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Responsible Care Mid-term Targets

We have begun to make efforts to achieve the purposes of our new five years Responsible Care mid-term targets extending over 5 years from 2006, which targets have been developed in the Environment & Safety Meeting in December, 2005.

RC activity code RC mid-term targets from 2006 to 2010
Occupational health and safety
  • To achieve Zero occupational injury
Process safety and disaster prevention
  • To achieve Zero accident
Environmental preservation
  • To reduce energy consumption rate less than or equal to 0.9 of the one of fiscal 1990
  • To reduce a GHG emission rate less than or equal to 0.8 of the one of fiscal 1990
  • To reduce an amount of PRTR chemicals emissions equal to 90% of the one of fiscal 2004
  • To reduce an amount of VOC emission equal to 90% of the one of fiscal 2004
  • To achieve zero emission of wastes (Definition: To promote 3Rs and to reduce amount of final disposal less than or equal to 0.3% of generated wastes)
Chemicals and products safety
  • To promote the developing environment-friendly products and energy saving technologies
  • To implement safety assessment of products
    • Participation in Japan challenge program
    • Harmonize with REACH regulation
    • Pertinent assessment of new substances
  • To provide the latest MSDS (Including the harmonize with GHS)
Distribution safety
  • To reduce the environmental loads in our logistics
  • To ensure the safety in our logistics
  • To introduce the globally-harmonized system (GHS)
Dialogue with the community
  • To promote the enhancement of society's confidence to us through the implementation of annual plans
Spectrum of RC
  • To introduce the RC activity to our subsidiaries and affiliates
  • To inspect our foreign and domestic subsidiaries and affiliates
  • To promote the continuously improvement of RC management system through the implementation implementing of annual plans