure an effective response to foreseeable crisis scenarios.
- Reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from our operations to take action to address the challenges of climate change.
- Promote the conservation of natural resources including water and biodiversity and prevent pollution from waste and other contaminants generated by our operations.
JAPEX Group will implement our HSE Management System for the continuous improvement of HSE performance in line with this Policy.
Michiro Yamashita
Representative Director and President
JAPEX HSE Policy: PDF Version (544KB)
HSE Management System
To realize the JAPEX HSE Policy, our own HSE Management System (HSE-MS) has been developed and applied it to the JAPEX Group's operations in Japan and overseas. The HSE-MS specifies the HSE-MS system, risk assessment methods, objectives and targets, education, operational management of work and activities, HSE-MS audits, and methods of review by management.
Based on the HSE-MS, we promote the cycle of planning (P), implementation and operation (D), inspection and corrective measures (C), and management review (A), while aiming to enhance the HSE-MS.
Adoption of international standards
Since 2019, JAPEX has adopted the classification and aggregation of accidents and disasters in domestic operations based on international standards. We have compiled working hour data for all employees and related parties, and changed our standards of accident and disaster classification to international standards.
By clarifying the target HSE level through comparison with international industry standards, we have established new targets for reducing the incidence of disasters to strengthen our HSE activities.
Efforts toward HSSE
We are also working on to ensure the safety of business sites and employees and to manage crisis under a policy for health, safety, security, and environment (HSSE).
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HSE-MS System
officer in charge of the HSE Department as the chairperson and other relevant officers as well as the trade union chairperson representing the workers. The HSSE Committee also reviews the entire HSE-MS. The committee also reports to the Board of Directors once a year on the status of HSE activities.
At our head office and major offices in Japan, managers responsible for promoting HSE activities are assigned to each office to check the operational status of HSE-MS at the HSE Review Committee and the HSE Committee meetings. For overseas offices, we have organized the Head Office HSSE Subcommittee (Overseas HSE) the Overseas Security Measures Subcommittee to carry out HSSE activities.
The HSE-MS system including the holding of the HSSE Committee meetings, is handled by the HSE Department and the Human Resources Department as the HSE secretariat under the chairmanship of the HSSE Committee.
HSE-MS System
HSE-MS Audits
The HSE-MS-based internal audits are conducted at each office. This audits check the implementation status of a wide range of HSE activities, including compliance with HSE-related laws and regulations, HSE-MS operations, risk assessment, and HSE education. In addition to checking the operation records of the HSE-MS, the audits also encourage employees to be more motivated to engage in HSE activities by, for example, showing what was effective in the actual measures during the conversation with the employees in the fields. We also promote specialized education and provide on-site guidance in order to develop personnel capable of responding to HSE-MS audits.
Process Safety (Safety of Facilities)
To prevent serious accidents and disasters that could result in the loss of many lives, the destruction and disappearance of facilities, and serious environmental pollution, the JAPEX Group is comprehensively and systematically engaged in process safety in its business operations.
In addition, our process safety initiatives not only prevent serious accidents and disasters, but also contribute to improving productivity and occupational safety by ensuring safety in the design, construction, operations, and maintenance of facilities.
Medium-term HSE Plan
JAPEX has formulated the Mid-term HSE Plan, which is the medium-term direction of the HSE, and shares it in the entire company. In the plan, we have set priority targets for each office to promote HSE activities.
Medium-term HSE Plan (2024-2026)
The Mid-term HSE Plan covers the three years from fiscal 2024 to 2026 and includes the following eight items.
Setting Items
- Strengthening HSE risk management: Establishment of HSE-MS audit system and implementation of proposal-based HSE-MS audits, strengthening environmental risk management, process safety, and HSE governance
- Improvement of HSE management system: Improvement of HSE-MS document system
- Security and crisis management growth strategy: Development of overseas security and establishment of education system, establishment of disaster prevention system
- Improvement of HSE capabilities: Initiatives to improve HSE culture, clarification of HSE competencies, implementation of HSE education
- Ensuring transparency and efficiency of HSE work: Use of digital transformation and IT, establishment of HSE system
HSE Education and Cultural Enhancement
JAPEX provides systematic HSE training to ensure that our employees work in a health and safe manner. We are also implementing measures to make the concept of "safety first" take root as part of our corporate culture, given that HSE is the top priority of the JAPEX Group.
HSE Education
In addition to HSE education for all employees, we are striving to develop and secure employees who play an important role in HSE operations, including those engaged in on-site work.
Voluntary qualification requirements are established for positions such as security managers, work supervisors, and miners as well as legal requirements. We encourage participation in internal and external training and acquisition of specific qualifications in line with these requirements. We also aim to secure a stable supply of qualified employees by developing a reward system.
HSE Cultural Enhancement
JAPEX is engaged in a variety of activities to establish and improve our corporate culture to be aware of HSE as the top priority on a daily basis.
- Send messages on HSE from the officer in charge of the HSE Department to employees.
- Issue weekly HSE news, "HSE Kawaraban," for all employees
- Post HSE information such as health, accidents and disasters, activities of each office, and legal education materials on the intranet.
- Call for applications for the HSE Smile Award, which recognizes outstanding HSE activities throughout the company, and present the Excellence Award.
- Make time for "HSE/Value Moment," a few minutes of remarks on HSE and company values, at the beginning of each meeting.
- Set up refresh time for easy exercise at each one's seat to prevent posture from being fixed during long hours of desk work.
- Raise awareness of HSE by soliciting HSE slogans for each fiscal year from all employees, including those of the JAPEX Group companies.
- Prevent lifestyle-related diseases and improve health awareness by establishing an exercise habit using a smartphone app.
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