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Kyocera established the Kyocera Green Committee with the president as its chairman in December 1990. In December 1991, we set up the Kyocera Group Green Committee, allowing the entire group to prepare for the promotion of environmental protection activities based on the Kyocera Environmental Charter.
Presently, management systems based on the ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard are established and applied in all locations. |
| Kyocera Green Committee |
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Consisting of the president as chairperson and the managers of departments as members, Kyocera Green Committee meetings are held to discuss and determine specific targets and measures reviewed by each section and subsection. These targets and measures will be achieved through specific activities at each plant, division and branch office.
The sections and subsections are organized to tackle comprehensive themes, such as advancing environmental protection through specific actions including environmental conservation, energy conservation and the prevention of global warming. They also encourage resource conservation, global environmental products, safety, disaster prevention and complying with 5S methodology, which are all related themes.
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| Kyocera Group Green Committee |
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The Kyocera Group Green Committee meets regularly to hear reports about the current status of Kyocera and each Environmental Protection Assurance Committee (EPAC), and to review problems and issues, and exchange opinions.
There are seven EPACs:
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KII (KYOCERA International, Inc.) Group |
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AVX (AVX Corp.) Group |
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KEC (KYOCERA ELCO Corp.) Group |
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KMC (KYOCERA MITA Corp.) Group |
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KCC (KYOCERA Chemical Corp.) Group |
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KKC (KYOCERA KINSEKI Corp.) Group |
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Asia (others, mainly in Asia) Group |
EPAC: Environmental Protection Assurance Committee
EPC: Environmental Protection Committee |
| Deployment of the Environmental Management System |
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The Kyocera Group works for the protection of the global environment by applying an Environmental Management System based on the ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard at all locations in Japan and abroad.
We adopted an Environmental Management System in 1996 when the ISO Standard was established. We now actively apply such systems in the following four categories. |
 Number of Locations Applying the Environmental Management System (FY 2007) |
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| Kyocera Group Integrated Environmental Management System |
205 |
| Environmental Management System (Individual certification) |
37 |
| Self-certification Environmental Management System (AVX Group) |
45 |
| KGEMS |
82 |
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369 |
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KGEMS stands for Kyocera Group Environmental Management System, and is Kyocera’s own self-certification system, closely based on the ISO 14001 Standard. |
| Environmental Accounting |
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The Kyocera Group established an Environmental Accounting System in FY 2003. Since then, we have used it as an environmental management indicator by monitoring the horizontal development of environmental measures, and collecting data by business segment, etc. By introducing quarterly data collection in FY 2005, we now grasp information in a more timely manner and have improved the accuracy of our data.
We will continue to expand the application range of the system and use it as a global environmental management indicator. |
| Environmental Audit |
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Kyocera conducts various audits to monitor and confirm the proper application of the Environmental Management System as well as the environmental management situation at each location.
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| Environmental Education |
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| Environmental Education for Employees |
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| Under the Kyocera Group Integrated Environmental Management System, environmental education is provided, helping our employees to understand the significance of working on environmental conservation activities and the role each person plays at each division to raise overall environmental awareness. |
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Environmental education for new employees |
| Environmental Risk Management |
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| Kyocera Environmental Management Standard |
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Kyocera established a Kyocera Environmental Standard that is more stringent than legal and public regulations require, while each plant/office specifies still stricter self-imposed standards in order to assure thorough management.
As a result of introducing various types of new environmentrelated equipment and improving performance to meet or surpass the self-management standard, the state of Kyocera’s environmental management is steadily improving. |
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| Assuming the inevitability of accidents and emergencies which may affect the environment, we have taken preventative countermeasures such as the installation of dikes. We have also prepared procedures for dealing with emergencies. To ensure that employees are familiar with these procedures, we hold emergency training drills more than once each year. |
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Emergency training (Kagoshima Sendai Plant) |
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