Preventing occupational injuries
Based on the principle that ensuring the safety of employees is the first priority in all business operations, these rules are guiding our proactive efforts to ensure safety and prevent occupational injuries, promote health maintenance and form comfortable workplace environments. The Chugai Group is engaged in safety and health management activities to ensure that not only its own employees, but those of our partner companies. At factories and research laboratories, we include in the scope of our safety initiatives the employees of contractors who work in shared spaces alongside our staff, ensuring that everyone can work safely and in good health.
There were 27 occupational injuries in 2024. There were two accidents resulting in lost worktime. Additionally, there were no occupational illnesses or fatal accidents.
Occupational Injuries
Change in Lost-worktime injury frequency rate
Change in Occupational incidence severity
- *1 Frequency Rate and Severity Rate for All Industries and the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Industry
Source: 2023 Survey on Industrial Accident Trends (Overview of the Survey of Establishments with 100 or More Employees and the Survey of the General Construction Industry), Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
| Number of accidents | Frequency rate*2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Lost-worktime | 1 | 0.07 |
| No lost-worktime | 15 | 1.02 |
| Total | 16 | 1.09 |
| Total lost-workdays | Severity rate*3 |
|---|---|
| 7 | 0.000 |
- *2 Number of people injured or killed in occupational accidents per 1 million work hours (excluding accidents during commuting), showing the frequency of occurrence
Injury frequency rate = number of people injured or killed in occupational accidents / total number of actual working hours x 1,000,000 - *3 Number of days of work lost to occupational accidents (excluding accidents during commuting) per 1,000 work hours, showing the severity of the accident
Occupational incidence severity = number of workdays lost / total number of actual working hours x 1,000 - *4 When the number of actually worked hours of temporary workers is unknown, it is estimated by multiplying the number of such workers as of December 1 of the relevant year x 7.75 hours/day x working days.
Number of Fatal Accidents
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employees | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Contractors | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |