Health-based Management and Occupational Health and Safety

Under the theme of "my health," the Kewpie Group undertakes activities to support good health for employees throughout the year. Personal goals were previously being posted in workplaces, but starting in FY2023 they are being posted on the company intranet to reduce environmental impacts (the use of paper and display magnets), although goals are still being posted on-site in some plants and workplaces that have no intranet access.

The Kewpie Aohata Health Insurance Association runs the "Health Up Campaign" once a year to call for lifestyle improvements and to provide an opportunity for employees to review their lifestyle habits.
Participants select a course to challenge themselves and commit to for a set period of time. The “Salad First” course, in which participants are challenged to eat salad first, was particularly popular.
In FY2024, a record 87% of employees participated throughout the Group.

At workplaces with employee cafeterias, we partner with food service companies to regularly propose health-conscious menu items. Additionally, we hold themed fairs and events such as “The 31st is Salad Day” and “Egg Culture Festival,” in an effort to improve employee eating habits.
As part of our internal branding efforts, we also use company cafeterias for activities supporting individual employee health with salad and eggs.

Exercise events aimed at heightening health awareness are held at each Group company. In addition to morning calisthenics, we have planned gait analysis at our Head Office and Sengawa Kewport. This event, where participants use data to visualize how they walk and receive gait correction counseling from professional trainers, served as a catalyst for health awareness.

To maintain and improve the health of Group employees, on April 1, 2020, we removed the on-site smoking areas at our two offices in Tokyo (Shibuya-ku and Chofu-city), making the entire site smoke-free. At the same time, we are working on creating work environments that are free of passive smoking at all of our offices, including those of our Group companies.
Since 2017 we have also been strengthening our support for employees who wish to give up smoking. At present, we subsidize co-pays for smoking cessation clinics and smoking cessation medication, and encourage employees to take up the challenge.

In addition to regular health checkups for all employees, the Kewpie Group offers a full medical checkup for employees aged 35 and over, and Kewpie Group's own three-point screening (stomach cancer, colorectal cancer, abdominal ultrasound), and a gynecological checkup (breast cancer, cervical cancer) for female employees aged 20 and over. These screenings are subsidized by the Kewpie Aohata Health Insurance Association.
To making it easier for employees to take medical exams, we are implementing a variety of initiatives aimed at raising to 80% the ratio of Kewpie Group employees having health checkups, such as by offering special leave for medical screening, arranging cancer screenings by mobile vehicles workplace groups, and arranging for colorectal screenings at the workplace.

As our international businesses expand, the number of employees stationed overseas is also increasing year by year.
To have the same health management system as in Japan, employees stationed outside Japan are also provided a full medical checkup once a year, and advice from a public health nurse is given as necessary. In terms of mental health, we provide support so that employees can live in countries other than Japan with peace of mind, through interviews after three months of assignment, stress checks, and online consultations with an occupational health physician.