Safety on land and in the air

Safety initiatives at ports and terminals

Inspecting equipment before loading a ship

At the core of all of our efforts is the idea that preventing accidents from happening is the best form of safety. The Joint Safety Meeting is held three times per year at the three major terminals in Japan (Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kobe). In Fiscal Year 2010, the meetings analyzed and discussed recent incidents and how recurrence could be prevented, and made progress on sharing and standardizing prevention strategies. NYK uses these results to review its own procedures and to engage in ongoing information sharing on safety initiatives with other sectors and industries.

Safety initiatives in the air transport sector

Training on emergency evacuation procedures

Nippon Cargo Airlines Co. Ltd. (NCA) works to maintain absolute safety in its operations under the “NCA Safety Principles.” In Fiscal Year 2010, it set a companywide safety target of “Further cultivation of NCA safety culture” and launched a series of safety promotion activities. The company used the results from a safety awareness survey of all executives and employees to spark an organization-wide discussion of its weak points, out of which developed a vision of the safety culture that it should achieve. In addition, the company expanded the hiyarihatto reporting system to organizations overseas, and used event reports for risk management to prevent accidents and incidents.^*1

There were also four opportunities each year for front-line employees to exchange opinions with the president and other officers, safety lectures featuring outside speakers, tours of safety education facilities at other companies (monthly), and training on emergency evacuation procedures for the company's airplanes. These educational activities help to further enhance safety.

• Nippon Cargo Airlines Co. Ltd. (Safety measures) (http://www.nca.aero/...)

Safety in logistics

Poster from the safety and environment promotion campaign

We performed audits of logistics operations at companies providing domestic and international logistics services. We also used the “Global KPIs”^*1 and conducted our “Global Traffic Safety Campaign”^*2 to ensure rigorous adherence to accident-prevention programs and improve both safety and quality. A new program introduced this year is the “Monthly Safety Self-Check Sheet,” which is sent out each month and uses information about past accidents and incidents to improve safety and quality. We carefully study the responses and indicate measures to be taken when safety programs are found to be inadequate.