Basic Policy for Human Capital Management

We have established the Basic Policy for Human Capital Management which consists of the following two components. Based on our company philosophy, we place this policy the top level guidelines in our efforts of human capital management.

1. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We shall develop the treatment, recruitment and environment so that employees with diverse abilities and personalities can exercise flexible thinking and action, and shall work to increase corporate value through recruitment and development of human resources.

2. Health and Productivity Management

We shall put employee health as top priority and provide safe workplace and good working environment.

Internal Training Programs

Iwaki has classes and other forms of training for compliance and many other subjects.

1. Training programs

New employees

• New employee training program, young employee group training, on-the-job training and other activities

Mid-level managers

• Training program for newly appointed managers

All employees

• Compliance training, information security training, insider trading restriction training. There are also study groups for specific products, training using external resources and other activities.

2. Career path

Iwaki gives everyone the opportunity once every year to make a request for a specific career path. Some people may want to become an engineer specializing in a particular product. Others may want to shift from sales operations in Japan to overseas sales. Iwaki offers many career paths in order to give people the opportunity to upgrade their skills and advance in accordance with the path they have chosen.

3. Support for self-learning

Iwaki encourages people to take actions on their own initiative and take on challenges of all kinds. To assist people advance through self-study, there are assistance programs (financial support) for earning professional qualifications, assistance for learning English, and other forms of assistance.

Workplace Health and Safety

Iwaki is dedicated to providing pleasant workplace environments that also incorporate measures for the safety and good health of employees.

1. Health and safety

To ensure that employees can do their jobs in a safe environment, Iwaki performs the following activities on a regular basis to identify potential risks at factories and offices and make improvements.

• Every business unit has individuals who are responsible for performing safety patrols and health patrols of workplaces.
• An external industrial physician performs industrial health check-ups.
• Business units hold safety meetings and health meetings.
• Measurements of workplace environments
• Risk assessments of chemicals in accordance with the Industrial Safety and Health Act

2. The 6S campaign

The 5S campaign is the basis for all manufacturing activities at Iwaki. These five components, which all begin with “s” in Japanese, are orderliness, neatness, cleaning, hygiene and good manners. This has been expanded to the 6S campaign by adding kindness, which means exercising care not to cause problems for subsequent production processes and providing help with kindness to people having difficulties.
※The six “s” characteristics are orderliness, neatness, cleaning, hygiene, good manners and kindness.

3. Stress checks

Stress tests conducted by an external organization are used to monitor the mental health of employees periodically.
Individuals experiencing significant stress can see a physician and there are numerous programs to improve the mental health of employees.

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