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performance. It also conducts training to minimize the
damage from risks, monitors risks on a regular basis, and
establishes the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) protocols. Cur-
rently, the committee focuses on such areas as information
security, risk management for employees dispatched over-
seas, and measures to counter the new type of influenza.
The Integrated Disaster Prevention and BCM (Business
Continuity Management) Committee (see page 22) was
established in July 2007 to address the risk of a serious
impact on the Nikon Group resulting from a major earth-
quake, fire, or other disaster. Nikon considers business
continuity to be an aspect of its social responsibility, and
conducts research and training to strengthen its business
continuity structure.
Environmental Conservation
Nikon formulated the Nikon Basic Environmental Man-
agement Policy in 1992 as its fundamental policy on envi-
ronmental management, and made substantial revisions in
the fiscal year ended March 2002 from the standpoint of
creating a recycling-based society. In line with this policy,
each year Nikon assesses its progress in relation to the
environmental targets set for each fiscal year, identifies the
issues raised, and makes revisions as necessary. The Envi-
ronmental Committee overseen by the CSR Committee
(see page 22) formulates the goals and targets for the new
three-year Nikon Environmental Action Plan, along with
the annual environmental targets, and implements these
throughout the corporate group.
The Nikon Group has also formulated the Nikon
Product Assessment protocol, which is applied to all
products during the development and design stage to
minimize the environmental load across the lifecycle of a
product. Nikon also takes steps to encourage the reuse and
recycling of used products, and lessen the environmental
burden from packaging and in distribution.
In October 2007, the Nikon Group established the
Global Warming Prevention Project, a group-wide mea-
sure to counter the serious issue of global warming. This
project prioritizes the efficient use of energy and reduc-
tions in energy consumption as a means of cutting emis-
sions of global greenhouse gases throughout the Group,
and sets targets for greenhouse gas reductions in the fiscal
year ending March 2011. Each business division forms a
working group to study and propose effective measures in
accordance with its various conditions, which are
implemented in stages.
Social Contributions
The Nikon Group operates in many countries and regions
around the world, and strives to maintain communication
with those countries and regions, as well as the people
who live there, while pursuing its social action program.
In Japan, group companies offer factory tours and
hands-on classes for elementary and junior high school
students, while production centers participate in local
government-sponsored events.
Nikon U.K. Ltd. implemented a two-year program
from the fiscal year ended March 2009 in which many
employees provide support to The Princess Alice Hospice.
Through this program, employees assist specialists in the
hospice supplying palliative care for terminally ill patients
suffering from cancer or other ailments.
Respect for Human Rights
The Nikon Group includes employees from a wide range
of backgrounds, differing in such aspects as gender, age,
nationality and culture. The Group strives to provide an
environment that respects the individuality, values, and
other aspects of diversity among each of its employees, and
allows them to realize their full potential.
Since 2007, NikonCorporation has made a particular
effort to foster a corporate culture that actively develops
the talents of women, and in which they can succeed. Self-
realization training for women was launched in that year,
with a schedule for all female employees throughout the
domestic corporate group to receive training by the fiscal
year ending March 2013. In 2008, Nikon Corporation
established the Work and Family Support subcommittee,
composed of female employees raising children while
working, that studies ways to improve Nikon’s child-rear-
ing support system.
In 2000, Nikon Corporation established the special
subsidiary Nikon Tsubasa Inc. as part of its efforts to
support employment of the handicapped. This subsidiary
is one of the very few factories in Japan where the mentally
disabled are involved in the assembly of precision instru-
ments, and has earned a good reputation for the work
provided, receiving orders from companies outside the
Nikon Group.
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