HOYA is engaged in environmental protection activities as part of its ESG promotion efforts, in order to protect the global environment to be inherited by the next generation.
The HOYA Group established its “Environmental Philosophy” and “Fundamental Environmental Policies” in 1993, and has since been promoting environmental protection activities targeting all of its business facilities inside and outside Japan.
In 2012, the environmental and 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 of its environmental protection and occupational safety and health activities in a globally integrated manner.
In 2022, we updated the “Environmental Philosophy” and “Fundamental Environmental Policies” to proactively address issues surrounding the global environment.
The HOYA Group pushes forward with its corporate activities focusing on sustainability to preserve the global environment for future generations.
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.
The HOYA Group has been building a global management system based on International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 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 31, 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.