Health and Productivity Management
DKS has long engaged with its employees based on the belief that people are our most valuable asset and that we must value and respect each individual.
We believe that
maintaining and enhancing employees’ health forms the foundation for their personal fulfillment, and that by supporting this, the Company and its employees can grow together.
Recognizing that
the maintenance and promotion of employee health is an important management issue, we expressed this commitment in the following Healthy Company Declaration on September 28, 2017.
― Healthy Company Declaration ―
"Regarding its employees as Company assets,
DKS will strive to maintain and improve their health."
DKS Co.Ltd.
President & CEO YAMAJI Naoki
Our Approach to Health and Productivity Management
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Operational structure
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Operational structure
Implementation framework for health and productivity management
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Employee Healthy Action Guidelines
- Strive to maintain and enhance physical and mental health
- Promptly report any health issues to the company, consult doctors or other medical professionals, and work toward recovery
- Ensure that regular checkups, special health checkups, and other healthcare services are undertaken as required by law in a timely manner
- Effectively utilize the stress check program to prevent mental health issues and detect them at an early stage
- Promptly seek a secondary checkup if any issue is found through a health checkup
Measures for Promoting Health and Productivity Management
1. Prevention measures for lifestyle-related diseases
- Targeted health guidance
- Health guidance
- Establish external consultation channels, etc.
2. Mental health measures
- Mental health education program (line care training and self-care training)
- Stress checks
- Establish external consultation channels
- Establish internal consultation channels, etc.
3. Other common measures
- Survey on productivity impact (target all employees, 100% completion rate)
→ Absenteeism: 1.7% (0.5% decline in work efficiency YoY)
→ Presenteeism: 6.8% (5.4% decline* in work efficiency YoY)
→ Work engagement deviation score: 51 (+1 point YoY)
* Difference in figures due to revised measurement methods - Activities that help promote health and productivity management
- Provide health and productivity management expertise for Insource Co., Ltd., our business partner
- Delivered a lecture on health and productivity management at Biwako Seikei Sport College
Health and Productivity Management Goals
We have established the following three KPIs to enhance motivation to take on challenges and further improve productivity.
| Current figure (FY2024) |
Target figure (FY2029) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Reduction of absenteeism*1 | 1.7% | 1.5% or lower |
| Reduction of presenteeism*2 | 6.8% | 5.5% or lower |
| Improvement of work engagement*3 | 51.3 | 53.0 or higher |
- 1 Identify and aggregate mental and physical health reasons for leave requests submitted through the labor management system
- 2 Identify, quantify, and aggregate mental and physical conditions from daily reports submitted through the labor management system
- 3 Utilize work engagement measurements from the stress check service provided by Advantage Risk Management Co., Ltd.
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We have established the following three targets for employee health challenges and implemented various initiatives.
| Current figure (FY2024) |
Target figure (FY2029) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Population Approach Percentage of employees with a BMI of 25 kg/m² or higher |
24.0% | 20.0% or lower |
| High-risk Approach Percentage of employees 40 years or older at risk of or experiencing metabolic syndrome |
25.8% | 24.0% or lower |
| Prevention and early detection of employees with mental health issues and response to such issues Low rate of mental health-related leave |
0.66% | 0.20% or lower |
Specific Initiatives
1. Prevention measures for lifestyle-related diseases and illness
In FY2024, 13.5% increase in rate of employees 40 years or older who have exercise habits (vs. FY2016), measures to prevent aggravation: 10% of the target employees participated and 46% of them achieved the target of a 5% weight reduction from their baseline weight.
- Health checkup attendance rate: 100%
- Health guidance attendance rate: 100%
- Secondary checkup attendance rate (medical care required: 100%, detailed examination required: 100%)
- FY2024 rate of employees 40 years or older experiencing metabolic syndrome and engaged in ongoing treatment: 53.3%
- Meeting with industrial physicians based on health checkup results
- Fully subsidize flu vaccinations (partially subsidize vaccinations for families in employee households)
- E-learning training on preventing lifestyle-related diseases
→ FY2024 attendance rate: 83.2% - Formulate, implement, study, and discuss plans at meetings attended by leadership
- Feature articles on preventing lifestyle-related diseases and promoting health and productivity management in the in-house magazine
- Appoint a full-time public health nurse
- Establish internal and external health consultation channels (External channels are available for family members up to the second degree of kinship.)
- Collaborate with insurers → FY2024 targeted health guidance initial session completion rate: 89.7%
- Subsidize health guidance sessions, vaccinations, and comprehensive medical checkups for employees assigned overseas (including accompanying family members)
- Infectious disease prevention measures (provision of facemasks and disinfection kits)
- Radio calisthenics every morning
- Conduct walking events: Held twice (May and October) in FY2024; Participant satisfaction rate: 29.0% (following the May event)
- Hold events aiming to promote the health of employees and their families and encourage interaction
- Improve the work environment
- Club activities
- Hold marathon events
- Cover optional examination fees
- Healthy meals in the cafeteria
- Education on women’s diseases
→ FY2024 attendance rate: 66.1% (for managers) - Education on smoking
- Implement All-Day No-Smoking Day
- Subsidize clinic visit expenses for smoking cessation
- Subsidize purchases of nicotine patches
- Promote the trim waist project
- Encourage the use of stairs
- Conduct physical fitness testing
- Conduct DKS Calisthenics (DKS original)
- Sleep improvement seminar
- Introduce a health app
- Conduct massage trials
*VR testing by MIG, our partner in dementia prevention efforts
2. Mental health measures
Maintained a low rate of new mental health cases in FY2024
- Stress check completion rate: 100%
→ FY2024 rate of highly stressed employees: 8.9% - Establish hierarchy-specific mental health education programs (line care training and self-care training)
- E-learning training on mental health
→ FY2024 attendance rate: 81.3% - Establish external mental health consultation channels (available for family members up to the second degree of kinship)
- Consultation channel with internal industrial counselors
- Consultation channel with clinical psychologists
- Establish work reinstatement programs
- Conduct industrial physician meetings beyond legal requirements for employees working long hours
- Education on harassment and LGBT issues
- Completion rate of external trial counselling for new employees: 100%
- Completion rate of external trial counselling for new managers: 100%
* These initiatives target all employees.
External Evaluations
Previously selected for the Health and Productivity Stock Selection
for five consecutive years
Certified as a Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization
(White 500) for eight consecutive years
Certified as a Sports Yell Company for seven consecutive years
(Silver Certification)
Received the highest rating in the DBJ Health Management Rating
for seven consecutive years
Other Initiatives
Promotion partner of the Corporate Action to Promote Cancer Control
(Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
Supporter of the Japan Sports Agency's
FUN+WALK PROJECT
