Toray Group places corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities including "safety, accident prevention, environmental preservation" and "compliance with business ethics, laws and regulations," as one of its top priority managerial issues.
We established our CSR Guidelines in 2004 (revised them in 2005) which encompass ten themes and are currently working on CSR activities within a project structure based on the ten guidelines.
Since 2005, we have been working on site level CSR initiatives as a Group-wide CSR activity.
- Basic Policy & Enhance corporate governance and management transparency
- Sincerely pursue CSR activities to help create a sustainable society by fulfilling our Corporate Philosophy, Corporate Missions, and Guiding Principles, and strive to enhance corporate governance and management transparency.
- Uphold corporate ethics and comply with laws and regulations
- Earn the trust of society by all executives and employees upholding our Corporate Ethics and Compliance Code of Conduct and acting with fairness, high ethical standards, and sense of responsibility.
- Emphasize safety, accident prevention, and environmental preservation
- Give safety, accident prevention, and environmental preservation top priority above all other management issues, and work to ensure the safety and health of society and employees while protecting the environment in all of our business activities, from procuring raw materials to manufacturing, supplying, and disposing of products.
- Ensure product safety and quality
- Recognize the importance of product safety and quality assurance in supplying safe and highly reliable products, and strive to enhance management systems and disclose appropriate information.
- Perform risk management
- Seek to reduce potential risk, develop a system capable of responding quickly to unexpected circumstances and disclosing accurate information, and work to inform all employees about this system.
- Promote dialogue with stakeholders
- Encourage a dialogue and cooperation with employees, shareholders, investors, business partners, consumers, local communities, non-profit organizations, government and administrative agencies, mass media, analysts, and other parties.
- Step up environmental and recycling efforts
- Pursue research and technological development related to environmentally friendly products and recycling, and contribute to improving the global environment by developing and expanding environmental, safety, and amenity businesses.
- Secure and train personnel and promote human rights
- Secure and train personnel and diversify employment while striving to protect employee jobs, respect human rights, and continuously improve workplace environments.
- Cooperate with suppliers in their environmental and social initiatives
- Cooperate with suppliers in promoting CSR activities, including environmental consideration, compliance with laws and regulations, and promotion of human rights.
- Pursue social initiatives
- Voluntarily conduct promotional programs for science and technology, arts and culture, social welfare, sports, and other activities by allocating an appropriate amount of resources as a good corporate citizen.
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