| Themes | Achievements and Targets | Related Information | |||||
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| Key Measures | Indicators | FY2021 Results |
Targets for FY2022 to FY2024 | ||||
| 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) |
100 | 110 (FY2024) |
Resource Recycling Initiatives | |
| Volume of spent catalysts from automobile exhaust purification collected (FY2021 = 100） |
100 | 140 (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) |
55% | 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 (Investors site) |
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| Materiality 3 Responding to climate change |
Promoting company-wide climate change measures | Creating a system to promote climate change responses | Establishing a Climate Change Committee (met 13 times in FY2021) |
– Publication of a TCFD report – Creating roadmaps for climate change countermeasures |
Climate Change Initiatives | ||
| Establishing company-wide policies and targets for climate change responses | Establishing and disclosing Climate Change Policies and long-term and intermediate targets | ||||||
| TCFD initiatives |
– Support for the TCFD recommendations – Scenario analysis |
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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) |
70% | 100％ (by March 31, 2025) |
Conservation of Environment Initiatives | ||
| Improvement of risk management (Minimize risk of environmental accidents and improve response capabilities) |
Number of environmental accidents | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Social | Materiality 5 Ensuring occupational safety and health |
Improvement of management system | Ratio of business locations operating under the EHS-MS | – | 100% (FY2024) |
Occupational Health and Safety Initiatives | |
| Prevention of recurrence of work-related accidents | Frequency rate (including dispatch workers, excluding contractors) |
1.23 | 0.7 (FY2024) |
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| severity rate (including dispatch workers, excluding contractors) |
0.02 | 0.01 (FY2024) |
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| Materiality 6 Increasing organizational power |
Reduction of resignation rate | Implement preemployment and second-year interviews | Average retention rate three years after joining the Company (for new graduates at DOWA Holdings) | 95% | Maintain 100% rate | Human Resource Development Initiatives | |
| Implement job satisfaction surveys for employees | Degree of survey coverage | System in development | 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 | Investigated policy | 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 | Introduced 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 | 10% | 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 | 77% | 80% or higher | ||||
| Promotion of health management
Encourage employees to take medical examinations |
Ratio of employees who received regular medical examinations | 100% | 100% | ||||
| Promotion of the participation and advancement of women | Increase in the ratio of new hires who are women (DOWA Holdings) |
19% | 30% or higher | ||||
| Promotion of the participation and advancement of employees up to the age of 65 | Introduction of an option to postpone retirement | System under development | Introduce a group-wide system | ||||
| Protection of human rights | Elimination of harassment | Formulated our Human Rights Policy | Continue to implement training | ||||
| Promotion of the participation and advancement of people with disabilities | Ratio of employment of people with disabilities | 2.6% (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 | 70% | 80% (FY2024) |
Risk Management Initiatives | |
| Establishment of quality assurance education | Number of participants | 105 | 350 in total | Quality Control Initiatives | |||
| 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 | Development in progress | Start operation in the second half of FY2023 | DX (Digital Transformation) Initiatives | ||
| Develop DX-proficient human resources | Number of personnel trained | 14 | 80 in total | ||||