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Environmental Activities
Using its sensing and control technologies, Omron contributes to environmental protection through
development of products and systems that reduce environmental impact. Major environmental activities
during the year ended March 31, 2002 were as follows:
THEME RESULTS OF ACTIVITIES
Environmental education ●Conducted environmental education for new
employees and internal auditor training (total of 4 times)
Promotion of environmental awareness ●Held Environmental Conservation Month Seminar
●Established and presented Eco Grand Prix Award to
Eco-Consciousness one winner in each category of Eco-Products and
Environmental Contributions
●Invited and awarded employee suggestions (1,434 entries
during Environmental Conservation Month in June 2001)
●Published first Home-use Environmental Accounting
Books, distributed to all Omron Corporation employees
Environmental accounting ●Implemented at 15 manufacturing sites
system
Pollution control/ ●No cases of law infringement in year ended March 2002
Eco-Management Environmental risk management
ISO 14001 certification ●Omron Kyoto-Ekimae office received ISO 14001
certification in March 2002; all 43 domestic and overseas
production facilities, offices and research laboratories
now certified.
LCA* system ●Implemented LCA system for 7 products
Development and marketing of ●Created 18 eco-products
eco-products
Eco-Products
Creation of products with less or no ●Conducted technological evaluation of 42 lead-free products
hazardous chemical substances
Promotion of green procurement ●Preliminary evaluations of suppliers were carried out
based on green procurement standards. Evaluations
have been completed for 543 suppliers.
Chemical substance control system ●Completed development of chemical substance
control system
Promotion of CO2emissions reduction ●Reduced CO2emissions from energy usage to 11,747 tons-C,
a 9.5% reduction from fiscal 1995.
Eco-Factories/ Promotion of waste recycling ●Waste recycling rate 92.0%, final disposal rate 4.9%
Laboratories/ ●OMRON Iida Co., Ltd. achieved zero emissions
Offices Promotion of green procurement ●74% green product purchase rate** at offices & laboratories
(indirect materials) ●Implemented green product purchase registration in Strategic
Linkage for Intelligent Procurement Management (SLIM) system
Eco-Logistics
CO2emission reduction/resource
●Reduced number of trucks through distribution reforms;
conservation
for logistics operations reduction of two 10-ton trucks, replaced one truck with
5-ton railroad container
Promotion of environmental ●Published environmental report (in Japanese and English)
communication ●
Environmental report and site report included on Omron Web site
●Site report published for Ayabe Office
Eco- ●Participated in external environmental exhibitions in Shiga,
Communication Tokyo, Fukuoka, Kyoto and other cities
●Conducted environmental education programs for
teachers and businesses
●Carried out Omron Day activities at all sites. Performed
volunteer forest preservation activities at Kyoto Office
* LCA: Life Cycle Assessment. A methodology for identifying and quantifying resource/energy requirements and emissions for a product's entire lifespan
(from materials procurement to manufacture, distribution, usage, recycling and disposal) while objectively and quantitatively evaluating its impact
on the environment
** Green product purchase rate: Purchase price of green procurement items/purchase price of stationery and office supplies X 100
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