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Taiyo Nippon Sanso and Employee Relations

Our corporate motto at Taiyo Nippon Sanso is “The Gas Professionals,” and we consider our global success contingent on each and every employee becoming an industrial gas professional. Well-trained and well-educated employees are the most fundamental part of our competitive strength, and we make every effort to ensure the workplace is conducive to creating an expert workforce.

 

Fair and Impartial Hiring

We at Taiyo Nippon Sanso have eliminated potentially discriminatory factors such as sex or age from our hiring practices. Further, our HR system is based on the three concepts of putting the right person in the right place, fair evaluation and training, and results-based compensation.
 

Evaluation and Compensation

We use different evaluation and compensation systems depending on job type and function. We also work toward the goals of fairness and consensus by using a feedback loop based on the management cycle of Performance → Evaluation → Feedback → Training.

 

Education and Training

The core focus of Taiyo Nippon Sanso is on-the-job-training, but we have also developed parallel training systems based on rank to foster a workforce capable of competing on a global playing field. Going forward, we will focus on expanding our training system in order that all employees feel responsible for polishing their own skills and are empowered to independently take the steps necessary to meet their own goals. 
We also match those employees who request it with distance-learning programs, and pay half the fees once the course is complete. During any given year 150 employees take advantage of this system.
Caption: New employee training

 

Work and Family

We strive to create a workplace friendly to all by making it flexible enough to respond to individual needs. This includes various childcare leave programs.
In recent years, social trends have shifted toward greater opportunities for women to enter the workplace and various forms of pregnancy and childcare leave have been introduced. In 1992 we instituted a program allowing women to choose between shortened working hours and flextime; currently four are working under the former and none under the latter.
Going forward, we will take even greater measures to make work and family compatible based on the Law for Promotion of Childrearing Measures for the Next Generation, which went into effect April 2005.
 
Mental Health Care
We instituted a mental health care system in September 2003 based on the guidelines published in 2000 by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (then the Ministry of Labor).
Specifically, we team up management and labor to perform educational activities together in order to raise consciousness about and increase knowledge of mental health issues. This includes special articles in the company newsletter and outside lecturers who give customized seminars to either new employees or newly appointed managers.
Finally, we perform stress check-ups for all employees, using individual results for self-care and group results for steering our education planning.
 
Employee IP Protection
Taiyo Nippon Sanso knows that our proprietary technology is a precious business resource, so we promptly and thoroughly make patent applications to protect our intellectual property (IP). It is also important to protect the rights of individual developers and inventors, both from the perspective of the patent law revised in April 2005 and to foster an innovation-friendly atmosphere.
For these reasons, in October 2004 we embarked on a comprehensive program of IP advancement and protection by creating IP management systems based on our IP Management Regulations. We have also systematized handling of employee inventions based on our Invention Regulations in order to provide for fair compensation to employees when the company receives the rights to the invention based on the invention’s value at the time of application, approval, and in use.
 
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