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Environmental Liabilities

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Basic Policies

OMRON promotes appropriate management, removal, disposal and other treatment as required by applicable laws and regulations for so-called "environmental liabilities*" including asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and soil/groundwater pollutants.

* "Environmental liabilities" refers to a probable future expenditure needed to redress the adverse effect a company’s business activities had on the environment.

Activities

OMRON collects a report from each site regarding facilities/equipment containing asbestos and locations they are in use. The report also covers period of use, countermeasures implementation status, and the amount contained if assessable. Based on this information, by fiscal 2005 OMRON completed measures to prevent asbestos scattering, such as physical enclosure of asbestos-containing materials on walls or beams in conformance with the asbestos-related law/regulations.

As for PCB waste, OMRON keeps track of the PCB-containing devices owned, their quantities and amounts of PCBs stored, as well as management and storage conditions, in compliance with the Law Concerning Special Measures for Promotion of Proper Treatment of PCB Waste, which requires companies storing PCB waste to report storage and treatment conditions every year. Based on this information, OMRON gradually applies for disposal of PCB-containing devices and outsources disposal to the Japan Environmental Safety Corporation (JESCO), a government-owned special company specializing in PCB waste treatment, in order to carry forward detoxification in a systematic manner. In fiscal 2010, detoxification was carried out for PCB-containing capacitors at two sites.

Facilities and equipment containing asbestos