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Environmental Initiatives
Astellas recognizes that harmonizing corporate activities with global environmental concerns is a key management priority. Aiming to help reduce the environmental load, we have set numerical targets to contribute to global warming mitigation efforts, chemical substance management, and resource conservation, and are working to achieve these targets.
Environmental activities, which are being undertaken systematically on an organizational basis, are expected to have a substantial effect. To ensure their success, we have set clear guidelines for basic policy and the stance we need to take. Based on this policy and these guidelines, we draw up an environmental action plan each year, specifying the activities to be implemented during that year.
Environmental and Safety Policy
Our environmental and safety policy, which indicates Astellas' basic stance on environmental and safety issues, was established on the basis of the clauses pertaining to environmental and safety issues specified in the Charter of Corporate Conduct. The policy applies to all domestic and foreign Group companies, and forms the basis of all our corporate activities.
Astellas, as a life science corporation that contributes towards improving the health of people all over the world, conducts business activities in harmony with the global environment and with due regard for employees' health and safety. Environmental and safety issues are recognized as key elements of our corporate management and are considered for every aspect of the business.
- 1.We not only strive to comply with applicable laws and regulations relating to environmental protection and occupational safety & health, but also proactively aim to achieve stringent standards, setting ourselves higher targets than those required by regulations.
- 2.We have established environmental and occupational health & safety management systems, which demonstrates our commitment to continual improvement through organized activities.
- 3.We regularly assess the potential environmental impacts and safety risks for all our business operations and make sustained efforts to reduce those potential impacts and risks through our environmental and safety objectives and targets.
- 4.We develop effective products and technologies that harmonize well with environmental and safety considerations.
- 5.We promote the implementation of activities that aim to reduce the potential risks that may give rise to environmental pollution or occupational accidents. These activities also ensure that in the event of an emergency we can act promptly and appropriately in order to minimize damage.
- 6.We provide continual training in environmental and safety education for all employees so that they can keep abreast of environmental and safety issues and embrace their social responsibility.
- 7.We are committed to social and corporate accountability and openly communicate environmental and safety information in a timely and appropriate manner to our stakeholders.
Rules of conduct governing environment and safety activities
At Astellas, the environment is positioned as one of our five high-priority areas of social responsibility. To conscientiously fulfill our responsibilities to the environment, we adhere to the following environmental and safety standards in our implementation of specific measures and initiatives.
Systematic diagram of the rules of conduct
Environmental and Safety Guidelines
Our Environmental and Safety Guidelines provide unified standards to be upheld in our implementation of environmental and safety measures. These guidelines indicate the stance Astellas should aim for in the future.
These guidelines describe that envisioned status of various countermeasures in qualitative terms. The period for realizing numerical targets and the actual numerical targets are set out separately in our short- and medium-term action plans, updated annually.
