Present Activities

  Anritsu Corporation and its employees work together on the Safety and Health Committee to raise safety and health standards by establishing a control system based on the law. Anritsu Group Companies in Japan also take part in this Committee.

  Based on the annual action plan, health and safety managers and commissioners from Anritsu Group in Japan perform periodic patrols to find and eliminate potential causes of accidents, thereby minimizing potential incidents. In addition, we undertook training in risk management for line managers and personnel in charge, practical training for risk prediction, and education by outside lecturers. Moreover, Anritsu conducts an emergency drill focusing on disaster prevention, refuge training, security confirmation, emergency treatment and lifesaving.
  Anritsu Corporation is represented in a local government-assigned Safety and Health Group of industrial enterprises that raises consciousness about safety and health issues. In this capacity, The Company conducted lectures and voluntary patrols aimed at preventing labor mishaps at Group member company worksites.
  Overall, we are reinforcing PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Action) cycles as we continue surveying and studying safety and health conditions with an eye toward improving the systems that deal with them directly.

Status of Labor Accidents

  Although Anritsu Group in Japan has a "zero accident" policy, reflecting a meticulous approach to everyday safety and hygiene, during fiscal 2005 Anritsu Corporation was involved in one traffic accident, in which an employee was injured and had to leave his job temporarily for medical treatment.

Occurrence of Labor Accidents

No. of accidents (per one million working hours)

The frequency rate in all industries, manufacturing, and electrical machinery equipment manufacturing accounts for more than four days off the job.
The frequency rate in Anritsu Corporation accounts for over one day off the job.

Health Management

  Mental and physical health is essential in working environments that engage each employee to the fullest potential.
  Employees in Anritsu Group in Japan thus receive health guidance from nurses under company doctors' supervision. The percentage of physical problems found by a periodical health examination is 54%, which is higher than the nationwide average value. Most of these problems result from lifestyle diseases. In the consecutive years of 2004 and 2005, we conducted a food/lifestyle improvement campaign for healthier everyday living.
  To help maintain employees' mental health, Anritsu Group Companies in Japan are formulating four mental healthcare systems in compliance with "Guidelines for ensuring the mental health of labor at jobsites" by the Japanese Ministry of Labor and Welfare.

Health Management for Extended Overtime Work

  Even prior to the February 2002 release of "Comprehensive measures for the prevention of health troubles due to overwork" by the Japanese Ministry of Labor and Welfare, Anritsu Group in Japan provided special health checkups for employees following long periods of overtime work. Previously, the checklist was a paper document, distributed and collected manually in a process consuming much time, which was a major reason why relatively few of the health examination checklists were received. To improve this situation, we started in November 2005 a Web Health Checklist distributed using the Intranet for employees to see doctors quickly and frequently.

Measures for Extended Overtime Work

  Anritsu Group Companies in Japan periodically encourage managers to help reduce employees' overtime work, balance workloads better and ensure that employees take paid holidays away from work. We take measures for management and labor unions to share information on workloads in order to balance the loads better, as well as promote joint campaigns to reduce overtime work. Also, on a particular day each week, there is no overtime work carried out and all employees leave at their regular time.