The TOSHIBA TEC Group respects every employee and strives to improve each employee's capabilities.

The TOSHIBA TEC Group practices fair and proper evaluations and rewards, as well as creates an open, broadminded and sound organizational culture. In addition, by providing a working environment where motivated personnel can bring their capabilities into full play, while striking a balance between work and family, the Group establishes a reward system for all human resources as it is an essential support system for its employees to form a powerful professional group which keeps on challenging itself.

The human resources system is designed to ensure all employees realize job satisfaction and a spirit of challenge to achieve self-fulfillment through their tasks, as well as to practice proper rewards, by linking individual achievements with organizational achievements. TOSHIBA TEC Corporation is devoting its energies to creating an open, broad-minded and sound organizational culture to form a professional group, who can accentuate its organizational strengths, while having each of its employees acquire more advanced capabilities in becoming independent.

Human Resources Development and Utilization Systems

On the basis of gender equality, TOSHIBA TEC Corporation is aiming to provide a working environment where motivated personnel can bring their capabilities into full bloom regardless of gender. In order to support the employees to balance work and family, the system below is provided:

Future Generation Development Support Programs

Male-Female Ratio and Number of Foreign Employees for Mid-Term Target

TOSHIBA TEC Corporation endeavors to create working environments where people with disabilities and those without disabilities can work together as equals.

Employees with disabilities are involved in a variety of operations. Job opportunities for people with disabilities are expanded and working environments are improved to bring their capabilities into full play, through Internet recruitment and various other types of forums.

Rate of Employees with Disabilities

The education and training system consists of several training programs, to enable employees to acquire sophisticated expertise in conjunction with their own goals and aspirations, to provide education including compliance education for all employees through enlightenment activities, and to provide education according to their position at every level throughout corporate life. A variety of training courses are provided in response to individual employees and task needs.

Education according to Position

Starting with a variety of introduction training programs to new employees, group training is provided for newly appointed deputy specialists, and basic knowledge for management regarding compliance and corporate accounting is provided for managers. After a determined period, group training is provided for these managers to improve human skills such as coaching.

For general managers, group training and training by external instructors are provided with the purpose of improving conceptual skills to devise strategies from a top management's point of view.

Global Personnel Development Course

Under the current business environment, the need for personnel who can play important roles within the international arena is magnified. TOSHIBA TEC Corporation established the global personnel development course for young employees to mid-career employees, to systematically develop human resources with ingenuity, cultural enrichment and a sense of internationalism, as well as language ability.

TOSHIBA TEC Corporation started a "TEAM Survey" in fiscal 2009, in place of the corporate philosophy survey, which has been conducted to root the corporate philosophy. We use this survey to listen to the voice of employees for fostering better corporate culture and workplace, as well as to root the corporate philosophy.

The labor contract governing laws for labor-management relations has been concluded between TOSHIBA TEC Corporation and its labor union, to foster the policy of coexistence, i.e. "corporate development encourages the economic status of its labor union members, while improvements in the economic status of its labor union members lead to corporate development." Under this policy, labor and management merge their energies to improve productivity, while openly discussing management issues and reviewing directions to deepen mutual understanding.

Occupational Health and Safety Management System

The production group companies have been accredited with OHSAS 18001, an international occupational safety and health management system specification. Additionally, non-production group companies launched preparation for introducing the system. Thus, the TOSHIBA TEC Group will further seek safe working environments and employees' health maintenance and promotion.

Prevention of Industrial Accidents

Promotion of employees' safety and health is set as one of priorities in corporate management. The occurrence of accidents with lost days is well below the industry average, as shown below.

Level 4 Accident-Free Operations at the Shizuoka Business Center (Ohito)

The Shizuoka Business Center has sustained accidentfree operations at the former Ohito Business Center since October 1995, and taken further safety measures through activities of OHSAS 18001 accredited in 2008, resulting in Level 4 accident-free operations (23.7 million hours) on April 14, 2010.

A ceremony was held to honor this achievement at the Mishima Labor Standards Inspection Office on July 6, 2010, and Mr. Hara, General Manager of the Shizuoka Business Center received a testimonial from Mr. Ishida, Head of the Labor Standards Inspection Office. We will make efforts to improve our record with the aim of creating an accidentfree, safe and comfortable workplace toward Level 5 accident-free operations (35.6 million hours) while ensuring risk assessment is appropriately implemented at the workplace.

Healthcare Programs

Aiming to prevent and improve lifestyle-related diseases, health instructions are provided by medical professionals based on the results of the annual health checkup. All employees who have worked over a certain amount of hours per month are obliged to take an interview and guidance with the doctor, to seek employees' health maintenance and promotion. In addition, the Return to Work program is established to help employees who have taken a long- term leave adjust back into the working environment with ease, as well as prevent recurrence.

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