Society

Employees

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Number of employees Global 17,743 17,979 18,051 18,780
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 6,670 6,773 6,809 6,899

Region

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Ratio of region / % Global Japan 57.0 57 59 61
China 6.6 5 5 5
Asia 9.8 11 11 11
Europe 17.5 18 17 15
North, Central, and South America 9.1 9 8 8
Others 0.0 0 0 0

Gender

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Male-female ratio / % Global*2 Male 81.8
Female 18.2
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 87.4 87.0 86.9 86.7
Female 12.6 13.0 13.1 13.3

Age

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Average age / age Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 41.9 41.8 42.0 42.0
Female 44.5 44.0 44.0 44.0
Total 42.2 42.1 42.2 42.2
Composition ratio by age / % Global*2 10s (Ages 18 or older) 1.0
20s 17.7
30s 24.8
40s 25.2
Over 50s 31.3
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 10s (Ages 18 or older) 2.0 1.7 1.5 1.5
20s 16.7 17.7 17.9 19.1
30s 18.1 18.4 18.9 18.4
40s 31.2 28.5 26.4 24.1
Over 50s 32.1 33.8 35.3 36.9

Nationality

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Composition ratio by nationality / % Global*2 Japan 66.3
Germany 5.6
USA 4.3
China 4.3
Thailand 4.2
Mexico 2.3
Other 13.0
Number of non-Japanese employees Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 54 54 53 56

Disabilities

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Ratio of employees with disabilities / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 2.4 2.3 2.4 2.5

Management Positions

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Male-female ratio in all Manager-level or above / % Global*2 Male 89
Female 11
Male-female ratio in Manager of Manager-level / % Male 95
Female 5
Male-female ratio in management staff (supervisor-level) / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 87 87 87 86
Female 13 13 13 14
Male-female ratio in management staff (manager-level or above) / % Male 97 97 96 96
Female 3 3 4 4
Male-female ratio in management staff (general manager-level or above) / % Male 99 99 98 98
Female 1 1 2 2
Number of new management staff (manager-level or above) / % Male 94 97 86 90
Female 6 3 14 10

Labor union members

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Ratio of labor union members / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 54.0 54.5 54.7 54.1

Employee-friendly Working Environment

Service and Turnover

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Average length of service / years Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 18.8 18.8 19.0 18.9
Female 21.0 20.4 20.4 20.3
Total 19.1 19.1 19.2 19.1
Employee turnover rate / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 3.68 3.10 3.07 3.61
Female 3.29 2.80 3.40 3.26
Total 3.63 3.06 3.12 3.56
Total number of employee turnover Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 218 186 185 219
Female 28 25 31 30
Total 246 211 216 249
Voluntary turnover rate / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 0.86 1.07 1.21 1.24
Female 1.76 1.23 1.54 1.52
Total 0.97 1.09 1.25 1.27
Number of voluntary turnover Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 51 64 73 75
Female 15 11 14 14
Total 66 75 87 89
Ratio of re-employment for retired employees / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 87.6 85.5 87.1 86.6

Overtime

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Number of employees whose overtime hours exceeded 80 hours / month Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Non-management staff 22 33 27 26
Management staff 36 21 22 28
Total 58
(0.9%)
54
(0.8%)
49
(0.7%)
54
(0.8%)
Average overtime hours / hours/month-1 Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 21.1 20.9 20.2 22.0
Average overtime hours (statutory) / hours・month-1 Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 1.9 1.1 0.2 0.8

Paid Leave

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Paid leave usage rate / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Non-management staff 83 86 77 84
Management staff 62 70 60 63
Total 74 79 70 75
Average number of days used for paid leave Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Total 14.8 15.8 13.9 14.7

Childcare

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Number of employees taking childcare leave Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 89 85 102 129
Female 13 15 18 20
Total 102 100 120 149
Childcare leave usage rate / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 56 48 56 78
Female 100 100 100 100
Total 59 52 60 81
Average number of days used for childcare leave Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 8.0 13.2 10.3 16.3
Return rate of employees from childcare leave / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 99 100 100 100
Female 100 100 100 100
Total 99 100 100 100
Employee retention rate three years after childcare leave / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 94 83 99 93
Female 93 93 94 76
Total 94 86 98 90
Number of employees using short working hours for childcare Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 1 4 5 5
Female 85 88 85 80
Total 86 92 90 85

Family Care

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Number of employees taking paid family care leave Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 0 1 0 3
Number of employees using short working hours for family care Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 0 1 0 0

Recruitment

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Total number of employees hired Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 333 250 222 322
Female 46
(12%)
61
(20%)
41
(16%)
46
(13%)
Regular recruitment 267 245 195 239
Mid-career recruitment 112 66 68 129
Total 379 311 263 368

Number of Employees Hired through the Regular Recruitment

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Career-track administrative positions Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 10 14 7 9
Female 9
(47%)
15
(52%)
7
(50%)
8
(47%)
Total 19 29 14 17
Career-track technical positions Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 73 64 58 50
Female 14
(16%)
12
(16%)
10
(15%)
11
(18%)
Total 87 76 68 61
General positions Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 153 124 105 119
Female 8
(5%)
16
(11%)
8
(7%)
6
(5%)
Total 161 140 113 125

Number of Employees Hired through the Mid-career Recruitment

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Career-track administrative positions Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 41 22 18 48
Female 8
(16%)
6
(21%)
2
(10%)
5
(9%)
Total 49 28 20 53
Career-track technical positions Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 35 10 14 35
Female 3
(8%)
1
(9%)
3
(15%)
4
(10%)
Total 38 11 17 39
General positions Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 Male 21 16 20 25
Female 4
(16%)
11
(41%)
11
(36%)
12
(32%)
Total 25 27 31 37

Percentage of positions filled internally (Management Position)

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Percentage of positions filled internally / %
(Number of positions filled by existing employees / Total Number of filled positions)
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 96.0 96.0 89.7

Successor Coverage Rate

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Successor Coverage Rate / %
(The number of successor candidates for strategically critical positions / The number of strategically critical positions.)
Global 213 199 226 233

Human Resources Development

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Training hours per person / hours Global 22.3
Training cost per person / thousand yen 47.7
Training hours per person / hours Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 34.0 27.0 22.7 26.1
Training cost per person / thousand yen 270.0 200.0 126.3 128.4

Evaluation

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Conducting rate of feedback meetings in the previous fiscal year / % Mitsui Chemicals Labor Union registered members 97 94 93 95
Degree of satisfaction over evaluation feedback / % 86 91 90 90

Compensation

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
The gender pay gap / % (Percentage of women's pay to man's pay.) Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 All Full-time employees Mean gender pay gap 89.2
Median gender pay gap 93.2
Mean bonus gap 83.0
Median bonus gap 92.0
Non-Manegiment staff Mean gender pay gap 107.0
Median gender pay gap 114.6
Mean bonus gap 106.4
Median bonus gap 118.6
Management staff (under manager- level) Mean gender pay gap 97.3
Median gender pay gap 95.4
Mean bonus gap 94.0
Median bonus gap 95.5
Management staff (manager-level or above) Mean gender pay gap 96.0
Median gender pay gap 95.5
Mean bonus gap 95.9
Median bonus gap 94.4
Management staff (general manager-level or above) Mean gender pay gap 95.6
Median gender pay gap 95.5
Mean bonus gap 92.9
Median bonus gap 95.8

Safety and Prevention

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Number of major accidents / cases Global 1 0 0 0
Number of abnormal conditions/accidents / cases Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. 7 8 8 9
Domestic subsidiaries and affiliates 2 2 3 6
Overseas subsidiaries and affiliates 0 1 1 1
Global 9 11 12 16
Number of Work-related fatalities Groups' employees 0 0 0 0
Contractor's employees 0 0 0 0
Lost-Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) Global*3 0.31 0.48 0.24 0.34
Significant occupational injury frequency Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*4 0.19 0.00 0.10 0.10
Domestic subsidiaries and affiliates 0.29 0.83 0.40 0.45
Construction subcontractors 0.51 0.25 0.39 0.58
Overseas subsidiaries and affiliates 0.51 0.62 0.21 0.00
Global*3 0.33 0.31 0.22 0,23*3

Occupational Health

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Average rate of lifestyle-related disease (male) / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 9.7 10.2 10.6 10.0
Frequency of absences from work due to health disorders Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 0.78 0.87 0.78 0.76
Frequency of absences from work due to mental health disorders Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 0.45 0.56 0.61 0.54
Ratio of smokers / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 24.2 23.7 22.2 21.2
Harmful substance risk assessment implementation rate / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. 100 100 100 100

Product Stewardship

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Product risk assessment implementation rate / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. 100 100 100 100
Provision ratio of the latest safety information for all products / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. 100 100 100 100
Number of legal and regulatory violations Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. 0 0 0 0

Quality of Products and Services

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Number of PL accidents Global 0 0 0 0
Number of major quality-related legal and regulatory violations Global 0 0 0 0

Logistics

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Number of significant occupational injuries in logistics Global 2 0 0 0
Number of major accidents in logistics Global 0 0 0 0
Number of quality issues/ppm Global 70 60 12 30
Number of legal and regulatory violations Global 0 0 0 0

Sustainable Procurement

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Sustainable procurement ratio / % Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. 44 44 45 61

Social Activities

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Social contribution expenditure / million yen Global 214 246 123 184
Number of employees taking community service leave Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.*1 123 88 41 54

Visualization of Contributions to the Society

  Scope 2018 2019 2020 2021
Rose Value™ products sales ratio / % Global 13 16 19 20

*1Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.'s employee

*2The data collected from affiliated companies planning to introduce the Workday system.

*3Includes contractors operating on site and construction subcontractors.

*4Includes contractors operating on site.

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