OMRON considers it essential to embed CSR into its management strategies, and to practice CSR as part of its business operations. As such, OMRON has worked to strengthen its CSR management system globally.

In the end of fiscal 2007, the Group CSR Committee was set up to help the management team assess the overall status of CSR and define the specific issues that the OMRON Group faces. The committee also helps determine the future direction of CSR activities. Chaired by the President, the committee’s main tasks include formulating the OMRON Group's CSR policy and strategies as well as promotion and monitoring of CSR activities in key areas. Members are presidents of business companies, general managers of head office divisions, and presidents of regional group head offices.

In the past, specialized groups were in place to respectively deal with corporate ethics, environmental preservation, information disclosure and other areas. The Group CSR Committee in turn will cover all of these areas and review OMRON Group's business operations from an overall CSR perspective so as to promote CSR practices more strategically. Business companies and head office divisions (including the environment department and the legal affairs department) are responsible for putting into action the policies and strategies determined by the committee.
In fiscal 2010, the Group CSR Committee met twice to discuss the formulation of OMRON’s biodiversity policy and the medium-term CSR plan as part of OMRON’s VG2020 long-term vision.

Overseas, CSR managers have been in place in Europe, the Americas and Greater China since fiscal 2008. In fiscal 2010, CSR managers have been assigned in the Asia Pacific region, as part of the OMRON Group's effort to augment its CSR management system at the global level.

CSR Management System

To respond to the growing societal demand for CSR practices, in fiscal 2008 OMRON prepared self-assessment checksheets based on the Electronics Industry Code of Conduct (EICC * ) in order to assess the status of CSR practices at its production sites.

In fiscal 2008, CSR surveys were conducted for only two sites in Japan and one site in Europe. In fiscal 2009, sites subjected to surveys were expanded to include three production sites in Greater China, two production sites in Asia Pacific, and three sources of OMRON's centralized procurement located in Greater China.

In fiscal 2010, OMRON conducted CSR surveys for two sites in Vietnam (one Group company and one procurement source), but survey results showed no major issues.

◆Main check items :

Policies and procedures regarding labor practices and ethics, freely chosen employment, child labor avoidance, working hours, wages and benefits, humane treatment, freedom of association, elements comprising management systems for labor practices and ethics, emergency preparedness, occupational injury/illness and physically demanding work, occupational safety and machine safeguarding, industrial hygiene, environmental permits and reporting, hazardous substances, wastewater and solid waste, air emissions, employee housing environment, business ethics and information security, etc.

* EICC

The Electronics Industry Code of Conduct (EICC) is an industry code of CSR practices adopted and implemented by major global electronics supply chains.

To make sure that the underlying philosophy of CSR, as stipulated in the OMRON's Management Commitments, is thoroughly practiced by all employees, OMRON published its "CSR Practice Guidelines" in fiscal 2006. This was followed by the establishment of "Implementing the Guiding Principles for Action" in fiscal 2007 so as to help employees practice the Guiding Principles for Action in their day-to-day work. By distributing these two guidelines to all employees in Japan, OMRON has worked to instill and penetrate the concept of CSR based on its Corporate Core Value, "working for the benefit of society."
A workplace meeting is held once each year to confirm and discuss the distributed guidelines in order to deepen understanding.

In fiscal 2007, OMRON initiated activities designed to promote CSR practices globally. As part of this drive, regional editions of the CSR Practice Guidelines were prepared in English by incorporating legislation and customs specific to each region, including Europe, Americas, Asia Pacific, and Greater China. The guidelines were also translated into 25 different local languages including Korean, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Indonesian, Thai, Malay and Vietnamese."Implementing the Guiding Principles for Action" was also translated into 25 different languages. Both guidelines are posted on the intranets to offer easy access for all employees throughout the world.

OMRON will continue promoting global instillation of CSR, while seeking discovery and solution of individual issues.