We have identified “creating a workplace and society where all people can flourish” as one of the materiality issues of sustainability, and our first priority is to value “people”.
At Mizuho Leasing, we believe that each and every employee is an important asset and that their mental and physical health is our source of creating a prosperous and sustainable future.Based on this concept, Mizuho Leasing will promote health management by maintaining and improving the work environment where each and every employee can work in a healthy and safe manner, so that they can continue to work with vitality and pride.
President and CEO
Akira Nakanura
Under the firm belief that each and every employee is an important asset, we need to promote health management to ensure that they can continue to work with vitality and pride. One of the important challenges in this regard is improving employee engagement. Based on the results of engagement surveys, we are working on initiatives to enhance employee engagement via encouraging them to take ownership of engagement.
Another important challenge is preventing lifestyle diseases among employees. To this end, we believe it is important to maintain proper lifestyle habits and maintain/improve health habits. Health issue-related numbers are improving thanks to the expansion of measures promoted with our health insurance association as well as the promotion of health management, and we will continue making efforts for further improvement.
We have developed a plan for promoting health management as below.
Under our basic approach of employee health management, we hold a Health Committee meeting once a month in accordance with the Industrial Safety and Health Act , and make efforts to maintain and promote employee safety and health as follows.
We provide an annual medical checkup for all employees. For expatriate employees and their accompanying family members, we provide vaccinations as a preventive measure necessary for each country in which they are stationed, as well as a health check once or twice a year in that country or in Japan, depending on the sanitary conditions and/or medical standards of the country.
We conduct a stress check once a year according to the basic policy of promoting mental health, since mental health is important to make employees’ lives comfortable and fulfilling, and secure a pleasant and safe working environment .
In order to capture employee awareness in a timely manner and create a better working environment, we have conducted an engagement survey every three months since August 2021. We thus aim to realize a better working environment by implementing measures to enhance employee engagement via encouraging them to take ownership of engagement.
In cooperation with the health insurance association, we recommend our employees use the health enhancement app, QOLism . Using the app, we encourage employees to participate in walk events and other programs .
We are striving to support female employees’ active engagement from a health perspective through company-wide initiatives: conducting surveys for female employees to identify health-related issues and needs specific to women, launching services geared to promoting understanding and solving such issues, and holding relevant seminars for male employees. In the FY2023 survey, we received responses from 42.1% of our female staff .
We hold seminars for supporting smoking cessation. In FY2023, 642 employees (49.3% ), including group company employees, attended seminars that focused on smokers’ health as well as passive smoking.
As smoking cessation leads to the prevention of lifestyle diseases and improvement of the working environment, we intend to continue our efforts.
We cover all costs related to flu vaccinations for employees. (In FY2022, 272 employees applied, totaling 1.02 million yen.)
We hold various seminars as an opportunity for employees to learn about their own body, as well as to enhance health through exercise and other means. Seminars held so far include a sleep seminar, body composition measuring seminar, and physical & mental refreshment seminar. All participants of the body composition measuring seminar rated it as “Satisfied”.
To ensure a work-life balance and the creation of time for employees to have enriching experiences, we established an anniversary holiday (special vacation) system in 2019 to further encourage the creation of time for our employees’ enriching experiences. Moreover, we have set Wednesdays as a no overtime day, and in July and August, additional two summer no overtime days for each division and branch, considering business peak and off-peak times. These systems are part of our efforts to reduce long working hours. Our goal is to achieve a rate of paid annual leave taken of 80% (average of all employees) by the end of FY2025.
In addition to the above, we have adopted flexible work styles (telecommuting, hourly paid leave, flextime), leading to an approximately 70 percent employee satisfaction rating.
We send a message from the President to all employees periodically. By sending a message including information about employees’ health maintenance and enhancement, we foster employees’ health awareness.
Mizuho Leasing has been certified as a Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization (Large Enterprise Category) under the 2024 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program, selected jointly by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi.
|
FY2020 |
FY 2021 |
FY2022 |
Target (FY2025) |
|
|
Rate of paid annual leave taken |
60.7% |
68.2% |
65.0％ |
80% or over |
|
Rate of employees undergoing regular medical checkups |
85.2% |
94.8% |
89.0％ |
90％ or over |
|
Specific health guidance provision rate |
72.6% |
73.3% |
－ |
－ |
|
Rate of employees undergoing stress check |
95.3% |
93.2% |
92.4％ |
95% or over |
|
Smoking rate *1 |
15.7% |
16.6% |
15.8% |
15％ or below |
|
Engagement survey respondents *2 |
－ |
740 people |
779 people |
－ |
|
Engagement survey response rate *2 |
― |
88.0％ |
89.8％ |
90％ or over |
|
Individuals with appropriate dietary habits *3 |
58.8% |
58.3% |
51.6% |
60% |
|
Individuals with appropriate exercise habits *3 |
32.0% |
28.6% |
37.5% |
40% |
|
Rate of individuals maintaining normal weight *4 |
71.3％ |
69.5% |
69.8％ |
70% |
*1 Based on medical consultation results (all ages)
*2 Respondents and response rate of external engagement surveys (fiscal year average)
*3 Based on medical consultation results (all ages)
*4 Based on medical consultation results (all ages)
|
FY2020 |
FY 2021 |
FY2022 |
FY2023 |
|
|
Health literacy *5 |
－ |
－ |
－ |
75.6％ |
|
Proportion of high-stress individuals |
6.9％ |
8.0％ |
6.3％ |
－ |
|
Presenteeism *6 |
－ |
－ |
－ |
14.2％ |
|
Absenteeism *7 |
0.03 day |
0.11 day |
0.62day |
－ |
*5 Measured based on questionnaires: Proportion of employees practicing health maintenance and improvement
*6 Measured based on the Single-Item Presenteeism Question (SPQ).
*7 Company-wide average of days of leave taken with the injury/disease leave system
