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.

Basic Approach

Occupational Safety and Accident Prevention

Toray Industries puts safety and the environment first in its Corporate Guiding Principles, by “placing top priority on safety, accident prevention and environmental preservation in order to protect the safety and health of employees, customers and local communities and contribute to building a sustainable society.”
Under this policy, the Company promotes safety and accident prevention activities across the entire Group. To put this principle into practice, Toray Industries has adopted a top-down structure in which top management, plant managers, and supervisors act as one, and has built its own system using industry standards for occupational health and safety management systems.
Based on Toray Group-wide policy, the Company conducts safety activities at all sites in accordance with unified standards and statistically evaluates progress against key performance indicators (KPIs) set out in its CSR Roadmap 2025.
Each year, Toray Industries establishes a safety slogan and “Main Activities for Safety, Health, Accident Prevention and Environmental Preservation,” which are reflected in the annual activity plans of each company and plant. These plans are managed by various committees and audits based on plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycles.
Those conducting these audits include Toray Industries executive officers, chief representatives of group operations in other countries, as well as executives, plant managers, and safety and environmental preservation staff at group companies. Using a standardized checklist, they conduct both document-based and on-site audits at production sites worldwide. The results are then reflected in the following year’s activity plans, slogan, and policies, which help to raise the safety level of the entire Group.

Environmental Preservation

To help realize a sustainable society, Toray Group has positioned the reduction of environmental impact as a critical issue, and has been adopting its Medium-Term Environmental Plans since fiscal 2000. The Group has set KPIs and is pursuing continuous improvement through initiatives such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions per unit of revenue as well as cutting atmospheric emissions of certain chemical substances (PRTR substances, VOCs, and others) and waste.
Under the Toray Group Sustainability Vision announced in 2018, the Group aimed to achieve two targets per unit of revenue by 2030: a 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from production activities and a 30% reduction in water usage, both compared with fiscal 2013. Under the medium-term management program Project AP-G 2022 launched in fiscal 2020, the entire Group worked to reduce emissions through its Challenge 30 Project.
With these efforts, the Group met its targets for fiscal 2030 ahead of schedule in fiscal 2022.
Therefore, the Group significantly raised its numerical targets from a 30% reduction to a more than 50% reduction in both greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption per unit of revenue compared to fiscal 2013. The Group also set a new target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Japan by at least 40% compared to fiscal 2013.
Since fiscal 2023, three-year KPIs have been set based on the CSR Roadmap 2025. The project has also been renamed the Challenge 50+ Project to strengthen initiatives such as energy-saving activities, introducing renewable energy, and eliminating the use of coal. Moreover, KPIs have been established for atmospheric VOC emission reduction and waste recycling rate improvement, and the Group is strengthening its management of priority-focus companies and factories.

Policies

Safety, Health, Accident Prevention and Environmental Preservation Management

Action Policy and Main Activities

Toray Group operates a policy for safety, health, accident prevention, and environmental activities. The policy is revised every year to reflect the results from the previous year, and specifies the main activities to implement in each policy area.

Safety, Health, Accident Prevention, and Environment Activity Policy of Toray Group in 2024

Structure

At Toray Group, the promotion of safety, health, accident prevention, and environmental preservation is overseen by the Head of Safety, Health, Accident Prevention, and Environmental Affairs (general manager of the Manufacturing Division¹). Each year, at the Board of Manufacturing Directors, this general manager deliberates on policies and main activities together with the Safety Officers, who are responsible for safety, health, accident prevention, and environmental preservation in their respective businesses and fields, and the Environment and Safety Officers, who bear responsibility for these areas across the entire Group. The resulting policies and main activities are then communicated to Toray Industries and its group companies.
Progress is managed by each group company and plant through various committees and audits, using the PDCA cycle.

Board of Directors

Board of Manufacturing Directors

Safety Officers

Safety Management
Departments

Environment and Safety Officers

Group-wide Secretariat
(Environment & Safety Dept.)

Toray’s plants, divisions
and departments

Group companies
in Japan

Group companies
outside Japan

Business Execution
Functions

● Safety, Health, Accident Prevention,
　and Environment Committees
● Safety, health, accident prevention
　and environmental audits
● Environmental Preservation
　Management Committees
● Mutual inspections by general
　managers of manufacturing
　departments

● Safety, Health, Accident Prevention,
　and Environment Committees
● Safety, health, accident prevention
　and environmental audits
● Mutual inspections of safety and
　accident prevention

● Safety, Health, Accident Prevention,
　and Environment Committees
● Safety, health, accident prevention
　and environmental audits
● National and Regional Safety
　Summits, and other bodies

Management and
decision making

Report

Direction / Report

Direction / Report

Head of Safety, Health, Accident Prevention, and Environmental Affairs
(General Manager of the Manufacturing Division)

(Executive officers and others responsible for safety,
health, accident prevention, and environmental
preservation in each business and field at particular
Toray Industries plants and group companies worldwide)

(Executive officers and others
responsible for safety, health,
accident prevention, and
environmental preservation
across Toray Group)

1. 1 As of July 2025, the senior vice president responsible for the Manufacturing Division concurrently serves as the division’s general manager.

Safety, Health, Accident Prevention, and Environmental Audits

Toray Group conducts annual audits to objectively assess and improve the execution and management of safety, health, accident prevention, and environmental initiatives at offices and plants of group companies. Internal audits are conducted using a standardized audit checklist, and encompass visits and production floor guidance provided by directors and managers from other group companies.
In fiscal 2024, audits were conducted for all 13 plants and one research laboratory at Toray Industries, 27 plants operated by 27 group companies in Japan, and 82 plants operated by 63 group companies outside Japan. The audits focused on the following areas: safety checks before starting operations as well as training and comprehension checks for inexperienced workers; follow-up on the results of inspections using the FP² Checklist, which includes the Electrical Equipment Checklist; confirmation of response progress for additional substances subject to the Industrial Safety and Health Act (for group companies in Japan); and thoroughness of measures to prevent environmental accidents. The audits helped to secure systematic improvements by identifying and addressing facility issues and issues relating to management.

1. 2 FP: Fire Prevention

Responsible Care Program

Under Responsible Care (RC) programs, chemical companies pursue voluntary management of chemical substances, transparent disclosure, and communication with the public. Companies committed to RC take safety, health, and environmental measures across the entire product lifecycle—from development, manufacturing, distribution and consumer use to the disposal—and then disclose the results of their efforts.
Since 1995, Toray Group has participated as a founding member in the Japan Responsible Care Council (JRCC), established under the Japan Chemical Industry Association. The Group is committed to the safe handling of chemical substances and environmental preservation through RC activities.
In line with the Responsible Care Global Charter³. Toray Group prepares RC activity plans and monitors their implementation group-wide. These plans and their results are compiled into a Responsible Care Implementation Plan/Report, which is submitted annually to the Japan Chemical Industry Association.

1. 3 The Responsible Care Global Charter is a voluntary initiative established in 2005 by the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) with the aim of actively strengthening and promoting Responsible Care activities worldwide. To promote understanding among external stakeholders and encourage companies to take concrete action the Charter was revised in 2014, and Toray Industries was a signatory to both the original and revised Charter.

ISO 14001 Certification

Toray Group is pursuing the acquisition of ISO 14001, the certification for environmental management system, by all of its group companies, offices, and plants.
Toray Industries had completed accreditation for all 13 of its plants by the end of 2000. By fiscal 2024, 32 plants at 23 group companies in Japan and 68 plants at 51 group companies outside Japan were certified.
In fiscal 2024, the total number of certified plants decreased by one, as the M1 Plant of Toray Textiles (Thailand) Public Company Limited was closed, reducing the overseas total by one plant.

Education and Awareness-Raising to Enhance Safety, Accident Prevention, and Environmental Awareness

Safety and Accident Prevention Training

Toray Group promotes safety activities in line with industry standards for occupational health and safety management systems, such as ISO 45001. Through training programs tailored to different organizational levels, from new hires to managers, the Group works to instill a strong awareness of safety and ensure strict compliance with rules, while conducting audits led by executives.
In addition, initiatives such as establishing safety slogans are carried out across the Group in pursuit of zero accidents.

Environmental and Sustainability Education Initiatives

Toray Group is actively enhancing each employee's awareness and knowledge of environmental issues and sustainability. Specifically, the Group covers environmental topics in its in-house magazine “People.” It also issues the internal “SI Report” concerning sustainability, and shares information worldwide about environmental accidents and near-misses.
In addition, the Group conducts training at various organizational levels, including programs for new employees and seminars organized by Toray Corporate Business Research, Inc. In fiscal 2022, three e-learning courses were conducted as an introductory program on environmental education, with an average of approximately 12,000 participants. Since fiscal 2023, new intermediate and advanced e-learning courses have been introduced to promote the acquisition of more substantial environmental knowledge.

CSR Roadmap 2025 Targets and Results

1. 4 Volatile organic compounds
2. 5 The calculation of the figure for the baseline of fiscal 2013 includes data for companies that joined the Toray Group in fiscal 2014 or later.
3. 6 Until fiscal 2022, this was calculated by multiplying the GHG emissions and revenue of individual subsidiaries worldwide by the applicable Toray Industries' equity share. In fiscal 2023 however, the calculation method changed, and the degree of financial control Toray Industries has over the individual subsidiary (not the equity share) is now used, in accordance with the GHG Protocol, the international standard.

Looking to the Future

Toray Group will continue to carry out safety, accident prevention and environmental preservation activities based on international frameworks such as ISO 14001 and Responsible Care as well as the Group’s medium- and long-term and single-year goals. The Group is committed to protecting the health and safety of employees and the public and reducing its environmental impact.

CSR Activity Reports and Environmental Data