Promotion of wellness management for Aeon 's health management​employees

AEON aims to manage its business with respect for people, and its basic human resources philosophy is to "listen to employees' aspirations, understand their hearts, and utilize their abilities." Its AEON person at work, at home, and in the community.

In fiscal 2016, AEON made the "AEON Healthy Management Declaration," and the entire group is working to ensure employee occupational safety and health and to manage employee health.

AEON has positioned the evolution of health and wellness to meet the needs of the new era as an important strategy in its medium-term management plan. As extending healthy lifespan is a social issue and customers are becoming more health-conscious than ever before, the company is working to resolve social issues through the evolution of health and wellness, which provides comprehensive products and services.

In addition, in order to realize the health and happiness of our employees and customers and contribute to local communities, Aeon believes that human resources are our greatest management resource, and we strive to ensure that our diverse human resources are healthy, demonstrate their abilities, and play an active role.

Aeon's health management aims to realize an ideal situation in which each employee is healthy in mind and body, wants to continue working for a long time, and is full of motivation to work. It also aims for healthy employees to live happy lives in their communities and contribute to the realization of the health and happiness of our AEON.

Therefore, the ultimate goals of health management are "improvement of labor productivity," "retention of human resources, reduction of unwanted turnover," and "improvement of employee satisfaction and work engagement," and we are working on the following indicators as the final goal indicators of health management. I'm here.

To achieve health management, AEON is promoting various initiatives by determining priority issues from the perspectives of both employee health and the organization based on the results of health checkups and employee surveys.

Based on analysis of employee health checkup data and the age structure of group employees, we believe that preventing the onset and severity of lifestyle-related diseases and improving health literacy are important issues.

• Reduction in the number of people with abnormalities (especially blood pressure and blood sugar)
• Improving lifestyle habits (especially smoking rate)

Based on employee surveys and an analysis of the current situation of employees on leave, we believe that improving the work environment and strengthening preventive measures are important issues in terms of mental health measures.

• Improving the workplace environment (mental health measures)
• Improvement and prevention of overwork
• Strengthening primary to tertiary prevention through training

We have created a health management strategy map that organizes the management issues we want to solve through health management, the final target indicators, employee health and organizational issues, and the connections between specific initiatives.

Since fiscal 2017, we have been holding regular AEON Health Management Promotion Conferences with major group companies, and since fiscal 2019, we have been holding regular AEON Health Management General Conferences for health promotion managers and staff from all group companies, with industrial health staff and labor unions from each company also participating.

The Promotion Council formulates and verifies group policies, while the General Meeting works to unify AEON Group in promoting health management by horizontally deploying health promotion and management measures. It also works to enhance the PDCA cycle by holding lectures and training sessions by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, leading companies, and various experts, as well as holding learning sessions among group companies.

The promotion of health and productivity management within AEON Group has been progressing steadily, with 37 companies in the large corporation category (including three in the White 500) and 20 in the small and medium-sized corporation category being certified as outstanding health and productivity management companies for 2024.
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The AEON Group has established a group-wide policy to promote employee health and improve the working environment.

As our group's employees are aging and have a high rate of hypertension and diabetes, we believe it is important to take measures to prevent the onset and severity of the disease through medical checkups.

We believe that improving the smoking rate is an important issue as the rate of smoking among group employees is high, and as the population ages, the incidence of lifestyle-related diseases and cancer is expected to increase.
Additionally, due to the nature of our industry, many employees come into direct contact with customers, so one of our major goals is to prevent customers from getting exposed to third-hand smoke.

In order to improve the health of our employees, we believe that it is important not only to approach high-risk individuals individually, but also to promote initiatives to prevent physical and mental disorders and the onset of diseases while they are still healthy.

In addition to measures against overwork and mental health to improve the health of employees, it is also important to improve employee satisfaction and work engagement by developing systems and workplace environments that are easy to work in. thinking about.

AEON Group is committed to promoting the health of its employees and creating a safe working environment. As there are many retail companies within the group, preventing workplace accidents at stores is one of its most important issues.

At the general shareholders meeting held in May 2013, the then president and representative director of AEON declared that the company aims to have a "50% female manager ratio" and to be "the company in Japan where women can work comfortably and thrive, and the company in Japan where women want to work," and the company is committed to promoting women's participation in the workforce.

In addition to providing a career support system and training, as well as creating a comfortable work environment such as nursing/nursing care leave and establishing an on-site nursery school, we believe that it is important to provide support for health-related issues specific to women, and we have implemented health support measures.

At AEON, we are taking steps to consider the health of not only our own group employees, but also the employees of our suppliers, who are important partners in our business.

(Support for supplier initiatives)

• Conducting study sessions on health management
• Conducted joint research with the Japan Physical Therapy Association to maintain employees' physical abilities and prevent workplace injuries, and published the results in various media so that those in the supply chain could make use of them.
  Example: Safety Staff No. 2453, Labor Newspaper, July 1, 2024, etc.

(Reach out to suppliers)
AEON has established the AEON Supplier Code of Conduct (AEON Supplier Code of Conduct) and asks suppliers to comply with the Supplier Code of Conduct () regarding the production of products while ensuring a safe and healthy work environment in which the human rights of employees are protected and the products are appropriately considered.