Efforts for safety and quality

At the NIKKON Group, we understand that safety is the most important issue in business operation. Based on this understanding, we make group-wide efforts to ensure workplace safety, prevention of traffic accidents, and provision of high-quality services in practical operation, secure employees' safety (including safety from infection) and healthy lifestyles of employees, and engage in activities for responding to confidence of customers and society.

1. Understand that ensuring safety is a social mission in the management of the Group, ensure that all employees understand its importance, and take action together.
2. Respect human life and ensure that every employee has ownership and takes the initiative in the prevention of accidents.
3. Comply with relevant laws, regulations, and other rules and act in accordance with the Three Actuals Principle (the actual place, the actual situation and the actual goods).
4. Build a safe, secure business environment through the proactive occupational health management of workplaces and by striving to improve the workplace environment and promote the good health of employees.
5. Improve the driving skills and other skills of employees through driving skills competitions to prevent accidents and contribute to society in terms of safety.
6. Ensure safety and maintain stable quality through small group activities, improvement activities, and other initiatives and introduce advanced ideas and technologies to provide reliable, high-quality services to fulfill the expectations of all stakeholders.
7. Encourage Group companies to share information and technologies with each other to improve safety and quality.
8. Establish strong disaster control measures and BCP measures to prepare for major natural disasters.

We have established the ANS (All Nikkon Safety) Association involving the 12 operating companies in Japan, aiming to increase safety awareness and promote activities to prevent traffic accidents through advanced driving skill and knowledge competitions.

The NIKKON Group has established a safety management structure through the united efforts of all of its employees and officers, from top management to the people working on the front lines, in accordance with the transportation safety management system established by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism.
We ensure our safety administrator formulates the annual plan on transportation safety based on safety management rules and safety management procedures and implements the PDCA cycle of planning, checking, and correction to improve transportation safety.
At our overseas subsidiaries, we have built safety management structures in accordance with the laws and rules of each country. To enhance the effectiveness of senior management's site inspections and management, we have established a system that enables organizational management through coordination between people working on the front lines and the administrative department. Regular meetings are held at each business site to review performance and achievements and identify problems and issues, to enable improvement.

1. Provision of new driver training, safety lectures, and on-the-job training regarding driving and operations
2. Face-to-face training of new drivers under Japanese standards, including face-to-face roll call and training using digital tachograph data.
3. Lectures improving understanding of truck performance and design taught by external lecturers

1. Installation of digital tachographs and automotive cameras
2. Introduction of a system preventing drowsy driving and a GPS monitoring system
3. Installation of safety lights and rear lights on forklifts
4. Stickers alerting truck drivers to maintain distancing from other vehicles

The company conducts traffic safety patrols daily (inspecting the driving of its own vehicles and the external vehicles the company has arranged on customers' premises and on general roads). The company also holds lectures to improve employees' understanding of truck performance and design taught by external lectures (from Isuzu and Hino). The company also holds internal driving competitions and forklift operation competitions twice a year.

On the company's premises, it has established a training center certified by the labor department of Thailand. At this facility, the company provides training for workers from other local subsidiaries in Thailand and training for external workers and other companies, not to mention internal training focused on lectures and practical skills. The company issues diplomas certified by the labor department of Thailand to people who have completed training,

The NIKKON Group proactively participates in the National Forklift Driving Skills Competition hosted by Land Transportation Safety & Health Association, aiming to enhance its employees' awareness of safety and improve their driving skills. We strive to increase employee motivation, ensure workplace safety, and prevent occupational accidents.

Fiscal 2021 Results

36th National Forklift Driving Skills Competition