[Priority Issue 1] Raise Compliance Awareness and Ensure Risk Management

The Fujifilm Group interprets compliance as “more than simply not breaking the law and acting correctly in the light of common sense and ethics.” We believe that we achieve compliance by responding flexibly with a keen sensibility to the needs of society. A lack of awareness of compliance often leads to increased risk. Consequently, compliance and risk represent two sides of the same coin. A dedicated department in each operating company of the Fujifilm Group manages risks in a comprehensive and integrated manner, recognizing that promoting compliance and managing the risks associated with business operations is a single continuum. We steadfastly advance compliance and risk-management activities across the Group, with our two operating companies, Fujifilm and Fuji Xerox, overseeing their respective affiliates in Japan and overseas.

The Fujifilm Group ensures compliance with laws and regulations, including those related to respect for basic human rights, which is the most fundamental compliance item, as well as for occupational health, the basis for all business activities.

• Fujifilm Group Code of Conduct
• Compliance and Risk Management

FUJIFILM Holdings was ｒecognized under the 2017 Certified Health and Productivity Management Organization Recognition Program (Large Enterprise Category)—White 500, jointly hosted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Nippon Kenko Kaigi (Japan Health Council) (*). The program aims to highlight outstanding enterprises engaged in health and productivity management through efforts toward resolving local health-related issues or incorporating the health promotion schemes recommended by Nippon Kenko Kaigi into their corporate activities. In the first year of this recognition program, 235 companies were listed in the Large Enterprise category (White 500) and 95 in the Small-to-Medium Enterprise category.

The Fujifilm Group believes it is important to provide an environment in which each employee can work in good health—both physically and mentally—and this is the reason that our employee health management approach is founded upon the two pillars of “work style reform” and “promotion of health.” In 2013, we established the group-wide health promotion council, composed of the Group companies’ HR divisions, industrial doctors, and the Fujifilm Group health insurance association. In 2015, we also introduced the Health Data Bank system that manages the results of the regular health checks and stress checks for each employee in a comprehensive manner. In FY2017, this system is being expanded to cover almost all employees of both the Fujifilm and Fuji Xerox Group companies within Japan.

• Outline of Activities in FY2016: Occupational Health and Safety / Promotion of Health

These efforts resulted in minimizing the medical cost increase within the Group, and a reduction in the total working hours. Based on the data gathered in the Data Bank, we continue to develop more effective health promotion measures and disease prevention schemes.

* Nippon Kenko Kaigi: An organization that puts practical health promotion measures in place, liaising between private companies, with the full backup of the government. Such measures should prolong the healthy life expectancy of individuals and maintain sound medical services in Japan where the population is quickly aging, along with the low birth rate.

Although FUJIFILM Kyushu (FFQ) sustained significant damage from the Kumamoto Earthquake in 2016, it managed to make a full recovery of the production line after only 37 days following the disaster, thanks to a range of support provided by a number of Fujifilm Group companies. Fujifilm had already reinforced its disaster countermeasures after the Great East Japan Earthquake. All of our Group companies collaborated in organizing a disaster recovery system and have continued to improve it, while conducting regular emergency drills. FFQ has also prepared emergency procedures and this preparation has greatly contributed to the Kumamoto Earthquake recovery. At the same time, the real-life experience of a disaster identified some issues to be addressed in the new measures.

To share and utilize such valuable experience across the Group, FFQ staff members offered lectures to other Group companies about the important actions taken immediately after the earthquake, the problems they encountered, and their Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Approximately 670 people from Group factories and companies attended these lectures. After the lectures, Kanagawa Plant, Fujinomiya Plant, and Yoshida Office conducted emergency drills, adopting the lessons that FFQ had learned from the Kumamoto Earthquake.

The importance of having BCPs in enterprises is increasing with the backdrop of the rising number of natural disasters and terrorist attacks across the world. The Fujifilm Group continues to promote preparation of BCPs, in both hard and soft aspects, based on the experience of the Kumamoto Earthquake and address the issues we identified at that time.