Promoting KENKO Investment
for Health

1. Creating rewarding workplaces
   The Kumiai Chemical Group believes human capital is 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 capital management
   The Kumiai Chemical Group trains highly ethical human capital 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 capital management and development.
5. Promotion of diversity
   The Kumiai Chemical Group achieves diversity and inclusion that enables its diverse human capital to make the most of their individual values and abilities.

We believe that the physical and mental health of our employees is the driving force behind our company.
We declare that the company and our employees will work together to promote KENKO Investment for Health by positioning "the realization of KENKO Investment for Health and work-life balance" as a priority issue in our management strategy.
By realizing our slogan "Dreams and Triangle for Happiness," we will pursue sound corporate management and the happiness of all our stakeholders.

Representative Director, President
Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

YOKOYAMA Masaru

We have formulated a KENKO Investment for Health system in which every employee can participate in KENKO Investment for Health as a key player.
We promote the KENKO Investment for Health strategy and action plan shown in the following section under the direction of the KENKO Investment for Health promoter, headed by the President.
Progress will report to the Responsible Care Promotion Committee to confirm the direction.
Furthermore, the Health and Safety Committee will exchange opinions with occupational physicians and promote KENKO Investment for Health in cooperation with the health insurance association and the labor union.

We will focus on health investments to promote the health of our employees.

We aim to achieve the targets set for each health-related item.

1. Support for disease prevention and balancing work with disease treatment
   
   • Design, review, and announce the system for balancing work and disease treatment
   • Realization of support for returning to work and preventing another administrative leave
     (interviews with occupational physicians, personnel interviews, etc.)
   • The Improvement of the consultation rate of specific health guidance
2. Mental health initiatives
   
   • 100% of employees take stress checks
   • Implementation of workplace environment improvements based on group analysis results
   • Enhancement of “4 Cares ※”
     ※ Self-care, care on the line, care by occupational health staff in the workplace, care by resources outside the workplace
3. Improvement of lifestyle
   
   • Achieve 100% of employees receiving periodical medical examinations and 100% of those receiving secondary medical examinations (requiring reexamination)
   • Conduct health events with employee participation
4. Promotion of non-smoking
   
   • Publicize health hazards caused by smoking (passive smoking, etc.)
   • Study and operation of measures to promote non-smoking to reduce the smoking rate
5. Realization of work-life balance
   
   • Improve the average annual paid leave utilization rate (achieve 70% or more in FY2026)
   • Reduction of average hours of overtime work (achieve less than 10 hours/month in FY2026)

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, We conduct stress checks at all workplaces regardless of the number of employees.
We analyze the results of stress checks over time, reflecting the findings of outside experts and occupational physicians and the latest trends. These results are shared with management. We will use the results of stress checks to build a system to ensure the effectiveness of creating a better environment.

Employees of the our 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 our 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.