The Idemitsu Group works to reduce the environmental impact of its business activities through more efficient energy use and other measures in order to contribute to the creation of a sustainable society with harmonious coexistence between the economy and environment.
We aim to protect the global environment by conducting appropriate education and awareness raising activities for all employees to enhance their eco-consciousness and actively promoting advanced initiatives to solve such environmental problems as global warming.
To achieve this aim, we have established a policy regarding environmental conservation, both global and regional, as an important value to be prioritized in all our business activities.
We have long positioned “Health, Safety and Environment” as the foundation of our management and have established the Safety & Environmental Protection Headquarters to promote initiatives to secure and preserve this foundation. Members of the Safety & Environmental Protection Headquarters consist of the General Manager and co-head of the Safety & Environmental Protection Headquarters, general managers of related departments, presidents of major affiliated companies, and other managers who are appointed by the General Manager, in addition to the secretariat.
The executive in charge of safety and environment (a director) is appointed by the President and Representative Director to oversee the headquarters as the individual bearing the highest responsibility for health, safety and environment. The Safety, Environment & Quality Assurance Department serves as the secretariat.
The Safety & Environmental Protection Headquarters performs the following roles and activities.
The secretariat prepares drafts based on a review up to the previous fiscal year and consideration of the social situation to determine the medium-term management plan, basic policies for the fiscal year and key challenges. The Safety and Environmental Managers Meeting then deliberates those drafts with the Headquarters meeting finally giving them approval. The results are then reported to the Management Committee.
The Board of Directors receives reports from business executives and oversees environmental issues including climate change issues.
Our Environmental Management System is presented in the diagram below. It is based on a combination of the groupwide PDCA cycle, utilized by the Safety & Environmental Protection Headquarters, and the individual PDCA cycles utilized by each business department.
The Safety & Environmental Protection Headquarters formulates a medium-term management plan for the entire Company and identifies annual basic policies and priority issues based on that plan.
In line with these annual basic policies, each business department develops its own action plan. Each business department operates a PDCA cycle in which it executes business activities based on its action plan, periodically evaluates and reviews these activities, and identifies matters that must be improved and reflected in the action plan for the next fiscal year. Meanwhile, the secretariat for the Safety & Environmental Protection Headquarters carries out an annual evaluation and review of group-wide operations of the Environmental Management System. Matters requiring improvement are discussed at Headquarters Meetings in conjunction with reviews carried out by each business department to ensure continuous improvement. Furthermore, a total of 30 business departments and affiliated companies within the Group (17 in Japan, 13 overseas) acquired ISO 14001 certification as of June 30, 2023.
In order to confirm and promote the HSE activities of each business department and affiliated company, the secretariat of the Safety & Environmental Protection Headquarters conducts Safety and Environmental audits at our refineries and complexes on an annual basis. At business sites other than those named above, Safety and Environmental audits are carried out at a frequency decided in consideration of the worksite’s safety and environmental risks and safety and environmental management status. Should Safety and Environment related issues requiring improvement be discovered by audits, the secretariat will conduct follow-up monitoring on each case and oversee the entire process from the planning of countermeasures to the completion of their implementation. Furthermore, the General Manager or co-head of the Safety & Environmental Protection Headquarters conducts Safety and Environmental Audit or safety patrols by visiting business sites every year.
In 2022, our Group business sites recorded 2 environmental compliance violations* as listed below. We will identify minor compliance violations that are not classified as serious compliance violations and investigate their causes to prevent recurrence in an effort to step up our environmental protection initiatives.
We provide environmental education for the entire Group under the leadership of the Safety & Environmental Protection Headquarters. We are also engaged in activities like holding lectures and distribution of materials to raise awareness of environmental protection in line with the Environment Month promoted by the Ministry of the Environment.
FY | 2023 *As of November 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
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Education | Let’s Find Out About Circular Economy | Let’s Find Out About Biodiversity | Let’s Find Out About Carbon Neutrality | Let’s Find Out About Climate Change |
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Environmental lecture (carbon neutrality) | Tokyo Bay environmental survey |
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Training | Environmental management capability enhancement training (Conducted in July 2023 : 102 people, Conducted in November 2023 : 65 people) | Environmental management capability enhancement training (283 people) | Environmental management capability enhancement training (265 people) | Environmental management capability enhancement training (54 people) |
Dates | Implementing organization | Place | Participant | Notes |
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December 2020 | Idemitsu Plantech Aichi | Shin-Maiko coast (Aichi Prefecture) | approx.100 people (including Aichi Complex,Idemitsu Retail Marketing, and associated companies) | Implemented since 2010 |
December 2019 | Tokuyama Complex | Shunan City (Yamaguchi Prefecture) | 64 people | Participation in Shunan City's community cleanup |
August 2019 | Idemitsu Lube Vietnam (ILV) | Coast of Ha Long Bay (Vietnam) | 267 people (employees, volunteers from the Ha Long City Youth Union) | Second time after 2014 |
August 2019年 | Chugoku Branch | The Peace Memorial Park (Hiroshima Prefecture) | Approx.60 people (volunteers from employees, Hiroshima Idemitsu-kai) | Participation in Hiroshima City's community cleanup |
June 2019 | Aichi Complex | Shin-Maiko coast (Aichi Prefecture) | 27 people | Conducted as an environmental study session |
April 2019 | Solar Frontier Kunitomi Occice | Aoshima (Miyazaki Prefecture) | 100-200 people (employees and their families) | Rhododendron sprouting also conducted at Kunitomi Hokedake Park (Miyazaki Prefecture) |