Social contribution | logistics | Mitsui & Co. Global Logistics, Ltd.

To maintain Safety and Quality

By establishing the necessary items and maters for safety and health, we are working to ensure the safety and health of our employees, the comfortable working environment, and the facilitation and improvement of efficient business performances by carrying out the following activities.

Improvement of working environment

Building of an Industrial Safety and Health Management System to Ensure Legal Compliance at each operation site
Work environment improvement implemented in cooperation with a department that is directly controlled by CEO

<Examples of Improvements>
Installation of Working Platforms

Prevention of backaches and reduction of work loads burden in replacing gas bottles
From Top/Bottom storage To Left/right storage with 70cm height on ground (The base slides horizontally)

To prevent occupational accidents

Formulation of industrial accident-reduction policy and KPI management
Enlightenment through monthly publication of MGL’s Health and Safety

Improving safety and promoting beautification by enhancing the reproducibility of in-warehouse levels

Highly visible markings through color classification of vinyl tapes (left)
Conducting pedestrian and vehicle segregation, separation of forklift and pedestrian traffic(right)
Designating the area inside the line under the fire shutter as an area where placing anything is always prohibited (right)

Strengthening education and training

Occupational Health Education for Prevention of Heat Accidents
Patrol for accidents prevention and guidance by qualified in-house instructors
Annual skill workshops for forklift operators held with the cooperation by manufacturers

Safety measures for machinery and equipment

LED light radiation that allows workers to recognize the presence of vehicles (left), Use of bumpers to prevent pinching of operator’s feet (right)

prevention band from storage rack collapsion (left), Measures to prevent the hands from being caught in the heating sealer (right)

Contributing to local communities

In accordance with the Social Welfare Town Development Ordinance by Tokyo Metropolitan Government, we have established a pedestrian deck (*) for redeveloped properties to create a barrier-free structure, directly connecting to the nearest station, and open the stores to the general public.

(*) Elevated sidewalk with a square function

Building safety, secure and comfortable facilities

<Examples of Completion>
As our newly built property, “Granlogi Terrace Shinagawa” was completed construction on February 28, 2023.
Oi Keibajo Mae Station of the Tokyo Monorail Haneda Airport Line and our logistics facilities are directly connected by the pedestrian deck.
The Pedestrian Deck, which connects stations and stores section is open to the general public, and is a barrier-free facility that is accessible to all customers, including shop uses.

Examples of Introduction: Barrier-free Common Space and Equipment aimed at Facilities open to All People

Improving Operational Quality and Utilizing Advanced Technologies

In addition to maintaining and improving the quality of our services, we are promoting the creation of new value that will lead to the resolution of various social issues related to logistics and the improvement of customer satisfaction through the introduction of cutting-edge technologies and through the on-site creativities.

Provision of automation and labor-saving solutions

Solution (Video)

Case 1

Labor savings through a sorting system

Case 2

Post-in response automatic box line system

Case 3

Automatic shelving system compatible with variable-height boxes

At our logistics sites, we are promoting R&D of various materials handling systems through actual operations without being constrained by existing materials handling systems based on free thinking.
We are aggressively promoting the introduction and use of unconventional, cutting-edge technologies, such as leveraging our expertise in collecting, analyzing, and investigating information across industries to improve work efficiency by utilizing our ability to select materials handling systems.
Our aim is to create values that can respond immediately to new social issues.

Employee protection and a comfortable working environment

We operate working sites that handle our customers' valuable products, especially on our distribution centers. Through various initiatives, we aim to build a work environment in which employees can perform their duties in a safe and secure manner, and to maintain a workplace environment as a base that can provide new ideas and values.

Preventive measures for infectious diseases

In countermeasures against COVID-19, we have not only posted an in-house intranet for health and safety to alert employees, but have also taken hardware-related measures, such as preventing sprays at breaking areas where many employees may have contact, ensuring distance each other, and implementing sanitizing and temperature checks.

Measures to Prevent Heat Disease

With recognizing the risk that our distribution centers, which are large and small in size and possess characteristics and are highly airtightness, have a hot environment, we take various measures to ensure that employees can carry out operations as safe as possible, especially during the summer season, such as introducing air conditioning equipment, large-scale powerful spot coolers and fans. We will continue to work to realize a comfortable workplace environment.

Activities of diverse HR

Work style innovation

Promote “positive use of paid leave and reduction of overtime"

Monitoring the results of overtime work and the results of taking paid holidays and a report for managers every 10 days,
To recommend taking five consecutive summer vacation days, including two paid vacations,
The company and each of its employees are trying together to increase the rate of paid leave taken.

Promotion of the use of childcare leave, short working days, and family care leave

In addition to traditional maternity and family care leave, encourage male employees to take childcare leave, and encourage eligible employees to use such individual systems.

Continuous implementation of remote work

Introduction of a free address system at the Head Office and recommendation for online meetings to continue, use and promote remote work in New Normal after “with COVID-19”.

Diverse workplaces

Initiatives for Diversity

Promote diverse human resources and working styles, such as active participation by women, employment of people with disabilities, and recruitment of foreigners.

Utilization and promotion of talent management

Assessment of employees' skills and business experiences through talent management, build of personnel assignments and education and training programs based on each employee's desirable career through annual career self-reporting.

Workplace environment with positive culture and atmosphere in which co-creating with our colleagues

Creating Comfortable Workplaces

Training to create an comfortable-to-work environment, harassment training for managers and mid-level employees, and communication training,
Introduction and implementation of one-to-one training (mentor-trainer) system for new employees.

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