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Applications Open for the 2022 Health & Productivity Stock Selection and the 2022 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program

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August 30, 2021

Manufacturing, Information, and Distribution/Service Policy

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) is promoting "health and productivity management," whereby we think about employees' health and productivity management from a business-management perspective as one of the efforts toward achieving a healthy, long-lived society, and strategically implement initiatives that lead to health maintenance and promotion.

Today, METI opened the applications for the 2022 Health & Productivity Stock Selection and the 2022 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program. In order to create an environment where health and productivity management is more appreciated and to expand its scope, the Survey on Health and Productivity Management contains new items starting from FY2021, including the promotion of information disclosure.

1. Growing interest in health and productivity management

The Survey on Health and Productivity Management started in FY2014, and increasing numbers of enterprises are responding to it annually (2,523 enterprises last fiscal year). With more than 80% of the stock selection companies that make up the Nikkei 225 now participating, many of the leading companies in each industry have begun to promote health and productivity management as part of their management strategy. "Health" comes under "S" ("Social") in ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) information. Thus, there is growing interest in how "health" is positioned in corporate management.

2. About the Survey on Health and Productivity Management

The Survey on Health and Productivity is a survey conducted with the aim of analyzing the health and productivity management efforts in enterprises and how they change over time, and obtaining basic information toward choosing the Health & Productivity Stock Selection and Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations (Large Enterprise Category).

<Key points of the FY2021 Survey>

In FY2021, the Survey on Health and Productivity Management was updated with the following new points in order to create an environment where health and productivity management is more appreciated, and to expand its scope.

  1. Promotion of information disclosure (making disclosure of the Survey on Health and Productivity Management's feedback sheets an essential requirement for White 500)
  2. Evaluation and analysis of business performance (whether or not the company measures its employees' performance and how)
  3. Expansion of scope (whether the company supports the health and productivity management efforts of its suppliers as well as its own, or contributes to society's health as a whole)

3. The Health & Productivity Stock Selection

In order to promote efforts toward health and productivity management, exceptional Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed enterprises that are engaged in health and productivity management are selected for the Health & Productivity Stock Selection, and presented to investors as attractive investment options.

They are evaluated based on their responses to the 2021 Survey on Health and Productivity Management.

4. About the Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program

This recognition program is designed by METI and conducted by Nippon Kenko Kaigi* with an aim to create an environment in which large enterprises and SMEs that are practicing health and productivity management are recognized by society. This program has two categories: Large Enterprise Category and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Category. Enterprises are recognized as Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations in each category.

*An organization whose aim is to encourage local governments and private organizations (e.g., economic organizations, medical organizations, and insurers) to work together to achieve concrete measures in workplaces and communities to overcome health-related challenges.

Recognition of the 2022 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations (Large Enterprise Category)

Applicants' levels of achievement for the requirements are determined based on the responses to the 2021 Survey on Health and Productivity Management. The top-ranking enterprises in the Large Enterprise Category are recognized as White 500.

Recognition of the 2022 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations (Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Category)

Applicants' levels of achievement for the requirements are determined based on the details on their application form for the 2022 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program (Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Category). The top-ranking enterprises in the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Category are recognized as Bright 500.

5. Future schedule

Response period for the 2021 Survey on Health and Productivity Management

August 30, 2021 (Mon.) to October 25, 2021 (Mon.)

Application period for the 2022 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program (Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Category)

August 30, 2021 (Mon.) to November 1, 2021 (Mon.)

Announcement of the selected and recognized enterprises

Scheduled to be around March 2022

Division in charge

Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program Secretariat: Nikkei Research, Inc. (contractor)

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Division in Charge

Healthcare Industries Division, Commerce and Service Industry Policy Group

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