FY2026 PS Award Winners and Plus Anshin Products Announced

Since FY2007, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has held the Good Product Safety Practices Awards (PS Awards) to encourage companies and other organizations to take an active role in product safety and to establish the value of product safety throughout society. This is the 20th awards program, and experts and others reviewed the entries and selected the winners.

The PS Awards assess four areas: manufacturing, importing, purchasing, and selling safe products; efforts to ensure products are used safely; responses when safety issues are identified after shipment; and building a product safety culture.

Plus Anshin gives clear labels to products found effective through evaluation, helping businesses and consumers communicate about risks. This helps create an environment in which consumers can choose safe and reliable products for themselves.

The PS Awards aim to make product safety an important value in business activities and consumer life, and to safeguard product safety throughout society.

Plus Anshin is a program that evaluates how well products reduce risks when they have specific measures to prevent misuse or carelessness, and labels those found effective. Misuse includes actions that depart from instructions or on-product labels, lapses in concentration or carelessness, and behavior by children, older adults, and people with disabilities. Products are assessed on four criteria: basic safety of the product as a whole, the rationale for the measures, the extent of accident risk reduction, and the appropriateness of the explanatory wording on the label.

In the business and organization category, Charichari Co., Ltd. received the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award; ASICS Corporation, Japanet Holdings Co., Ltd., Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd., and Serio Co., Ltd. received the Director-General for Industrial Safety and Security Award; Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation and Lion Corporation received the Screening Committee Award for Excellence; and the BOKEN Quality Evaluation Institute and Rakuten Group, Inc. received the Screening Committee Special Award. Product category winners were a powered wheelchair lift, a semi-solid mobile battery, a steamless VE electric water boiler, bitterant-coated coin lithium batteries, and electric carpets and blankets. Their main measures reduce risks of falls, ignition, burns, accidental ingestion, and smoke, ignition, and fire.

The anniversary event will take place from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on November 12, 2026, at Iino Conference Center in Chiyoda City, Tokyo. Registration begins at 12:30 p.m. The event is intended for corporate executives; people involved in product design and development, manufacturing, importing, sales, safety, or quality management; and anyone interested in product safety. In Room A, the awards ceremony begins at 1:00 p.m., a talk session titled “Creating Value Through Product Safety” begins at 1:45 p.m., winner speeches begin at 2:20 p.m., and a panel discussion titled “Turning Product Safety into a Strength That Wins Customer Choice” begins at 3:40 p.m. The exhibition in Room B is open from 12:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

During Product Safety Inspection Month, the ministry will carry out various initiatives, including calls for people to inspect products so they can use them safely and related events.