Environmental Management
We have established a group-wide environmental management system and continue to promote environmental management aimed at optimizing activities throughout the Citizen Group and producing results efficiently and reliably.
Environmental Management System
We have established a group-wide environmental management system to efficiently and precisely promote environmental management throughout the Citizen Group.
We hold two meetings of the Group Environmental Management Committee each year, bringing together environmental managers at domestic offices to ascertain progress with activities at each company, review annual environmental management policies and common issues, and make decisions accordingly.
Our domestic production companies have obtained ISO 14001 certification and conduct environmental management based on the nature of their business.
At our overseas production companies meanwhile, we focus on initiatives that are crucial to manufacturing environmentally-friendly products, including green procurement and chemical substance management, and continue to make steady progress in terms of ISO 14001 certification. We also carry out activities aimed at reducing environmental impact at non-manufacturing companies, based on the nature of each company’s operations.
Acquisition Status of the ISO 14001 Certification
Environmental Education and Awareness Building Efforts
In practicing environmental management, it is essential that all Group employees are aware of the importance of the activities. For instance, Citizen Holdings’ Tokyo Office incorporates environmental education into its training for new recruits. It also provides Environmental Personnel Training, Internal Auditor Training, and Environmental Statutory Compliance Assessment Training annually for personnel working on the environment in each department. Production departments handling toxic, harmful, and other hazardous substances conduct emergency drills.
We have introduced the Citizen Business License scheme, an original scheme that encourages and supports proactive efforts to acquire public qualifications such as those for pollution control managers and energy managers.
Example Initiative
CITIZEN FINETECH MIYOTA
Introducing Environmental Accounting Book Scheme to Build Environmental Awareness amongst Employees
An awards ceremony under the environmental accounting scheme
Based on the awareness that the sensitivity of individual employees is fundamental to action, Citizen Finetech Miyota runs an environmental accounting scheme. For fiscal 2010, the number of participants in the scheme surged to 433, or 61% of all officers and employees. While keeping records of their household lighting, fuel expenses, and other items, more and more employees are taking actions in their households, such as investing in solar power generation and other renewable energy, or switching from liquefied petroleum gas to utility gas and other sources of energy with reduced global warming potential, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Meanwhile, an increasing number of employees are involved in the CO2 Reduction Action Campaign and the Shinshu Eco-Point Program run by the Nagano Prefectural Government. This initiative allows participants to use their existing environmental accounting books while becoming involved in local community activities. To encourage family- and community-wide activities that are vital to today’s society, we will strive to increase the use of environmental accounting.
Environmental auditing
Our Tokyo and Tokorozawa Works undergo an annual external audit conducted by an ISO assessment organization. We also conduct internal audits twice a year as a rule.
Environmental Risk Management
Our environmental risk management activities within the Citizen Group cover areas such as compliance with environmental legislation, management of chemical substances contained in our products, waste and recycling governance and measures to combat soil and groundwater contamination. We aim to implement effective measures at all Group companies based on information exchanged via the Group Environmental Management Committee.
Soil & Groundwater Pollution Surveys and Responses Taken
We conducted surveys on the usage history of hazardous substances at all of our production bases, both in Japan and overseas, in fiscal 2006 and evaluated measures taken on a five-point scale. We are currently in the process of carrying out voluntary soil and groundwater surveys at sites deemed to be at high risk of contamination. If the relevant surveys reveal evidence of contamination at any of our bases, we will report the matter to the authorities and take steps to remedy the situation as instructed.
