Murata commits itself to continual improvement in priority theme areas through the implementation of a broad range of measures.
Social Activity Targets for Fiscal 2009
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| Targets for FY2009 | Results for FY2009 | Achievement | Targets for FY2010 |
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| Promoting development of an internal control system | |||
| Develop internal control over financial reporting in compliance with the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law, as well as continuously promote operational standardization, visualization, improvement and reforms; and establish compliance and risk management by building and operating an internal control system to ensure the appropriateness of operations in keeping with corporate law. | In addition to developing internal controls to ensure the appropriateness of operations, Murata continuously promoted operational standardization, visualization, improvement and reforms, and introduced internal controls aimed at ensuring compliance as well as operational effectiveness and efficiency. | △ | Promote internal controls aimed at ensuring the appropriateness of operations, as well as continuously promote operational standardization, visualization, improvement and reforms. |
| Improve monitoring functions by implementing internal audits by independent third parties and defining the scope of audits based on a risk approach in order to increase transparency and effectiveness. | Under the reorganized internal audit system, the internal audit department assessed and monitored priority areas by following a risk approach, improving transparency and effectiveness. | △ | Improve monitoring functions to ensure operational appropriateness to increase the transparency and effectiveness of the corporate governance system. |
| Promoting compliance | |||
| Enhance the compliance system in accordance with internal control and increase the system’s effectiveness at all sites. | Conducted survey of all sites in and outside Japan. Compliance system was found to be effective for internal control. |
◯ | Eliminate redundancy and superfluous practices while maintaining internal control effectiveness. Reestablish the compliance system from a cross-group perspective to streamline operation of the system. |
| Further enhance the compliance system through systematization and re-establishment in conformity with Murata’s management characteristics. | Reviewed compliance promotion within the Murata Group in Japan and decided on transition to the new system starting in FY2010. | △ |
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| Strengthening risk management | |||
| Establish Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) (Ensure that each Group company establishes BCPs in preparation for earthquakes and outbreaks of pandemic influenza). | Established basic BCP regulations in preparation for earthquakes and ensured their establishment in Group companies. Implemented measures against outbreaks of influenza A (H1N1), which caused a global pandemic in 2009. | △ | Effectively execute the business risk management cycle of “identification,” “analysis and assessment,” “formulation and implementation of measures,” “monitoring,” and “improvement.” |
| Strengthen information security (Implement Company-wide information leakage prevention measures focusing on IT). | A filtering system to encrypt data and prevent secondary leaks is being introduced step-by-step within the Group. | △ | The Risk Management Committee must continue to implement measures against risks in key areas such as information security and BCPs (Business Continuity Plans) in preparation for earthquakes and outbreaks of pandemic influenza. |
| Society and community | |||
| Promote social/community contribution activities with a focus on priority fields. | Not only continued existing activities but opened an electronic craft workshop for elementary and junior high school children using an original electronics hobby kit. | △ | Continue social/community contribution activities with a focus on priority fields. |
| Organize systems and develop in-house networks to promote activities. | Analyzed activities at subsidiaries and plants to promote the sharing of information with their responsible persons. | △ | Strengthening social/community contribution activities with a focus on employee ideas and involvement. |
| Suppliers | |||
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◯ | Japan: Increase CSR agreement share to more than 90% of partners. |
| Overseas: Increase CSR agreement share to 80% of partners starting with pilot sites with the highest purchase amounts. | |||
| Formulate procedures for concluding and applying the CSR agreement. | |||
| Implement in-house training programs and operational diagnosis to strengthen procurement compliance group-wide. |
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◯ | Japan: Include CSR in education programs for Purchasing Dept. and implement an annual in-house education program and test. |
| Overseas: Create textbooks and tests for overseas sites. | |||
| Implement in-house training programs and operational diagnosis regarding compliance group-wide. | |||
| Employees | |||
| Continue to implement the system to enable employees to select carrier paths according to their aptitudes. |
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△ | Continue to implement the system to enable employees to select carrier paths according to their aptitudes. Promote acceptance of employees on loan from overseas (15 in FY2010). |
| Promote a reemployment program for retirees. | Reemployed 277 retirees group-wide. | ◯ | - |
| Continue to expand career opportunities for women. | Employed many women (39.3% of new employees in FY2009). | ◯ | |
| Promote education and awareness-raising programs to prevent harassment. | Provided with managers and executives with regular training to prevent harassment. | △ | Promote education and awareness-raising programs to prevent harassment (10 such programs are planned for FY2010). |
| Reestablish a benefit package. | Rebuilt housing benefit program (company dormitories and company housing) with a focus on encouraging employee independence, ensuring security, and increasing motivation. | ◯ | Develop a benefit package with a focus on ensuring diversity and independence. |
| Enhance and establish a system to help employees strike a balance between work and family life (work-life balance) . |
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◯ | Enhance and establish a system to help employees strike a balance between work and family life (work-life balance) . |
| Promote measures to reduce total work hours and promote diverse ways of working. | Broadened the scope of application of the flextime system to reduce total work hours. Flextime workers increased from 2,458 to 3,473 Overtime hours per employee reduced from 21 to 9.3 |
△ | Promote measures to reduce total working hours and promote diverse ways of working. |
| Establish an occupational health and safety management system. | Completed establishment of the organization and rules aimed at introducing an occupational health and safety management system at the Head Office. | ◯ | Achieve certification for the occupational health and safety management system at the Head Office. |
| Promote monozukuri education. | Implemented a plant training program for new employees. 122 individuals participated in the 7-month-long program. |
◯ | Provide a simulated production training program for new employees |
| Provide training and employ the PDCA cycle to improve management skills. | Implemented a group training program to improve management ability. 190 managers participated. | △ | Hold training and employ the PDCA cycle to improve management skills. |
| Implemented a training program for 141 chiefs to help them understand their own strong and weak points and improve their on-the-job training skills. | △ | ||
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| Environmental Management | |||
| Environmental Management System | |||
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| Supplying environmetally friendly products | |||
| Environmentally conscious design | |||
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◯ | Build a manufacturing structure with a focus on recuding environmental impact of the entire life cycle. |
| Reducing use of environmentally hazardous substances in products | |||
| Develop alternative products and prepare for replacements in keeping with the revision of the list of EU RoHS exemptions. | Technology for replacing lead contained in glass with an alternative component is being developed as a priority project. | ◯ |
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| Conduct development and evaluations of alternatives to polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and prepare for replacements, in order of priority. | Developing alternatives to polyvinyl chloride (PVC). | ◯ | Reduce use of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). |
| Conduct development and evaluations of alternatives for brominated flame retardants, and prepare for replacements. | Continued development of alternative products and achieved mass production of some alternative products. | ◯ | Reduce consumption of brominated flame retardants (Targets are as follows:)
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| Managing information related to environmentally hazardous chemical substances | |||
| Develop a system capable of integrating information provision tools and product databases as required for e-business. | Development of an integrated chemical substance management database system is underway. | ◯ |
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| Reducing use of packaging materials and saving energy in logistics | |||
| Reduce amount of taped packaging used for chip monolithic ceramic capacitors and chip ferrite beads per unit of production at domestic sites by at least 47% relative to FY2000. | Reduced the amount by 43% relative to FY2000. Implementation of measures achieved a further reduction, but did not mitigate the impact of an increase in production. |
△ | Reduce amount of packaging materials used for chip monolithic ceramic capacitors or chip ferrite beads per unit of production by more than 50% compared to FY2000 levels. |
| Reduce CO2 emissions from logistics per unit of net production in Japan by more than 37% relative to FY2000. | Reduced CO2 emissions by 40% relative to FY2000. Target achieved by revising logistic network. |
◯ | Reduce CO2 emissions from logistics per unit of net production in Japan by more than 38% compared to FY2000 levels. |
| Green procurement | |||
| Continue to promote greenness surveys for compliance with legal regulations in Japan and overseas, and maintain a green procurement ratio of 100% for production materials | Maintained a green procurement ratio of 100% | ◯ | To continue material green degree investigation corresponding to laws and regulations of each nations and promote it. And to maintain green supply rate 100% of production use part material. |
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| Global warming prevention | |||
| Reduce CO2 emissions per unit of net production in Japan by at least 35% relative to FY1990. | Reduced 47% compared with FY1990. Target achieved by continued implementation of energy-saving measures. The change in CO2 conversion factor made by the power company also contributed. | ◯ | Reduce CO2 emissions per unit of net production in Japan by more than 35% compared to FY1990 levels. |
| Reduce total volume of CO2 emissions at overseas manufacturing plants | Reduced 7% compared with FY2000 | ◯ | To reduce a CO2 total discharge in overseas factories. |
| Maintain 93% of the domestic Company fleet as low-pollution vehicles. | Maintained 93% of the domestic Company fleet as low-pollution vehicles. | ◯ | To make low-emission car introduction rate of company-owned car 100%. (Japan) |
| Resource conservation and waste reduction, reuse, recycling | |||
| Reduce total waste emissions per unit of net production in Japan by at least 50% relative to FY2000. | Reduced total waste emissions by 40% relative to FY2000. Benefited from reduced production due to a rapid change in the business environment. |
△ | Reduce total waste emissions per unit of net production in Japan by more than 55% compared to FY2000 levels. |
| Reduce total waste emissions per unit of net production at overseas manufacturing plants by at least 5% relative to FY2006. | Reduced total waste emissions by 18% relative to FY2006. | ◯ | Reduce total waste emissions per unit of net production by more than 10% compared to FY 2006 levels in overseas factories. |
| Attain a waste recycling rate of at least 90% at overseas plants. | Achieved a recycling rate of 87%. Despite newly achieving a recycling rate of 100% at Wuxi and Shenzhen, results fell slightly short of the target. |
△ | Achieve zero waste emissions in overseas factories. |
| Reduce water consumption per unit of net production in Japan by at least 50% relative to FY2000. | Reduced water consumption by 42% relative to FY2000. Failed to achieve target despite achieving a 5% reduction from the figures for the previous year. |
△ | Reduce water consumption per unit of net production in Japan by more than 55% compared with FY2000 levels. |
| Controlling and reducing environmentally hazardous chemical substances used in production processes | |||
| Reduce atmospheric emissions of VOCs in Japan by at least 20% relative to FY2000 by implementing measures according to the guidelines for reducing VOCs. | A 7% increase relative to FY2000. Efforts to control atmospheric emissions were continued, but failed to mitigate the effect of an increase in production. |
× | Reduce atmospheric emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC) in Japan by more 30% compared to FY2000 levels. |
| Reduce atmospheric emissions of PFCs in Japan by at least 53% relative to FY2002. | Reduced atmospheric emissions of PFCs by 53% relative to FY2002. Target achieved thanks to progress in replacement by alternatives. |
◯ | Reduce atmospheric emissions of PFCs in Japan by more than 60% compared to FY2002 levels. |
| Risk management | |||
| Maintain the system for the continuing treatment of soil and groundwater pollution and the minimization of environmental risks. | Implemented measures to accelerate treatment at relevant sites, as planned. | ◯ | Maintain the system for the continuing treatment of soil and groundwater pollution and the minimization of environmental risks. |
| Reduce soil pollution and other environmental risks when conducting work that involves landscaping | Conducted soil investigations properly at the relevant project sites | ◯ | To reduce environmental risks such as soil pollution in construction with a form and essence change of land. |
| Environmental communications | |||
| Continue to publish annual and site-specific CSR reports | Continued to publish annual and site-specific CSR reports | ◯ | To promote information disclosure continuously and to realize business management coherent to community where Murata exists. |
| Continue to hold environmental roundtable discussions with local university students | Continued to hold environmental roundtable discussions with local university students | ◯ | |
| Social activities | |||
| Community / social contribution activities | |||
| Continue "Murata Forest" conservation activities. | Implemented Murata Forest conservation activities once every month. (Total of participants: 500) | ◯ | Continually promote social/community contribution activities and the greening of plants, and ensure that business is deeply rooted in the communities and societies where Murata operates. |
| Continue implementing environmental education programs and environmental fairs for elementary and junior high school children. | Implemented environmental education programs by 19 plants/affiliated companies for about 4,600 children. | ◯ | |
| Continue developments under the Mid-Term Greening Plan. | Continued developments under the Mid-Term Greening Plan. | ◯ | |
