Strengthening compliance, safety, environmental, and disaster-prevention risk management

「With respect to sustainability issues, we will consider and implement specific measures to improve labor productivity, including carbon neutrality and digital transformation, while giving top priority to safety, the environment, disaster prevention and quality activities.」

「We also continue to develop the systems infrastructure needed to further strengthen quality control.」

「As part of our efforts to strengthen Group governance, we continue to maintain the foundations for safety, environmental and disaster prevention measures while promoting stronger quality control and compliance.」

「In addition to further strengthening quality and product competitiveness and pursuing energy and power savings, the company is advancing measures to ensure thorough compliance, secure and develop human resources capable of supporting sustainable business growth, pass on technical skills, and establish foundations for occupational health and safety, environmental and disaster-prevention measures,」

「Through autonomous internal control activities centered on the Risk Management Committee, we have conducted thorough checks across all operations and worked to overcome weaknesses. We have also provided training on power harassment, sexual harassment and other forms of harassment, worked to prevent harassment, continued to conduct employee awareness surveys, and steadily promoted the use and follow-up of internal reporting channels.」

「Against this operating backdrop, the Group worked to strengthen and enhance compliance, reinforce risk management relating to occupational health and safety, the environment and disaster prevention, and further strengthen quality and product competitiveness.」

「Against this operating backdrop, the Group worked to strengthen and enhance compliance, reinforce risk management relating to occupational health and safety, the environment and disaster prevention, and further strengthen quality and product competitiveness.」

「Against this operating backdrop, the Group worked to strengthen and enhance compliance, reinforce management of risks relating to occupational health and safety, the environment and disaster prevention, and further strengthen quality and product competitiveness.」

「Under our risk management framework, the departments responsible for each functional risk, including occupational health and safety, the environment and disaster prevention, and the reliability of financial reporting, identify and assess the risks under their responsibility, develop relevant rules and other measures, and ensure that these are communicated to each department. Monitoring of compliance and other matters is conducted by the relevant risk management departments and the General Affairs Department. Based on their understanding and assessment of risk management conditions, they provide guidance and advice and work to continuously improve risk management activities. In addition to the Compliance Consultation Office (internal hotline), we have established the Compliance Consultation Office (external hotline) as an external reporting channel, accepting consultations and reports concerning risks from employees of other companies engaged in our operations, including secondees and dispatched employees, employees of Group companies, and their family members.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group worked to strengthen and enhance compliance, reinforce risk management relating to occupational health and safety, the environment and disaster prevention, and further strengthen quality and product competitiveness.」

「Against this challenging operating backdrop, the Group worked to strengthen and enhance compliance, reinforce risk management relating to occupational health and safety, the environment and disaster prevention, and further strengthen quality and product competitiveness.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group worked to strengthen and enhance compliance, reinforce risk management relating to occupational health and safety, the environment and disaster prevention, and further strengthen quality and product competitiveness.」

「Under these challenging business conditions, our Group continued to strengthen and enhance compliance, diligently reinforce risk management relating to occupational health and safety, the environment and disaster prevention, and further promote quality improvement and product competitiveness. Total capital expenditures made during the fiscal year were ¥8.1 billion. Major expenditures included the acquisition of facilities from KOS Co. and, for safety and disaster prevention purposes, the construction of a new heating furnace stack and the installation of additional exhaust fans at the West Japan Kumamoto Plant, where the existing stack had sustained partial damage in the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake.」

「Amid this business environment, we have strengthened and enhanced compliance, worked to strengthen risk management for safety, environmental and disaster-prevention matters, and strengthened product competitiveness and our business foundation. We have also implemented thorough cost reductions rooted in the shop floor and actual products, as represented by GoZERO activities.」

「Against this challenging operating backdrop, the Group has worked diligently to strengthen and enhance compliance, reinforce risk management relating to safety, the environment and disaster prevention, and introduce facilities to strengthen and differentiate its product competitiveness.」

「Under these circumstances, we have further pursued energy and power conservation, quality improvements and stronger product competitiveness, while maintaining a safety-first and shop-floor-first approach. We have also deepened GoZERO activities rooted in the shop floor and actual operations and implemented steady cost reductions.」

「Amid this business environment, the Group has been actively installing energy-saving equipment while strengthening and enhancing compliance, with the aim of achieving its top management priority of reducing energy and power consumption by 20%.」

「Amid this challenging business environment, the Group has been actively installing energy-saving equipment while strengthening and enhancing compliance, with the aim of achieving its top management priority of reducing energy and power consumption by 20%.」

「Under these circumstances, our Group continued to further strengthen and enhance compliance, promote thorough cost reductions and strengthen and differentiate our products, and steadily implement proactive measures in our domestic and overseas businesses.」

「Against this backdrop, our Group is working to further strengthen and enhance compliance, reinforce risk management relating to safety, the environment and disaster prevention, and enhance its reliability as a company.」