Toyota Tsusho : Selected as Health & Productivity Stock in 2021

Toyota Tsusho Selected as Health & Productivity Stock in 2021 2021-03-04

Toyota Tsusho Corporation ('Toyota Tsusho') announced today that it has been selected Health & Productivity Stock Selection Program jointly organized by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry ('METI') and the Tokyo Stock Exchange ('TSE') in 2021.

Each year, companies listed on TSE are evaluated under the Health & Productivity Stock Selection Program to select those that strategically carry out efforts regarding their employees' health from a management perspective. This is the first time that Toyota Tsusho has been selected under this program.

*'Kenkokeiei' is a registered trademark of the Workshop for the Management of Health on Company and Employee, an NPO.

[Official Logo Health & Productivity Stock]

Four main reasons, listed below, were given for the selection of Toyota Tsusho.

[Toyota Tsusho's health and productivity management initiatives]

1) The improvement of health literacy has been set as Toyota Tsusho's most important challenge, and a wide range of support and systems are being promoted so that employees can independently maintain and improve their physical and mental wellbeing under diverse working environments.

2) Besides creating an environment that makes it easy to check one's health, such as increasing the number of in-house clinics, Toyota Tsusho has maintained a consultation rate of 100% for routine health checks since fiscal 2014 and the consultation rate for detailed examinations has increased to reach 94.9% in fiscal 2019 by strengthening engagement from occupational nursing staff toward those with diagnoses. In addition, the effects of early measures also show in the medical fees from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2019, including a reduction of 31.7% for circulatory diseases and a reduction of 21.0% for metabolic diseases.

3) Toyota Tsusho started screening for gastric cancer risk (ABC screening) for all employees at the time of routine health checks from fiscal 2018, and screening for colon cancer risk (occult blood tests) for all employees aged 40 and older from fiscal 2019. This helps to discover problems at an early stage. In addition, for female employees, which make up approximately one-third of the entire company, expansion of cancer screening subsidy systems and organizing of seminars are carried out as measures against female-specific cancers.

4) Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, through the introduction of a system for checking employee health status and active utilization of programs such as a new telecommuting program that enables flexible work-style options, Toyota Tsusho is accelerating the creation of an organization where everyone independently practices health management.

Toyota Tsusho recognizes that the physical and mental health of employees is the company's most important asset. Going forward, Toyota Tsusho will continue to undertake health and productivity management based on the three pillars of employee health, improvement of workplace vitality, and social contribution.

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