Maintaining and Improving Employees’ Health

Sumitomo Metal Mining Group Health and Productivity Management Policy

Date of enactment: August 1, 2022

SMM had enacted Sumitomo Metal Mining Group Health and Productivity Management Policy to promote health and productivity management as to think that health of officers and employees in our Group is the important management base.

In Vision for 2030 formulated in March 2020, our Group has raised “Development and Participation of Human Resources” as one of important issues, “all employees in our Group can work with greater health and motivation” as one of goals, and to realize these visions, each employee needs to have great health in both physically and mentally.

Our group has always prioritized ensuring the safety and health of officers and employees, but in order to ensure that everyone working in our group can work with greater health and motivation, we are following the health management policy below and will continue to work on and enhance even more effective health maintenance and promotion measures.

■ Sumitomo Metal Mining Group Health and Productivity Promotion Structure

Health and Productivity Management Plan

■ Employee Health Promotion Roadmap

Addressing Mental Health Care

In 2007, we issued our “In-House Guidelines on the Prevention of Health Disorders Due to Overwork and on Mental Health Care.” We take action to prevent overwork from an early stage onward, and promote four types of mental health care: self-care, care by line management, care by staff, and care by external organizations. To support early return to the workplace, we are also developing systems for leave from work and trial return to work.

■ Percentage of Employees Taking Leave due to Mental Health Disorders

Utilization of Stress Checks

To make effective use of statutory stress check systems, we conduct stress checks for all employees every year in accordance with our “Regulations for Promotion of the Stress Check System.” We also carry out workplace analyses and workplace environment improvements for which efforts are mandated, and report the results to management.
We developed a stress check system beginning in 2008, before systems were made mandatory in 2015. As the importance of the checks are well known, the rate of employees undergoing checks has remained very high.
Based on results of the checks, we study and implement initiatives to improve the motivation of employees (i.e., increase the health and well-being of employees). Stress checks are a tool for evaluating employees’ psychological load and stress factors. The data is kept anonymous and confidential by outsourced companies. To an extent that does not specify individuals, we assess and analyze trends and issues in departments, workplaces, and employee attributes, and feed the results back to organizations so that effective initiatives can be carried out at each business site. Employees identified in the checks as having high stress receive follow- up email communication from physicians regarding early response, checkups by specialists, and early recovery (shortening of the leave period). Upon request from individuals concerned, the Company also provides individual engagement and support.

■ Percentage of Employees Receiving Stress Checks and Percentage of Employees with High Stress

■ Initiatives for mental health care

Illness Prevention and Health Promotion Initiatives

In cooperation with the Sumitomo Metal Mining Health Insurance Society, we are making initiatives for illness prevention and health promotion for our employees and their family members (dependents). To prevent lifestyle-related diseases, we promote the implementation of specific health checkups and specified health guidance, and encourage those at particularly high risk of serious illnesses to undergo checkups. We also subsidize all or part of the costs of various medical examinations, comprehensive health checkup system (Ningen Dock), and complete brain checkups. When undergoing complete medical checkups, employees can take health management leave (up to two days per year).
Furthermore, to promote smoking cessation, we have reduced the number of smoking areas and offer an online smoking cessation program for those who wish to quit. About 70% of participants in the smoking cessation program have successfully quit smoking.

■ Smoking Rate and Target

■ Percentage of Employees with Abnormal Findings¹, Obesity Rate², and Targets

• 1.Scope: Insured persons of the Sumitomo Metal Mining Health Insurance Society
• 2.Scope: Employees of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd., age 40 or older

■ Percentage and Number of Employees Receiving Health Checkups

• 1.Scope: Insured persons of the Sumitomo Metal Mining Health Insurance Society who are 18 years old or older
• 2.Scope: Employees of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.