Responsible Care Activities

to ensure environmental protection, health and safety throughout the life cycle of their chemical products, from development, manufacturing, and distribution, to use, final consumption and disposal and to publicly share the results with society while fostering proactive dialogue and communication.

RC activities are currently being promoted by chemical industry associations in more than 70 countries worldwide. In Japan, the Japan Chemical Industry Association (JCIA) is responsible for these activities. Our company supports the purpose of RC activities and, aiming to deepen societal trust and contribute to a sustainable society, we have been participating in meetings of the Responsible Care Committee of JCIA since FY2020.

In addition, our company considers environmental, safety, and health considerations throughout the entire product life cycle as top priorities, so we have established a Responsible Care Policy and are actively implementing it, which includes items related to security, disaster prevention, and logistics safety.

Responsible Care Policy

The Company acknowledges that the environment, safety, and health are the most important tasks and will make effort to engage in the following initiatives as our voluntary and continual Responsible Care activities:

We will make efforts to reduce the environmental loads of our products and to conserve the environment throughout their lifecycles from their development to disposal.
Based on the principle of Safety is the highest we will strive to ensure the safety of all persons engaged in our corporate business activities and local communities with the aim for zero accident and zero injuries with upmost efforts in creation of a safe work environment and security management of the facility.
We will check the safety of chemical substances that are handled in raw materials, intermediate products, and finished products, provide information on their appropriate handling, and give consideration to the safety and health of all related persons, including our employees, logistics personnel, and customers.

We will disclose the efforts of our initiatives to the society and endeavor to engage in appropriate communication with our stakeholders.

RC Promotion System

We have established an RC Committee to carry out RC activities.

In FY2024, we revised the organizational structure to enhance effectiveness. As a result, under the new company-wide RC Committee, the structure has transitioned to one where the Safety & Health Committees, Health Committees, and Environmental Conservation Committees at each plant take the lead in conducting RC activities.