Companies will be required beginning this month to provide authorities with detailed information on workers at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power after botched paperwork left 69 employees unaccounted for.
Companies will be required beginning this month to provide authorities with detailed information on workers at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power after botched paperwork left 69 employees unaccounted for.
The workers at the plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., were never given radiation exposure checks due to careless personnel management by their employers.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will ask 654 companies that have dispatched 5,178 workers to the plant to submit reports on staffing and details of work contracts at the end of each month, sources said.
A ministry review conducted between late last month and June 15 found that 22 companies, including Toshiba Corp. and Hitachi Ltd., had contracts with 632 subcontractors. Those subcontractors employ 4,091 workers at the plant. The rest--1,087--work directly for the 22 main companies.
In the monthly reports, employers will be required to list the number of new employees added to the work force and the number of workers who have left.
They will also be required to provide details such as workers' employment periods; if those workers were originally on their payrolls or hired on a temporary basis; and if they have carried out safety and health education and well as health checks for their new workers.