Fields of activity for fulfilling stakeholders aspirations

by building a legacy for the future

Leaving a beautiful earth to Contributing to the

future generations sustained progress of
local communities
Symbiosis with nature Low-carbon society Dissemination and Local Passing on the
development of community traditions
knowledge and interaction and culture of
Resource recycling Foundation for environmentally technology architecture
conscious activities

Realizing a
sustainable society
through urban creation

Growing together
with employees
Nurturing personnel to Work-life balance Quality improvement Practice of craftsmanship
become tomorrows leaders
Widely diversified Health and safety Adding value to buildings Safety, security and
human resources prosperity
and cooperating Contributing to the
companies business growth of
customers

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Leaving a beautiful earth to future generations
Environmental Policy/Biodiversity activity guidelines
Symbiosis with nature
Low-carbon society
Resource recycling
Foundation for environmentally conscious activities

Environmental Policy
Contributing to the sustainable development of society through efforts to create environmentally
harmonious spaces

Activity guidelines
1. Pursuit positively activities to realize a society of symbiosis with nature, a low-carbon society and
a resource recycling society
2. Observe regulations and company rules for environmental preservation and implement
measures against environmental risk
3. Implement reliable environmental management based on quality assurance system
4. Conduct training to raise employees environmental awareness
5. Realize detailed environmental communication
6. Participate proactively in social environmental activities

Biodiversity activity guidelines

1. Recognition and sharing
Recognize the relationship between business operations and biodiversity and share this perspective
throughout the company
2. Environmental management
Position the biodiversity as an important theme for environmental management and resolutely
implement the management
3. Research and development
Accumulate expertise on factors influencing biodiversity and promote relevant research and
technological development
4. Construction activities
In planning and design process, put forward proposals which contain plan that take biodiversity into
consideration
In procurement of materials and services, promote maintenance of biodiversity with contract companies
In construction, avoid and reduce impacts on biodiversity from the construction planning stage onward
5. Company facilities
Promote use of lands, operation and management of company facilities with consideration of
biodiversity
6. Education / Enlightenment
Promote biodiversity education and enlighten members of management and employees of the
company and its group as well as cooperating companies
7. Coordination / Cooperation
Coordinate and cooperate with stakeholders who promotes biodiversity

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Symbiosis with nature
Iino Building (Phase II) integrates Iino Forest
into a green network in the heart of Tokyo
A lush landscaped forest has emerged in front of a high-rise Tokyo
office building equipped with state-of-the-art environmental
features. Seventy-seven species of trees and shrubs suited to the
intrinsic ecosystem of the area, including Japanese bay trees
(machilus thurnbergii) and Chinese hackberries (celtis sinensis),
were selected to expand the green network extending from the
Imperial Palace and Hibiya Park to the Atagoyama district and Shiba
Park. Drawing on the results of past surveys of flora and fauna in
the neighborhood, the forests planners selected species of birds
and butterflies to attract as biodiversity indicators, and then chose Iino Building, Phase I Artworks
suitable tree species to create a habitat for these creatures. A road *Iino Forest (foreground) is a graphic
rendering of its appearance upon
lined with Oshima and Edohigan cherry trees resembling a cherry completion.

tree-lined road in nearby Hibiya Park has also been provided.

Deciduous, coniferous and shade-tolerant tree species were planted
based on a comprehensive evaluation of environmental factors such
as shading by the building and the cold north winds of winter, giving
rise of a forest where office workers can relax and experience the
seasons. A pagoda provides shade for benches where people wait
for buses, and artworks are arranged for the pleasure of strollers, all
contributing to creation of a refreshing urban community forest.
We will monitor the wildlife in the park into the future to
determine the effectiveness of the green network and
incorporate the gathered information into our plans to continue
Birds-eye view of Iino Forest
this creation of rich inner-city ecosystems.

Tokyo Tower
Iino Forest Iino Building Atagoyama
Shiba Park
Imperial Palace Outer Garden Hibiya Park

Shiba Park
Hibiya Park
Imperial Palace Outer Garden
Atagoyama Tokyo Tower

A pagoda surrounded by benches

Planning for harmony with nature

Global Foods Safety Research Institute, Nissin Group Global
Innovation Research Center (completed November 2013, Tokyo)
This new research institute draws on the concept of architecture
in a dialog with the environment. Takenaka made use of the
uninterrupted scenery of a nearby wood to integrate the building
into the natural surroundings. By developing a broad expanse of
greenery that makes the most of existing vegetation and a large
rainwater pond, the company created an environment conducive
to biodiversity conservation. Cool winds passing over the green
expanse and pond can be brought into the building to provide
natural ventilation. The adjacent rainwater pond

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Low-carbon society
Striving for ZEB Undertaking the design of Shiga Banks Ritto branch
Takenaka is handling the design work for a project organized to reconstruct the Ritto branch of Shiga Bank
as the first ZEB (zero energy building) bank branch. We expect to achieve virtual zero CO2 emission by using
natural lighting and ventilation and advanced energy management to reduce energy consumption while
the building is in use, coupled with energy production by a solar power-generation system.

Resource recycling
Benefiting from biomass
Takenaka is also pursuing technical development aimed at
reducing waste after buildings go into operation.
Among the various types of waste generated in urban areas, food
waste raises particular challenges because of its high moisture
content, which results in high fuel requirements and other costs
for transportation and disposal. Methane fermentation, an efficient
technology for on-site organic matter (biomass) processing and
energy recovery, is impractical for small-scale applications such as
treatment of food waste generated in buildings.
Takenaka responded by effectively combining raw waste
pulverization by disposer, methane fermentation and existing
wastewater treatment technologies to develop the Urban Biogas The biogas system installed in ABENO HARUKAS
System, Japans first technology using methane fermentation to
convert raw waste from buildings into biogas.
The system, which first went into operation in the ABENO HARUKAS super-skyscraper in Osaka, uses biogas
produced from food waste to fuel a co-generation system that supplies electricity and heat throughout
the building. This technology earned Takenaka the 2013 Environment Ministers Award for Global Warming
Prevention Activity and the 2013 Special Prize of the Cogeneration Award Screening Committee.

Foundation for environmentally conscious activities

Takenaka Group joins Government in designating June environment
month and steps up environmental preservation efforts close to home
Invitations to apply for Takenakas corporate Environmental and Social Contribution Award were extended
to the entire Takenaka Group in 2014, attracting 106 applications. President Miyashita presented a certificate
of commendation to 20 selected projects among these entries at an award ceremony held on June 5
at Toyocho Intesu Hall in Tokyo. Three of the companies were chosen as Grand Prix recipients: Takenaka
Corporation (environmental contribution award, project category), Asahi Facilities Inc. (environmental
contribution award, business improvement category) and Thai Takenaka International Ltd. (social
contribution award).
Takenaka also participated again in an annual lights-off campaign once more, as in the previous year.
With environment month as a starting point, we will expand our everyday environmental efforts further to
help create a better future.

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Contributing to the sustained progress of local communities
Dissemination and development of knowledge and technology
Local community interaction
Passing on the traditions and culture of architecture

Dissemination and development of

knowledge and technology
Elementary school children attend experiential
learning class in architectural structures at Manabo
Studio in ABENO HARUKAS
On March 30, Takenaka joined Kintetsu Department Store
in Osaka in offering a class entitled Join in constructing an
earthquake-resistant building for 30 elementary students
at Manabo Studio in the Kintetsu Department Store ABENO
HARUKAS Tower Building. The class was held as an activity of
Naniwa Demaejuku, a traveling experiential learning classroom
operated by volunteers, including design department staff of
Takenakas Osaka Head Office. Children install braces on a vibration model.
A member of the design staff responsible for the structural
design of the ABENO HARUKAS complex (design: Takenaka,
construction: joint venture) delivered a lecture accompanied by a slide presentation of the structural system
employed in constructing ABENO HARUKAS, which celebrated its grand opening in March 2014. The
presentation communicated the importance of implementing measures to protect against earthquakes
and typhoons for super high-rise buildings in Japan.
The children were then divided into teams, each of which was asked to install braces in a building vibration
model as its members thought best in a competition to achieve greater vibration reduction than the other
teams. The teams were also asked to create stylish earthquake-resistant building models by combining
12 cubes. Parents of the children in each team were invited to serve as judges tasked with evaluating the
models based on the three criteria: height, strength and stylishness. The class concluded with the shooting
of a commemorative photo of the children with the models they had built in the background.
The event provided an opportunity to stimulate the childrens interest in construction through experience
with unfamiliar structural technologies and to inform them about ABENO HARUKAS, Japans tallest super
high-rise boasting a height of 300 meters.

Note:
Naniwa Demae juku (Naniwa Traveling Classroom), a social action program operated by employee volunteers from
Takenaka Corporation, has been offering classes since 2009 to increase interest in construction among members
of the younger generation, which will shape the future. The volunteers visit elementary schools, high schools and
universities to conduct the participatory experiential classes, which treat such construction-related themes as
earthquake-resistant buildings and eco-school observation tours (of environmentally friendly buildings).
Takenaka Corporation plans to continue to offer Naniwa Demae juku as part of its CSR activities into the future.

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Local community interaction
Elementary school children tour Sunstar Hall
construction site
Takenakas Hiroshima Branch is currently undertaking
construction (with design by Takenaka) of the Sunstar Hall
(Sakacho Community Exchange Center), which is scheduled
to open this September in Sakacho, Hiroshima Prefecture. The
hall, which will serve as a center for exchange through sports
and cultural events, will also be equipped to provide a disaster
shelter function. Its completion is eagerly awaited. On June 24 Elementary school 6th graders experience floorboard laying.
and 26, 2014, we conducted workplace tours for approximately
500 students and teachers of Sakacho Elementary School, which
is located adjacent to the construction site.
Before each tour, Takenaka employees responsible for the construction and design work described the
project processes from planning to completion, using materials and model buildings designed for childrens
education. The Q&A periods that followed the presentations were characterized by lively exchanges of
questions and remarks. On June 24, lower grade students cheered and clapped as they watched motorized
bleachers that will be installed in the arena move automatically. In the June 26 tour, upper grade students
were given opportunities to experience such construction work as laying flooring and papering and painting
walls. The activities elicitated such comments from the children as, Painting walls was fun, and, I want to be a
painter when I grow up.
Takenaka is committed to continuing to create opportunities of this kind to communicate the appeal of the
construction business to the children who will become tomorrows leaders.

Employees join Kanda Festival Masakado

omikoshi portable shrine procession
The Kanda Festival held in Tokyo each May is one of Japans three
most important festivals. Since the festival is larger or smaller in
odd-numbered and even-numbered years, respectively, the 2014
festival was designated the minor festival. A total of 14 tenants
of the Takenaka-managed Ote Center Building and 13 Takenaka
employees, all wearing matching hanten workmens jackets, were
among the festival participants on May 11.
Historical features of the Otemachi district surrounding the Ote A procession sets off to transport the mikoshi portable shrine
from Taira-no-Masakados headstone to the Otemachi district
Center Building include the Masakado Mound, a small plot of
land with a stone lantern headstone marking the burial site of
the head of Taira no Masakado, a powerful samurai and political leader active in the Kanto region in the
mid-Heian period, and designated an Important Cultural Property of Tokyo. The Masakado Preservation
Society has been established to preserve this historic site and pass down the cultural traditions associated
with it as well as to promote exchange among members of the local community. Nearly 1,000 members of
the society carry the Masakado mikoshi portable shrine in a procession from the Masakado Mound to the
Otemachi-Marunouchi district as part of the Kanda Festival each year, a rite performed to bring prosperity
and safety to the community. Takenaka has participated in the festival every year since 2005.
As in other odd-numbered years, the highlight event of this years major Kanda Festival will be the Mikoshi
Miya-iri, a procession in which portable shrines connected with the Kanda Myojin Shrine are carried onto the
shrine premises one after another. The Masakado mikoshi will be among those featured in the Miya-iri, and
tenants of the Ote Center Building and Takenaka employees are looking forward to participating once more.
In the years to come, Takenaka will continue to contribute to passing on Japans traditional culture to future
generations through community exchanges of this kind.

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Passing on the traditions and culture of architecture
Redesign of the quarterly PR magazine approach
A culture magazine disseminating messages that enrich society
A pioneering publication in the heyday of corporate PR
magazines, Takenakas quarterly approach was conceived by then-
president Renichi Takenaka and launched in 1964 by a group
of prominent personalities, led by the editor Tsune Sesoko, art
director Ikko Tanaka and photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto, who
created infographics for the covers. approach has continued
publication for over half a century since in a spirit of fluidity and
immutability, an unwavering philosophy and a commitment to
high-quality content and design. The cover of the spring 2013
issue, the 201st issue, broke with tradition by featuring a textile
series by Swiss-based designer Aoi Huber-Kono in place of the
multi-exposure photos by Yasuhiro Ishimoto that had adorned
the cover for over four decades. In another change, the lead-off approach celebrated publication of its 200th
articles by Toko Shinoda have been replaced by contributions issue by making a new start with a redesign.
from the essayist Sawako Agawa. Also beginning with the 201st
issue, a Web version of approach has been published to make
the magazine, formerly distributed only to a limited readership,
accessible to a much larger audience.

[approach]
www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/about/pr_magazine

Advanced traveling framework method

adopted for temporary roofing installation
at Shonenji Temple
Takenaka participated in a joint venture project for restoration
of Shonenji Temple, a temple of the Jodo Shinshu Honganji
sect and an Important Cultural Property of Japan located in
Imai-cho, Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture. Before beginning the
dismantlement and repair of the main hall, the construction
crew employed the Takenaka traveling frame construction
method to build a temporary roofed structure over the entire
building to serve as a scaffolding and materials yard.
Temporary roofed structure installation by traveling framework
An advanced slide technology was required to build the
temporary roofed structure, both because the construction
site was in an area of old traditional buildings and densely
constructed houses designated as an important preservation district and because the hall faced onto
public roads to the west and north. The structure was assembled one 3.45 m span at a time in a working
space secured to the south of the hall and slid northward seven times between February 21 and March 30,
2013. In the end, the 21-meter high two-story steel structure, which measured 36 meters (east to west) by
42 meters (north to south) and weighed 170 tons, was hauled into place without incident.
Takenaka plans to continue deploying advanced technologies to preserve Japans precious cultural
heritage.

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Contributing to the business growth of customers
Quality improvement
Practice of craftsmanship
Adding value to buildings
Safety, security and prosperity

Quality improvement / Practice of craftsmanship

An innovative framing system enhances medical facilities
convenience and comfort
A framing system developed by Takenaka for general hospitals and other large-scale medical facilities
offers both the convenient flexibility to alter the diameters and routes of installed pipes and the ability to
create indoor environments with an open feel. Particularly well-suited for use in base-isolated buildings,
the system features flat cross-section beams and fortified slim RC columns. The flat cross-section beams are
placed at a lower-than-usual height so that the pipes do not have to run through them, thus facilitating
renovation or upgrading. The fortified slim RC columns employ ultra high-strength concrete and high-
strength reinforcement bars to reduce their floor space requirements, enabling architects to design indoor
environments that feel more open.

Adding value to buildings

Tohoku University School of Medicine No. 3 Building transformed by
seismic isolation retrofitting
The Tohoku University School of Medicines No. 3 Building, a key research facility of the university, was
transformed into a safe, secure base-isolated structure equipped with the latest functions through
renovation work conducted by Takenaka to reinforce its earthquake resistance, drawing on the experience
of the Great East Japan Earthquake. The renovation involved such work as seismic isolation retrofitting,
exterior and interior finishing and extensive facilities renovation.
A mid-story isolation technique proposed by Takenaka technical personnel and adopted for the project
offered the advantages of ensuring the building occupants safety and security in the event of a major
earthquake while enabling the work of retrofitting to be conducted with the building still in service. The
concurrently conducted interior and exterior renovations and facility renewal have improved the buildings
aseismic performance and functions as a research facility and increased its energy efficiency.

OTO-LESS earthquake-resistant ceiling An innovative ceiling system

offering protection against quakes and vibrations
The OTO-LESS earthquake-resistant ceiling, a new ceiling system developed by Takanaka with superior
resistance to vibrations from events such as earthquakes, is capable of preventing earthquake-generated
shaking of ceilings in facilities such as music halls and cinema complexes that require superior acoustic
performance. The system involves placing special metal joints between the ceiling surface and the lower
edge of the support braces in a configuration that makes the ceiling highly earthquake resistant while
suppressing sound propagation.
Takenaka will propose this ceiling system as a solution for customers such as concert halls and cinema complexes
to ensure greater safety in the event of earthquakes in venues where people gather in large numbers.

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Safety, security and prosperity
TAFT earthquake-induced interior shaking simulation system
The newly developed TAFT (TAkenaka Furniture Teller) system estimates and evaluates the interior shaking
that occurs during earthquakes and displays the results in computer graphic video format. Use of the
system requires simply typing in or selecting basic data on a PC, including the number of stories and type
of building structure as well as the nature and intensity of the earthquakes motion.
Structural safety has always been a key factor in considering a buildings aseismic performance. Now,
in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake, concern for BCP (business continuity planning) has
stimulated growing interest in reducing the interior damage caused by earthquakes as well. Developed
in this environment, TAFT visualizes interior conditions during an earthquake and communicates a visual
understanding of the way a building will shake if an earthquake strikes.

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Growing together with employees and cooperating companies
Nurturing personnel to become tomorrows leaders
Work-life balance
Widely diversified human resources
Health and safety

Nurturing personnel to become tomorrows leaders

Developing aptitude on an individual basis
Practical application of a web-based human resources information system*1 in everyday use by both the
Human Resources Department and the various other departments supports optimal career formation
that makes the most of employees capability development and aptitudes by deepening communications
between individual employees and their superiors. A goal assessment and management function was
introduced in 2013 with the aim of expanding use of the system in day-to-day management and self-
assessment management by the various departments.
The companys training system (chart) directs particular effort toward programs for trainees, from young
people to the main body of employees, by proactively providing selected applicants with opportunities to
receive high-level specialized education in technological development and international business fields.*2

*1 A human resources information system conducted on the intranet

*2 Number of employees who had completed the training as of March 2015:
Trainees from the Takenaka Research and Development Institute: 572
International trainees: 246

Training System Human Resources Cultivation

Internal education Outside education

Workplace education Non-workplace education Special training

Class by Special work Special

education skills education education
Management
Job skills education
Technical skills education

Everyday individual TQM education Technology Research External training

level education
education Health & safety Center trainee system Training programs
Mid-level education Lectures
Everyday group employee education Research groups
education Human rights International business
education trainee system Seminars
Education supported Introductory Compliance Observation tours
by department company education Panel discussions
responsible for CS Overseas study Correspondence courses
New employee
education education Others system Others

Self-enlightenment

Current situation of global human resources education

In nurturing human resources with the ability to deal effectively with
globalization, Takenaka considers it important that young people have
opportunities to develop a global mindset by experiencing foreign cultures
at the earliest possible age. To this end, the company proactively recruits
employees among graduates of overseas schools. In 2013, moreover, it
dispatched seven employees to three countries for month-long homestays
and overseas practical workplace training targeting new employees under its
mainstay foreign culture experience training program.
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Work-life balance
Activities supporting development of the next generation
Since 2005, Takenaka has formulated action plans for general operations based on
the act on advancement of measures to support raising next-generation children,
and has conducted activities aimed at fostering a workplace environment that
enables employees to meet the dual responsibilities of working and childrearing.
These ongoing activities were recognized in 2012 by receipt of the Kurumin Mark
awarded by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare certifying Takenaka as an
enterprise that supports childrearing. The group continues to conduct activities in
this area based on its 3rd medium-term action plan.
The kurumin mark certifying next-
generation development

Widely diversified human resources

Creating workplaces that invite participation by
diversified personnel
Generating architecture that responds to social issues and diversified value
systems requires maximized deployment of the capabilities of a broad
range and variety of human resources. At Takenaka, we promote diversity
management aimed at realizing workplace environments in which anyone
can operate freely, regardless of sex, nationality, age or disabilities.
Takenaka has devoted efforts to employing such varied human resources
in recent years. With respect to female employees, for example, the
ratio of women among recently graduated employees has grown each
year. As concerns older employees, a reemployment system introduced
before continuing employment became compulsory in 2004 ensures
A seminar on foreign employee acceptance
that employees with advanced knowledge, know-how and abundant
experience have the opportunity to remain active beyond the retirement
age. As of June 2014, moreover, Takenakas employment rate for personnel with disabilities was 2.04 percent, a
figure exceeding the 2.0 percent required by law.

Transitions in number of retirees affected by the new regulations and reemployment rate Changes in employment rate of disabled
(Note) All personnel who were not reemployed in 2013 refused offers of reemployment.

(Persons) (%) (%)

350 94.9 100 2.50
85.4
300 78.0 81.1
75.0 76.0
250 75 2.01 1.99 2.01 2.04
2.00
200 1.79
50 1.64
150 295 Legal enployment rate: 2.0%
283
231 1.50
100 25
167 158 150
50
0 0 1.00
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 (Year) 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 (Year)
Number of retirees with newly regulated reemployment eligibility Reemployment rate Figure: Jun.1of every current year

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Health and safety
Targeting zero workplace casualties
Implementing measures to prevent falling accidents
Aware that every construction site contains various potential danger factors that could contribute
to worker casualties, Takenaka applies OHSMS*1 in conducting risk assessments*2 at all its main and
branch offices and worksites for use in planning risk-reduction measures in advance. Since 2009, it has
designated occupations with high accident rates as priority occupations in order to conduct safety-
minded construction on high-risk projects and has sought to reinforce its disaster-prevention activities
conducted in conjunction with the occupational health & safety association.*3 As a result, the number of
accidents causing business shutdowns decreased annually for seven consecutive years. In 2013, however,
the number of business shutdowns of four days or longer due to disasters increased, and the incidence rate
of shutdowns of at least four days worsened.*4 The company responded in 2014 by positioning prevention
of falling and plunging accidents, which are associated with especially serious disasters, as a high-priority
issue for management and by targeting elimination of accidents resulting from unsafe behavior and
communication deficiencies. This involves conducting on-site training in such skills as the use of double-
hook safety belts and ascending/descending facilities at morning assemblies, for example, and pursuing
efforts to assure consistent installation of handrails around holes and to strengthen enforcement of
pointing and calling occupational safety procedures. The result has been a 0.20-point improvement in the
frequency rate of these accidents.

*1 Occupation Health & Safety Management System (OHSMS)

A systematic mechanism (process) designed to raise health and safety standards at workplaces through actions initiated
independently by the workers to contribute to health and safety
*2 Risk assessment
Investigation of danger or potential harm and implementation of requisite measures
*3 Occupational Health & Safety Association
An organization comprising Takenaka and all its cooperating companies involved in construction work, established to promote
accident prevention and health management
*4 Incidence of 4-day or longer business shutdowns due to disasters
Incidence of shutdowns: Number of casualties (including deaths) among workplace disasters occurring during about 1 million
working hours resulting in shutdowns of 4 days or longer

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Experiential safety training through sight,
touch and experience Practical Technology
Training Center Omoi (Hyogo Prefecture)
Among the disasters occurring on construction sites, falling and
plunging accidents associated with serious disasters transpire
repeatedly. In January 2012, the company began experiential
training in falling accident safety at the Practical Technology
Training Center Omoi to enhance sensitivity to safety on the
actual worksite. This training employs a curriculum built around
a core of actual observation with the five senses, beginning
with sight, hearing and touch, in a concerted effort to cultivate Facade of the Practical Technology Training Center Omoi
human resources who are capable of making the most of
accident-prevention activities in worksite operations by imbuing
them with a physical awareness of basic safety management and
sensitivity to danger. As of fiscal 2014, this education had been
implemented for 264 young employees, eliciting such comments
from the participants as, I developed a deeper understanding of
the meaning of actually seeing and sensing.

Practice in falling with safety belts

Examinations and care provision implemented to

preserve mental and physical health
Takenaka is implementing such initiatives as the addition of long-term health examinations, support for
physical examinations, provision of registered nurses for workers in remote locations and consultation
rounds by public health nurses, among others. Since 2011, items added to make health checkups more
complete have included breast and uterine cancer examinations. As concerns mental health, self-care
training and in-house counseling by professional counselors have been introduced as part of efforts to
achieve early diagnosis and appropriate care. A reinstatement support program introduced in 2011 has
created a structure, moreover, for smooth reinstatement of workers who have been absent from work for
mental health reasons.

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