CSR Management
Main Activities in 2012
The DOWA group sets up the goals of our CSR activities, based on our CSR Policy and Priority List of CSR.
Our focus in 2012 was Safety activities of our business establishments. As for Environment, our total emission of CO2 in 2012 increased by 9% as compared to the previous year, probably due to the increased CO2 emission factor of the electric power company. We will continue to reduce the emission. As for Society, we set forth and published our new policy on conflict minerals in SCR procurement. We also made efforts to educate our employees by opening the portal site in-house for their further understanding of CSR. We will continuously improve our CSR activities, referring to the results and progress statuses of our activities during the fiscal year.
| Focus | Goal | Main Results | Evaluation | Page | Issues for FY 2013 |
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| Safety | Improvement of risk management | Starting up of the Group Safety Activity Project Implementation of risk assessment and preparation of BCP (Business Continuity Plan) in all business establishments in Japan and abroad |
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P.21-22 | Implementation of the project across the whole holdings group companies. |
| Enhancement of safety education pro¬gram throughout the group | Implementation of safety patrols (4 times/year) | |
P.21-22 | Strengthening the programs outside Japan | |
| Support for educational courses to experience risks (235 persons took the course.) | |
P.21-22 | Continuation of the courses | ||
| Environment | Global warming measures | Emission of greenhouse gas: 1.49 million CO2 ton. Emission of greenhouse gas for domestic companies: 9% increase compared to .last year |  |
P.40 | Reduction of total amount of emission |
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Reduction of fuel through process improvement |
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P.40 | Promotion of information sharing on efforts within the group | ||
| Promoting resource-recycling | Expansion of precious metal recycling businesses in Asia (Full operation of Singapore plant) Implementation of recycling and reuse of cerium, a glass grinding material |
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P.11 P.31 |
Enhanced development of recycling technologies | |
| Promoting environmentally-friendly products and new energy fields. | LCA of main products Diagnostics of energy saving |
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- | Selection of LCA items | |
| Conservation of biodiversity | Survey on biodiversity and formulation of conservation guideline | |
- | Formulation of Biodiversity Conservation Policy |
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| Promotion of Forest management (Planted 5,000 trees in Kosaka-machi, Akita Prefecture and promotion of forest management) | |
P.41 | Continuous afforestation and forest management | ||
| Governance | Strengthening of internal control and governance | Support for internal control activities of newly added companies to our consolidated accounting (Six companies) | |
P.5 | Enhancement of internal control of overseas business establishments |
| Promoting CSR procurement | Preparation of the basic policy on procuring conflict minerals Obtained Certificate for the Gold Conflict-Free Smelter program from EICC-GeSI |
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P.28 | Formulation of CSR Procurement Policy | |
| Society | Promoting diversity management | Promoting the framework for employees regardless of nationality to work global Revision of the re-employment system to hire experienced retired employees |
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P.30 | Promoting employment of disabled people |
| Promoting work-life balance | Support for obtaining leaves of absence/return to work Implementing the questionnaire to the newly employed |
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P.30 | Preparation of action plans to support fostering the next generation | |
| Contribution to local communities | Holding and operating events with local communities (Marathon, ski competiion, cherry blossom festival) | |
P.26 | Promoting social contribution, reflecting unique characteristics of each local community | |
| Promoting in-house CSR education | In-house portal site established | |
P.30 | Improvement of the portal site |
Our Vision to Fight Global Warming
The DOWA group set a new goal of "15% reduction of CO2 emission unit by 2020, compared to 1990 emission unit" according to the Action Plan to Implement Low Carbon Society by Nippon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) and the Japan Mining Industry Association (published as of January 2013) as a measure to fight against global warming since 2013. We further strive to strengthen energy saving measures and fuel conversion in existing facilities and to promote use of renewable energy.
In the long term, we aim at being a carbon neutral company, thereby CO2 emission in connection with business activities is offset by reduction effect of global warming gases, through our efforts to reduce CO2 emission in business activities and reduce global warming gases in our CFC destruction business.
