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Safety Management

Across all operations, the TEPCO Group places safety above all else, recognizes that the pursuit of safety has no finish line, and continuously refines safety—our most important business foundation. Our working environment has changed significantly, including a decline in experienced workers and insufficient transfer of skills and know-how associated with population aging; we must overcome these challenges. What is essential is sustaining a mindset to “adhere without compromise to established safety rules and translate them into action.” To foster that culture and build a work environment where everyone can work safely and securely, we proactively visit worksites and carry out on-site verifications. Guided by the principle that safety takes precedence over everything, we heighten safety awareness and put into practice behaviors that protect the safety of ourselves and those we work with.

Our Fundamental Approach

The TEPCO Group installs a wide range of equipment in diverse forms within local communities and conducts extensive business activities with the cooperation of internal and external stakeholders. In this context, prioritizing safety in all operations, recognizing that the pursuit of safety is never-ending, and refining safety day by day constitute the most important foundation supporting our business.
Accordingly, we comply with applicable laws and rules and rigorously run the PDCA (Plan–Do–Check–Act) cycle in our safety activities to prevent incidents, striving to eliminate work-related fatalities and injuries.

TEPCO Group Code of Conduct for Compliance with Corporate Ethics (Excerpt)

We always act with safety as our highest priority.

We not only comply with safety-related laws and regulations, safety codes, and internal rules, but also

Anticipate risks in the facilities we operate and implement safety measures without fail.
When abnormalities or signs of danger are identified, we take the most appropriate safety measures.
In the unlikely event of an accident or disaster, we strive to provide prompt aid and restoration.
We put safety first in on-site working environments and procedures and strive to ensure the safety of both the public and workers.

Promotion and Governance Framework

Key Initiatives

(1) Formulation and Deployment of Safety Rules and Measures

We develop and roll out rules and measures that ensure compliance with applicable laws and make our safety activities effective. These include planning, implementation, evaluation, and improvement of safety activities; incident investigations and countermeasure deliberation; and safety training.
At TEPCO Holdings and the headquarters of each operating company, we formulate and deploy Basic Safety Management Rules. Each site, in alignment with these headquarters rules, formulates and deploys various measures and continually evaluates and improves them.

(2) PDCA Cycle for Safety Activities

TEPCO Holdings and each operating company formulate a “Safety Activity Plan” based on risk assessments and other inputs to prevent accidents and incidents, and implement the associated activities. We monitor and evaluate the implementation status of safety activities and revise them as necessary to drive the PDCA cycle, achieving continual improvement.
In developing the Safety Activity Plan, we review past incident cases, near misses, and on-site realities, identify hazards latent in our business activities, and assess the need for controls. We continually evaluate the effectiveness of these controls and improve them to prevent incidents and avoid recurrence.

(3) Sharing and Horizontal Deployment of Safety Information and Measures

We leverage systems for sharing safety-related information and measures to disseminate them across the TEPCO Group and partner companies.
When an incident occurs, we establish the facts, conduct thorough root-cause analysis, implement measures to prevent recurrence, and ensure effective company-wide use of the incident information.

(4) Safety Training

At the safety training facility “Safety Thinking and Action Center,” we conduct training for all employees with the aim of “treating incidents as one’s own and thinking and acting safely,” tailored to the roles and required competencies at each level.
At the safety awareness facility “3.11 Facts and Lessons,” we aim to build a company culture in which each person continuously strives to enhance safety without complacency, so that we can fulfill our responsibility for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident across generations. Beyond panel exhibits, the facility engages in activities that enable each employee to correctly understand the facts and lessons learned through instructors’ explanations and materials during training, articulate them in their own words, and translate them into concrete actions.