Safety and Prevention

Safety is the foundation of society’s trust, and at the same time, ensuring safety increases our manufacturing quality, leading to improvement of corporate value from the financial viewpoint. With this approach, the Mitsui Chemicals Group established a management policy that states “Safety is our top priority.” Its Responsible Care Policy, which is upheld in the “Philosophy and Policy Relating to Ensuring Safety” of the Group, declares the following: “We pledge that safety is our top priority and we will focus on achieving zero accidents and occupational injuries.” The Group’s Action Guidelines also call for safety first, and top management repeats this policy as the President’s message, etc., to all Group employees on many occasions, such as in opening addresses, plants visits, Safety Day messages, and in Company newsletters, portal site, etc.
The Group’s material topics include “safety” under the category of “prerequisites for business continuity,” and its VISION 2030 defines the “ideal state of safety” in the future as “reinforcing safety is our top priority to implement safety culture and maintain a high level of safety across the Group regardless of the diversification of employees, facilities, and technologies.” In line with this vision, all employees of the Mitsui Chemicals Group, including contractors, reaffirm their heartfelt commitment to the pledge that “safety is essential and for the benefit of not only ourselves, but also our families, colleagues, and society as a whole,” and the Group strives to provide education and training to employees to be able to put fundamental safety initiatives into practice, globally promote safety culture, and introduce and disseminate new safety technologies.

The responsible officer for the Production & Technology Center is appointed as the person directly responsible. The Safety & Environment Technology Division formulates, disseminates, and promotes the safety and prevention strategy.

The Responsible Care Committee creates an annual plan and a medium to long-term plan, based on the strategy progress reports and any challenges identified during the strategy review and environmental analyses obtained within and outside the Group.

Management and labor union members in the Head Office hold regular meetings to deliberate issues relating to occupational health and safety. Such meetings are also conducted in each site as Health and Safety Committee meetings, in which attendees report on and deliberate issues related to occupational health and safety, including occupational injuries, to continue to make improvements.

The Safety & Environment Technology Division regularly monitors the achievement of the priority issue targets relating to safety and prevention at domestic sites and ascertains the progress made. The Division also collects, consolidates, and analyzes information on the occurrence of any serious accidents and occupational injuries across the entire Group and shares this information throughout the Group.

The Internal Control Division conducts environmental & safety audits (for environmental protection, safety and prevention) at Works and laboratories of the Mitsui Chemicals Group.