LABOUR & HUMAN RIGHTS

People, Rights & Workplace Wellbeing

Fair employment. Practical development. Safer work.
North Star is strengthening the systems that support employee rights, capability, safety and wellbeing across the organisation.

OUR APPROACH

A responsible workplace starts with clear standards.

North Star’s approach combines lawful employment, employee development and workplace safety. In 2025, the company issued its Human Resources Policy to formalize responsibilities for recruitment, onboarding, training, competence management and employee records.

Fair & Lawful Employment

Employment is managed in accordance with applicable laws, with identity verification during onboarding and an explicit prohibition on child labour and employment of people under 18.

Learning & Development

Role-based training supports new hires, transferred staff, technical personnel, special-process workers and internal auditors.

Safety & Wellbeing

North Star supports safe and orderly working conditions through training, supervision, management systems, first-aid capability and occupational health measures.

2025 WORKFORCE BASELINE

Measure people-related performance. Then improve.

The 2025 report establishes an initial set of workforce and occupational health and safety indicators. These measures provide a baseline for strengthening employee development, workplace safety and responsible labour management.

AREAS OF ACTION

From policy to everyday workplace practice.

North Star focuses on six practical areas that connect labour management with employee rights, capability, safety and wellbeing.

Lawful Employment

Apply compliant recruitment, onboarding and personnel management practices.

Human
Rights

Prevent child labour and protect employees from discrimination, harassment and forced labour.

Training & Development

Identify role-specific training needs and strengthen employee capability.

Role Competence

Use job descriptions, qualifications and role-based requirements to support competent work.

Workplace Safety

Maintain safe and orderly working conditions through training, supervision and management systems.

Employee Wellbeing

Support occupational health, employee engagement and a responsible workplace culture.
2025 IN ACTION

Building capability and safety into daily work.

In 2025, North Star moved from policy development toward practical implementation through structured training, role-based competence management and first-aid capability.
16 training sessions
Employee training coverage reached 100%, with structured onboarding and role-specific training requirements.
First-aid capability
Following the first formal first-aid training event in May 2025, staff across all four main production departments hold first-aid certificates.

Environmental progress

Measure. Improve. Build for the long term.

WORKPLACE WELLBEING

Safety, health and employee experience matter together.

North Star’s 2025 indicators combine occupational health coverage, safety investment, employee activities and working-time data to provide a broader view of workplace wellbeing.
100%
Occupational health exam coverage
Coverage for positions exposed to occupational hazards.
8.28 hours
AVERAGE WORKING HOURS PER PERSON
2025 indicator
20

EMPLOYEE CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Enterprise-sponsored activities

¥10,2700

Work safety

2025 investment

0
WORKERS’ RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
Including child labour, discrimination, harassment and forced labour

WHAT COMES NEXT

Strengthening the systems behind employee development

The next stage focuses on making labour and employee-development practices more structured, measurable and consistently applied.

Structured Onboarding

Maintain clear onboarding and role-based training systems.

Training Effectiveness

Strengthen competence development and evaluate training effectiveness.

Child-Labour Prevention

Continue identity verification and controls that prevent child labour.

Policy
Awareness

Improve employee awareness of company policies and management-system requirements.

Employee Development

Continue supporting capability development across the organisation.
NORTH STAR SUSTAINABILITY

See the full Labour & Human Rights baseline.

Read the North Star Annual Sustainability Report 2025 for detailed labour, training, workplace safety and employee-development information.