Health and Productivity Management Declaration
Based on the Cosmo Energy Group Management Vision, “Striving for an infinite tomorrow, developing sustainably in harmony with humanity, society, and our planet,” the Group aims to enhance the lives of its customers by providing a stable supply of energy. |
| Shigeru Yamada Representative Director, Group CEO Cosmo Energy Holdings Co., Ltd. |
The Cosmo Energy Group understands that the physical and mental well-being of its human resources is the source of enterprise value creation and the foundation of sustainable growth. To ensure that our executives and employees remain healthy both physically and mentally, the Health and Productivity Management Policy outlines our health and productivity management initiatives.
Goals of Health and Productivity Management
The Cosmo Energy Group’s approach to health and productivity management treats the promotion of physical and mental well-being as the foundation for achieving all aspects of a vibrant work environment. We believe that it is only when employees are healthy and thriving that we can achieve our engagement and productivity goals.
As systematically organized in the Health and Productivity Management Strategy Map, health and productivity management leads ultimately to both greater enterprise value and the realization of individual well-being. Believing that these two things work together to create a virtuous cycle, we remain committed to promoting health and productivity management in accordance with this vision.
Health and Productivity Management Promotion System
Main Health and Productivity Management Initiatives
- Promoting employee health management and implementing a range of work-life balance programs
- Implementing and utilizing stress checks
- Maintaining a 100% health check-up participation rate, implementing specified health check-ups and lifestyle health guidance, and encouraging eligible employees to undergo them
- Running a study group on appropriate management of working hours: Members from the Human Resource Department and labor union meet once a month
- Mental health measures that include a 24-hour consultation line and a return-to-work program
- To improve the health of individuals and prevent harm from exposure to second-hand smoke, smoking is banned during working hours (and we offer a smoking cessation support program)
- Holding health seminars that address smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, sleep, exercise, and other aspects of physical health, as well as mental health, cancer, diseases and health issues specific to women, lifestyle-related diseases, etc.
- Holding walking events and participating in marathons
- Fiscal 2023 progress on fiscal 2025 KPIs:
For example, lifestyle health guidance follow-through rate of 40% (improvement from fiscal 2022 baseline of 21%), 61-point healthy lifestyle index* (up from fiscal 2022 baseline of 58 points)
* Index calculated based on the percentage of people with appropriate alcohol consumption, diet, and exercise habits, the percentage of people who get a sufficient amount of sleep, and the percentage of people who are not currently habitual smokers
Health and Productivity Management Initiative Status and Results
Implementing and Utilizing Stress Checks
The Group has also been working with the Cosmo Health Insurance Society on employee stress checks since December 2015, maintaining a high, approximately 98% participation rate in fiscal 2023 and 2024, exceeding the KPI target of 95% or higher. In addition, we are working to improve this rate by utilizing the results of stress checks, reporting the results to management, and incorporating it in feedback training for department heads.
Health Consultation Line
The Cosmo Energy Group has a dedicated health consultation line that can be accessed by telephone or online, staffed by experts who provide consultations and second opinions on various health matters. The Group also established a new mental health counseling service in fiscal 2021 to promote mental and physical well-being by ensuring that employees are able to access counseling services provided by qualified clinical psychologists.
Implementing and Encouraging Employees to Undergo Specified Health Check-Ups and Receive Lifestyle Health Guidance
In comparison with averages at other health insurance societies, the Cosmo Energy Group was found to face issues in the physical aspects of lifestyle, namely smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, exercise, and sleep. Specifically, our employee smoking rate was high at 30% in fiscal 2021. Further, a relatively high 7% of employees were found to be at risk of liver function issues and obesity in comparison with averages at other health insurance societies. These figures indicated that improving employee physical well-being is important.
Based on these results, we are working to increase the percentage of employees who receive lifestyle health guidance in order to improve employee lifestyles and prevent lifestyle-related diseases.
Thanks to efforts to encourage the implementation of such initiatives across Group companies, the percentage of employees who received lifestyle health guidance increased from approximately 21% in fiscal 2021 to around 33% in fiscal 2022, and further to about 46% in fiscal 2023. This means we have already achieved our fiscal 2025 KPI target of 40% ahead of schedule. Moving forward, we will continue to strengthen collaboration with the Cosmo Energy Group Health Insurance Society to further encourage employees to undergo specified health checks and receive lifestyle health guidance.
Health Seminars
We hold health seminars for all employees and members of their families, some of which are open to business partners and affiliated companies. These seminars address such topics as smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, sleep, exercise, and other aspects of physical health, as well as mental health, cancer, diseases and health issues specific to women, and lifestyle-related diseases. We receive 100 to 200 applications for each session and participant satisfaction has remained at a consistently high level, with satisfaction scores of 4 or higher, out of 5, for each session.
We will continue to hold health seminars to help improve the health and health literacy of our employees and their families, as well as others affiliated with our Group.
Holding Walking Events and Participation in Marathons
The Cosmo Energy Group works to further improve the health of its employees with walking events (held, for example, over one-month periods) and participation in marathons.
Absenteeism, Presenteeism, and Work Engagement
As part of the stress check process, we also take an annual look at absenteeism, presenteeism, and work engagement with a customized list of questions. In terms of absenteeism, approximately 87% of employees in fiscal 2023 and 88% in fiscal 2024 took five or fewer days of paid annual leave due to sickness.
Presenteeism was reported by approximately 36% of all respondents in both fiscal 2023 and 2024. The work engagement score, meanwhile, was around 50 points (on a scale of 0 to 100) in fiscal 2023 and 51 points in fiscal 2024.
Recognition by External Organizations
2025 Certified KENKO Investment for Health Outstanding Organization
For the seventh consecutive year, Cosmo Energy Holdings and its group companies Cosmo Energy Exploration & Production, Cosmo Oil, Cosmo Oil Marketing, Cosmo Oil Lubricants, and Cosmo Business Associates were recognized under the 2025 Certified KENKO Investment for Health Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program* (Large Enterprise Category). The certification is granted by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to companies with excellent health and productivity management initiatives.
*Formerly known as the Certified Health and Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program
