Responsible Care Code |
Mid-term plan (FY2016-2021) |
FY2020 plan |
Achievement assessment |
FY2021 plan |
Environmental protection and countermeasures to address climate change |
- Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improving
the GHG emission rate※1 GHG emissions: Reducing by 20% from FY2011 level by FY2021 GHG emission rate: Improving by 40% from FY2011 level by FY2021
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- Continuing to undergo third-party verification for GHG emissions
- GHG emissions: Reducing by 30% from FY2011 level
- GHG emission rate: Maintaining improving by 50% from FY2011 level
- Consideration of a drastic GHG emissions reduction plan
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- GHG emissions: Reducing by 29% from FY2011 level
- GHG emission rate: Improving by 52% from FY2011 level
- Received the third-party verification about GHG emissions
- Set GHG emissions reduction target (Reduing by 30% from FY2018 level by FY2030)
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- Continuing to undergo third-party verification for GHG emissions
- GHG emissions: Reducing by 30% from FY2011 level
- GHG emission rate: Maintaining improving by 50% from FY2011 level
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- Improving the energy consumption rate※2
Improving by 30% from FY2011 level by FY2021
- 2 Amount of energy consumption / sales
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- Further energy saving by improving the equipment capacities and renewal aging facilities
- Energy consumption rate: Improving by 30% from FY2011 level
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- Implementation of Energy saving by improving the equipment capacity and renewal aging equipment, etc.
- Energy consumption rate: Improving by 32% from FY2011 level
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- Further energy saving by improving the equipment capacities and renewal aging facilities
- Energy consumption rate: Maintaining improving by 30% from FY2011 level
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- Reducing industrial waste
- Recycling rate: 99.5% or higher by FY2021
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- Recycling rate: 98% or higher
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- Recycling rate: 98% or higher (Reviewed due to changes in external conditions)
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- Establishing a CSR supply chain management (green procurement) system
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- Conducting EHS audits in major raw material suppliers
- Expanding the coverage of CSR Questionnaire (purchases by business divisions)
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- Conduction of EHS audits in major raw material suppliers
- Selecting companies to be surveyed with priority for purchases by business divisions
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- Conducting EHS audits in major raw material suppliers
- Starting of operation of CSR questionnaire for purchases by business divisions
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- Strengthening measures for biodiversity conservation
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- Promoting activities for biodiversity based on biodiversity action guidelines
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- Management of Bio-Park
- Support for a NPO
- Contribution to the conservation of marsh registered under the Ramsar Convention
- Continuous support for the conservation of Pinus pentaphylla
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- Promoting activities for biodiversity based on biodiversity action guidelines
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- Promoting development and sales of environmentally friendly products
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- Investigation of the relevant product, visualization of the cost
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- Continuing investigation of the relevant product and visualization of the cost
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Safety and disaster prevention |
- Zero accident of fire / explosion / leaking chemicals
- Creating safety culture and improving the safety capabilities
- Improving effectiveness of the prior assessment system on manufacturing, construction work and research
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- Continuation and establishment of reviewed measures to prevent fires and explosions
- Starting fires and explosions risk prevention measures and identifying issues
- Verification and review of measures to prevent fires and explosions that have already been formulated
- Zero accident of fire / explosion / leaking chemicals
- Review of safety culture evaluation methods
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- Implementation of reviewed measures to prevent fires and explosions
- Implementation of fires and explosions risk prevention measures
- One accident of fires and leaking chemicals respectively, and zero accident of explosion
- Implementation of safety culture evaluation at the affiliates and cooperative companies
- Implementation of consideration of safety culture evaluation methods
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- Continuing of fires and explosions risk prevention measures
- Zero accident of fire / explosion / leaking chemicals
- Continuing of consideration of safety culture evaluation methods
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Occupational safety and health |
- Revising the occupational safety and health management system
- Achieving zero accident that requires staff time off from work
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- Implementing safety audits
- Review safety training and raise awareness of training for temporary staff
- Efforts to achieve zero rule violations
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- One case of accident requiring staff time off from work, two cases of accident involving employees of subcontractors including temporary staff
- Implementation of reviewnig of safety education materials and raising awareness of training for temporary staff
- Zero occupational injurie due to rule violation
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- Implementing safety audits
- Verification of implementation / continuation of corrective measures for past cases of occupational accidents
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Chemicals and products safety |
- Promoting risk-based management throughout the lifecycle of chemical substances
- Contributing to advanced research that examines the impact of chemical substances on human health and the environment
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- Continuously disclosing safety summaries of chemical substances
- Continuously conducting the risk assessment by prior assessment system
- Continuously implementing Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) assessment
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- Disclosure of safety summary of dilute nitric acid
- Implementation of risk assessment by prior assessment
- Implementation of WET assessment
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- Continuously disclosing safety summaries of chemical substances
- Continuously conducting the risk assessment by prior assessment system
- Continuously implementing WET assessment
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