Maintain and Improve
Employee Health

1. Creating rewarding workplaces
   The Kumiai Chemical Group believes human resources are the most important factor in and indispensable for sustainable corporate growth, and actively builds working environments where employees can work enthusiastically as they enjoy work-life balance. We also foster a culture that offers employees steady validation, a sense of accomplishment, and hope for the future, so that they can achieve self-fulfillment and maximum happiness through their work.
2. Creating safe and healthy working environments
   The Kumiai Chemical Group prevents industrial accidents and diseases as well as promoting the creation of safe and healthy working environments by ensuring that employees are aware of legal requirements related to safety, health, and disaster prevention, reflecting discussions at the Safety and Health Committee, which includes employee representatives.
3. Ensuring fair working conditions
   The Kumiai Chemical Group respects fundamental rights related to labor, including freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining. Through constructive labor-management dialogue in councils with the labor union, we ensure fair working conditions by complying with labor-related laws and regulations, such as rules on minimum wages and working hours, as well as maintaining a well-balanced personnel system and working to further improve the treatment of employees.
4. Fair and equitable human resource management
   The Kumiai Chemical Group trains highly ethical human resources capable of acting in accordance with its Corporate Philosophy and with a high level of expertise and a global perspective, using systems that support fair and equitable human resource management and development.
5. Promotion of diversity
   The Kumiai Chemical Group achieves diversity and inclusion that enables its diverse human resources to make the most of their individual values and abilities.

The Occupational Health and Safety Law mandates that stress checks be conducted at workplaces with 50 or more employees, while those with less than 50 are required to make an effort. However, Kumiai Chemical conducts stress checks at all workplaces regardless of the number of employees.
In 2022, we focused on creating a system to ensure the effectiveness of creating a better environment for the entire company, to reflect the knowledge of outside experts and the latest trends in analyzing the results. We will continue to make various efforts to create a continuous mental health care system, focusing on "how to improve.”

Employees of the Kumiai Group receive Periodical Medical Examinations at the company, and their dependents receive a written invitation and free examination tickets for specific medical examinations from the Health Insurance Association, to which Kumiai Chemical Group employees and their dependents are members.
In addition, the Health Insurance Association of the group focuses on employee health promotion by subsidizing the costs of physical examinations, brain scans, uterine cancer examinations, breast cancer examinations, etc., as disease prevention measures. Health promotion for employees and their families plays an important role in the company's health management for the future. The Health Insurance Association encourages its members to review their daily lifestyle habits and continues its efforts to support them to lead healthy lives through Periodical Medical Examinations.

On May 8, 2023, the Japanese government lowered the status of COVID-19 to "Class 5" under the Infectious Disease Control Law.
In response to this, Kumiai Chemical has implemented the following measures.