This study aims to elucidate the support process in Type B continuous employment support businesses to lead people with mental disabilities to competitive employment. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 managers in Type B continuous employment support businesses, and the data were analyzed using a modified grounded theory approach. A six-stage support process was extracted based on the analysis. The steps were to “confirm individual’s intent to work,” “understand the image of real users through work,” “get close to growth,” “see the stability of the support for continuous employment type B as growth,” and “awareness and connection to competitive employment” and “supporting users to continue working.” This study suggests the importance of utilizing individual support plans and practicing support relying on the Strengths Model in supporting people with severe mental disabilities with unclear motivation for competitive employment.

In recent years, the working environment and health status of truck drivers have become a social issue. Previous studies on truck drivers have not classified and analyzed their data according to the scale of businesses. In this study, a survey was conducted on truck drivers working in businesses with 30 or fewer employees to assess the working environment and health management. The results illustrate the following points: the working environment of truck drivers in small businesses has little effect on their health; fewer self-employed workers have health checkups; and the smaller the scale of the business, the less likely it is to implement health checkups. These findings suggest that measures should be taken to encourage truck drivers to undergo health checkups and to establish a system of health checkups for small businesses.

The purpose of this study was to clarify to what extent the awareness of autonomous emotional labor among nursery teachers affects their stress and self-efficacy. The subjects of the study were 13 regular nursery teachers working in public nursery schools (eight in the intervention group and five in the control group). Interventions getting knowledge about emotional labor were staged twice for the intervention group. We conducted four surveys via questionnaires to measure the scale of stress and the efficacy of nursery teachers among all the study subjects and compared the changes during the survey period between the two groups. No obvious difference was observed in the evaluation of nursery teachers’ efficacy. On the other hand, the stress level showed different changes between two groups. It was suggested that the intervention could reduce the stress level.