DOWA CSR Report 2019

Safety

Occupational safety and health is one of the most important themes in the development of DOWA’s business. Based on the basic philosophy that “safety takes the priority over everything”, we formulated CSR management plans at all business sites in Japan and overseas, and are conducting safety activities based on our annual plan.

Priority Measure - Raising the Company-Wide Safety Level
Safety Takes the Priority Over Everything

Raising the safety level

 On-site safety is supported by the strong will of management and correct employee education. The DOWA Group is putting effort into training workplace safety instructors to enhance safety education for operators.
 In addition, our company has a unique system that strongly supports improvement, and designates business sites with serious accidents, and those with a high frequency of accidents, as “designated business sites” and “quasi-designated business sites” respectively. The Safe Environment Personnel Council, which is made up of safety managers from the holding company and all operating companies, provides support and guidance to designated business sites and quasi-designated business sites in improving their safety systems. When necessary, we implement and discuss safety audits and health & safety examinations that incorporate an objective perspective from external consultants, and improve the safety level by working on our own issues.

Initiatives for business sites with a high number of accidents and disasters
Designated business sites
  • Strengthen on-site safety in conjunction with the safety management special guidance office
  • Initiatives to foster a culture of safety
Quasi-designated business sites
  • Safety examinations that include an objective viewpoint from external consultants
  • Selecting themes according to individual companies
  • Promoting improvement
Disaster visits
  • Digging deep into factor analysis
  • Verifying the appropriateness of measures
  • Safety audits

Initiatives to prevent accidents and disasters -Formulating technical standards when introducing equipment-

 If there is insufficient consideration at the time of new equipment construction, not only equipment safety, but production capacity may not even be realized. With regards to safety, for example, fault such as inadequate safety devices, forcing unreasonable work and the inability to cover human errors must be resolved when the equipment is introduced.
 Therefore, keeping in mind the safety of equipment and achieving production capacity, a working group for the standardization of production technology was launched at DOWA Technology, and we developed an equipment procurement manual (DTMS: DOWA Technical Manufacturing Standard) which are standard rules at each stage of considering the concept of construction work, basic design, and detailed design.
 The standard rules consist of items to be considered, such as workflows, technical standards and risk assessments, and check sheets at each stage. As a standard manual from equipment planning to introduction and start-up, it has begun to be applied to some construction works from FY 2019.
 In the future, we will further expand the applicable range, boost completion accuracy in capital investment, and improve the certainty of safety and performance.

Facility procurement manual (extract version)

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While it was a difficult way from the start of considering until getting on track, since serious accidents continued, and it was urgent to review safety functions, we cooperated with engineers all over the country.
We will continue to improve it so that it will be useful as a technical standard for improving equipment safety and reducing omissions, oversights and risks. In addition, there are side effects such as the accumulation and utilization of the contents of consideration, raising awareness about risks, and activating communication between departments.
We can expect an improvement in technical skills. Going forward, the study details will be enriched and become more efficient due to the standardization of the design review (DR) method, and we will work to respond individually to differences in equipment for each business, and to improve the level of satisfaction with the manual.

SAKAI Shoichi SAKAI Shoichi, Manager, Production Technology Dept, DOWA TECHNOLOGY

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