Initiatives to Help Employees Maintain Mental and Physical Health

We have created a health management strategy map to identify the links between management issues that we want to solve through health management and various measures for maintaining and promoting health. We set indicators to measure the effectiveness of each measure as well as medium-term targets, and implement a CAPD^* cycle. The status of these initiatives is posted on our website on a regular basis.

Based on our health management strategy map, we set mid-term goals for each health indicator. We also continuously monitor the annual performance and year-on-year changes of these indicators to evaluate their effectiveness and revise our health management measures.

In 2003, the Company established the Healthcare Committee, consisting of representatives from labor unions, management, and the Daicel Health Insurance Association, to create workplaces where individual employees can demonstrate their individuality and capabilities while ensuring their mental and physical well-being.

To further enhance the Groupwide healthcare support system, we set up a Central Healthcare Committee along with Local Healthcare Committees at each business site.

In FY2023/3, we raised the level of the entire Group’s health maintenance and improvement programs and accelerated their implementation. In order to do so, we established the Employee Wellness Promotion Center as a specialized health management department at the Corporate Support Headquarters. Furthermore, in January 2026, we reorganized it into the "Health and Sports Support Center" with the aim of further promoting health through sports, improving employee engagement both inside and outside the Company, and contributing to local communities.

We established the Employee Wellness & Sports Promotion Center Team as a health management organization at the Corporate Support Headquarters. Our objective in doing so is to maintain and increase the health of employees throughout the Daicel Group.

In addition to formulating plans and measures and developing the framework for healthcare activities for the entire Daicel Group, the Central Healthcare Committee checks on the progress of initiatives by the Local Healthcare Committees at each business site and provides assistance. In planning measures for healthcare activities, the Central Healthcare Committee seeks advice from pertinent outside organizations as needed.

The Local Healthcare Committees plan and execute healthcare activities for each business site, including various health education programs and health-related events and an improvement plan for the working environment based on group analysis of stress check results. Improvements to the working environment are implemented in collaboration with the individual worksite managers.

The Daicel Group has 14 full-time corporate health nurses (as of April 30, 2026), who work together as a team across business sites to build a cooperative framework and promote information sharing. The team participates in formulating and executing action plans to support the improvement of workplace environment for each business site by involving workshops for mental and physical health. Moreover, it is involved in educational sessions focused on preventing physical and mental health issues. Team members share their insights as lecturers during position-specific training and orientation training for new graduates and mid-career hires. These activities help prevent any health issues from arising and support corporate health nurses in improving their planning and teaching skills.

Furthermore, these nurses provide information on managing physical and mental health by regularly publishing a health newsletter to raise employee awareness on how to maintain well-being and take preventive health measures.

Currently, Daicel utilizes four psychiatrists (as of April 30, 2026) to bolster its follow−up care system for employees who have developed mental health issues. Every psychiatrist is assigned a geographical segment for his/her oversight, thereby ensuring that employees in need receive meticulous care.

Daicel Group has named six health behaviors that it wants its employees to promote as "Health Accelerator 6" and is implementing various measures to support them. Based on the themes of exercise, diet, sleep, reduce drinking, no smoking, and weight, we use internal social media to disseminate the health maintenance and promotion initiatives of top management and conduct online training with corporate health nurses. We will continue to improve employee health literacy and promote behavioral change through providing information.

With the aim of maintaining and improving the health of our employees and their families, we introduced health promotion events using a health promotion smartphone app (Pep Up).

“Pep Up” allows users to check their health checkup results and record daily health information. Users can also earn points based on healthy behaviors and event participation, which can be exchanged for digital cash, gifts, and other rewards.

As of the end of April 2026, the app registration rate was 58.3%. We will continue to promote health awareness and encourage the adoption of healthy behaviors among employees and their families through enjoyable and sustainable health promotion activities.

We hold walking events twice a year to encourage employees to develop regular exercise habits while enjoying themselves.
Participation in these activities also helps to revitalize communication among employees.

We offer an opportunity to review employees' eating habits by utilizing "Vege-Check®," a tool that allows users to easily measure their vegetable intake. Through the measurement results, we promote awareness of employees' daily eating habits and behavioral change.

Starting in FY2026/3, we have been holding “Sleep Seminars,” inviting specialist doctors to help improve employees’ sleep quality and foster health awareness.

Starting in FY2026/3, we launched a four-week program where participants are provided with free non-alcoholic beverages to help them manage their alcohol intake and reflect on their drinking habits.

Since FY2025/3, we have regularly held a Quit Smoking Marathon. In this program, teams are formed to support smoking cessation efforts. Each team consists of three members: one challenger who attempts to quit smoking and two supporters.

In view of the risk of damaging health from exposure to second-hand cigarette smoke, Daicel is working to reduce the risk by limiting smoking areas inside the business sites. Since October 2020, the Daicel Health Insurance Association has been providing free online programs to support employees seeking to quit smoking by bolstering health management in cooperation with the Company.

We implement regular health checkups, mandated by law, for employees of Daicel Corporation, thus the employee medical examination rate in FY2026/3 was 100%. In addition, to improve the re-examination rate, corporate health nurses encourage those employees who are subject to a secondary examination to take it during a follow-up consultation.

Daicel cooperates with the Daicel Health Insurance Association to implement specific health checkups and specific health guidance mandated by laws governing health insurance associations. This is to ascertain the status of employee health by analyzing the results and responses from medical interviews. We are working to prevent lifestyle diseases by seeking to achieve the national targets of 90% or higher for specific health checkups and 55% or higher for specific health guidance. In FY2026/3, the specific health checkup rate was 86.3% for 5,839 eligible employees, and the specific health guidance rate was 57.5% for 895 eligible employees, and we intend to further improve this rate.

Aiming to develop a vibrant workplace, Daicel has been actively assisting each business site in efforts to better manage their working environments by, for example, utilizing the results of stress checks. In FY2026/3, the stress checks carried out by the Daicel Group achieved 98.7% coverage of the entire Daicel Group. The Group provides employees with consultations with a doctor if they suffer excessive stress and are in need of counseling. Furthermore, nurses provide follow ups for employees who suffer from excessive stress but do not want to have counseling with a physician. In addition, the Local Healthcare Committees at each business site conduct comprehensive analyses of stress check results and then formulate and execute plans to tackle any issues that are identified in order to maintain and promote good employee health.

Daicel conducts training for managers^​ on mental health support for subordinates and for self-care. The training is designed to enhance communication skills through hands-on experience workshops in addition to acquiring basic knowledge of line care and stress management, and learning how to improve mental health through lectures by outside speakers. We have introduced online mental health training by corporate health nurses during position-specific training for new recruits, mid-career recruits and newly appointed managers.

In response to workplace health issues, Daicel holds an online mental and physical health promotion workshop so that workplace managers can proactively work on their health. In the workshop, group discussions are held among workplace managers using stress check and health check group analysis reports as inputs, and the participants are encouraged to incorporate this information into improvement plans for their own workplaces and put them into practice. In FY2025/3, the seminar was held 15 times in total, with participation from 250 workplace managers.

The Daicel Health Insurance Association operates a free health consultation desk. Experienced health counselors including full-time physicians at external institutions are available to provide advice on health issues over the phone all day and year-round. Employees are encouraged to freely consult on physical disorders caused by prolonged periods of telework or concerns related to their everyday lives. To protect the caller’s privacy, personal information and what is discussed during the consultation are not made available to the employer or the Health Insurance Association.

As one of the initiatives aimed at creating a workplace where working women can play an active role, and in which both men and women can support each other, the Daicel Group conducted e-learning sessions in October, November and December 2025. The sessions focused on health issues specific to women, such as “anemia,” “how to respond to subordinates’ consultations,” and “balancing work and fertility treatment,” for all employees, including male employees. A total of 7,249 Daicel Group employees of all ages and both genders participated. Going forward, we will continue to provide information and training on health issues specific to women for all employees, including male employees, so that female employees can continue to work more energetically.

In FY2016/3, the Daicel Group began closely assessing the working status of employees posted overseas. Since FY2018/3, we have been conducting follow-ups for long-time workers such as counseling with corporate health nurses in accordance with domestic standards with the aim of robust health management. In addition, we continue to provide health guidance, consultation, and support to employees assigned overseas through visits to overseas sites and online consultations by corporate health nurses.

We provide information and raise awareness regarding the prevention of various infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV/AIDS, which are collectively known as the “Big Three” global health issues. This is done during pre-departure health consultations with corporate health nurses for employees traveling abroad. We also offer vaccinations for infectious diseases with a high risk of transmission. After departure, we partner with specialist medical service companies (International SOS Pte Ltd and WellBe Holdings Limited) to establish a medical support system, including treatment and medical evacuation, at our overseas locations.

The Daicel Group will continue to maintain and improve the health of these employees, who play an important role in the operations of overseas affiliates.

In FY2026/3, we held a soccer class with players and coaches from Gamba Osaka, with whom we are an official partner, to help employees, their families, business partners, and local residents maintain and improve their health. A total of 200 people participated in the event. In addition, we set up a health check booth to measure vascular age, bone health, exercise function, and the amount of vegetable intake, and health advice was given by a corporate health nurse. 

The Daicel Group will continue to work on health and productivity management with the aim of ensuring that everyone is both physically and mentally healthy.