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FY2007 Targets and Results

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Ongoing activities focused on six areas

Self-assessment rating ○:Targets achieved  △:Targets partially achieved ×:Targets not achieved

Theme FY2007 Targets FY2007 Results Rating  
Environmental education
  • Put environmental education programs firmly in place
  • Continued implementation of environmental education programs
  • 1,022 employees completed e-learning program
Promotion of environmental awareness
  • Continue hosting Environmental Month seminars
  • Continue soliciting ideas for environmental proposals and slogans
  • Continue Eco-Life Sheet initiative
  • Conducted Environmental Month seminars (June)
  • Environmental proposal submission: 1,362 entries
  • Environmental slogan submission: 8,706 entries
  • Eco-Life Sheet initiative attracted 3,207 participants
 
Environmental accounting
  • Take steps for introduction to overseas Group companies
  • No steps taken due to change of target
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Pollution control/ environmental risk management
  • Maintain record of no legal infringement, environmental accidents, claims or complaints
  • Voluntary survey revealed soil pollution sources exceeding environmental standard values at the grounds of the Kusatsu and Okayama Factories. Although these did not constitute a violation of the Soil Contamination Countermeasures Law, the findings were reported to municipal governments and voluntary information disclosure provided.
  • Conducted survey for grounds, buildings and records of chemical substance usage at 21 sites
ISO 14001 certification
  • Maintain and expand acquisition of ISO 14001 certification
  • New certifications acquired by 6 overseas Group companies
Development/supply of Eco-products
  • Meet target for percentage of Eco-label products relative to new products based on new criteria
  • Established new certification criteria but target-setting incomplete
  • Percentage of Eco-label products relevant to new products based on former criteria: 19%
Creation of products with fewer or no hazardous chemical substances
  • Maintain total elimination of hazardous chemical substances (lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium)
  • Maintained total elimination of hazardous chemical substances
 
Promotion of green procurement
  • Continue procurement from green suppliers
  • Continued procurement from green suppliers
Product recycling/reuse
  • Initiate recycling/reuse for newly selected products
  • Initiated recycling of recovered materials from rail station systems
  • Recycling for newly selected products not initiated
Promotion of CO2 emissions reduction

Japan

  • Production sites: Reduce CO2 emissions per unit of production by 4% from FY2003
  • Non-production sites: Reduce total CO2 emissions by 2% from FY2003

Overseas

  • Production sites: Reduce CO2 emissions per unit of production by 5% from FY2002

Japan

  • Production sites: 10% increase from FY2003 (49% increase if new sites are included)
  • Non-production sites: 4% increase from FY2003 (5% increase if new sites are included)

Overseas

  • Production sites: 19% decrease from FY2002
Waste reduction/recycling

Japan

  • Reduce waste volume per unit of production by 17% from FY1998 at production sites

Overseas

  • Achieve zero emissions at production sites

Japan

  • 12% decrease from FY1998 for waste volume per unit of production (10% decrease if new sites are included)

Overseas

  • Zero emissions not achieved at production sites
Detoxification of PCB-containing waste
  • Continue process to detoxify high concentrations of PCBs in devices
  • Consider detoxification of low concentrations of PCBs in transformers
  • No relevant sites according to the processing facility's FY2007 detoxification schedule for high concentrations of PCBs
  • Completed survey to check for transformers containing low concentrations of PCBs
Reduction of PRTR Law-controlled substances
  • Maintain FY2005 levels per unit of production
  • Released amount: 25% decrease from FY2005 (25% decrease if new sites are included)
  • Transferred amount: 173% increase from FY2005 (148% increase if new sites are included)
Resource conservation at sites
  • Maintain FY2005 total volume levels
  • Office paper used: 9% decrease from FY2005 (8% decrease if new sites are included)
  • Water used: 18% decrease from FY2005 (13% increase if new sites are included)
Air pollution prevention
  • Maintain FY2005 levels per unit of production
  • NOx: 76% decrease from FY2005 (78% decrease if new sites are included)
  • SOx: 56% decrease from FY2005 (60% decrease if new sites are included)
Water contamination prevention
  • Maintain FY2005 total volume levels
  • BOD: 4% decrease from FY2005 (0.3% decrease if new sites are included)
  • COD: 3% decrease from FY2005 (7% increase if new sites are included)
Promotion of CO2 emissions reduction at logistics stage

Japan

  • Meet reduction target for emissions per unit of production

Overseas

  • Set reduction target for emissions per unit of production
  • Reduction target setting incomplete in Japan and overseas
    Emissions in Japan: 6,018 tons (5% decrease from FY2006)
    Emissions overseas: 52,757 tons (40% decrease from FY2006)
Promotion of resource conservation at logistics stage
  • Continue implementation of returnable container system and expand channels
  • Shift from stretch film to green band
  • Completed returnable container system between logistics centers and factories
  • Shifted to green band on a trial basis; more time needed for full-scale introduction
Environmental communication (environmental reporting, site reporting)
  • Continue publishing report and strengthen information disclosure
  • Expand sites covered by the report
  • Published OMRON Sustainability Report (June)
  • Released environmental information for 4 additional Group companies in Japan
Environmental communication (public relations, exhibitions)
  • Continue release of environmental information through website
  • Continue participating in environmental exhibitions
  • Continue release of environmental information using media
  • Updated CSR website (July)
  • Participated in Enviro-Shiga (Oct.) and Eco-Products (Dec.)
  • Placed environment advertisement in "Nikkei Ecology" magazine (Feb. and Mar. 2008)
Environmental/social contribution activities
  • Continue contribution activities at each site in cooperation with local community
  • Continue giving environmental lectures for elementary school students
  • Organized Kyoto ModelForest activities (Nov.)
  • Gave environmental lectures at 5 elementary schools targeting about 400 students
* New sites:
OMRON Precision Technology Co., Ltd.; OMRON Semiconductors Co., Ltd.; TAMA Fine Opto Co., Ltd.; and FA Techno Corporation

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