Social Data 2023

The following performance indicators such as Number of employees by group, Average salary by gender, Death in occupational safety and health in Japan, Number of persons and the occupational accident frequency rate in Japan are guaranteed by the third party to improve reliability. The independent third-party assurance report can be found on page 23 of the ESG Data Book.

ESG Data Book

Basic Employee Data

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Occupational Safety and Health

Product Development and Stable Supply

Stakeholder Engagement

Basic Employee Data

Scope: Employees of our group (Contract employees are not included. Data on seconded employees is collected by the host company).
The offices covered by the data are based on the scope of each item.

Number of employees

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Total	Consolidated	Persons	4,073	4,108	4,229	4,315	4,144
Total	Non-consolidated	Persons	1,812	1,840	1,872	1,839	1,807
Male	Non-consolidated	Persons	1,389	1,395	1,410	1,384	1,348
Female	Non-consolidated	Persons	423	445	462	455	459

Number of employees by gender and rank

		Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Executive	Male	Consolidated	Persons	-	-	-	18	15
Executive	Female	Consolidated	Persons	-	-	-	3	6
Director	Male	Consolidated	Persons	-	-	-	210	203
Director	Female	Consolidated	Persons	-	-	-	92	92
Manager	Male	Consolidated	Persons	-	-	-	581	515
Manager	Female	Consolidated	Persons	-	-	-	382	371
General employee	Male	Consolidated	Persons	-	-	-	1,668	1,637
General employee	Female	Consolidated	Persons	-	-	-	1,361	1,305

Average length of service

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Total	Consolidated	Years	-	-	10.5	10.4	10.5
Male	Consolidated	Years	-	-	12.5	12.3	12.5
Female	Consolidated	Years	-	-	7.7	7.8	7.9
Total	Non-consolidated	Years	15.4	15.8	16.3	16.8	17.2
Male	Non-consolidated	Years	15.9	16.3	16.8	17.4	17.8
Female	Non-consolidated	Years	13.8	14.1	14.5	15.1	15.3

Average age of employees

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Total	Consolidated	Years old	-	-	41.8	42.2	42.7
Male	Consolidated	Years old	-	-	42.9	43.2	43.8
Female	Consolidated	Years old	-	-	40.3	40.8	41.3
Total	Non-consolidated	Years old	42.7	42.9	43.5	44.0	44.3
Male	Non-consolidated	Years old	43.3	43.5	44.0	44.5	44.8
Female	Non-consolidated	Years old	40.7	41.3	41.7	42.3	42.8

Number of newly hired employees

	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Japan	Persons	140	117	98	106	67
China	Persons	127	159	198	249	105
Asia	Persons	109	92	59	74	62
EMEA(*)	Persons	172	143	109	144	117
Americas	Persons	20	43	116	129	24
Total	Persons	568	554	580	702	375

EMEA: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Number of newly hired employees

		Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
New-graduate recruits	Total	Non-consolidated	Persons	20	24	19	24	36
	Male	Non-consolidated	Persons	12	11	10	17	21
	Female	Non-consolidated	Persons	8	13	9	7	15
Mid-career recruits	Total	Non-consolidated	Persons	119	92	77	64	31
	Male	Non-consolidated	Persons	80	64	46	43	20
	Female	Non-consolidated	Persons	39	28	31	21	11

Employee turnover

		Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Japan	Number of turnover	Persons	-	-	89	126	128
Japan	Turnover rate	%	-	-	4.4%	6.4%	6.6%
China	Number of turnover	Persons	-	-	185	255	171
China	Turnover rate	%	-	-	23.5%	32.4%	23.6%
Asia	Number of turnover	Persons	-	-	72	71	79
Asia	Turnover rate	%	-	-	18.5%	17.6%	20.5%
EMEA	Number of turnover	Persons	-	-	90	117	124
EMEA	Turnover rate	%	-	-	13.2%	15.6%	16.5%
Americas	Number of turnover	Persons	-	-	58	73	78
Americas	Turnover rate	%	-	-	17.1%	17.8%	22.2%
Total	Number of turnover	Persons	-	-	494	642	580
Total	Turnover rate	%	-	-	12.0%	14.9%	14.0%

The number of employees who retired between April and March of each year (including contract employees).

Employee turnover

		Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Total	Number of turnover	Non-consolidated	Persons	55	58	55	85	114
	Turnover rate	Non-consolidated	%	3.0%	3.2%	2.9%	4.6 %	6.3%
	Number of voluntary turnover	Non-consolidated	Persons	55	58	49	75	88
	Voluntary turnover	Non-consolidated	%	3.0%	3.2%	2.6%	4.1%	4.9%
Male	Number of turnover	Non-consolidated	Persons	40	43	42	63	79
	Turnover rate	Non-consolidated	%	2.9%	3.1%	3.0%	4.6%	5.9%
	Number of voluntary turnover	Non-consolidated	Persons	40	43	39	57	64
	Voluntary turnover	Non-consolidated	%	2.9%	3.1%	2.8%	4.1%	4.7%
Female	Number of turnover	Non-consolidated	Persons	15	15	13	22	35
	Turnover rate	Non-consolidated	%	3.5%	3.4%	2.8%	4.8%	7.6%
	Number of voluntary turnover	Non-consolidated	Persons	15	15	10	18	24
	Voluntary turnover	Non-consolidated	%	3.5%	3.4%	2.2%	4.0%	5.2%

Reemployment

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Reemployment applicant	Non-consolidated	Persons	19	15	31	21	17
Re-employee	Non-consolidated	Persons	19	15	29	21	17
Reemployment rate	Non-consolidated	%	100%	100%	94%	100%	100%

Average remuneration

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Average annual employee salary	Non-consolidated	Thousand yen	8,192	8,228	8,269	8,512	9,019

Human resource development

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
The aggregate length of training sessions	Consolidated	Hours	-	-	-	48,612	93,384
Investment in training	Consolidated	Millions of yen	-	-	-	277	213

Only the cases that can be determined as training for human resource development are included in the calculation.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Number of employees by region

	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Japan	Persons	2,001	1,994	2,004	1,968	1,930
China	Persons	753	808	790	787	725
Asia	Persons	352	382	396	403	385
EMEA	Persons	738	667	690	748	752
Americas	Persons	229	257	349	409	352
Santen Group	Persons	4,073	4,108	4,229	4,315	4,144

Calculated based on the new global personnel database from FY2020.

Employees by gender

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Ratio of female	Consolidated	%	-	-	42.2%	42.6%	42.8%
Ratio of female	Santen Group in Japan(*)	%	23.3%	24.2%	24.7%	24.7%	25.8%

Non-consolidated until FY2021

Females in managerial positions

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Executive		%	4.5%	9.1%	12.0%	14.3%	28.6%
Director and manager	Consolidated	%	-	-	38.4%	37.1%	39.0%
Director and manager	Santen Group in Japan(*)	%	10.7%	12.6%	12.2%	13.6%	16.9%

Non-consolidated until FY2021

Average annual salary by gender and rank

		Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Total	Male	Consolidated	Thousand yen	-	-	-	-	10,408
Total	Female	Consolidated	Thousand yen	-	-	-	-	9,606
Manager	Male	Consolidated	Thousand yen	-	-	-	15,686	17,951
Manager	Female	Consolidated	Thousand yen	-	-	-	14,916	17,946
General employee	Male	Consolidated	Thousand yen	-	-	-	6,647	7,100
General employee	Female	Consolidated	Thousand yen	-	-	-	6,052	6,647
Total	Male	Consolidated	Thousand yen	-	-	-	-	9,380
Total	Female	Consolidated	Thousand yen	-	-	-	-	7,419
Manager	Male	Santen Group in Japan	Thousand yen	-	-	-	-	13,945
Manager	Female	Santen Group in Japan	Thousand yen	-	-	-	-	13,063
General employee	Male	Santen Group in Japan	Thousand yen	-	-	-	-	7,904
General employee	Female	Santen Group in Japan	Thousand yen	-	-	-	-	6,526
Permanent worker	Male	Santen Group in Japan	Thousand yen	-	-	-	-	9,568
Permanent worker	Female	Santen Group in Japan	Thousand yen	-	-	-	-	7,610
Part-time and non-regular workers	Male	Santen Group in Japan	Thousand yen	-	-	-	-	6,663
Part-time and non-regular workers	Female	Santen Group in Japan	Thousand yen	-	-	-	-	2,802

Executive compensation and stock options are excluded.

Wage gender differences

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Total	Consolidated	％	-	-	-	-	92.3%
Manager	Consolidated	％	-	-	-	-	100.0%
General employee	Consolidated	％	-	-	-	-	93.6%
Total	Santen Group in Japan	％	-	-	-	-	79.1%
Manager	Santen Group in Japan	％	-	-	-	-	93.7%
General employee	Santen Group in Japan	％	-	-	-	-	82.6%
Permanent worker	Santen Group in Japan	％	-	-	-	-	79.5%
Part-time and non-regular workers	Santen Group in Japan	％	-	-	-	-	42.1%

The percentage of female's wages with male's wages being set at 100%.
This gender differences in wages are not based on the wage system or structure.
The differences are primarily due to differences in the ratio of male to female managers and employment status.

People with disabilities

	Scope	Unit	CY2019.6	CY2020.6	CY2021.6	CY2022.6	CY2023.6
People with disabilities(*)	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	50	54	59	59	54
Rate of people with disabilities(*)	Santen Group in Japan	％	2.42%	2.62%	2.88%	2.93%	2.80%
(Reference) Visually impaired people (actual number)	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	-	-	-	5	5

Follows Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare standards

Number of fixed-term employees

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Fixed-term employees	Consolidated	Persons	-	-	990	971	897
Fixed-term employees	Santen Group in Japan(*)	Persons	130	112	122	106	106
Contract employees	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	163	181	181	182	193

Including the number of seconded employees to outside of group companies.

Number of users of childcare and nursing care systems

		Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Special leave (paid)	Maternity leave	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	21	26	24	18	20
	Nursing care leave for a preschool child	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	22	11	6	6	4
	Nursing care leave for an elderly or disabled family	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	4	0	3	3	1
Childcare leave system	Childcare leave (Female)	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	18	40	43	15	18
	Childcare leave acquisition rate (Female)	Santen Group in Japan	%	-	-	-	93.8%	120.0%
	Childcare leave (Male)	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	4	49	77	37	35
	Childcare leave acquisition rate (Male)	Santen Group in Japan	%	6.1%	67.1%	135.1%	63.8%	87.5%
	Return to work rate	Santen Group in Japan	%	100%	100%	100%	100%	98.1%
Short working-hour system for childcare	Short working hours for nursing care	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	32	31	29	21	22
Nursing-care leave system	Nursing care leave	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	0	1	1	1	0
Nursing-care leave system	Short working hours for nursing care	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	0	0	0	0	0
Annual paid leave reserve system	Nursing care leave for a family member	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	75	63	37	70	79
	Nursing care leave for a child(included in above)	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	38	39	12	30	36
	Childcare leave for a child of elementary school age or younger	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	46	52	37	57	49

From FY2021, calculation methodology for childcare leave was revised.

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Annual paid leave

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Days granted	Santen Group in Japan	Days	17.9	18.8	18.0	19.8	19.8
Days taken	Santen Group in Japan	Days	10.8	15.7	11.7	11.8	13.2
Percentage of days taken	Santen Group in Japan	%	60.5%	83.5%	65.4%	59.3%	66.7%

Volunteer leave

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Number of people	Santen Group in Japan	Persons	6	4	0	0	0

Average overtime work per month

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Hours / month by person	Santen Group in Japan	Hours/month	11.9	11.2	9.2	10.5	10.7

Occupational Safety and Health

Number of work-related fatalities

	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
All operational sites (Japan(*))	0	0	0	0	0
Shuzo Plant (China)	0	0	0	0	0

Contractors are not included. Excludes Claire Co., Ltd. and Santen Eye Care Co., Ltd.

Occupational accidents in each region

		Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
All Operational Sites (Japan)	Number of accidents(1,5)	Cases	1	5	2	5	4
	Frequency rate(2,5)		0.24	1.20	0.54	1.38	0.56
	Severity rate (3,5)		0.005	0.015	0.001	0.025	0.083
Contractors (Japan)	Number of accidents	Cases	-	-	-	-	0
Contractors (Japan)	Frequency rate(*2)		-	-	-	-	0.00
Suzhou Plant (China)	Number of accidents	Cases	0	0	0	1	0
	Frequency rate		0.00	0.00	0.00	0.40	0.00
	Severity rate		0.00	0.00	0.00	0.08	0.00
Contractors (China)	Number of accidents	Cases	-	-	-	-	0
Contractors (China)	Frequency rate(*2)		-	-	-	-	0.00
Tampere Plant (Finland) (*4)	Number of accidents	Cases	0	1	-	-	-
	Frequency rate		0.00	3.40	-	-	-
	Severity rate		0.00	0.01	-	-	-
Consolidated	Number of accidents	Cases	-	-	-	-	8
	Frequency rate		-	-	-	-	0.77
	Severity rate		-	-	-	-	0.038

Number of accidents: In Japan and China denotes the number of accidents resulting in employees being absent from work for any length of time. In Finland, it denotes the number of accidents resulting in employees being absent from work for three or more days. Commuting disasters are not included.
Scope: All employees, including part-time employees and rehired employees, and employees seconded to domestic group companies.
From FY2022, seconded employees and domestic group companies Claire Inc. and Santen Eye Care Co are included. Contract employees are not included.
Employees seconded overseas are not included from FY2022 as they are not covered by workers' compensation insurance in Japan.
Frequency rate: Number of casualties causing industrial accidents per million aggregate actual working hours; it denotes the frequency of accidents.
Severity rate: Number of lost working days per 1,000 aggregate actual working hours; it denotes the level of severity of accidents.
Santen's own Tampere Plant was transferred to NextPharma and necessary process has been completed on September 30, 2019.
The data for 2019 shows the data up to the transfer completion date.
An accident that occurred in FY2021 was certified as lost time injuries in FY2022, and was added to the number of occupational accidents in FY2021 and the frequency rate of lost time injuries was revised accordingly.

Health and Productivity Management

		Scope	unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Presenteeism(*1)		Santen Group in Japan(*2)	％	-	-	-	83.0%	84.0%
The Brief Job Stress Questionnaire(*3)	Examination rate	Santen Group in Japan	％	94.8%	93.7%	91.9%	88.1%	90.1%
The Brief Job Stress Questionnaire(*3)	High stress rate	Santen Group in Japan	％	10.4%	9.9%	7.9%	10.3%	10.3%

Activity (productivity) indices related to "work performance, quality, and quantity" derived from the database of Humanage, Inc., the company that commissioned the stress check survey table.
Including employees seconded to overseas branches
Since we highly focus on employee’s mental health, we put not only the industrial physician, required by law, but also the public health nurse at each sites as well as the EAP service so that employees have easier access to health advice/services.

Product Development and Stable Supply

Research and development

		Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
R&D expenses	Consolidated	Millions of yen	23,759	23,341	24,112	26,377	28,297
Ratio of R&D expenses to net sales	Consolidated	%	10.2%	9.7%	9.7%	9.9%	10.1%

Product recall

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
ClassⅠ(*1)	Consolidated	Cases	0	0	0	0	0
ClassⅡ(*2)	Consolidated	Cases	1	3	0	1	1

ClassⅠ：Situations where the use of the product can cause serious health damage or death
ClassⅡ：Situations where the use of the product may cause temporary or medically curable health hazards, or the risk of serious health hazards is unlikely.

Access to healthcare

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Patients we have contributed	Consolidated	Million people	-	43	48	50	(*)

To be updated as soon as available due to data acquisition

Supply chain

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Supplier assessment rate	Consolidated	％	-	-	-	-	93.5%
Supplier training rate	Consolidated	％	-	-	-	-	87.1%
ESG education rate for procurement department staff	Consolidated	％	-	-	-	-	100%

Stakeholder Engagement

Freedom of association

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Number of union members	Non-consolidated	Persons	-	-	-	1,277	1,263
Rate of union members in the total employees	Non-consolidated	％	-	-	-	69.4%	69.9%
Number of collective bargaining rights holders	Non-consolidated	Persons	-	-	-	-	1,263
Percentage of employees with collective bargaining rights	Non-consolidated	％	-	-	-	-	100%

Donation

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Amount of donations	Consolidated	Millions of yen	-	-	-	810	878
Rate to consolidated core operating profits	Consolidated	%	-	-	-	1.7%	2.0%

Distribution of added value to stakeholders

	Scope	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Shareholders	Consolidated	Millions of yen	-	-	-	11,998	12,611
Employees	Consolidated	Millions of yen	-	-	-	50,763	57,063
Creditors (financial institutions)	Consolidated	Millions of yen	-	-	-	249	476
Business partners	Consolidated	Millions of yen	-	-	-	143,407	152,144
Government agencies (national and local)	Consolidated	Millions of yen	-	-	-	8,427	9,184
Local communities	Consolidated	Millions of yen	-	-	-	810	870
Environment	Non-consolidated	Millions of yen	-	-	-	392	371

Visitors to plant tours

	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Shiga Product Supply Center	Persons	-	-	-	0	0
Noto Plant	Persons	-	-	-	24	70
Suzhou Plant	Persons	-	-	-	160	66

Dialogue with investors and analysts

	Unit	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Number of meetings	Times	-	-	-	-	260

Official SNS