Health

The Yamato Group Health Insurance Union is toughening the implementation of specific health checks and specific health guidance, with the aim of reducing the risk of lifestyle-related diseases for employees.
To achieve this, Group companies and partner companies such as health check operators cooperated with the health insurance union to examine implementation methods that match the characteristics of each Group company. As a result, in FY2022, the percentage of employees receiving medical checkups reached 98.9%, and the most recent completion rate for specified health guidance rose to 92.2%.
In addition, the proportion of employees being given specific health guidance (due to specific risks in their lifestyle habits and health checkup results) is decreasing year by year. In FY2019, around 40% of those employees showed improvements in their state of health as a result of specific health guidance given in the previous fiscal year, and have been removed from the scope of guidance.
Health support is also being provided according to health risks for employees taking medications that were not covered by specific health guidance until now.
Employees who are at risk from blood pressure, blood sugar and neutral fat were also individually recommended to visit medical institutions. Out of those employees, 96% visited medical institutions, and around 70% showed improvement in their state of health.

The Yamato Group Health Insurance Union conducts multiple cancer screenings together with regular employee health checks for early-stage detection of cancer.
As a measure against female-specific cancers, a breast cancer screening bus visits business locations nationwide, enabling employees to undergo medical examinations without personal cost. In FY2022 the bus visited 169 locations nationwide, with 16,347 employees undergoing screenings (a screening rate of 48.6%). Since FY2018, we have been providing subsidies for patients who have undergone cervical cancer screenings, to support the creation of a workplace environment where female employees can work actively.
We also encourage employees with findings in their cancer screenings to visit medical institutions at an early stage to undergo a thorough examination.

The Yamato Group Health Insurance Union conducts specific health checks for dependents aged 40 and over. While these checks are mainly for housewives, there are currently many who are busy with housework, childcare and caregiving responsibilities, etc., and unable to take time out to undergo medical examinations. We have therefore sought to improve the percentage of busy housewives and other dependents undergoing examinations by enabling them to choose from four types of examination-based on location, date, time and test items, etc.-according to their lifestyles. Our efforts in this area were recognized by presentation of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Excellence Award.

The Yamato Group Health Insurance Union is also working actively to improve the health of employees' family members (dependents).
In addition to Kenpodayori, a public relations magazine that delivers health information for families four times a year (in spring, summer, fall and winter), we also publish Kenpodayori Kids for families with elementary school children twice a year, to coincide with the summer and winter vacation. This is a 10-day challenge for children to learn about the importance of health and lifestyle habits from elementary school, and for the whole family to work on lifestyle improvement. In this way, we are working to increase the number of healthy families aiming to improve their health as a whole family.

The Yamato Group Health Insurance Union analyzes health check and illness data for employees and their families, identifies Yamato Group health issues, and implements more effective, targeted health projects. Over the next six years, companies and health insurance unions will work together to determine target figures and check the level of achievement, in national policy initiative called the Data Health Plan.
We are also continuing the following initiatives, and supporting the active lifestyles of our employees by implementing various health improvement measures.

Health Improvement Web Service
We distribute personal health information-such as health checkup results and histories of hospital visits for each employee-and relevant health articles based on this information to employees' smartphones in order to raise interest in health and lifestyle habits. As of March 31, 2023, there were 30,703 registered employees.

Health Awareness Survey Questionnaire
We conducted a questionnaire for employees to check their health awareness, and to help formulate strategies to increase health literacy. Surveys have been conducted periodically three times in the past, with a total of 191,260 responses received.

The Yamato Group has established a day for the organization as a whole to consider tobacco usage by implementing measures including confirming daily smoking measures within the workplace and designating one working day as a no-smoking day in line with World No Tobacco Day. We are engaging in efforts that include the sharing of issues related to smoking by the Central Safety and Health Committee and other bodies and encouraging willing employees who smoke to take part in a one-day no-smoking challenge supported by a non-smoking employee.

As a corporate group engaged in logistics both in Japan and overseas, the Yamato Group recognizes the importance of global health issues such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, and is actively responding to them.
For employees posted overseas, we provide information on infectious diseases in various locations through training before travel, and provide information and arrange vaccinations as a measure against those infectious diseases.