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Safety Presentation
Mr. Matsumoto
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 About 40 persons, including the employees of Nuclear Fuel Transport Co., Ltd. attended the Safety Presentation.
At the beginning of the Presentation, Mr. Kaneko, President, Nuclear Fuel Transport Co., Ltd., gave an address and said, “Today, the Safety Caravan is scheduled to provide Mr. Matsumoto’s lecture about corporate ethics, presentation of good practices in Fuji Electric Systems Co., Ltd. and information exchange session. Nuclear Fuel Transport Co., Ltd. suffered from falsification of data on neutron shielding materials for transport casks that had a great influence on backend business in 1998. For this reason, we are working on ensured “security” and “safety” and improvement of corporate ethics based on lessons learned from the misconduct. We believe daily and continuous commitments to the corporate ethics are most important, and wish to provide a good opportunity for contributing to safety improvement through this caravan.”
After the address, Mr. Machida, General Manager of NSnet, introduced NSnet activities, and this was followed by a lecture entitled “Corporate ethics asked now Reexamination of the base of corporate activity” delivered by Instructor, Business Ethics Research Center head, Mr. Matsumoto.
During the lecture he said, “Necessity of reviewing management core with the changing trend of the present times, trends of management ethics in US, Europe, international organizations and Japan, mechanism and checkpoints for establishment of pro-ethical corporate culture, relation between human mentality and personal/organizational ethics, etc. ”
She said, "Compliance is a big business risk. The risk control is an important business challenge. In order to make employees understand that top management seriously works on the diffusion of compliance, it is important to repeatedly deliver this message at every opportunity. GE has priorities of Integrity, Safety, Quality, Output(ISQO)and places top priority on Integrity. GE considers compliance as 100-year gene. " |
At the safety information exchange session, we asked ”Mr. Saitou, Assistant Manager, General Affairs Sec., General Affairs Dept., Tokyo Factory, Fuji Electric Systems Co., Ltd. and Mr. Okamoto, Quality Management Office, the same company” to give an in-depth explanation about the good practices cited by the peer review of the regarding “Utilization of Original Report Sheet Suggested through ‘Hiyari-Hatto’ (Near Accident) Proposals” and “On-line and Unified Trouble Information in QICS at the Occurrence of Troubles and Immediate Response.”
The main information and opinions exchanged were:
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I was surprised that up to about 700 Hiyari-Hatto were reported annually in the factories and plants with a total of about 4,000 employees. Could you tell me how to make efforts to obtain such great number of the incidents reported? |
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I think the number of Hiyari-Hatto greatly depends on leaders’ daily efforts in workplaces. In particular, field managers’ cooperation will contribute to more serious incidents reported. |
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Is information in QICS system available for any of employees? |
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Yes, the information is available for all the staff. Information highly demanded by customers, for instance, information on fabrication process would be accessible from the customers in the future. |
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Do you have in-house rules on operation of this system? Besides, Did you have in-house rules for complaints before the introduction of the system? |
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It is explicitly defined that information on serious accidents shall be controlled with this system under office regulations. Response to complaints was regularized before the adoption of the system. The use of Web functions in this system is helpful for immediate response to them.” |
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Mr. Saito
Mr.Okamoto