Employee Health and Safety

• Health and Safety Initiatives
• Occupational Accident Prevention Measures
• Occupational Accident Statistics
• Employee Health Promotion Initiatives
• Measures for Ensuring the Safety of Employees Stationed/Traveling Overseas
• External Recognition

Health and Safety Initiatives

The Yamaha Group believes that one of its most important management issues is ensuring the health and safety of its employees. The Group advances initiatives based on the Standards and Basic Policy for the Group Occupational Health and Safety Management Policies & Rules, which can be found below, and we aim to continually enhance the level of our health and safety.

Health and Safety Management System

At the Yamaha Group, the Industrial Safety and Health Committee has been established to guide the smooth implementation of health and safety activities. This committee is overseen by an executive officer appointed by the president of Yamaha Corporation and includes members such as operating site leaders (general occupational health and safety managers), division representatives, major Group company representatives, and the head industrial physician. Duties of the committee include discussing and deciding occupational health and safety, traffic safety, health management, and other policies and measures and promoting and monitoring Companywide initiatives. Reports on these activities are submitted to the president on a regular basis. In addition, the Groupwide Health and Safety Convention is held at the start of each fiscal year. As part of this event, domestic and overseas employees are provided with messages from the president and the heads of labor unions in which they pledge to work to eliminate accidents as well as an overview of activities from the previous fiscal year and explanations of policies for the current fiscal year from the occupational health and safety managers.

The formal labor agreement that Yamaha Corporation has with the labor union states, “The Company must take all necessary measures to ensure safe, healthy conditions at its factories and improve its work environments while union members must uphold all rules concerning safety and health. The Company and union shall also work together to improve union members’ knowledge of safety and health.” The agreement also establishes provisions concerning matters such as the Safety and Health Committee, dangerous and injurious work, medical examinations, and accident compensation.

Acquisition of Certification for Occupational Health and Safety Management System (ISO 45001)

The Group Occupational Health and Safety Management Policies & Rules defines our commitment toward maintaining the health and safety of all people connected with Yamaha business activities, and we are moving forward with the codification and standardization of the rules and activities necessary for fulfilling this commitment.

Occupational health and safety management is practiced targeting everyone working at the Yamaha Group, including full-time employees, contract employees, dispatch employees, and subcontractors, and the Group is working to acquire ISO 45001 certification for musical instrument and audio equipment production sites. Bases that have not obtained certification take measures to prevent accidents, improve health, and develop comfortable workplace environments based on the principles of occupational health and safety management systems in order to improve occupational health and safety levels.

As of March 31, 2025, 13, or 72.2%, of the Group’s 18 production bases worldwide had received ISO 45001 certification.

Occupational Accident Prevention Measures

The Yamaha Group takes steps to prevent occupational accidents by improving workplace safety through inspections of the safety of equipment and machinery, risk assessments, monitoring, and chemical substance management. In addition, we perform health and safety training and drills for employees and establish and implement Group standard safety rules.

Machinery and Equipment Safety Inspections

The Yamaha Group requires that safety inspections be performed by inspection committee members prior to the start of operation of machinery or equipment newly introduced at domestic and overseas production sites and of equipment that has been upgraded, renovated, or relocated. Based on these inspections, risk countermeasures are implemented in relation to defective areas of machinery and equipment, operating procedures, material processing methods, and handling of solvents and chemicals to ensure employee health and safety before machines or equipment are even activated.

Risk Assessments

The Yamaha Group conducts risk assessments and implements risk countermeasures in relation to machinery, equipment, operating procedures, and working conditions to prevent occupational accidents. These activities have been entrenched as a core element of the occupational health and safety activities of domestic and overseas production sites.

Monitoring

In addition to on-site surveys at ISO 45001-certified sites, comprehensive health and safety monitoring is conducted at Group companies under the guidance of the occupational health and safety representative of Yamaha Corporation. Staff possessing expert techniques or certifications related to health and safety conduct checks of workplaces and compliance with health and safety management systems. As part of these monitoring activities, health and safety level checks (reviews of approximately 40 items focusing on the level of health and safety management systems, regulations, and standards) are implemented based on comprehensive health and safety monitoring sheets, and workplace inspections are carried out to check health and safety measures and to correct and provide guidance on problematic areas. These activities are conducted on a regular basis, and nine sites were subject to such checks in fiscal 2025.

Sales bases located in Japan carry out self-directed health and safety diagnoses that are based on operating activities and the number of employees. After examining the results of diagnoses, feedback and support is provided for compliance and improvement measures. At overseas sales companies, meanwhile, online meetings are held with the respective sites, and support for addressing issues and improving management levels is provided based on surveys of management conditions and operating activities.

Production Site Facility and Equipment Safety Management

At production sites inside and outside Japan, Yamaha Corporation facility management personnel conduct facility safety surveys of production equipment to prevent accidents and disasters on-site and to improve safety levels. Furthermore, Yamaha regularly conducts evacuation drills and emergency response drills to prepare for disasters.

Area Safety Committees

Area safety committees are assembled in Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India with membership from the health and safety staff of the production bases in these areas. These committees meet regularly, and these meetings are used as opportunities to discuss accident prevention measures based on information about accidents that have occurred at the Yamaha Group, confirm the status of activities based on ISO 45001, and otherwise take part in brisk discussions for sharing information on and standardizing rules and activities. These meetings thus serve as opportunities for exchanges between the health and safety staff of different bases. In addition, bases conduct mutual audits of one another as a form of active coordination for enhancing safety management.

Chemical Substance Management

In production, repair, and other processes, there are some tasks that require employees to handle chemicals with the potential to cause bodily harm. Yamaha takes steps to combat such risks by improving workplace environments and equipment and supplying appropriate protective equipment. In addition, training is provided to workers to enable them to wear protective equipment correctly. The Company is also conducting regular risk assessments of workplaces that handle chemical substances to promote autonomous management of these substances.

To prevent occupational illnesses, we promote specialized health examinations that effectively and accurately target individuals designated as being at risk of such illnesses. The employees taking part in these examinations are confirmed twice a year to avoid applicable employees being overlooked due to relocations or changes in work responsibilities. In addition, health examinations testing for specified chemicals are conducted with a wider scope of target chemicals and more stringently defined limits than those stipulated in legal requirements.

Health and Safety Education and Training

Enhancement of Occupational Health and Safety Education

The Yamaha Group is committed to the development of workplaces where everyone can feel safe and secure with no fear of occupational accidents. To this end, we are ramping up health and safety training through a Groupwide campaign advanced via coordination between labor and management. The Yamaha Group conducts health and safety education based on rank^*2 to facilitate deeper understanding in relation to the importance of health and safety management and each individual’s expected role with this regard.

We have also introduced training programs for secretariats and other core health and safety staff at overseas production sites. These programs are comprised of awareness, knowledge, and technical courses and are designed to foster the mindset required of leaders responsible for promoting occupational health and safety to cultivate individuals capable of guiding health and safety activities at their base or workplace.

• 2 In fiscal 2025, health and safety education was implemented for new recruits, mid-career hires, new managers, new Group company presidents, new instructors, new foremen, and instructor and foremen candidates (Yamaha Technology Training School and Yamaha Advanced Skill School).

Occupational health and safety education sessions at overseas bases

Safety Dojos

The Yamaha Group has set up safety dojos at domestic and overseas production bases. These educational facilities, which are designed to help heighten sensitivity toward danger, are used to hold danger experience workshops. Safety dojos contain apparatuses that allow employees to experience, in a safe environment, the dangers of becoming caught in machinery, set on fire, or electrocuted. The facilities are also used to introduce employees to safety provisions including safety devices, protective gear, and disaster preparedness items. The safety-related experiences provided by these facilities have been revised from the perspectives of all four elements of the accident mechanism: People, equipment, management, and workplace environment. We thereby refined danger experience apparatuses so that they better communicate the unsafe conditions and actions that can result in accidents. The goal of these efforts is to heighten the receptiveness of employees to danger and to allow employees to use what they learned at safety dojos to drive improvements at their workplaces. The Yamaha Group is in the process of setting up safety dojos for individual bases, and such facilities are currently in place at eight bases in Japan and overseas.

Safety dojos at various bases

Establishment and Standardization of Rules

The Yamaha Group is working to eliminate gaps in occupational health and safety standards among Group companies, establishing Group standard rules (health and safety regulations and standards, action standards, equipment standards, and other safety guidelines and standards) with the aim of improving the level of health and safety on a Groupwide basis, and translating these tools into multiple languages.

Prevention of Traffic Accidents

The Yamaha Group is promoting the improvement of traffic safety awareness based on its commitment to preventing traffic accidents by employees. In Japan, monthly danger prediction training sessions using actual accident case studies are conducted on an individual workplace level. In addition, new recruits take part in traffic safety training and undergo driving inspections with a driving school instructor onboard to instill in them the level of safety driving awareness expected of a responsible member of society when commuting or driving for business purposes. Overseas, Group companies conduct driver license and vehicle inspections, online trainings, and various other traffic safety initiatives.

Occupational Accident Statistics

In fiscal 2025, the number of occupational accidents at the Yamaha Group was 74 (of which 42 required time off from work), compared with the target of 50, and there were no fatalities among Yamaha Group employees or subcontractors working on the premises of Yamaha Group companies.

Occupational Accident Frequency Rate^*3

Employee Health Promotion Initiatives

In accordance with the Yamaha Group Health Declaration, the Yamaha Group recognizes that the health of its employees and their families is linked to higher productivity and motivation and, consequently, to the energization of organizations. Accordingly, we encourage regular health checkups, health guidance, and mental healthcare (as defined in the Industrial Safety and Health Act and other relevant legislation) while also promoting measures for helping employees quit smoking to build safer and more comfortable workplaces. In fiscal 2025, Yamaha joined Kenkokeiei Alliance, a health and productivity management union that is comprised of companies and organizations united under a vision of energizing Japanese companies and realizing sustainable health insurance to contribute to employee health. We also prepared a health and productivity management strategy map as part of our initiatives based on the health and productivity management approach expected of contemporary companies. Through such initiatives, Yamaha aims to enhance its health and productivity management practices and thereby accelerate measures for improving corporate value.

Health and Productivity Management Strategy Map

At Yamaha Corporation, we believe that people are the driver behind value creation. This belief inspires us to promote, as a core management issue, the development of a workplace environment in which all employees are able to feel energized as they work in good physical and mental health. To better facilitate health and productivity management efforts for this purpose, we have formulated a health and productivity management strategy map as a codified visual representation of the relationship between health-related investments and management results.

Yamaha has long advanced health and safety and health support in accordance with the basic policy of “Make health and safety a priority in all activities.” However, we came to recognize that there was a need for a framework for tracking and examining investment benefits to facilitate a more strategic approach toward health and productivity management. Such a framework was deemed to be crucial toward Yamaha’s efforts to heighten employee value creation capabilities and work engagement in order to drive ongoing corporate growth. For this purpose, we decided to utilize the framework endorsed by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, which was used to prepare a unique health and productivity management strategy map that reflects Yamaha’s characteristics and vision. The concept of health and productivity management first entered into the public lexicon in the late 2010s, and Yamaha established its Yamaha Group Health Declaration (“Sound Minds + Sound Bodies = Sound Living”) based on this concept in 2018. Drawing on the concept of sound that is so important to Yamaha’s business, this declaration put into words our commitment to supporting Sound Minds (creating an environment that allows people to work with peace of mind and responding to changes in workstyles) and Sound Bodies (promoting measures to maintain and improve health) in order to encourage Sound Living (helping employees live their own lives in good physical and mental health). The declaration takes the form of a math equation to help each individual employee engaged in our global operations adopt their own image of what is meant by “Sound Living,” and we also prepared a diagram consisting of three gears as a visual representation of this idea. At the same time, we have been working to improve employee health awareness through regular health checkups of employees in the month of their birthday and other initiatives, and the Yamaha Group Health Declaration helped contribute to even higher awareness with this regard.

In the future, we plan to implement a plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle based on the health and productivity management strategy map to verify the benefits of related measures and drive ongoing improvements. We also aim to enhance and disseminate health and productivity management measures on a Groupwide basis through coordination between Group companies. Furthermore, the Company will ramp up disclosure of human capital-related information with the goal of maintaining certification as a White 500 enterprise under the Certified Health & Productivity Management Organizations Recognition Program.

The health and productivity management strategy map, as was the case with the Yamaha Group Health Declaration before it, is designed to facilitate synergistic efforts between its various elements, like interlocking gears, and thereby drive more effective health and productivity management measures for helping employees live their own lives in good physical and mental health, the ultimate goal of these efforts. By advancing such initiatives for improving employee health and engagement, Yamaha will pursue ongoing corporate growth and social value creation.

Health and Productivity Management Strategy Map

Health Checkups

The Yamaha Group encourages employees to undergo regular health checkups that help protect and improve health. In addition to diligently offering general health checkups, which are mandatory under Japanese law, domestic Group companies use health checkups as opportunities to try to prevent lifestyle- and work-related diseases based on the slogan of “regular health checkups are the start line, not the goal.” Since 2002, in-house health clinics have performed regular health checkups of employees in the month of their birthday. On the morning of checkups, all employees undergoing checkups are provided with guidance from physicians based on the results of their checkups, other health guidance, and group health education. The speed of this feedback, as well as the group health education conducted based on a different theme each year, have contributed to an increased level of health awareness and understanding among employees. Additionally, we take thorough follow-up measures based on checkup results. In fiscal 2025, Yamaha Corporation and domestic Group companies had a 100% examination completion ratio, while an industrial physician made work category decisions^*4 for 100% of cases for both Yamaha Corporation and the Yamaha Group.

• 4 Work category decisions by industrial physicians are based on Article 66.4, 5 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act. In these decisions, the Company determines the work category for health checkups for eligible employees based on an industrial physician’s opinion.

Mental Healthcare

In order to maintain the mental health of its workers, Yamaha has embraced the three approaches toward prevention and the four forms of care based on the policies of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and is taking steps to prevent employees from suffering mental health issues and help those on leave for such issues return to work. We implemented a stress check system, a tool for preventing mental health issues, in the first year after such systems became mandatory. In fiscal 2025, 96.8% of employees underwent stress checks. Meanwhile, Yamaha has achieved favorable results through its rehabilitation-oriented return-to-work support program, including a rate of employees returning to work after their first time taking leave for mental health issues of more than 80%. To further enhance this program, it was revamped in fiscal 2025 to create a new program that incorporates methodologies for more-detailed information sharing on the living conditions of people on leave for mental health issues and their desire to return to work.

The Yamaha Group’s Mental Health Measures

Measures for Helping Employees Quit Smoking

Yamaha Corporation views encouraging employees to quit smoking as a top priority for protecting the health of employees. Since 1998, we have continued to help employees quit smoking through advice offered during regular health checkups as well as individualized support for employees desiring such aid. Moreover, smoking has been completely prohibited on the premises of all domestic Group companies since April 2022. As a result of these initiatives, the percentage of smokers among all employees was at 12.8% in fiscal 2025.

By prohibiting smoking on the premises of all domestic Group companies and providing advice for quitting smoking and individualized care when desired, the Yamaha Group is seeking to further lower the ratio of smokers and thereby help accomplish Goal 3 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.”

Ratio of Smokers among All Employees (Yamaha Corporation)

Measures for Preventing the Spread of Infectious Diseases

Preventing the spread of infectious diseases that can have a significant social and economic impact, such as HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, is a global issue. Recognizing the importance of this issue, Yamaha Group production sites in Southeast Asia are practicing effective hygiene management in workplaces, cafeterias, and break spaces; regularly sterilizing company premises; and cleaning waterways while also taking environment-related steps to prevent the emergence of mosquitoes and other disease-carrying pests. In addition, notification of the infectious disease risks of the relevant areas is provided to employees going on overseas business trips as well as to employees stationed overseas and their families, and immunizations for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, rabies, measles, and rubella, and other prevention measures are recommended before departure from Japan.

Health Support for Employees Stationed Abroad

The Yamaha Group recognizes the importance of protecting the health of the more than 200 employees it positions overseas on a full-time basis. These employees are encouraged to undergo regular health checkups in the same manner as those in Japan, and the rate of employees stationed overseas who underwent these checkups in fiscal 2025 was 99.4%. In addition, regular opportunities are arranged for sharing information between Human Resources Division members, local managers, and healthcare staff as part of efforts to strengthen systems for providing comprehensive health management support.

We are implementing support and other frameworks to ensure that employees stationed abroad are able to undergo checkups in an efficient manner should they choose to when returning to Japan on a temporary basis. Staff who were unable to return to Japan were provided access to online consultations with health staff along with other support.

Measures for Ensuring the Safety of Employees Stationed/Traveling Overseas

The Yamaha Group believes that the safety of employees is paramount and is taking various steps to safeguard employees stationed or traveling overseas from the perspectives of accident and incident prevention and emergency response.

Information concerning dangers in each country and region is gathered from sources such as Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, private security companies, employees stationed at overseas Group companies, and those who have returned from abroad. This information is then analyzed and distributed internally in the form of notifications and business trip regulations. Safety-related education is also provided to employees before being dispatched overseas, while their families also receive separate education programs. Furthermore, for those taking overseas business trips for the first time, an orientation is held that covers safety education, including basic knowledge and measures for handling emergencies while abroad.

External Recognition

Certification as White 500 Enterprise in Certified Health & Productivity Management Organizations Recognition Program

Yamaha Corporation was certified as a White 500^*5 enterprise in the 2025 Certified Health & Productivity Management Organizations Recognition Program organized by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Nippon Kenko Kaigi. This honor is thought to be a reflection of the high evaluation of the Group’s employee health management initiatives, such as providing regular health checkups (in the month of employees’ birthdays) at in-house health clinics; greatly reducing the rate of employees smoking through support for quitting smoking, which has been a long-term priority for the Group; and prohibiting smoking on the premises of all domestic Group companies.

• 5 A joint program by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Nippon Kenko Kaigi launched in 2017 to recognize companies exhibiting excellence in practicing health and productivity management; the top 500 companies in the large enterprise category are certified as White 500 enterprises