Dialogue with Stakeholders and Benchmarking

In order to understand the changing demands of society and respond appropriately, we first exchanged information with a variety of stakeholders and conducted benchmark surveys globally.

For example, we exchanged information with the EICC and GeSI board members, and conducted benchmark surveys with multi-national companies that were early adopters of CSR activities in their supply chain, and through these actions we deepened our understanding of society’s concern for human rights, occupational health and safety, the environment, compliance, and other global issues, or special situations related to these areas in other countries or regions.

The new viewpoint we developed through these activities was used to integrate our code of conduct, corporate regulations, and management system, and they were also reflected in the mechanisms we built and strengthened to respond to the new requirements of society.

Based on information from stakeholders and benchmark surveys, we set the global standard as our target.

Identifying issues through internal audits and self-assessments, we are working to improve by reflecting these issues in work flow, checking systems, and other operations.