Promote Health and Productivity Management

NTN Group recognizes that the health of its employees and their families is the base on which the Group will grow sustainably. Based on our Safety and Health Basic Policy, as part of our strategic investment for health stance, we have promulgated a Health Declaration and are promoting various measures to promote workplace health, mental health and physical health.
We have also made a Non Smoking Declaration and are working to promote actions to reduce the health risks of smoking, including passive smoking.

■Health declaration

■Non smoking declaration

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Our Company has been recognized as a ”Certified Health and Productivity Management Outstanding Organization 2025 Large Enterprise Category (White 500)” jointly selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Japan Health Conference. This marks our fifth consecutive year of recognition.
The ”Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program” is a system that recognizes companies that practice particularly excellent health and productivity management. This year, 3,400 organizations received recognition, with the top 500 organizations, including our company, obtaining ”White 500” certification.

NTN has maintained the philosophy of safety and health since our founding, and been engaged in health management actively for a long time under our Safety and Health Basic Policy.
More specifically, with regard to physical health, we have provided, together with the NTN health insurance society, physical fitness measurement, exercise guidance, health education, etc. for all employees since 1985. As measures for mental health, we have conducted interviews for all employees using industrial counselors since 2002 and added brief items to check work-related stress to our living condition survey (health check sheet) in 2003. This proves our active involvement in self-care-focused initiatives from early on, according to the mental health guidelines. Against passive smoking, we have taken measures since 2004.
As measures to balance work and life, we have aimed to improve the rate of paid leave taking since the 1980s, in collaboration also with the labor union, and the average rate is maintained over 80% at present.
These health management initiatives have been published widely in an article on “advancing health and productivity management” by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun on March 30, 2022 and a supplier interview by Doctor Trust Co., Ltd.

Survey for business partners

As we strive to realize a sustainable ”NAMERAKA Society” and as a leading company promoting health and productivity management, we are working to expand the promotion and implementation of health and productivity management not only for our company but also for our business partners.
As part of this effort, we conduct surveys to investigate the status of health and productivity management initiatives among our business partners.
Among the 178 business partners who responded to the 2024 survey, 59.5% of business partners answered that they ”know the content” of health and productivity management, while 31.5% said they ”don’t know the content but have heard of it” and 9.0% said they ”have never heard of it,” indicating that awareness is not very high. We will continue to implement promotion and awareness activities regarding methods and effects of health and productivity management initiatives.

■Awareness of ”health management”

Joint implementation of health and productivity management seminars

We hold joint seminars aimed at further promoting health and productivity management among our business partners.
In the manufacturing industry, including our company, occupational accidents due to falls are on the rise owing to the aging of employees and lack of exercise. Therefore, in fiscal year 2025, we invited RIZAP as an instructor and held a “Muscle Strength Decline Prevention Seminar.”

■Muscle strength decline prevention seminar session

Opinion exchange sessions with business partners

Like our company, many of our business partners are manufacturing companies, and many business partners are located in the Kansai region. We hold opinion exchange sessions among health and productivity management personnel to introduce challenges and concerns in promoting health and productivity management, as well as our company’s health and productivity management initiatives to our business partners. In fiscal year 2025, we conducted an opinion exchange session with Kotani Corporation, which was recognized as a ”Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization 2025 Small and Medium Enterprise Category (Bright 1000).”

■Opinion exchange session

Preventing passive smoking

NTN no tabacco day, Non-smoking call-out activities

NTN Group has been working to prevent passive smoking more proactively than in the past. In 2004, we began to ban smoking during working hours at headquarters and sales offices, and in 2020 we abolished indoor smoking areas, Since 2022, in conjunction with World No Tobacco Day on May 31 and National Occupational Health Week in October, a Non-smoking call-out activities has been conducted at our business sites nationwide, with “Non Smoking Express” leaflets distributed containing information on smoking risks.
Also beginning in FY2022 was NTN No tabacco day. This heralds measures to protect employees from the health risks of smoking, with actions to discourage smoking all day, including outside of commuting and working hours, such as awareness-raising notifications to staff computers and placement of no-smoking posters in smoking areas.

■Non-smoking express, an awareness-raising no tabacco day poster

Smoking cessation approach to smokers

Non smoking challenge system, online smoking cessation program, non smoking supporter system

NTN Group has various initiatives in place to quit smoking. We have introduced the Non smoking challenge system (2008), a smoking cessation support system in which the company partially subsidizes the cost of smoking cessation aids, and the “Online Smoking Cessation Program” (2021), which gives employees to the opportunity to consult with specialist staff by email or chat.
In addition, we have introduced a “non smoking supporter system” in which non-smoking employees support those trying to give up smoking, creating an environment in which smokers and non-smokers can work together toward quitting the habit.

■NTN smoking rates

Quit smoking campaigns through life events such as weddings and childbirth

Since the health damage caused by smoking extends not only to smokers but also to their families in the form of passive smoking, the Group conducts educational outreach to employees - all such employees, regardless of whether smokers or non-smokers - who have just married or given birth about the health hazards of smoking.
In addition, employees and dependent spouses who have just married or given birth can participate in the online smoking cessation program at no cost, and we provide support to quit smoking to employees and their families.

■Guide distributed to employees

Strengthen return-to-work support

We have been working on prevention and early response to mental health problems, and since 2000, we have been implementing workplace return support for employees who have taken leave due to mental health issues. In 2021, we established regulations for the ”Manual for Supporting the Return to Work for Personal Injury and Sickness Leave” and have been informing employees about it.

■A reinstatement meeting

Enhanced pastoral care^＊

We converted line care training for section and department managers from conventional face-to-face training to online training. In addition, we have made this line care training available for all managers, including those in domestic affiliated companies, and shared our policies on health management and mental health throughout the company.

＊Training for line managers to learn about mental health to prevent mental disorders of their subordinates.

■Scene of line care training

Physical and mental health management in remote work

Our company began the remote work system in 2019. Remote work expanded rapidly due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but as it was predicted to cause many health problems, our company has been conducting annual surveys on health conditions in remote work since 2020.
In the 2024 survey, the positive effects of remote work were ranked as follows: 1st: Reduced commuting burden, 2nd: Increased personal time and time with family, 3rd: Ability to work at one’s own pace. On the other hand, physical and mental health issues caused by remote work were ranked as: 1st: Stiff shoulders, 2nd: Eye strain, 3rd: Back pain, 4th: Weight gain. About half of respondents are aware of health issues, and we are promoting initiatives to reduce presenteeism.

■Positive effects of remote work (multiple responses)

■Physical and mental health issues during remote work (Multiple responses)

■Awareness flyers distributed to employees

Promote ”Minnade arukatsu (Everyone’s Walking Activity)”

Our company encourages participation in the individual and team walking event ”Minnade arukatsu (Everyone’s Walking Activity)” hosted by the health app ”kencom” introduced by the NTN Health Insurance Association, and many employees participate.
Walking can be expected to have various effects not only in preventing metabolic syndrome and lifestyle-related diseases but also relaxation effects. Most participating employees walk an average of more than 8,000 steps daily, leading to improved walking habits among employees.

■Trends in Participation Numbers for ” Minnade arukatsu (Everyone’s Walking Activity)”

Certified as Sports Yell Company Bronze

Certification logo

Our company has been recognized as ”Sports Yell Company 2025” by the Japan Sports Agency as a company that actively engages in sports activities to promote employee health. This marks our sixth consecutive year of recognition, and we have earned the Bronze title given to companies with 5-6 consecutive years of recognition.
At our company, we position health-related measures as important management elements that affect the company’s sustainable growth, and we work to improve employee health and vitality through eliminating lack of exercise and sports activities, while also working to improve productivity.

Women’s health e-learning

As part of promoting health and productivity management, our company implements e-learning on the theme of working women’s health with the aim of creating workplaces where everyone can work healthily and energetically, and improving employees’ health literacy.
In fiscal year 2024, we focused on ”women’s menopause,” which is one of the health issues that greatly affects work performance. Since understanding women’s health issues is essential for women to work energetically in the workplace, we target all employees regardless of gender.

■E-learning content (excerpts)

Online AED seminar

Since 2008, we have been carrying out training to protect the lives and safety of our employees. In these sessions, many employees, including many from our affiliates around Japan, learn about responding to emergencies in the workplace, including knowledge of first aid and how to use AEDs. Looking ahead, we will continue to hold these sessions on a regular basis, including National Occupational Health Week in October.

■Scene of AED seminar

E-learning for dietary improvement and exercise habit enhancement

The rate of abnormal findings in our company’s regular health examinations has been on a long-term upward trend. To reduce health risks and improve health literacy, we held e-learning sessions for all employees on the theme of dietary improvement and exercise habit enhancement.

■Trends in prevalence rates

■E-learning content (excerpts)