HOYA Group Environmental Philosophy and Fundamental Environmental Policies

The HOYA Group actively engages in environmental preservation efforts as part of its ESG promoting in order to preserve the global environment for future generations.

The HOYA Group established its “Environmental Philosophy” and “Fundamental Environmental Policies” in 1993. Under these guidelines, the Group has been promoting the environmental, occupational safety and health activities at all its business facilities both inside and outside Japan.

In 2012, the environmental, occupational safety and health management systems of the individual facilities were reviewed thoroughly in the process of obtaining a global multisite certification for those systems. Since then, the Group has been operating all its environmental protection, occupational safety and health activities in a globally integrated manner.

In 2022, the HOYA Group renewed “Environmental Philosophy” and “Fundamental Environmental Policies” in order to proactively respond to issues surrounding the global environment.

1. We carry on our corporate activities in harmony between people, society, and nature by recognizing the importance of environmental protection in all our operations.
2. We keep reducing environmental burdens in our corporate activities of product development, manufacture, and sale by complying with the applicable environmental laws and regulations of each country and locality.
3. We set up our structures and targets and carry out our measures and policies systematically in advancing our global environmental protection activities.
4. We pursue our activities designed for prevention of global warming and creation of recycling society by training our consciousness and responsibility on the preservation of the environment.

In October 2008, the Group’s environmental protection organization and the occupational safety and health organization were merged with each other. Since then, with the new structure supervised by the HOYA Group Director for Environmental Protection, Occupational Safety and Health, the Group has been carrying out smooth and efficient activities of environmental protection and occupational safety and health. Having established the HOYA Group’s standards and the like, we are making them thoroughly known within the Group and conducting education at each business facility and production site in an effort to prevent accidents. Also, environmental, occupational safety and health activities that have been performed are subject to an internal audit, followed by a review at the management level, based on which the effectiveness of the activities are evaluated and improved on an ongoing basis.

HOYA Group Environmental Protection and Occupational Safety and Health Organization

The HOYA Group has been building a global management system that integrates ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 14001 and 45001 for the purpose of promoting environmental protection activities by employees and ensuring the safety and health of employees. In February 2013, the HOYA Group acquired global multisite certification. As of March 2022, 49 sites in 18 countries were certified. Certification has been acquired at 100% of our major production/research and development bases, and certification is also being obtained for newly organized bases one by one.

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