Initiatives

Chiyoda issued Human Rights Policy in September, 2018 as a management commitment for the respect of human rights by integrating of our human rights concepts included in the Code of Conducts and Employer’s Practical Guide and some global initiatives. In the execution of EPC project, Chiyoda is paying attention to the human rights of stakeholders including regional communities as follows;

Children Human Rights
Chiyoda is doing its project activities all over the world, and protection of children’s human rights is common requirement in global society. In this respect, Chiyoda observing related local laws and regulations and to confirm how subcontractors and vendors observe human rights requirements as elimination of child labor, forced labor and discrimination etc., (in the inquiry registration process).

Employee Safety and Community Human Rights Considerations by Armed Security
For the enhancement of safety for the employee to be assigned in the project site, Chiyoda implements thorough local surveys before the site work is started. Depends on the results of those surveys, Chiyoda needs to deploy armed security guard under the local laws and regulations. In addition, Chiyoda only uses the service providers which not only comply with local law, regulations and international law, but also support international agreements such as “UN Global Compact” and “Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights”.

Employee Human Rights
We have always worked to prevent harassment in our operational areas both within Japan and abroad. We have established and operate under the group consultation reporting system intended to detect and prevent and remedy violations immediately.

The Chiyoda Group have been proactively continuing every effort to create a corporate culture and working environment where the diversity, individuality and characters of employees are respected and employees are motivated to vividly work irrespective of sex, nationality age, religion, etc. This is based on our belief that a variety of perspectives gained through promoting the diversity will increase the organization’s strength of being flexible and coping with various situations.

As a part of those promotion of diversity, to ensure further optimization of the Group’s activity, the Group established practical plan named “activity plan to promote of women advancement” following set up the law of promotion of women advancement.
We have set the act and goals for 3 years from 2021 Apr. to 2024 Mar.
Activities Here 2021-2024 Act for women empowerment English.pdf
We will create circumstances for women employees who will be the next generation in various occupational environments due to changes in times and changes in society We will promote internal reform to maximize the ability of people.
We will widen the door to women widely, and we will build an environment where women employees working there will continue to work long regardless of various environmental changes.

Chiyoda Group highly respects the diversity and individuality of employees and their personalities. In April 2022, we established the Health Management and Diversity Promotion Office within the Human Resources Department. The task team that has been continuously working to raise awareness of women's human resource development and advancement has been active since 2014. Now the office has been officially established as a corporate organization.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　With regard to diversity, our main activity will be the empowerment of women at first. But we will make efforts to create a supportive environment, provide assistance and change the employees’ mentality to help them make the most of their potential in the workplace regardless of gender, nationality, age, or religion. We would like to build the culture to realize Diversity & Inclusion so that the company is not afraid of change and creates innovation by combining different perspectives and ideas.

As a part of its proactive initiative to improve the health of employees, Chiyoda Corporation formulated a Declaration of Health and Productivity Management in April 2020, with the Chairman of the Board and CEO serving as Chief Wellness Officer (CWO).

Chiyoda has established the Health and Productivity Management Promotion Committee, with a Human Resources officer as Chairman who is responsible to the CWO to evaluate, verify, and approve health management measures. The Human Resources Department and the Health Management Center also cooperate with health insurance associations, labor unions, and the HSE* Management Committee to formulate and execute health management measures.
* Health, Safety, Environment

We implement the following health management measures to maintain and promote employee health.

1. Thorough health checkups and subsequent measures

　・100% health checkup consultation rate 　
　・Improve the rate of cancer screening consultations subsidized by company 　
　・Thorough recommendation of consultation to employees subject to specific health guidance 　
　・Thorough recommendation of consultation to employees subject to follow-up measures based on medical checkup results 　
　・Conduct health guidance for middle-risk employees with lifestyle-related diseases

2. Mental health measures

　・Stress check consultation rate 90% or more
　・Setting of stress interview options for high-stress employees (Occupational physician or external counselor) 　
　・Improvement of work environment by group analysis results of stress check 　
　・Checking the degree of fatigue accumulation for employees who worked long hours 　
　・Establishment of a free telephone consultation service outside the company

3. Measures to reduce presentism 　

　・Conduct of sleep improvement seminars 　
　・Conduct of eating habit improvement seminar 　
　・Reduce employees who skip breakfast 　
　・Introduce smart meal lunch 　
　・Massage and acupuncture treatments by a company-resident health keeper 　
　・Provide various health information on a website for employees

4. Women's health measures 　

　・Conduct specific medical examinations incorporating gynecological cancer screening (Breast cancer, cervical cancer) 　
　・Provide menstrual leave and morning sickness leave as special leave

5. Smoking measures 　

　・Reduce the smoking rate of employees (15% or less) 　
　・Implement a smoking cessation support program (half of the cost will be paid by the company) 　
　・Implement nicotine replacement measures to achieve smoking cessation during working hours

6. Health promotion measures 　

　・Provide exercise opportunities for all employees (softball tournament, bowling tournament) 　
　・Subsidize activity costs for in-house sports clubs (19 clubs in total) 　
　・Provide employees with discount tickets that can be used at external sports clubs, etc.

We would like to proudly announce that On March 8, 2023, Chiyoda Corporation has been highlighted as a selected organization under the large enterprise category of the 2023 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program designed and selected jointly by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and “Nippon Kenko Kaigi”. This is the third time in consecutive years that the certification has been awarded.

The Program, initiated by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), is designed to honor the outstanding enterprises engaging in efforts to advance health and productivity management while coping with the health issues in the communities in line with the health advancement programs promoted by Nippon Kenko Kaigi. By bringing into view the enterprises thus highlighted, the program provides the environment for the selected organizations to be regarded as “the enterprise engaging in advancement of employees’ health and through management perspective in strategical way” by its employees and jobseekers, as well as by the related organizations and by the financial institutions.

We continue our efforts in vitalizing our workplace through advancement of employees’ health, which will lead our business to contributing a lot to our society.