The LIXIL Group seeks to actively prevent work-related accidents by ensuring all employees follow established safety rules and anticipate dangers at work. That means pinpointing and eradicating any dangerous elements relating to machinery, facilities, or unsafe action by workers, and sharing best-practice examples to avoid work-related accidents. To prevent reoccurrence, we compare and analyze any similarities between accidents that do occur, and instigates improvements. LIXIL Corporation also provides practical training sessions (Anzen Dojo) in which staff from Japan and overseas can experience simulations of past accidents.

LIXIL Water Technology (LWT) shares and develops best practices from each region to help promote further progress. For instance, LWT EMENA and LWT Americas attached spotlights to the back of their forklifts to prevent collisions with pedestrians walking behind blind corners when the forklift is reversing. LWT Japan improved on this idea by switching the spotlights for strip lights so that pedestrians notice the lights more easily.

Working with the LIXIL Health Insurance Society, LIXIL Corporation seeks to ensure the wellness of employees by promoting health awareness and providing opportunities to prevent illnesses and improve fitness.

All employees undergo annual medical check-ups, and industrial doctors determine whether individual employee require attention at work. In addition, employees with high health risks are encouraged to visit a doctor to enable them to continue working in a healthy and safe manner without exacerbating their symptoms. Extra attention is paid to encouraging priority cases (44 employees in FY2015 and 50 in FY2016) to visit a healthcare facility, and, as a result, we achieved a 100% consultation rate. The LIXIL Health Insurance Society covers basic medical examination fees for both employees and their dependents.
We are also focused on caring for mental health, which is important in ensuring overall wellness of employees. We have specialist industry physicians at our business sites, and offer mental health management training for managers to help create a working environment conducive to early detection and early treatment. We also conduct seminars to ensure employees have the correct knowledge to help themselves, and offer a Workplace Reinstatement Program to help employees who have been on sick leave to facilitate their return to the workforce.
In line with new legal requirements on stress tests introduced in December 2015, we started conducting stress tests each year between May and June from 2016. In FY2016, 84.5% of employees took the stress test, rising to 93.9% in FY2017. We are using the test to ensure employees understand the importance of self care as a key part of successful mental health care, and to better understand workplace conditions and instigate improvements.
In February 2017, the LIXIL Group was recognized as a certified health and productivity management organization in the large enterprise White 500 category, a program operated by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.