Health & Safety

Health and Productivity Management Initiatives We believe a workplace environment where all employees can work with vitality while maintaining both physical and mental health is a crucial foundation supporting the company's sustainable growth. We have established a framework to actively promote employee health maintenance and enhancement, formulating our “Health and Productivity Management Declaration.”

Health and Productivity Management Declaration

Based on our founding spirit, Gunze believes that “human resources” are the most important asset in corporate management.
We are committed to creating a workplace environment where every employee respects one another and can work with peace of mind, maintaining both physical and mental health.
We declare our commitment to actively promoting Health and Productivity Management, aiming to become a company essential to society by enabling each employee to fully utilize their abilities.

October 2025
Toshiyasu Saguchi
Representative Director and President,
GUNZE LIMITED

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Health and Productivity Management Strategy Map We clearly define the challenges we aim to resolve through health management initiatives, organize specific action plans and target metrics, and execute them systematically.

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Health and Productivity Management Initiatives Protecting the health and safety of employees is a fundamental prerequisite for business operations. Many companies implement health initiatives in line with the requirements of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s KENKO Investment for Health Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program.
Although we have not yet obtained this certification, we have implemented fundamental initiatives for a long time, including ensuring that all employees have regular health checkups, encouraging employees that require treatment or further examination to consult medical professionals, establishing and operating a rehabilitation work system to support employees returning from personal illness or injury leave, implementing infectious disease prevention measures and promoting anti-passive smoking policies. We therefore believe that we already have a foundation for health and productivity management in place.
Beginning in FY2025, with advice from external experts, we will thoroughly analyze our current situation to identify challenges, set our future direction and develop specific initiatives to address these challenges in order of priority. We will also work in collaboration with the health insurance association to ensure these initiatives are efficiently and effectively implemented.
We will continue to advance health and productivity management to ensure that employees remain physically and mentally healthy and able to perform at their best.

Mental Health In order to prevent the occurrence of mental health problems, the company is promoting line care training for managers and counseling services through the Mental Health Telephone Counseling Service.
In the future, we will conduct stress checks (including at workplaces with fewer than 50 employees, which are not legally required to conduct stress checks) to help employees understand their own stress status, and promote workplace analysis and counseling for high-stress employees in cooperation with occupational health physicians and others.

Efforts to Eliminate Workplace Accidents The company promotes activities aimed at "creating a safe, comfortable and enjoyable workplace" with zero occupational accidents.
Specifically, the Health and Safety Committee plays a central role in reducing the risk of occupational accidents through risk assessment, strengthening safe work training, and raising the safety awareness of each individual employee.