Employment of People with Disabilities

Employing and developing people with disabilities

Since the beginning of the "Normalization Project" in 1992, we have made a proactive effort to employ people with disabilities.

In addition to meeting the legal employment rate of people with disabilities on a non-consolidated basis, the Group as a whole has worked to promote the employment of people with disabilities and to ensure that they are provided with career opportunities.

With the goal of recruiting people with mental disabilities, we established the Yokogawa Foundry Corporation in 1999, and the company was certified in the same year with a special subsidiary for the employment of disabled individuals.

Employees of Yokogawa Foundry received full training programs to improve their skills, and are provided with many types of challenging jobs as well as opportunities to broaden the scope of their daily lives.

Furthermore, Yokogawa Foundry employees are also active outside of the Company, and have, for example, won awards at the Abilympics.

We Yokogawa keep on providing opportunities for people with disabilities to play an active role at workplace.

Disability employment rate

Comment from Employees of Yokogawa Foundry Corporation Who was Awarded at the Abilympics

Yoshihiro Hashimoto in Yokogawa Foundry

Silver award in the world competition 2007

I wanted to compare my skills in data input with the other participants. That is the reason why I competed in the Abilympics. I felt very happy that I could display my skills and efforts to the audiences. I trained hard until just before the competition started, so I could make a good result. In the future, I want to try not only data input but also other skills.

Tsuyoshi kubo in Yokogawa Foundry

Silver award in the Japanese competition 2008

Aiming to win at least a bronze medal at Abilympics, I got a better result. I trained very hard for my sake and for the sake of my co-workers, and as a result earned a silver medal. My skills are not yet perfect, so I want to keep working hard to improve my skills.