Environmental Governance System

Basic Policy for the Environment

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   Basic Policy for the Environment

   In all business activities, the Mitsuboshi Belting Group carries out environmental conservation activities from a global perspective with the aim of realizing a sustainable society based on the Corporate Philosophy of “thinking about people and thinking about the earth.” We will promote the creation of companies that contribute to society.
   
   

   1. Maintenance of environmental management system

   We maintain an environmental management system that functions effectively and manage the environmental preservation activities that are developed in all businesses under this system.
   
   
   

   2. Compliance obligations

   We comply with environmental laws and regulations, agreements with stakeholders, and internal rules/guidelines.
   
   
   

   3. Cooperation with stakeholders

   We actively promote cooperation with stakeholders with the aim of ensuring the achievement of our environmental goals and targets we have set for issues in our environmental preservation activities, including conserving resources/energy and curtailing substances that have an environmental impact. We also actively engage in activities to achieve coexistence with the local community.
   
   
   

   4. Utilization of technological capabilities

   We apply the know-how and technology cultivated as a manufacturing company to environmental preservation activities with a "product life cycles" perspective.
   
   
   

   5. Implementation of continuous improvement

   Throughout all our businesses, we identify and monitor environmental impacts, make continuous improvements, and ensure that we achieve our environmental goals and targets.
   
   
   Through the environmental management system, all employees of the Mitsuboshi Belting Group will be informed of this basic environmental policy. We also disclose it outside the company in a form that is easily available to all stakeholders.
   
   

   Revised on October 1, 2021
   Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.

Maintenance and improvement of an environmental management system

The Mitsuboshi Belting Group has established an environmental management system that complies with ISO 14001, and has been involved in environmental conservation activities based on the Basic Policy for the Environment. Environmental conservation activities indicated in the Basic Policy for the Environment include energy and resources saving and the reduction of environmentally hazardous substances. They also include global warming prevention represented by the reduction of GHG emissions, water resources conservation through water consumption reduction and wastewater treatment, biodiversity maintenance, forest conservation, and the establishment of a recycling-oriented society through 3R activities and waste reduction.

An environmental department, which is the smallest unit for these activities, belongs to the Regional Environment Committee established at each site, and reports its activities to the Regional Environment Committee Secretariat every month. The Regional Environment Committee meets monthly to review the activities of each environmental department and report the review results to the Companywide Environment Secretariat, which summarizes the contents of the reports from each site as a company-wide activity, reports the summary to the Person with Overall Environmental Responsibility, and disseminates the relevant information to all sites.

Twice a year, the Person with Overall Environmental Responsibility holds Environment Health & Safety Conference, chaired by the Director in Charge of Safety and the Environment and attended by all department general managers as members, to report the activities at each site—which are summarized by the Companywide Environmental Secretariat—to the President and the Management Council members, evaluate them, and clarify policies, measures, and targets for future activities.

Environmental education for employees

The Mitsuboshi Belting Group provides environmental education as part of its business activities. The Environmental Secretariat, which has been established in the ISO 14001-compliant environmental management system (hereinafter “EMS”), is responsible for providing environmental education for employees. The Secretariat creates environmental education and training plans for each fiscal year, which describe training content, and implements education/training programs. Our environmental education/training programs comprise: newly assigned employee training (environmental policy and targets, environmental manuals, etc.), general employee training (environmental policy and targets, environmental management plan, skill-based education and training, etc.), manager training (environmental policy and targets, environmental management plans, revised internal standards/environmental regulations, etc.), and other training (emergency response training, internal auditor training, training for legally qualified workers, etc.)

Although currently the main focus of environmental education is on ensuring thorough compliance with environmental regulations set by the government and internal standards, we are planning to incorporate environmental issues requiring urgent attention into learning content, such as response to climate change, biodiversity, water security, and circular economy, thereby revitalizing our business activities.