Azbil Recognized as an Outstanding Corporation for Health and Productivity Management (White 500 Listing)

TOKYO, Mar. 24, 2025: Azbil Corporation (Tokyo Stock Exchange Code: 6845) has been recognized as a 2025 Health and Productivity Management Outstanding Corporation (large enterprise category, White 500 list), following an FY2024 survey conducted by Japans Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). Since 2018, Azbil has been named a Health and Productivity Management Outstanding Corporation for eight consecutive years, and it has now been listed in the White 500 category (among the top 500 businesses) for four consecutive years.

This program recognizes corporations that practice exceptional health and productivity management, based on their achievements in addressing health-related issues in local communities and in supporting health-promotion activities led by the Japan Health Council (Nippon Kenko Kaigi).

The azbil Group announced its Health and Well-being Declaration* in July of 2019. Health and well-being management is our comprehensive, human-oriented approach to ensuring that our employees are healthy and fully engaged in their work. As well as implementing work-style reforms to reduce total working hours and improve the workplace environment by preventing harassment, the Group strives to promote diversity, equality and inclusion (DE&I) so that everyones individuality is respected and their talents are put to best use. As part of our SDG targets, by 2030 we aim to have 65% or more employees satisfied with working for the Group, and 65% or more experienced personal growth over the past year.

In addition to the original focus on enhancing business efficiency, work-style reforms are also aimed at creating new work styles and constructing new workplace environments—for example, renovating offices to make them more suited to a hybrid (remote & in-office) work model. Furthermore, these initiatives have evolved into creating new ways of working. As well as advancing DX-based operational reforms, we are implementing a variety of measures to enhance employee well-being and engagement—for example, creating environments where management and employees can talk together, and where employees can confer with each other; establishing a mentoring system; and enabling short-term internships in different departments.

As regards our DE&I promotion efforts, we aim to expand the choice of work styles to enable a flexible response to life events and changing responsibilities, such as childcare and nursing care. We believe that the driving force for growth is for all employees to respect each others individuality—irrespective of gender, age, nationality, etc.—and to fully demonstrate their abilities. We have formulated and is implementing an action plan to enhance workplaces so that all employees will continue to find their environment is pleasant to work in and offers more job satisfaction.

The azbil Group views human resources as capital, a vital resource for generating value—in other words, human assets. While creating a comfortable working environment for employees, we have been promoting the development of human capital through training of human assets. We will continue to promote health and well-being management based on our human-centered concept, contributing to the health and happiness of our employees, and fulfilling our social responsibilities as a sound organization.

*Health and Well-being Declaration of the azbil Group

The azbil Group believes that the health of each employee is an important basis for corporate activities, and it aims to create workplaces where each and every person at an azbil Group company works in a lively, healthy, and comfortable way, with a feeling of safety and peace of mind, and in a manner that suits each person. When everyone is able to express his or her diverse abilities and to live a fulfilled life both at work and at home, productivity and performance will improve, resulting in innovation and contributions to society.

The azbil Group declares its intention that companies and employees proactively work together to create a comfortable work environment, to enhance the mental and physical health of employees, and to make workplaces and employees healthy, happy, and lively.

* Posted information is accurate as of the date of announcement.