In FY2021, more than 11,000 Group employees worked on "My Health Goals" to stay healthy during the year.
In FY2022, we will continue to promote health awareness among employees through the use of cards designed around the three pillars of nutrition, exercise, and social participation under the theme "Salad and Eggs to Support the Health of Every Individual."

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.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the campaign participation rate fell below 60% in FY2020, but recovered to 65% in FY2021, making it a large-scale event involving approximately two-thirds of the Group's employees.

At business sites with company cafeterias, we collaborate with the cafeteria and regularly propose health-conscious meals.
To ensure a good balance of vegetables and protein, which are often missing, we offer a salad bar and eggs in addition to our regular menu items to improve the dietary habits of our employees.

*The salad bar is currently not available due to coronavirus.

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, and we are encouraging them to take up the challenge. For example, we subsidize co-pays for smoking cessation clinics and smoking cessation medication, and we are providing commemorative gifts to those who succeed in giving up smoking by themselves.

In addition to regular health checkups for all employees, the Kewpie Group offers medical examinations and Kewpie Group's set of three examinations (gastric cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening, and abdominal ultrasound examination) to employees aged 35 and above, and gynecological examinations (breast cancer screening and uterine cancer screening) to female employees aged 20 and above. These medical checkups are subsidized by the Kewpie Aohata Health Insurance Association.
Furthermore, to create an environment in which employees are more likely to undergo medical examinations, in FY2021, we began granting "medical examination leave" for employees to receive cancer examinations. In addition, we have started to provide group cancer examinations at workplaces using mobile screening vehicles.
We will promote various initiatives to achieve the Kewpie Group's target of an 80% health checkup rate.

As our international businesses expand, the number of employees stationed overseas is also increasing year by year.
To maintain the same standard of health management as employees stationed in Japan, those stationed overseas also receive a comprehensive medical check-up once a year and, if necessary, receive advice from nurses. Furthermore, we also provide mental health support by conducting interviews and stress checks three months into the employee’s work overseas.