OMRON considers addressing environmental issues to be one of the most important management objectives for the Group. Accordingly, OMRON makes sure that all Group employees are provided with education and training regarding its environmental policies based on the OMRON Principles.

OMRON implements various environmental education and awareness-raising programs. These programs are intended to encourage all Group employees to demonstrate concern for environmental protection, act on their own initiative and take necessary action, whether at work, at home, in the local community or in society at large. Another aim is to make OMRON serve as the center for heightening environmental awareness at both the local and global levels.

Environmental education

Each year, OMRON conducts awareness-raising activities in the Environmental Month of June. In fiscal 2011, the general manager of the Environmental Innovation Center of the Global Business Innovation HQ addressed all Group employees through the ON-net internal communication media as part of these activities. The center is tasked with planning and promoting the OMRON Group’s environmental strategies. In his message, the general manager stressed the need for OMRON to address environmental issues as a company committed to “working for the benefit of society.”

Beginning in fiscal 2011, solicitation of environmental slogans, which had been an ongoing corporate-wide event, was conducted individually at each site in order to more closely familiarize employees with environmental preservation.

As for environmental education, OMRON headquarters provided a new employee education program, while each site planned and conducted its own environmental education programs to enhance employee awareness of environmental issues. At each site, education programs for qualified personnel are also available to help internal environmental auditors and environmental impact assessors improve their skills.

In addition to these regular education programs, in fiscal 2011 a common program for all sites was implemented to provide specialized education for instructors who train and advise internal environmental auditors and environmental impact assessors. These programs coincided with efforts toward acquiring unified environmental management system (EMS) certification.

In the future, OMRON will select and organize information to be offered to qualified personnel and those in charge of environmental affairs, in order to raise the quality of educational programs.

FY2011 Environmental Education Programs (organized by Head Office)

Program	Target audiences	Description	Time of year	Participants
Environmental education for new recruits	New employees hired by head offices	Environmental education for new recruits before being assigned to departments	Apr. '11	94

Planned programs for FY2011 (organized by sites)

Program	Target audiences	Description	Time of year	Participants
Environmental education for new recruits	New employees hired by each site	Environmental education for new recruits before being assigned to departments	Full year	220
Rank-specific environmental education	General staff, managerial-class employees	Respective education programs for general staff and managerial-class employees	Full year	9,669
Education for qualified personnel	Internal environmental auditors/ environmental impact assessors	Training for new and current internal environmental auditors / environmental impact assessors	Full year	289
Product assessment reviewer education	Researchers / developers / engineers	Education on product assessment techniques, handling of regulated chemical substances, etc.	Full year	179