Pleasant Working Environments

The MEDIPAL Group is committed to creating workplace environments where every employee can work with peace of mind, while respecting each individual’s lifestyle and values. At the same time, we are enhancing our support systems to promote physical and mental well-being, fostering an environment where everyone can continue working in good health.

Promoting Workstyle Reform

The Group has introduced flexible work arrangements such as staggered working hours, variable working hour systems, telecommuting, and flextime, to promote more efficient ways of working. Through these initiatives, we are working to reduce overtime and improve the rate of paid leave utilization.

Initiatives for Optimal Time Management and Reduction of Overtime Work

Work hours, including the start of work and end of work, are managed and recorded objectively through the use of IC cards and other measures. We work to promote awareness of optimal time management among all employees and hold discussions between labor and management with the aim of reducing overtime work.
These initiatives enable them to work more systematically and efficiently, which can help improve the quality of their work and ensure that they have time to spend with their families or on their own hobbies and studies. These initiatives help to save power, as lighting, multifunction printers, and air-conditioning systems are used for shorter periods of time.

Supporting employees' Work-life Balance

The Group strives to create employee-friendly workplaceenvironments in which employees can use a number of systems such as childcare and nursing care leave systems, shorter working hour system, caregiving leave system, etc. to realize their work–life balance at every life stage.

• We are providing continued support for childcare after childbirth by offering financial assistance for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccinations to pregnant female employees to prevent RSV infection during infancy. This support aims to reduce anxiety related to infant health and enhance peace of mind in balancing childcare and work.

• MEDICEO CORPORATION also introduced a system to support working while undergoing treatmentfor infertility in May 2023, and launched a system to support working while undergoing treatment forcancer in April 2024.

Encouraging Male Employees to Take Childcare Leave

The Group has set a target of achieving a 100% of male employees taking childcare leave by FY2030, and is working to create a workplace environment where everyone can work with positivity, enjoyment, and a forward-looking mindset. By clearly stating this target, we are actively promoting a range of initiatives aimed at increasing awareness of the system and fostering a workplace culture in which taking childcare leave is encouraged and supported.

Substantial Employee Welfare Benefits

All Group companies offer substantial employee welfare benefits, including systems that offer a leave of absence or grants for employees to develop new skills or increase their motivation for their future career, as well as admission to employee welfare services, Group mutual aid associations, asset accumulation saving systems, and payment of congratulatory or condolence monetary gifts or relieffunds.

Health & Productivity Management

As a distribution group that supports "Pharmaceuticals, Health, and Beauty," the MEDIPAL Group believes that it is the foundation of the company's sustainable development for each employee to have a high level of health awareness and work in an environment where they can thrive.
Therefore, we position maintaining and improving employee health as an important management issue and promote Health and Productivity Management.

MEDIPAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION / MEDICEO CORPORATION's Health and Productivity Management

Health and Productivity Management Declaration

Our mission is to "reliably deliver needed products, whether in ordinary times or in times of emergency." As a company that plays a part in the medical industry, we aim to create an environment in which each employee can be highly health awareness and actively participate in their work. We believe that this will help us achieve our mission and also serve as the foundation of the company’s sustainable development.
Therefore, we have positioned maintaining and improving the health of our employees as an important management issue, and have established a promotion system and implemented various initiatives.

Yuji Sakon
Managing Director
General Manager of Administration Division, Chairman of CSR Committee
MEDIPAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION

Health and Productivity Management Promotion System

Health and Productivity Management Strategy Map

Health and Productivity Management Indicators

*1 Measured by incorporating the number of days of leave taken due to illness in an employee survey established by the company. The actual value is the average of respondents.

*2 Measured by incorporating the Single-Item Presenteeism Question (SPQ) from the University of Tokyo in an employee survey independently established by the company. The actual value is the average of respondents.

*3 Measured using a 9-item shortened version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale in an employee survey established by the company. The average score of the 9 items (0 = not at all - 6 = always) of respondents.

Healthy Management Initiatives

Improvement in Health Checkups and Increase in the Participation Rate

The MEDIPAL Group provides regular health checkups for employees to detect any illness early and to maintain and improve wellness. The participation rate is nearly 100%. Our health checkups offer a wider range of tests than the legal requirements, and we actively encourage employees to receive follow-up health consultations.

Conducting Seminars and Training to Improve Lifestyle Habits and Health Issues

To maintain and improve the health of our employees, we deliver seminars that contribute to the improvement of lifestyle habits and health issues.

Distribution of Seminar Videos on Lifestyle Habits and Mindfulness

Encouraging Employees to Take the Japan Master of Health Literacy Test

The Group employees take the expert course of the Japan Master of Health Literacy Test* in order to improve their health literacy and better contribute to society. To date, a total of 4,235 employees have passed the exam (as of March 31, 2025).

* Japan Master of Health Literacy Test: Conducted by the Japan Master of Health Literacy Test Association, this test program enables participants to gain health literacy based on the latest health information, and acquire qualifications.

MEDIPAL Smoke-Free Challenge

In order to reduce the number of employees who smoke, we are implementing the "MEDIPAL Smoke-Free Challenge," in which smokers who want an opportunity to quit smoking are teamed up with multiple supporters to take on the challenge of quitting smoking for three months.

Health Month (Initiatives for Improving Dietary Habits)

February has been designated as "MEDIPAL Food Education and Health Promotion Month," with various in-house events being held across the Group. In fiscal 2024, as part of the "Eat Vegetables at Lunch Campaign," we are asking employees to share photos and comments showing the vegetables they ate at lunch during the vegetable intake promotion period, with the aim of encouraging employees to improve their eating habits.

Examples of submitted photos

Mental Health Measures

The Group is dedicated to protecting the mental health of its employees, provides mental health education and performs awareness-raising activities at all Group companies. We have also establishedan EAP Hotline*.

* EAP (Employee Assistance Program) Hotline: Employee contact point offering counseling on work-related and private concerns.

Introduction of the Shift P Medication Support System

MEDIPAL HOLDINGS has worked with MTI Ltd. since 2019 on “Shift P” project activities that provide medication support for those taking the low-dose pill.
This project also aims to disseminate accurate information on the low-dose pill, increase disease awareness. The concept is to achieve a “shift” in the image of the pill and address problems womenface with period cramps, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), or premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).
The Shift P medication support system* is a part of this Shift P project. This system has been launched to provide MEDIPAL Group female employees suffering from dysmenorrhea with opportunities for obstetrics and gynecology consultations and medication support to help ease concerns over taking the low-dose in order to create workplace environments where female employees can work in good physical and mental health.

Recognition as “Sports Yell Company 2025”

ATOL CO., LTD. has been recognized as a company that is actively working to promote sports activities to improve the health of its employees, and has been certified as a “Sports Yell Company 2025” by the Japan Sports Agency.

Recognition as a “2025 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization”

We have been recognized in the 2025 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program, administered by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi.