With Our Employees

  • Respect for Employees
  • Promoting women's participation in the workforce and childcare support
  • Safety and Health
  • Health Declaration

Respect for Employees

Basic Stance

The DENSO Group Declaration of Corporate Behavior promises to respect its employees and establish a motivating workplace for each individual. To this end, DENSO WAVE has been working to establish the systems and structures for human resources development.

Specific Initiatives

  • 1）Enhancing education by employment level

    In order to improve abilities and further promote understanding of the roles required at each stage, DENSO WAVE enhances educational programs by employment level.

  • 2）Employee awareness survey

    With a view to increasing the satisfaction of employees, DENSO WAVE conducts an employee awareness survey to identify the employees’ degree of motivation for work and satisfaction about their managers and workplaces. The results of the survey are communicated to managers to encourage the autonomous improvement of each workplace, and are also used in formulating various personnel measures.

  • 3）Employees’ association

    The employees’ association was formulated for the purpose of creating a lively workplace environment and encouraging communication between employees, with the aim of establishing a company in which all employees work in unity and participate autonomously and proactively in business activities. Representatives of each workplace plan various events, such as a bowling competition, gather opinions from employees, and promote the acquisition of paid leave and other activities for the employees.

Action plan for promoting women's participation in the workforce and supporting childcare

Basic Stance

The DENSO Group Declaration of Corporate Behavior promises to respect its employees and establish a motivating workplace for each individual. To this end, DENSO WAVE has been working to establish the systems and structures for human resources development.
DENSO WAVE aims to create a work environment where everyone, regardless of gender, can achieve a good work-life balance.

Specific Initiatives

Planning period

　April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028

【Goal 1】Promote work-life balance (support for male childcare)

Aim for a 70% rate of males taking parental leave

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- Messages from management
- Share use cases
- Conduct user surveys

【Goal 2】Support for raising the next generation

Aiming for an average of 17 hours of overtime work per month to support childcare

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- Messages from management
- Streamline operations through digital transformation
- Consider extending intervals between shifts

【Goal 3】Promote women's participation in the workforce

Aim to increase the percentage of new graduates hired by women to 50% for administrative positions, 10% for technical positions, and 20% for skilled positions.

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- Introduce the work and working styles of female employees and increase opportunities to disseminate information
- Hold meetings with female employees to increase contact with applicants

Safety and Health

Basic Stance

To ensure a solid business foundation, it is absolutely essential to improve safety and health management.
As such, we are working to achieve continuous improvements in safety and health based on the premise that creating safe and ideal working conditions is the best way to realize both human dignity and high productivity. This policy is built on the fundamental principles of safety, health and the environment established by DENSO Corporation in 1969.

1.Fundamental principles of safety, health and the environment

Human beings should never lose their life, health or physical functions due to work.

  1. 1.Thoroughly observe the policy that “creating safe and ideal working conditions is the best way to realize both human dignity and high productivity.”
  2. 2.Pay attention to environmental protection and the preservation of ecological systems/resources in all business activities both inside and outside Japan, while coexisting in harmony with local communities through environmental protection.
  3. 3.Each organization, managerial person, and associate in each workplace should participate in all such activities, fully applying their creativeness and ideas.
2.Action agenda for practicing the fundamental principles
  1. 1.Safety and health are prerequisites to conducting business activities, and each one of us must act under the principle that “safety is the top priority.”
  2. 2.Observe laws, company rules and the DAS.
  3. 3.By effectively applying a safety and health environment management system, implement continuous measures to maintain and improve a safe and worker-friendly workplace environment, and also to help preserve the natural environment.
  4. 4.In environment preservation activities, ensure that each aspect of technology development, plant operation and associate's behavior will contribute to growth in harmony with the environment and the creation of an enriched recycling-oriented society.
  5. 5.For the better future of local communities, conduct activities that can garner trust from society independently or in cooperation with local communities.
  6. 6.Proactively promote the safety, health and environmental activities participated in by all members toward "Zero accidents/disasters," such as Kaizen initiatives employing the innovative ideas of each individual.

Promotion Structure

The Safety, Health, and Environment Committee meeting is held every month, chaired by the Senior Managing Executive Officer in charge of technology management, whereat safety and health initiatives, as well as environment-related policies and targets, are set, and priority activities and measures are discussed and followed up.

Health Declaration

DENSO WAVE  Health Declaration

DENSO WAVE believes that good physical and mental health leads our associates to fully demonstrate their individual capabilities and personalities, which in turn further invigorates the company as a whole. We declare that we will make further efforts to improve the productivity of society by fostering a sense of prioritizing health and safety in our work and building a more vibrant company where each and every employee can work with peace of mind and in good health.

Takayoshi Sagara
President & CEO
DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED
April 1st, 2021

Priority health measures

Improving health awareness

We will make responsible efforts to improve the health awareness of employees and further prevent diseases by encouraging employees on maintain and promote their own health voluntarily.

Promoting mental and physical health

We will aim to create a workplace where people can work in good mental and physical health by further improving mental health care and taking measures against lifestyle-related diseases.

Creating a comfortable working environment

We will create a work environment that enables employees to maximize their performance and live a health and produtive life.

Promotion Structure

Through Health and Safety Committee, we are working with DENSO Corporation, DENSO Haelthcare promotion Div and DENSO health insurane to improve health through the aim of becoming a company where employees can work healthy and lively.

Certification Status

DENSO WAVE has been recognized as a "Health Management Excellent Corporation (Large Corporation)" for four years as a result of its efforts to create a Rest assured and healthy working environment for each and every employee and its health promotion activities.