Disaster Risk from Concentration of Equipment and Personnel at the Head Office Research Institute
First written in FY2017. 3 of 5 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2023.
Human Metabolome Technologies moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2023, 1 year after the typical company in this theme (2022).
The whole theme swung hardest in 2020: 3 of 12 companies on the "Worse" side.
1 other company's latest entry also says "Worsened".
- FY2023WorsenedAnnual report
「To address these risks, our group has taken out insurance to cover the costs required for recovery, and is progressively implementing measures, such as countermeasures against power outages, to ensure that the impact of minor disasters and accidents does not affect short-term business performance. However, given our group's scale, dispersing analytical facilities would significantly impair operating productivity, placing limits on the measures available to us.」
While continuing insurance coverage and power-outage countermeasures, the company has explicitly stated that the measures available are limited because dispersing analytical facilities would impair productivity. - FY2021RestatedAnnual report
「To address these risks, our group has established systems to cover the costs required for recovery through insurance. We are also progressively implementing measures, such as countermeasures against power outages, to ensure that the impact of minor disasters and accidents does not affect short-term business performance.」
We continue to address the risk arising from the concentration of facilities at the Tsuruoka head office through insurance, power-outage countermeasures and other measures. - FY2020RestatedAnnual report
「We take all possible measures in our operations and management, including regularly maintaining analytical equipment and introducing a biological sample management system, but if a major earthquake, lightning strike, wind or flood damage, heavy snowfall, other natural disaster or power outage occurs」
We continue to address the risk of disasters caused by the concentration of facilities and personnel at the head office research laboratory through facility maintenance and a sample management system. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「We take all possible measures in our operations and management, including regularly maintaining analytical equipment and introducing a biological sample management system.」
We continue to disclose the risk of disasters caused by the concentration of facilities at the head office research laboratory, together with measures involving facility maintenance and sample management. - FY2017First statedAnnual report
「The analytical equipment, servers and other facilities used for our group's business and research and development are concentrated at the head office research laboratory in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture.」
The company identifies as a risk associated with the concentration of facilities and personnel the possibility that analytical operations and research and development may be suspended by earthquakes, lightning strikes, heavy snowfall, power outages and other events.