Safety is the most important foundation of the manufacturing industry. Kureha conducts workplace inspections and internal audits under the supervision of the Health Committee and Safety and Health Committee as required by laws and regulations, as well as the departments in charge of each business site, and is seeking to expand safety activities (the 5S system, point and call, hazard prediction, risk assessment, etc.) with the aim of eliminating all personal injury accidents. We are also committed to educating the people who support these activities. In addition, we share information on occupational safety and health with other Group companies through the Kureha Group RC Council.

Kureha and all Group companies prioritize the safety and health of all our workers and are actively promoting the introduction of an occupational safety and health management system in line with our business activities with the goal of zero occupational accidents.

The Kureha Group aims to eliminate personal injuries and equipment-related accidents at all of its business sites, under the motto "Safety as a first priority." To achieve this goal, all employees are instilled with the importance of strictly avoiding accidents, going home safely, thoroughly following set rules, never taking shortcuts and never breaking promises. To ensure continued safety, in addition to renewing facilities and equipment, Group companies are collaborating to implement safety promotion activities and establish a centralized management system for emergency communication in the event of an accident. Through these efforts, we will continue to strengthen the safety system of the entire Group.

In accordance with the Industrial Safety and Health Act, Kureha has established a Health Committee at our head office and a Safety and Health Committee at each business site, where labor and management work together to promote initiatives that meet the needs of each business site. The minutes of the monthly committee meetings are posted on our internal online information system in order to share the details of reports on health management, infection control, improvement of the work environment, and accident prevention with our employees. In addition, information on accident cases is shared in detail via e-mail and our online information system as soon as possible, as well as on a database, and efforts are made to ensure that all employees are fully aware of the situation in order to prevent recurrence.

In conjunction with Japan's National Safety Week, which is observed in July every year, executives at the Iwaki Factory conduct safety patrols and conventions to check the status of safety measures and raise safety awareness.
In July 2022, the General Manager of the Manufacturing & Technology Division and General Manager of the Iwaki Factory, Manufacturing & Technology Division conducted safety patrols together with factory executives to check the safety measures of each department and held a safety convention to commend departments that achieved zero personal injury and equipment-related accidents. In addition, a lecturer from outside Kureha was invited to give a speech titled Aim to Create a Safety-First Workplace: Practical Actions to Prevent Accidents and Missteps. The speech was livestreamed to the Ibaraki and Hyogo sites of our Plastics Processing Factory.
A lecturer from outside Kureha conducted training on why-why analysis in January 2023 at the Iwaki Factory, and again in February at the Plastics Processing Factory with the aim of maintaining and improving root cause analysis capabilities (target participants: managers and on-site supervisors at the Iwaki Factory and managers at the Plastics Processing Factory). This training consisted of two parts aiming to further improve their analytical skills. The first part was a structured introduction to the basics of why-why analysis, and in the second part participants put what they learned into practice by doing why-why analysis on past accidents to logically find their root causes.
For Japan's National Occupational Health Week, which is observed every October, each factory conducts activities and lectures on sanitation and health. In October 2022, the Iwaki Factory invited a lecturer from outside Kureha to give a special speech on safety and health titled Healthy Longevity Starts with Your Mouth—Preventing Lifestyle-related Diseases and Dementia through Oral Care. In October 2022, the Ibaraki and Hyogo sites of the Plastics Processing Factory conducted special lectures on occupational health titled Prevention of Stress-Related Diseases via recorded stream.

Due to the revisions of the Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health in 2022 and other revisions, information communication through SDS (Safety Data Sheet)¹ and labeling of chemical substances, risk assessments, and measures to prevent exposure to workers will be shifted to autonomous management starting in fiscal 2023. In addition, work records will be a requirement as the number of substances considered carcinogenic has increased significantly.
In order to respond to these revisions, education on their content was conducted within the Kureha Group. The Kureha Group will continue to implement various initiatives in all departments that handle chemical substances. In addition to BIGDr.Worker², which we have been using as a risk assessment tool, we have adopted CREATE-SIMPLE³ to enhance risk assessment in terms of both hazard and toxicity. For operations identified as high-risk, risk reduction measures are taken under the leadership of both the Chemical Substance Manager and the Protective Equipment Manager.
In fiscal 2022, there were no cases of ailments or ill health caused by hazardous chemicals.

Revisions to the Industrial Safety and Health Act have made it mandatory to use fall arrest equipment that meet performance requirements when working at heights, and special training is also required for workers who use full-harness fall arrest equipment (4.5 classroom hours and 1.5 practice hours by law). The Skills Training Center is equipped with training tools and related equipment and has been conducting special training courses since October 2019. By the end of March 2023, a total of approximately 640 employees have undertaken special training here.

Kureha is working to eradicate all logistics accidents that occur during transportation of our products.
As for products shipped from the Iwaki Factory, Kureha Unyu Co., Ltd., which handles the shipments, collaborates with related in-house departments to prevent accidents. With continuous safety training of Kureha Unyu crew members, strengthening undercarriage inspections, and various other measures, we are working to prevent leaks and other such things that could lead to serious accidents, and also working to reduce delivery errors and all other logistics accidents.
For household wrapping products, such as NEW Krewrap, shipped from our Plastics Processing Factory, we will continue to implement various countermeasures against logistics accidents, such as thorough education of and guidance to our transportation partners and reflecting the results of accident factor analysis in our education plans.

We will position the White Logistics Movement as part of our CSR activities and work together with Group companies to achieve the initiatives expressed in our Declaration. By promoting these initiatives, we also respond to the regulation by law to limit the annual overtime hours of drivers to 960 hours starting in April 2024 (the "2024 problem").