Occupational Safety and Health and Productivity Management
Initiatives
Occupational Safety and Health
Prevention of Workplace Accidents
In 2025, there were four cases of serious occupational accidents at Canon Inc. and Group companies in Japan relating to the use of machinery (getting pinched or caught). There were two accidents requiring time off work caused by hazardous chemical substances. We are taking steps to prevent accidents from reoccurring, in terms of both education and equipment, such as investigating the underlying cause of any accident, retraining workplace personnel, and improving the operability of machinery. We conduct a thorough safety inspection and risk assessment to determine if similar risks exist at the site where any accident occurs. In addition, information about accidents is promptly shared with Group companies, particularly production sites, to prevent similar occurrences elsewhere.
Promoting Effective Operation of Canon Group Occupational Safety and Health Management System
We are expanding the Canon Group Occupational Safety and Health Management System in an effort to promote autonomous safety and health activities across countries and regions. System requirements are based on the Occupational Safety and Health Management System of the Japan Industrial Safety and Health Association and reflect Canon Inc.'s standards and rules. We are also working to cultivate best practices across all sites based on reciprocal supervision as well as develop measures to tackle a variety of issues.
As of the end of December 2025, approximately 34% of Canon Inc. and Canon Group production companies around the world had acquired ISO 45001 certification.
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Entrenchment of Risk Assessments and Promotion of Effective Use
To help prevent accidents, Canon conducts risk assessments for all installed machinery and related operations based on common Group-wide standards. For all operations with high risk of injury, illness, or accident, we take appropriate risk mitigation measures and manage any residual risk. Recognizing the especially serious risks posed by machinery-related accidents, we review existing equipment at least once a year. For new businesses, we also identify and evaluate risks from the R&D stage and implement OHS measures based on risk assessment outcomes.
To ensure common standards are applied to risk assessment across the Canon Group, we provide online learning programs for workplace managers and employees with responsibility for equipment operations to deepen their understanding of assessment methods. In addition, if a specific risk is identified, all relevant workers are notified of the risk and given the requisite training, including steps to confirm understanding and mastery of any new work processes.
Improving Health and Safety Awareness by Enhancing Education and Training
Whenever an occupational accident occurs at Canon, we immediately brief all operational sites in Japan and overseas production sites, as well as publish the causes and countermeasures on our intranet to prevent a similar accident from occurring elsewhere.
To help eliminate workplace accidents, we also provide training to managers involved in on-site workplace risk assessment, along with online learning programs to ensure all employees involved with risk assessments have a good understanding of assessment objectives and procedures. A total of 27,582 people received such training up to and including 2025.
In addition, we are also taking steps to foster a workplace culture that is constantly aware of health and safety. For example, at Canon Inc. and Group companies in Japan, we provide health and safety training and use original awareness-raising posters and leaflets to educate employees about checking and enforcing basic safety behaviors in their work.
Canon is working to implement an occupational safety and health management system overseas, mainly at its production sites, on the same level as in Japan. For example, to help employees understand health and safety matters in their native language, we make effective use of work manuals, health and safety training materials, posters, leaflets, and other materials prepared by Canon Inc. in Japanese, English, Chinese, and Vietnamese to suit the situation of each site. At Canon Vietnam, we are making a focused effort to promote activities for early prevention of hazards by raising employees' health and safety awareness. These include an experiential training facility called the Safety Experience Ring that enables trainees to experience the importance of safety through simulated hazard experiences, as well as risk assessment activities and a program for sharing improvement proposals based on on-site experience.
Transition to Autonomous Chemical Substances Management System
Besides working to realize full legal and regulatory compliance through proper chemical substances management, Canon has adopted measures to try to minimize worker exposure to chemicals, based on chemical substance risk assessments that place the highest priority on preventing related employee health issues. In response to the significant recent revisions to OHS laws and regulations, Canon is moving away from the traditional approach based on regulation of individual chemicals to a system of autonomous chemical substances management in which workers choose which measures to apply to prevent exposure. We have promoted improved levels of oversight with chemicals by appointing supervisors responsible for managing chemical substances at each operational site as well as staff in charge of ensuring that workers use appropriate protective equipment at each workplace.
Health and Productivity Management
Health and Productivity Management Strategy Map
The ultimate goal of promoting health and productivity management is to improve employee well-being. By visualizing specific measures and expected outcomes in the health and productivity management strategy map below, we are clarifying our health and productivity management story and making our measures more effective.
Mental Health-Related Measures
Canon conducts a variety of programs to promote comprehensive mental health at Group companies in Japan. These incorporate four types of care: self-care, care from workplace supervisors, care from occupational health staff, and care from external organizations. There are also programs to promote primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Specific measures include illness recovery and return-to-work support programs, and training programs to help HR and health management personnel build the relevant skills.
We conduct mental health stress checks for workers, with 96.9% of employees at Canon Inc. undergoing such assessments in 2025. In addition to check-ups with an occupational physician, any employees showing signs of high stress receive individualized health consultations. In addition, the results of grouped data analysis are distributed to management. The results inform worksite meetings on mental health, in conjunction with the results of the employee opinions survey. Completion rates exceed 90% for online mental health training for managers aimed at enhancing workplace support capabilities.
Lifestyle Disease Prevention
We are taking thorough measures to prevent the onset of serious illness among our employees. These include having all employees at Canon Inc. and Group companies in Japan receive an annual health check-up, and providing personalized follow-up and educational measures based on a common quantitative standard and action standards.
We identify the priority health areas and steps based on an analysis of the employee data gained from workplace health assessments. For example, lack of sleep, smoking, rapid eating, and other factors were linked with the onset of metabolic syndrome through an analysis of physical exam data. Smoking is completely banned inside workplaces at Canon Inc. and all Group companies in Japan, and we provide seminars and online programs to help employees quit smoking.
Based on cooperation with health insurance unions, the provision of health guidance from expert providers has resulted in a decline in the numbers of employees either at high risk of metabolic syndrome or subject to specific health guidance.
Measures to Address Cancer
In our efforts to address cancer, Canon aims to create workplaces where employees can feel safe and secure by raising employee awareness about health, improving the cancer screening attendance rate, and providing support for treatment. First, we encourage the use of cancer screening programs for the early detection and treatment of cancer. Canon Inc. and Group companies in Japan have set a 70% screening rate target and are taking various steps to increase this rate. Specifically, we are fostering an environment that makes it easier for employees to attend screening, such as providing financial assistance through the Canon Health Insurance Union and holding regular cancer screening appointment drives with health support staff. As a result, the screening rate at Canon Inc. reached 52% as of the end of March 2025. We also seek to raise employee health awareness by highlighting the importance of the prevention and early detection of cancer through a range of educational initiatives, including hosting various seminars and disseminating information. In recent years, we have stepped up our efforts regarding women's health, such as by broadcasting online seminars focused specifically on the Pink Ribbon campaign. We also support employees attending cancer treatment in balancing their work and treatment, such as by setting up a consultation desk to enable them to continue to feel safe and secure in their work.
Comment from an Occupational Physician
Grounded in the intersection of the Health First principle and the San-ji Spirit, health support at Canon involves management, employees, and the health support departments all carrying out their respective roles. It is critical to analyze health checkup results and employee data, and to develop measures and set priorities based on scientific evidence. We also focus on creating systems that encourage healthy behavior, such as distributing reports that visualize the degree of health across the organization. I believe Canon's distinctive approach to health and productivity management is about maximizing the capabilities of individuals and organizations to generate corporate results and ensuring that every employee can feel healthy and happy in their work.
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Improving Health Literacy
We are promoting health activity targets in the eight Canon Health ActioNGoals 8 areas (mental health, cancer, exercise, diet, weight, sleep, alcohol consumption, and smoking) across Canon Inc. and Group companies in Japan.
We compile a Health Report for each organizational unit using the results of health checks and data on healthy activities. Workplaces use this information to undertake health initiatives. Regarding sleep, we use individualized approaches for those identified as high-risk, and we have conducted an education campaign about sleep for all employees, including those at Group companies. Data suggest that these efforts are translating to improvements in sleep and the results of health checks. Separately, we continue to disseminate health information via ICT and host walking events, among other activities for employees. We also provide online learning programs tailored to different job positions and ages, including specific age characteristics, plus an opt-in, points-based self-health management system.
Canon Group companies outside Japan also conduct health support programs and initiatives tailored to the characteristics of each region. Canon Hi-Tech Thailand, Canon USA, Inc., and Canon (China) Co., Ltd. are among the companies that organize mental health seminars by occupational physicians as part of efforts to raise awareness of various health issues.
In addition, the Canon Health Call service provided by the health insurance union offers personal health support to Canon Group employees, including employees on overseas assignments and their families, on a 24/7 basis.
Infectious Disease Prevention
Canon Inc. provides online education courses and other training to staff traveling or being assigned overseas related to HIV, malaria, and other infectious diseases, based on information put out by the Quarantine Information Office of Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare. In addition, the company also recommends various vaccinations depending on the destination country or region, based on information from both the Quarantine Information Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and covers the cost of such vaccinations.
Health Training for Contract Workers
With increasing rates of heat stroke occurring in both indoor and outdoor worksites throughout Japan, Canon Inc. provides ongoing training to contract workers on heat stroke prevention. We also take preventative measures in the workplace environment.
External Recognition
The efforts of Canon Inc. to prevent occupational accidents and promote health and safety were recognized with a Safe Workplace Creation Award at the fiscal 2024 SAFE (Safer Action for Employees) Awards sponsored by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Canon's ongoing progressive health support initiatives, based on the Health First principle we have upheld since the company's founding, continue to gain recognition. We have been certified for nine years in a row in the Large Enterprise category of the "White 500" Health & Productivity scheme jointly administered by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi. We have also been certified as a "Sports Yell Company" by the Japan Sports Agency, recognizing that we are a company that actively promotes sports activities to improve employee health.
