Health Statement and Health Management Policy

The company has enacted a Health Statement and Health Management Policy to ensure that our employees and their families are able to maintain and improve their health. We believe that considering health management from a management perspective and carrying it out strategically will lead to improved employee energy, improved productivity, and revitalization of the organization.

MatsukiyoCocokara & Co. Health Statement

Based on the Group Philosophy, MatsukiyoCocokara & Co. Group serves customers' health needs, and provides support for health enhancement. For this reason, it is essential that employees themselves be in good health in order to provide stores that are as customer-friendly as possible.
Our Group therefore considers the physical and mental health of its employees, who support the company's growth, and their families, as an important business resource. We provide active support for the maintenance and enhancement of employees' health, and promote good health on an organizational level. In this way, we seek to have each employee live daily life with vigor, in the best possible health, while we contribute as a company to the development of local healthcare and economies.

Kiyoo Matsumoto, President and Representative Director

We have set “Employee Growth” as one of the company’s five items of materiality (key issues), and are moving ahead with various initiatives that aim at creating an environment in which our employees can continue to work with vitality while maintaining levels of motivation that facilitate their work. Considering our employees’ health management from a management perspective, Our strategically implemented health management initiative, considering our employees’ health management from a management perspective, has been recognized in the form of certification as a Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program (Large Enterprises) since 2020.

Health Management Policy

(Aim)
The company establishes a policy for health management on the basis of the MatsukiyoCocokara & Co. Health Statement, with the aim of maintaining and enhancing the physical and mental health of its employees and their families, and providing a pleasant work environment conductive to good health.


(Organizational Measures)

  1. The company establishes a Health Management Promotion Task Team, headed by the President, for the purpose of promoting and implementing health management.
  2. The Health Management Promotion Task Team shall set an annual or medium-term implementation plan for health management, and pursue its implementation in cooperation with the Hygiene Committee and other such bodies.
  3. The Health Management Promotion Task Team shall regularly report to the Management Council on the state of health management implementation.

(Initiatives)
The company supports health promotion in order for each employee and member of each employee's family to take measures to maintain and enhance their own physical and mental health.
Taking legal compliance as its basis, the company systematically and comprehensively undertakes the following health management using the following framework, from the perspective of preventive medical care.

  1. First-line prevention: Promotion of measures conducive to the improvement of the workplace environment, such as more proactive workplace communications.
  2. Second-line prevention: Promotion of measures conducive to disease prevention, such as health education through training, and immunization programs.
  3. Third-line prevention: Promotion of measures conducive to early discovery of and early measures against disease, such as thoroughgoing implementation of medical check-ups, and health maintenance guidance following medical check-ups.
  4. Fourth-line prevention: Promotion of measures conducive to prevention of disease recurrence and of increase in disease severity, such as the introduction of regulations and structures to deal with time off work and a system governing return to work, among others.