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CSR Guidelines

Toray Group has established CSR Guidelines to govern its CSR initiatives. Intended to be comprehensive, they cover aspects from corporate governance to social contribution. The CSR Guidelines consist of ten themes, each of which is assigned an implementation leader.

CSR Guidelines   Revised June 2023
1. Corporate Governance
Continually revise management systems, strengthen internal controls as part of efforts to fulfill the company’s social responsibilities.
2. Ethics and Compliance
Ensure all executives and employees uphold a sense of responsibility, fairness and high ethical standards, and act with a keen sense of compliance to maintain the trust of society.
3. Safety, Accident Prevention, and Environmental Preservation
Ensure the safety and health of society and employees, and protect the environment in all business processes, from procuring raw materials and manufacturing to the supply and disposal of products.
4. Product Quality and Safety
Provide safe, highly reliable products by striving to enhance management systems for product quality assurance and safety, and disclose appropriate information.
5. Risk Management
Under normal conditions, assess and analyze risks, and strive to mitigate and prevent them from materializing; and in the event of a crisis that could have a significant impact on management activities, strive to prevent damage from increasing, by bringing the situation quickly under control and normalizing conditions with a prompt and appropriate response.
6. Communication
Disclose corporate information in an active, fair and straightforward manner to maintain management transparency; and disclose information appropriately to encourage dialogue and cooperation with stakeholders including customers, employees, stockholders, business partners, consumers, mass media, and other parties.
7. Contributing Solutions to Social Issues through Business Activities
Leverage innovation to provide solutions to various social issues such as climate change, resource and energy use, water resource and natural environment conservation, improvement of medical care, and promotion of public health, thereby contributing to sustainable development for society.
8. Human Rights Promotion and Human Resources Development
Respect human rights, provide safe and healthy workplaces for employees, secure and train personnel, and diversify while striving to protect employment.
9. Establishing Sustainable Supply Chain
To establish a sustainable supply chain, work closely with suppliers, processing vendors, subcontractors, customers and distribution companies to implement socially responsible procurement throughout the supply chain in order to ensure responsible practices with respect to environmental preservation and human rights.
10. Social Contribution Activities as a Good Corporate Citizen
Proactively participate in local communities and the larger society in order to contribute to development in a way betting a good corporate citizen.

CSR Roadmap

Every three years Toray Group draws up a CSR roadmap, which is based on its CSR Guidelines and incorporates key material issues. The CSR Roadmap serves as the Group’s medium-term plan for the systematic and organization-wide implementation of CSR initiatives.
Under this roadmap, action goals, main initiatives, and key performance indicators (KPIs) are set for each of the 10 CSR Guidelines to quantitatively monitor yearly progress.

“CSR Guideline Activities” and “CSR Line Activities”

Toray Group implements CSR Guideline activities and CSR line activities in parallel. The first type of activities are organized according to the CSR Guidelines and involve setting specific activity goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) to quantitatively manage progress each year. Meanwhile, CSR line activities aim to address CSR challenges and foster a CSR perspective in workplaces at Toray Industries and its group companies worldwide. These line activities are driven by key executives, including the presidents of group companies and department heads at Toray Industries.
The CSR Operations Department at Toray Industries plays a central role in the CSR promotion system. The department effectively collaborates with departments involved in CSR Guideline implementation, as well as other departments and group companies worldwide, to establish a comprehensive framework for promoting efforts across the entire Group through both CSR Guideline activities and CSR line activities.

Toray Group CSR Promotion System
Board of Directors
Chief CSR Officer
CSR Operations Dept.
● Toray Industries
 departments
● Group companies in
 and outside Japan
CSR Line Activities
CSR Guidelines
Corporate Governance
Ethics and Compliance
Safety, Accident Prevention, and
Environmental Preservation
Product Quality and Safety
Risk Management
Communication
Contributing Solutions to Social Issues
through Business Activities
Human Rights Promotion and Human
Resources Development
Establishing Sustainable Supply Chain
Social Contribution Activities as a Good
Corporate Citizen
CSR Guideline Activities
President and
department heads
General employees
Management,
decision making
Report
Policy
directives
Report
Cooperation
Toray Group CSR Promotion System

Related Information

Click here to access CSR activity reports for each of the CSR Guidelines.

The following page reports on the prevalence of CSR activities at Toray Group.