Health Management for Becoming a 100-Year Enterprise

Guided by our Vision 2050 - Creating Our Future Together, we endeavor to build a bright, exciting future together with our employees. The mental and physical health of our employees indisputably lays the foundation for everything that we do. Using health management as a driving force, AUTOBACS SEVEN will aim for the realization of its vision and fulfill the AUTOBACS Chain Management Mission of creating a rich and healthy automotive society.

The mental and physical health of our employees is one of our three management pillars. Since our foundation in 1947 we have been working to maintain and improve employee health. To realize our Vision 2050 - Creating Our Future Together, we must be a positive organization that is exciting and filled with energy. 
AUTOBACS SEVEN will continue to increase its own awareness of employee mental and physical health and to contribute extensively to society by strongly moving forward with health management.

AUTOBACS SEVEN has established its Health and Productivity Management Promotion Committee to be the body implementing health management initiatives within AUTOBACS SEVEN.
Internal health management promotion bodies, the AUTOBACS Health Insurance Organization, the UA Zensen All AUTOBACS SEVEN Union and the AUTOBACS Group Welfare Association constitute the Health and Productivity Management Promotion Committee, which discusses the implementation of specific measures.

To create healthy and safe workplace environments, the Health and Productivity Management Promotion Committee studies issues related to industrial safety and health, such as the reduction of overtime and the mitigation of industrial injury risks, in addition to six prioritized issues in health management. Information about the activities of the committee will be shared internally through the Safety and Health Committee. We believe that these efforts will help increase the vitality of our organization as a whole and increase corporate value. 

Beyond the Safety and Health Committee, our internal health management promotion organization includes an internal health consultation service. The internal health management promotion organization includes a public health nurse. The public health nurse works with our industrial physicians and clinical psychologists to advise employees on their health, including mental health, and support them to enable them to improve their lifestyles.

We make mental health consultation services provided by outside specialist organizations available to employees using the ICT service provided by the AUTOBACS Health Insurance Organization.

Issues addressed in health management

As stated in AUTOBACS SEVEN's Health Management Declaration, we believe that the mental and physical health of our colleagues lays the foundation for a bright and vigorous future. 

Accordingly, we work to discourage presenteeism and absenteeism, decrease the number of days of absence and leave due to injuries and diseases and improve our employees’ engagement in their work with the objective of increasing the productivity of our employees through health management. We disclose our health management targets and initiatives as our health management strategy map in a bid to enable all of our employees to share our aspirations and leverage the PDCA cycle to improve our efforts.
 

Effects expected from health management

Ultimately, we expect that health management will result our maintaining stable relationships with all stakeholders. 
To increase corporate value, which is important from the perspective of our investors and shareholders, and to retain our current customers and cultivate new ones, we need to be an organization that enables our employees to have job satisfaction. Mental and physical health is a prerequisite for this. We believe that employee health impacts the length of our healthy life spans, both while we are working for AUTOBACS SEVEN and also after retirement. 

We are certain that a positive corporate attitude towards health management will increase the job satisfaction of our employees, make our recruitment activities more successful, increase employee retention, and enable our employees to live better after they have retired. 

In addition to the targets we have set for the growth of our business, we strive to meet specific health management targets, including a 90% presenteeism target, an absenteeism target of enabling our employees to miss 0.7 days of work or less, the target of reducing absence and leave due to injuries and diseases to 1,200 days or less, and the target of achieving a work engagement score of 3.0 or higher.

Prioritized issues

All AUTOBACS Group employees are united in their strong efforts to address the health management issues indicated in the table below. This achieves two objectives: the establishment of an organizational culture which enables employees to think about the impact of their individual health on corporate value in the context of the health management strategy map and contributing greatly to society.

The general public is aware that smoking adversely effects health, including increasing the likelihood of cancer and aggravating the symptoms of lifestyle-related diseases. Unfortunately, the smoking rate of AUTOBACS Group is still higher than average. It is our top priority. It is an issue that must be addressed to enable our employees to maintain and improve their physical health. 

We understand that the prevention of cancer and lifestyle-related diseases will help improve the physical health of employees and extend their healthy life spans. We also believe that mental health is a significant issue as it is closely linked to productivity, employee job satisfaction and work engagement. 

We must strongly encourage our female employees to play active roles, and a part of this is ensuring that we address the health problems that impact women. 

We will improve the organizational environment and the environment of our workplaces so that all of our employees can take ownership as we address these issues.

私たちは、社員一人ひとりの「心の健康」と「身体の健康」を維持・向上に向けて、重点取組課題に基づく各個別施策に取り組むとともに、その効果検証を行い、新たなKPI目標を設定し、健康経営全体のPDCAを回しています。

●生活習慣病等の疾病の高リスク者対策としては、特定保健指導と独自の健康マネジメント研修の実施を強化しています。特定保健指導実施者では、BMI、運動習慣で全体より高い改善が見られました。また、健康マネジメント研修の受講率は52.3％(2024年度)となっており、参加者の飲酒習慣、朝食摂取率、運動実施率にて改善効果が見られました。

●「心の健康」面では、セルフケアやマネジメント上のポイントについて臨床心理士監修のeラーニングを制作・公開しています。

*1 　2017年度は1回の開催、2018年度は未開催、2019～2023年度は上期参加人数／下期参加人数を表記
*2 　法内時間外労働時間を含む

*3 1回の飲酒が２合以上の者の割合
*4 1日30分以上の運動を週2回以上実施する者の割合
*5 従業員調査の平均値（CCHL尺度）

*6 正社員の状況 （１－退職者数÷（期首人数＋期中入社者数））×100 で計算
*7 最小値１、最大値４とする評点の平均値 高点数ほど良い状況
*8 SPQ（Single-Item Presenteeism Question 東大 1 項目版）を用いた従業員調査の結果

Our shared values are presented in the AUTOBACS SEVEN Health Management Declaration and we believe that the establishment of healthy and safe workplace environments in line with our values will result in an energetic atmosphere throughout the organization and be a driving force for the realization of our Vision 2050 - Creating Our Future Together. We will incorporate this into all of our business activities to increase safety and health and enable the implementation of independent safety and health activities throughout the company.

Regarding the creation of a healthy workplace culture, exercise habits and health, we continue activities to protect and improve the health of the employees of the AUTOBACS Group and their families.

Diversity and inclusion

We promote inclusive practices and provide equal opportunities regardless of gender, race, nationality, or disability etc.

Health support

The AUTOBACS Health Insurance Organization takes the initiative in organizing health conferences for health promotion managers and personnel from the Health Insurance Organization every September. In addition, we conduct health support activities including smoking cessation initiatives, dental checkup programs and a smartphone app for people suffering from back pain. 

健康経営優良法人認定制度とは、地域の健康課題に即した取り組みや、日本健康会議が進める健康増進の取り組みをもとに、特に優良な健康経営を実践している企業などを顕彰する2017年に開始された制度です。

当社は、「健康経営優良法人2025（大規模法人部門）」において認定を受けました。制度開始から8年連続で「健康経営優良法人」に認定されています。