| Themes | Key Measures | Indicators | FY2022 Results |
Targets | Related Information | |
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| The Environment | Materiality 1 Creating a resource-recycling society |
Increase collection of recycled raw materials |
Volume of recycled raw materials collected by Kosaka Smelting & Refining (FY2021 = 100) |
108 | 110 (FY2024) |
Resource Recycling Initiatives |
| Volume of spent catalysts from automobile exhaust purification collected (FY2021 = 100） |
89 | 140 (FY2024) |
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| Volume of recycled for used Lithium-Ion Batteries (FY2021 = 100) |
173 | 400 (FY2024) |
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| Increase ratio of metals derived from recycled raw materials | Ratio of metals derived from recycling that are used in production (based on sales in the Nonferrous Metals Business)(*) |
59% | 70% (FY2024) |
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| Materiality 2 Enhancing products and services that reduce social and environmental risks |
Sales expansion of major products and services based on customer needs | Progress of Mid-term Plan 2024 Policy (the DOWA HD website) |
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| Materiality 3 Responding to climate change |
Promoting company-wide climate change measures | Creating a system to promote climate change responses | Continuing a Climate Change Committee (Once a month) |
– Publication of a TCFD report – Creating roadmaps for climate change countermeasures |
Climate Change Initiatives | |
| Establishing company-wide policies and targets for climate change responses | Creating roadmaps for climate change countermeasures | |||||
| TCFD initiatives | Publication of a TCFD report (May, 2022) |
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| Materiality 4 Protecting the environment |
Establishment of an environmental management system (Establish and maintain an ISO14001- or EA21- compliant systems) |
Ratio of business locations operating under DOWA’s EHS-MS (environment, health, and safety management system) (At ISO-certified locations) |
74% | 100％ (by March 31, 2025) |
Environmental Management Initiatives | |
| Improvement of risk management (Minimize risk of environmental accidents and improve response capabilities) |
Number of environmental accidents | 2 | 0 | |||
| Social | Materiality 5 Ensuring occupational safety and health |
Improvement of management system | Ratio of business locations operating under the EHS-MS | 7% | 100% (FY2024) |
Occupational Health and Safety Initiatives |
| Prevention of recurrence of work-related accidents | Frequency rate (including dispatch workers, excluding contractors) |
1.22 | 0.7 (FY2024) |
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| Severity rate (including dispatch workers, excluding contractors) |
1.16 | 0.01 (FY2024) |
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| Promotion of health management Encourage employees to take medical examinations |
Ratio of employees who received regular medical examinations | 91.2％ (Tokyo district) |
100％ (Group-wide) |
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| Materiality 6 Increasing organizational power (including promotion of diversity, job security, and human resource development) |
Reduction of resignation rate | Average retention rate three years after joining the Company (for new graduates at DOWA Holdings) | 85% | Maintain 100% rate | Human Resource Development Initiatives | |
| Degree of survey coverage | Start to conduct surveys | Conduct surveys on a regular basis | ||||
| Disclosure of Policy for Human Resources Development Formulate policy and disseminate via the DOWA corporate website and the in-Company portal site |
Formulation of policy and disclosure inside and outside the Company | Formulation of policy and disclosure inside and outside the Company (October, 2022) |
Announce and disseminate policy | |||
| Development of global human resources Build a system to impart basic knowledge necessary for overseas assignments to be implemented one year prior to assignment |
Implementation of preassignment education and expansion to include post-assignment education | Start to implementation of post-assignment education | Continue implementation of educational programs | |||
| Greater support for balancing childcare and nursing care with work Provide support that will encourage more men to take childcare leave |
Increase in the ratio of men that take childcare leave | 61.7% | 100% (FY 2024) |
Employment, Labor, and Diversity Initiatives | ||
| Reduction of working hours Manage total working hours and establish targets for the taking of annual paid leave |
Increase in the ratio of annual paid leave days taken | 79.5% | 80% or higher | |||
| Promotion of the participation and advancement of women | Increase in the ratio of new hires who are women (DOWA Holdings) |
32% | 30% or higher | |||
| Promotion of the participation and advancement of employees up to the age of 65 | Introduction of an option to postpone retirement | Introduction to major business subsidiaries | Introduce a group-wide system | |||
| Protection of human rights | Elimination of harassment | Implementation of harassment training | Continue to implement training | |||
| Promotion of the participation and advancement of people with disabilities | Ratio of employment of people with disabilities | 2.7% (DOWA Holdings) |
2.3% or higher (Group-wide) |
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| Governance | Materiality 7 Promoting risk management |
Creation of an ISO 9001- or OHSAS-compliant system | Compliance rate of business locations that create products | 78% | 80% (FY2024) |
Quality Control Initiatives |
| Establishment of quality assurance education | Number of participants | 169 | 350 in total | |||
| Materiality 8 Strengthening corporate governance |
Developing and operating effective and efficient internal systems | Corporate Governance Initiatives | ||||
| Materiality 9 Driving DX (data utilization) |
Build IT infrastructure | Operation of a group-wide cloud platform | Conduct operational testing, Start of user training | Start operation in the second half of FY2023 | DX (Digital Transformation) Initiatives | |
| Develop DX-proficient human resources | Number of personnel trained | 67 | 80 in total (FY2022 to FY2024) |
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(*)”Recycled raw materials” includes secondary smelting raw materials other than recycled raw materials for Kosaka Smelting & Refining