The Visit Japan for Training Program conducts safety lectures, risk experience-based training and equipment maintenance education for a week at the Safety Training Center and Technical Training Center located in Iwata, Shizuoka.
Specifically, the "DOWA Group's Safety and Health Policy" assesses if “Safe” firstly with practical training by special lecturers for safety education, 5S, voluntary conservation, planning and maintenance by means of lectures on the kind of state/action, accident disaster occurrence, risk assessment, work procedure, etc. and risk-based experiences such as trapped experience, electric shock experience, high altitude fall using dolls, etc. This is not just a program that the trainee who comes to Japan learns but it is also a program to become a "Mission Evangelist" at overseas companies after returning home. In FY 2015, a total of 36 local staff members from Thailand, China and Indonesia came to Japan five times, and those who were recognized as passed returned home as safety evangelists with a completion certificate.
The special lecturers who taught in Japan visited the site and checked whether there was reporting of information such as the safety deployment, 5S activities and voluntary equipment of maintenance after return from training in Japan and a follow-up meeting was held with the top affiliated companies. We were able to check the effects such as "Originally we had implemented safety patrols monthly, but we were able to build a system that boosts driving force for 5S and can also implement 5S patrol every month", "The awareness of operators about the early abnormalities has increased rather than calling maintenance forces after they failed."
In addition to visiting Japan for training, we are also emphasizing on "local safety education" where domestic staff go to the site to train. In FY2015 we focused on educating "How to use correct tools" in Thailand. Due to the achievements of the activities of visiting Japan for training and local safety education, the number of disasters occurring overseas has steadily declined. Going forward, we will regularly hold local safety conventions etc. and the DOWA group will promote safety as a whole.
