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Mediplat Co., Ltd. and Leafea Co., Ltd. have entered into a business partnership aimed at helping small and medium sized businesses strengthen workplace health management efforts through a combination of occupational health support and employee benefits services.
The timing matters. Interest in health management has moved well beyond HR discussions and into boardroom conversations. Japan’s revised Industrial Safety and Health Act, announced in 2025, will widen mandatory stress checks so they cover all businesses starting April 2028. In parallel, workers’ compensation claims tied to mental health issues hit a new high of 1,055 cases in fiscal 2024, which is clearly adding even more pressure on companies to treat workplace wellbeing as a real priority.
For a lot of SMEs, the bigger problem isn’t motivation, it’s the actual doing. With tight budgets, smaller crews, and a missing set of specialist knowledge, it can be hard to put in place in-house arrangements for occupational health and employee support.
こちらもお読みください： 日本のイノベーション・エコシステムは、AI、ヘルスケア、デジタルトランスフォーメーションを融合させ、未来の産業を形作っています。
This partnership kind of blends Mediplat’s hands-on know-how in things like industrial physician services, public health nursing, and mental health programs, with リーファ’s know-how in employee benefits plus engagement initiatives.
Together, the companies intend to roll out a more connected way of working, one that helps organizations handle the legal side, while also backing employee wellbeing and longer-term retention, at the same time. Joint seminars and educational initiatives are also planned as both companies look to expand awareness of health management practices across Japan’s SME sector.
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