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For Pursuing Company-Wide Environmental Management Activities
Tamron includes consolidation of company-wide environmental management activities
in its mid-term environmental management objectives, for ensuring deployment of
effective environmental management activities by all group companies. |
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In January 2007, Tamron consolidated the ISO Operation Committee and Environmental Committee into the
CSR Committee. Since then, the CSR Committee meets regularly every month for reviewing environmental
management activities. Establishing an environmental management system consolidated on a company-wide
basis had come up as one of the most important tasks for Tamron since 2006. Therefore, at the time of the
management review in November 2006, Tamron established mid-term environmental objectives and targets
to address on a company-wide basis and achieve by 2009. In addition to these organizational improvements
introduced already, Tamron plans to consolidate the Quality Management System and Environmental
Management System into a comprehensive management system in order to properly address environmental
regulations that have become stricter for product design and to respond to customer requirements that have
also become stricter too.
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In 2006, Tamron provided educational courses on
recycling, green procurement, and other activities
related to management and environmental
conservation to all employees. In addition,
e-learning courses were introduced to provide
basic knowledge about environmental problems of
the earth and deepen understanding of why such
environmental preservation is necessary. Tamron
aims at reducing CO2 emissions and eventually
achieving zero emissions as a mid-range planning
target. We at Tamron plan to further enrich our
educational programs on waste management and
issues related to global warming. |
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In 2006, the Environmental Accounting Subcommittee focused on reviewing the method for aggregative
analysis of environmental costs. As a result of the approach, the subcommittee established a method to
more precisely and effectively grasp environmental education expenses among the costs for environmental
management activities. The total amount of environmental investments in 2006 was relatively small at
Tamron. This was partly because there were not many facilities and installations required urgently, but also
partly because we were unable to precisely grasp cost effectiveness. We will work for establishing a method
to calculate the economic effects of environmental costs more efficiently and accurately in order to more
efficiently reflect information obtained from environmental accounting in our management decisions.
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