DIC Wins JCIA Responsible Care Jury’s Special Award —Role of Safe Corporate Climate Cultivation Working Group activities in reducing occupational accidents commended—

Established within the domestic DIC Group in 2011 to bolster awareness of safety, the Safe Corporate Climate Cultivation Working Group comprises personnel in charge of safety at DIC Group companies in Japan. The working group proposes safety policies and measures and makes recommendations to the department in charge of safety within the parent company. In 2012, the working group solicited design ideas from Group employees for warning stickers illustrating 10 selected workplace hazards, while in 2013 it prepared safety posters featuring DIC’s president and CEO. Both stickers and posters were distributed to Group companies worldwide to provide visual reminders and, through the participation of the president, to encourage awareness of the importance of “safety first.” The Safe Corporate Climate Cultivation Working Group also initiated the reading out of key passages from Principles of Safe Conduct, which outlines the DIC Group’s basic safety rules, at workplaces. With the aim of making Principles of Safe Conduct easier to read and transforming the practice into a routine practice by encouraging the reading one section of the document each day, in 2015 working group edited the booklet into a block calendar. Thanks to these and other measures, the annual number of occupational accidents at domestic DIC Group sites declined from 60 in 2010 to 19in 2015.
Looking ahead, the DIC Group will continue working as one to promote Responsible Care initiatives in line with its stated objective of achieving “zero accidents.”

* Activities undertaken by the chemical industry by which manufacturers and handlers of chemical substances, under the principle of self-determination and individual responsibility, conduct self-management of environmental and safety issues surrounding aspects of chemical substances, from development through disposal

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