Employee Safety

Our Approach

LIXIL positions prioritizing the safety of all employees as one of our material issues. In accordance with our company-wide LIXIL Occupational Health and Safety Principles approved by our executive officers, we are pursuing zero work-related accidents by introducing an occupational health and safety management system and systematically carrying out safety activities for all workers under our organization’s management (including temporary workers, contractors, and employees of affiliated companies). In compliance with the Industrial Safety and Health Act in Japan, LIXIL Corporation has established a health and safety committee for each business site where we share and discuss occupational health and safety issues in labor-management consultation. This approach plays a key role in fostering a corporate culture where we always act with a "safety first" mindset.

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Our Governance

Occupational safety management structure

At LIXIL, our occupational health and safety management system is based on the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS) and ISO, and involves implementing company-wide principles and core rules. GROHE AG in Europe is also certified to ISO 45001.

Under our system of overseeing the implementation of our occupational health and safety management system, we conduct company-wide management reviews by the officer in charge of occupational safety and audits by our headquarters Safety Management Department twice a year. The officer also announces medium-term and fiscal year occupational safety objectives, and each function in the technology businesses determines and implements targets and action plans that align with the broader company-wide objectives. The officer reports to the Board of Directors at least once a year on progress toward these targets and action plans, audit results, and other key updates related to occupational safety risk, and in turn receives advice and instructions from board members.

We also conduct management reviews of each technology business, while each function provides monthly reports of their activities to management, to ensure instructions are implemented for continuous improvement. Furthermore, we hold meetings with LIXIL International safety managers to exchange information on safety activities being conducted at each site.

Apart from these activities, in Japan, departments promoting occupational safety at each technology business conduct annual internal audits at all sites. We also hold health and safety committee meetings at each business site. At these meetings, the representatives from company and employees come together to share and discuss occupational health and safety issues, with the goal of developing and carrying out programs for continuous improvement.

Our Targets and Progress

LIXIL monitors safety using indicators such as the lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR), the severity rate, and the number of occupational accidents, and implements various measures, with the goal of zero work-related accidents at all its organizations, including its contractors.

In Japan, we set priority themes and their associated qualitative/quantitative targets each year, as part of intensifying our efforts to eradicate work-related accidents.

FYE2024 Targets and Performance on Priority Themes

After analyzing all the accidents that have occurred across the company, we identified “pinching and entanglement” and “contact with lifts” as risks and set eliminating the risk sources as our priority themes. Since then, we have been implementing action plans to reduce the number of accidents caused by these risks.

We were able to get positive results from our activities and achieve our quantified targets for each of these themes.

Number of accidents from pinching or entanglement: 30% reduction from FYE2023
Number of accidents due to contact with lifts: Zero

FYE2025 Targets on Priority Themes

We set the prevention of serious accidents as our priority theme and aim to achieve the following quantified targets by referring to past accidents and carrying out risk reduction activities tailored to the characteristics of each business site.

Serious accidents (death, residual disability, injury to multiple people simultaneously, etc.): Zero
High-risk accidents^*: 50% reduction from FYE2024

* Events with high overall risk according to risk assessments (severity x probability x frequency of work).

Number of Occupational Accidents

In FYE2024, the LTIFR of directly and indirectly employed staff, which accounts for approximately 90% of workers, was 0.37, the lowest figure for the past five years.

LTIFR

Severity Rate

OIFR^*

	FYE2021	FYE2022	FYE2023	FYE2024
Directly and indirectly employed staff	0	0.007	0.007	0.029
Contractors	0	0	0	0

Scope: Covers directly and indirectly hired employees and contractors at production and non-production sites in Japan and production sites outside Japan (excluding some sites) across LIXIL Corporation and its subsidiaries. Regarding companies divested in FYE2024, covers the results through the month before the divestment.

* Occupational Illness Frequency Rate (OIFR): Number of occupational illness cases involving days away from work divided by the total working hours then multiplied by 1,000,000

Number of Work-Related Fatalities

	FYE2021	FYE2022	FYE2023	FYE2024
Directly and indirectly employed staff	0	0	0	0
Contractors	0	0	0	0

Scope: Covers directly and indirectly hired employees and contractors at production and non-production sites in Japan and production sites outside Japan (excluding some sites) across LIXIL Corporation and its group companies. Regarding companies divested in FYE2024, covers the results through the month before the divestment.

Our Response to Occupational Accidents

At LIXIL, our first response in the event of a work-related accident is to immediately stop operations and rescue injured persons. To prevent any secondary accidents, we evacuate workers, stop running machineries, and take steps to prohibit entry to the area where the accident occurred.

Afterward, the site leader and safety officer review the circumstances of the accident, personal information of accident victims, and so on, in order to determine the situation surrounding the accident. They then inform the relevant authorities such as police stations and Labor Standards Inspection Office, the families of the victims, and the relevant internal departments (senior managers, safety managers, company-wide officer in charge of occupational safety, and headquarters Safety Management Department) within two hours of the accident.

Within one day of the accident, they hold a health and safety committee emergency meeting to conduct an on-site investigation where the accident occurred and provide more detailed information in a preliminary report to the relevant internal departments listed above. In case of fatal or serious accidents, they report to the Issue Assessment Team (IAT) at this stage to receive assistance.

Furthermore, they attend on-site investigations by government agencies such as the Labor Standards Inspection Office, prepare the required documentation in the designated format, and report to these agencies within 30 days.

In cooperation with the relevant departments, we analyze the root cause of the accident, and develop and implement countermeasures to prevent the recurrence of similar accidents.

Steps in the event of a work-related accident

Our Initiatives

In order to prevent work-related accidents, LIXIL is determined to universally implement the measures we compiled as a result of past accidents, and to create systems that enable each one of all employees including managers to predict danger and take preventive action.

Safety Meetings and Audits

In each technology business, we gather all the safety officers together from each business site for safety meetings twice a year to share and discuss safety policies and priority measures.

At LIXIL, departments in charge of promoting occupational safety at each technology business conduct annual audits at all our sites in Japan (70 sites as of March 31,2024), in order to assess our legal compliance and implementation of management systems. We implement countermeasures at each business site based on the results of the audits and also collect and share effective safety activities widely on the intranet.

Universal Implementation of Accident Countermeasures

In Japan, departments in charge of promoting occupational safety of the headquarters and each technology business verify the effectiveness of measures implemented at the sites where any incidents have occurred. We are also strengthening our efforts to inspect any similar risks at other sites and deploy universal countermeasures at all business sites. Regarding particularly high-risk incidents, we also monitor progress on the implementation of countermeasures at each business site to prevent similar incidents from reoccurring in the future.

Safety Education

We provide safety education to a wide range of employees, from new hires to plant leaders.

Example:

FYE2023: To improve the safety management skills of 1,458 team leaders^* in our plants, we identified the skills that they needed (about past occupational accidents, how to determine risk sources in each process, ensuring legal compliance, points for conducting safety patrols, etc.), assessed their skill levels, and provided training.
FYE2023–FYE2024: In response to the adoption of new chemical substance regulations in April 2023, LIXIL Water Technology (LWT) Japan held specialized training on chemical substance risk assessment for all relevant workers (including contractors and temporary workers).

In Japan, LIXIL has set up a safety education program "Anzen Dojo" where visitors can simulate past occupational accidents. So far, more than 600 Anzen Dojo training sessions have been held for over 5,500 participants.

* Team leaders: Workers are divided into teams by the manufacturing processes and the team leader is responsible for coordinating their team at LIXIL Corporation.

Number of Safety Training Sessions and Number of Participants

	FYE2022	FYE2023	FYE2024
Number of sessions	42	51	54
Number of participants	381	527	569

* From FYE2022, we have changed the calculation criteria to include the number of risk simulation training sessions for new employees and the number of participants in those sessions, and also recalculated the data for past years to reflect the same criteria.

Employees receiving a lecture at an Anzen Dojo

Practical employee learning session using actual equipment

Hazard Source Risk Assessment

LWT Japan conducts risk assessments of hazard sources relating to existing and new facilities and takes measures to prevent disasters from occurring. The assessments cover R&D sites as well as plants.

Employees conducting risk assessments in the R&D site

Creating Age-Friendly Workplaces

To help create safe and healthy workplaces where our senior employees aged 60 and over can work with a sense of security at LIXIL Housing Technology, we established action plans for each business site and carried out initiatives to enhance their physical fitness and create a better working environment.

Specific initiatives:

Physical fitness measurements
Promotion of physical fitness exercises
Improvement of work environment to prevent fall accidents
Wider adoption of best practices

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