Environmental Initiatives and Social Contributions

An Environmental Management Plan is prepared at each workplace, and measures for the reduction of industrial waste, such as the promotion of the use of prefabrication and precut materials and minimization of packing materials, are implemented. Disposal of industrial waste is managed at a cross-company level under the supervision of an environmental data administrator at each workplace by checking whether materials have been appropriately disposed of through the status of consignment contracts and stored manifests.

When devices or equipment with refrigerant freon are removed during repair work, management of manifests relating to the collection and proper disposal of freon based on the "Refrigerant Freon Collection Plan/Report" are carefully carried out at each workplace. The Green Technology System Division quantifies industrial waste at registered domestic sites and calculates the amount of construction by-products based on the floor space of each construction.

We have progressed “GREEN PROCUREMENT” by means of purchasing and/or adopting the products conforming to the rules for Green Purchasing for our production purpose such as system design and construction works.

However, we have recently started enhanced activity since 2009 in terms of “GREEN PROCUREMENT”, including new equipments, system, working methods and technologies, with our own bench mark and monitoring system, for the purpose of reducing the impact on the environment.

Our new bench marks are now in operation as “Guidelines for Green Procurement” on April 2010.
We do promote our activity in all of our divisions and departments for us to contribute to reducing the impact on the environment in future.

Meanwhile, as far as office works concerns, we have been promoting on-line purchasing “TOPS” so as to reduce cost of office stationeries and improve office work efficiency and successfully achieved paperless on-line purchasing through internet, which renders purchase requisition paper works free and reduces account slip for payment drastically.

Taikisha provides education on how our environmental technologies contribute to reduction of the impact on the environment not only to the personnel who are directly involved with environmental activities, but also to new employees and sales representatives. In addition, we conduct annual audits on industrial waste disposal conducted by intermediate processors. Our company posts the "Environmental Laws and Regulations Management File" and "Complaints Regarding Quality and Environmental Issues" on the in-house network so that personnel involved with the relevant operations can refer to them as and when required. We have also introduced a system to encourage employees to obtain official certifications and offer an extra incentive as a reward for those who obtain qualifications (such as energy management, pollution control manager and other qualifications) that are useful for environmental measures.

We conduct beautification activities twice a month in order to beautify the city around the Hirakata Factory in Hirakata City, Osaka and regularly strive to harmonize our business with the lives of neighboring residents.

We set the temperature one degree higher than normal and implement Cool Biz practices at all domestic offices.

The Corporate Culture Committee run by employees collects used prepaid cards and sends them to the Defense of Green Earth Foundation. The organization conducts tree planting activities with the proceeds from the cards.

We collect work clothes and uniforms for female employees annually and send them to the international cooperation NGO, Wakachiai Project.

We collect the caps of plastic bottles and send them to the Ecocap Movement, an incorporated nonprofit organization that recycles bottle caps and uses the proceeds to donate vaccines to children across the world.

We donated 10 million yen to the Japanese Red Cross Society for the victims of hurricane Katrina, which hit the southern states in the US in August 2005.

The Corporate Culture Committee organizes a collection box for, and holds promotional activities regarding the training of guide dogs at in-house events and other occasions. The Committee donates collected money to the Japan Guide Dog Association.
Please see the "Environmental Reports" for further information.

Our global website was relaunched with entirely new content at of the end of March, 2009.
（http://www.taikisha-group.com/）
For this relaunch, certain parts of website production were commissioned to the IT Business Branch of the Kamonohashi Project, an NPO group.