Ensuring that employees maintain good health and work with vitality is essential for a company to achieve healthy organizational operations and sustainable growth. The Daio Paper Group announced the Daio Group Declaration of Health in 2014. The company endeavors to contribute to the development of lifestyles, culture, and industry and continue to be a Group trusted by society, underpinned by the well-being of its employees and their families.

Daio Group Declaration of Health

To Be a Company Where Employees Work Healthily and with Vitality

Based on its corporate motto, “Passion with Sincerity,” which has been passed down within the company since its establishment, the Daio Paper Group aims to continuously evolve and develop as a vibrant and healthy corporate group. To this end, it is essential that not only directors and employees, but also their families, are physically and mentally healthy and participate actively in our corporate activities. Health is an asset. With the participation of all employees, we strive to promote work-life balance, improve employee lifestyle habits, enhance mental health care, and ensure early disease diagnosis and treatment in order to maintain and improve the good health of all employees. Through this, we strive to ensure both the health of our employees and the company. By ensuring that all directors, employees and their families are in good health, the Daio Paper Group strives to contribute to the development of society, culture and industry and to be a corporate group trusted by society.

August 2021　Yorifusa Wakabayashi, President, Representative Director and CEO

Health Management Promotion Structure

In July 2024, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Executive Vice President and Representative Director, has been appointed Chief Health Officer (CHO) effective. We also launched the Health Management Committee chaired by the CHO as an organization promoting health management by collaboration between the company, health insurance union, and labor union to discuss health issues at Daio Paper Corporation, measures, and their effects and promote activities.

Hiroshi Yamasaki, CHO (Chief Health Officer), Executive Vice President and Representative Director

Evaluation

■ Certified Health and Productivity Management Organization / Health & Productivity Stock Selection

Our company has been certified for nine consecutive years as a Certified Health and Productivity Management Organization (Large Enterprise Category) under the program jointly administered by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi, including selection among the “White 500.” In addition, we have been selected three times—in 2019, 2022, and 2024—as a Health & Productivity Stock Selection company, an honor recognizing listed companies that strategically promote employee health from a managerial perspective and demonstrate outstanding performance in this area.

■ Sports Yell Company

We have been certified for two consecutive years as a Sports Yell Company, a designation granted by the Japan Sports Agency to companies that actively promote sports activities to improve employee health. At our company, we support sports club activities, organize walking events, and promote various initiatives aimed at fostering regular exercise habits among employees.

Main Initiatives

１）Promotion of work-life balance

Support for balancing medical treatment and work

We have introduced various systems—such as a health consultation desk, long-term disability coverage, and rules on handling health information—to ensure employees can continue working even while undergoing medical treatment.
In 2022, we submitted declarations on “Balancing Treatment and Work” to labor bureaus in Ehime and Tokyo.

＞ Ehime Declaration on Supporting the Balance of Medical Treatment and Work

＞ Tokyo Basic Policy by Top Management on Supporting the Balance of Medical Treatment and Work

Flexible Workstyles

To enhance productivity, we promote workstyle reforms including flextime, telework, hourly paid leave, and short-hour work systems.
The Tokyo Head Office has adopted ABW (Activity-Based Working) to facilitate communication and efficiency.

Training on women’s health issues and career development

We provide training for managers on menstrual health issues and fertility treatments, and seminars for all employees (including men) on menstruation, fertility basics, and menopause.
We also host hands-on “menstrual pain experience” events and participate in external symposiums to build a psychologically safe workplace.

＞ Seminar on “Career Support, Fertility Treatment, and Health Care for Both Men and Women,” held in collaboration with Famione

＞ Events on Menstrual Health (Menstrual Pain Experience Session and Symposium)

2) Improving Lifestyle Habits

Corporate Contract with Major Fitness Clubs

To encourage employees to pick up the habit of exercising, Daio Paper not only provides an employee welfare facility in Shikokuchuo City (Ehime Prefecture), Elleair Sports Club, it has also partnered with major fitness clubs with facilities nationwide to enable its employees and their families to use fitness facilities at a discounted rate. We also invite fitness club instructors to hold body composition measurement sessions and seminars on exercising at our offices to provide our employees with the opportunity to think about their own fitness needs.
In addition, we distribute “Easy Exercise/Stretching” videos for Group employees to promote the habit of exercising in their spare time.

＞ Elleair Sports Club

＞ Certification as a Sports Yell Company

Promoting Smoking Cessation

The Daio Paper Health Insurance Association subsidizes outpatient expenses for smoking cessation programs to help employees quit smoking. In FY2019, we ran a smoking cessation program that challenged directors, corporate auditors, and executive officers to quit smoking and all the officers succeeded in doing so. We have formed an “anti-smoking support group” within the company to encourage employees to voluntarily quit smoking, and we are expanding and supporting the challenge of smoking cessation through “online smoking cessation counseling” provided by the health insurance association.

Nutritional improvement initiatives

We have begun providing salads free of charge at the Kani Mill dorm for single employees in order to help improve eating habits and encourage employees to eat more vegetables. We also sell natto, eggs, and tofu, which are sources of protein, and vegetable side dishes for 50 yen.

3) Enhancing Mental Health Care

Mental Health Awareness Training

In order to improve basic knowledge and management skills regarding mental health for managers, we invite outside industrial counselors to conduct annual line-care (employee mental health support by supervisors) seminars that incorporate case studies and exercises.

Mental and Physical Health Consultation Desk and Online Counseling “Hotto Room” Established

As part of efforts to support mental health of our employees and their families, we established an external consultation desk with specialists to allow casual consultation. Through the monthly online counseling session “Hotto Room,” we strive to provide sufficient mental health care to our employees. We also set up an in-house consultation desk with occupational health staff to provide individual follow-up in cooperation with the supervisor, personnel department, and industrial physicians.

Deployment of industrial psychiatrists

Along with industrial physicians specializing in internal medicine, industrial psychiatrists are made available for support on mental health issues. In particular, we receive the opinions of specialists in industrial psychiatry when judgments are made on returning to work from mental health issues and on the support program after returning and strive to prevent recurrence.

4) Early disease diagnosis and treatment

Support from medical professionals

The Daio Paper Health Insurance Association at Mishima Mill has an onsite medical clinic. Other larger business sites (Kani Mill, Tokyo Headquarters) have health management offices staffed with full-time public health nurses affiliated with the association. Medical professionals at each business site, including industrial physicians, public health nurses, and nutritionists provide care for sudden illnesses at work as well as offer health-related instruction and consultations to help employees stay in good health.

Encouraging follow-up exams

We require 100% of employees to receive regular health exams and special medical exams and also strongly encourage employees to receive follow-up exams if they are indicated as necessary by the initial exams. The Daio Paper Health Insurance Association subsidizes the fee of follow-up exams and this helps in the early detection and treatment of disease.

Concrete Numerical Targets for Health and Productivity Management