Ensuring employee safety and health and pleasant working conditions is fundamental to corporate activities. Our business offices independently carry out initiatives through their health and safety committees, which have been established at offices nationwide.

To prevent problems such as lifestyle-related diseases, the ANA Group considers it important for employees to proactively modify their behavior. For this purpose, we diligently develop programs for improving employee health and maintaining a sustainable environment, including seminars, walkathons and lectures on health held around the country.

To enhance employee health, ANA issued its Health Frontier Declaration and expanded its mental health support system in 2006. During the fiscal year ended March 2012, ANA launched an Internet-based preventative mental health improvement program available to all employees. This program aims to prevent mental disorders and help individuals deal with stress through a learning program in tandem with the results of stress checks. We also conduct ongoing mental health training for managers, including incorporating it into training curricula for newly appointed managers, to help them quickly identify mental disorders among subordinates and provide support. Concurrently, we provide counseling through specialized external institutions to help protect and maintain the mental health of employees and their families.

For employees to lead a full life, they need a viable life plan that looks at each life stage. The ANA Welfare Plan helps to provide motivation and a sense of fulfillment to every employee at each stage of their careers, from recruitment to post-retirement. The program offers employees the choice of a scheme best suited to their particular lifestyle covering six different categories: health, finances, insurance, lifestyle support, leisure support and post-retirement.