Individual Mitsui & Co. Group companies take steps to ensure that their employees can work in healthy environments according to circumstances in the countries and regions where they are developing business. Mitsui is implementing the following initiatives based on the aforementioned well-being strategy map.

We have established a clinic in our Head Office building. The clinic in the Head Office building covers a diverse range of specialist areas, including internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, ophthalmology, dermatology, E.N.T., psychosomatic medicine, and gynecology, and also provides medical consultations for employees. The clinic also provides sublingual immunotherapy to improve productivity of employees with allergies to cedar pollen and dust mites, as well as sleep apnea testing. It also provides medical checkups for employees who are about to travel overseas or have returned from overseas assignments, as well as vaccinations. The Osaka Office has a medical treatment room. Consultant physicians are assigned to various offices in Japan to provide health management for employees working in those locations.

We provide multiple regular in-house medical examination opportunities per year, and employees are able to view the results of their own examinations on the intranet. Mitsui and Mitsui Bussan Health Insurance Society are also working collaboratively toward the prevention and early detection of lifestyle diseases and other conditions, and the provision of enhanced health advisory services, through the implementation of the following measures:

We implement the following health promotion measures to help employees avoid lifestyle diseases and metabolic syndrome.

To provide support for female employees, we established a gynecology department at the Head Office medical clinic, as well as a consultation desk to offer advice on women's health and maternal health through individual consultations with health nurses. In addition, we are working to address women’s health issues through the following initiatives.

At Mitsui, we have established multiple consultation counters focused on ensuring that employees can easily seek advice when they need to.

When an employee takes a temporary absence from work, occupational physicians and health nurses continue to provide care to ensure that employees can feel confident about returning to work. After their return to work, occupational physicians, health nurses, and other personnel work together to prevent recurrence and help to manage the employee's health condition through follow-ups and support from managers and supervisors, alongside various other employment measures as necessary. We are also working to deepen understanding of mental health through training for managers and other initiatives.

We have long been implementing stress checks with employees in Japan, but employees working overseas have also become able to take these checks. We provide those suffering from high stress levels with opportunities to have interviews with occupational physicians at the request of the employee, and give feedback pertaining to the group analysis results to the workplace, for the purpose of improving the working environment.

Due to medical advances and changes in workstyles, an increasing number of employees are able to work while undergoing medical treatment. At the request of the employee, medical and workplace personnel work together to provide support to enable employees to balance medical treatment with their work in a way that best matches the circumstances of the treatment they are receiving.

Since the fiscal year ended March 2020, we have visualized the results of a variety of initiatives carried out to promote employee health, such as the ratio of employees receiving health examinations, the prevalence of lifestyle-related diseases, and data on smoking and alcohol consumption-related measures and stress checks. We aim to raise individual awareness of health and improve behavior. We have posted data in comparison with countrywide data, data by unit, and chronological changes on the intranet to communicate such information to Mitsui employees.

Approximately 1,200 of our employees are stationed overseas, accompanied by around 1,400 family members. We regard health management for not only employees working overseas but also their families as an important priority, and we have established systems to ensure that advice is available at any time if employees or family members suffer physical or mental illness. Vaccinations and health checkups are provided for employees assigned overseas and their families. They also receive overseas health management training covering physical and mental health and other topics, as well as information about how to obtain medical information and access support systems while overseas. After arrival, in cooperation with local personnel, occupational physicians at the Head Office provide support for employees assigned overseas via email, telephone, and interviews using a videophone system.

We also provide health management support for employees working overseas and their families in partnership with emergency medical service contractors.

This system supports association members and their family members in Japan and overseas by covering medical expenses that are not covered by health insurance in the event of illness or injury.

We have implemented the measures detailed below at the Head Office building to develop a healthy and comfortable working environment for employees.