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Safety

In order to achieve zero workplace accidents and fires, we share information and provide support to our domestic and overseas bases, including those of the Group, and promote safety, health, and fire prevention activities.

We share information on workplace implementation cases and problems related to safety, hygiene (health), fire prevention, greetings, traffic safety KYT, etc.

We provide safety and health education to prevent workplace accidents.

The "Pocket Book for Protecting Yourself" repeatedly raises awareness of basic safety behaviors (hold onto the handrail when going up and down stairs, keep your hands in your pockets, do not walk while using a smartphone, etc.) to foster a safety culture and improve safety awareness among employees.

When construction work is being carried out by external contractors (outside construction work), management staff carry out safety patrols to prevent industrial accidents and fires caused by outside construction work.

We identify safety and fire prevention problems from all domestic group companies and 10 overseas countries. At safety and fire prevention exchange meetings, executives and attendees come together to discuss solutions, contributing to raising the level of safety and fire prevention activities.

Quality

We held quality case study exhibitions at all domestic group companies and in 11 overseas countries. Actual problems that have occurred, honest feedback from customers, quality improvement efforts, etc. were exhibited, and participating employees filled out a questionnaire about their impressions. This allows employees to apply what they have learned and realized to their own work.

We are soliciting quality improvement examples and quality slogans from all domestic group companies and 11 overseas countries. By awarding and introducing the best examples and slogans, we hope to foster mutual technological improvement.

Best Slogan Award

Let's create an atmosphere where we can say something is wrong and a system to notice it

All new employees are given the opportunity to ride in a vehicle with a replica brake malfunction and experience a near miss with a customer, thereby heightening their awareness and sense of responsibility regarding quality.

The head of Quality Assurance Sector gave a lecture on quality to raise the quality awareness of new employees.
Using examples of scandals at other companies, the program explains the magnitude of a company's social responsibility and the impact that quality defects can have, thereby conveying the idea that quality is the lifeline of a company.

To foster a culture that adheres to the priorities of SQDC (safety, quality, delivery time, and cost), we regularly produce quality awareness videos that introduce lessons learned from past cases. These videos are distributed in multiple languages so that many employees can watch them. Employees themselves appear in the videos to encourage employees to think of quality as something that concerns them personally.
He also wrote, composed and sang the educational song, a song of encouragement to spread awareness of the SQDC's priorities.
This educational song will be performed live at a supplier appreciation event to share our passion “Quality Supremacy”. Furthermore, by submitting it to the Nikkei Company Song Contest 2025, we are spreading ADVICS' passion for quality to a wider audience.

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Supply chain

With an awareness of working closely with our business partners, we aim to implement management aimed at reducing and strengthening risks throughout the supply chain. In support of the aims of the "Partnership Building Promotion Council for Pioneering the Future," which includes the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, we published the "Partnership Building Declaration" on August 31, 2022.

Specific activities to support

• Strengthening BCP
• Support for solving problems

Click here for the "Partnership Building Declaration" portal site

ADVICS "Partnership Building Declaration"

To further strengthen our partnerships with suppliers, we hold procurement policy briefing sessions and award excellent suppliers. We also conduct an annual supplier feedback survey, listening to honest opinions and striving to improve supplier satisfaction and the work of each department. We provide feedback to suppliers at our annual appreciation meeting, aiming to build even better relationships.

To achieve our policy of "procuring high-quality parts and materials at the most competitive prices in a stable, long-term manner," we are expanding our Japanese policy to our local subsidiaries, promoting fair and equitable transactions globally, and strengthening relationships with our suppliers.

In the event of a large-scale disaster such as an earthquake, we will ensure business continuity with a focus on human safety, regional recovery, and early recovery. We are promoting supply chain management for recovery and alternative production at our domestic and overseas bases.

*Supply Chain Risk Assessment Management

In order to ensure that procurement does not directly or indirectly contribute to conflict or child labor, we work with our suppliers to continuously investigate conflict minerals up through the supply chain.We also place importance on factors related to procurement, such as the working environment, human rights, safety, and employment, as procurement issues, and are working toward achieving the SDGs.

Employee

As part of our efforts based on the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support the Development of the Next Generation, we have been certified as a Kurumin company by the Aichi Labor Bureau as a company that supports child-rearing.
Starting in fiscal 2020, we aim to have 100% of male employees take childcare leave.

Number of people taking childcare leave

Number of people using reduced childcare hours

We are creating a workplace where it is easy to take paid leave and actively promoting it. We aim to be a company where each employee can feel a sense of accomplishment and growth at work, and can enrich their private life through leisure time, and work with enthusiasm.

Average number of paid holidays taken

As part of our efforts to support child-rearing, we hold an event where we collect unwanted children's items from within the company and provide them free of charge to employees in need. The aim is to foster a culture of mutual support, where we are supportive of employees who work under a variety of circumstances and say, "Thank you for your hard work, we're all in this together."

To further strengthen our competitiveness, we are increasing opportunities to secure talented foreign personnel in our staff departments, and by incorporating the unique perspectives and ways of thinking of foreigners, we are working to improve and revitalize the creativity of our organization.We are also developing personnel who can be active globally through overseas trainee programs, which are beneficial to the company as well, and send young employees to overseas bases for training.

At ADVICS, we aim to create a workplace where diverse talents respect each other, can work independently and autonomously, and can demonstrate their individuality with a sense of fulfillment, and we promote the active participation of women through three pillars: improving the environment, reforming the corporate culture, and changing the individual's mindset.
In the office, the women's working group is primarily responsible for planning and proposing career support and measures to improve work environments, and implementing these in cooperation with management. We also value connections between women through opportunities for interaction both inside and outside the company.
In manufacturing workplaces, we are working to create a comfortable workplace for everyone by improving the environment through measures such as improving equipment and introducing maternity wear, as well as providing diversity training for supervisors.

In 2024, these efforts were recognized and the company was certified as an "Aichi Women's Shining Company" by Aichi Prefecture.

Regardless of whether they have a disability or not, we aim to develop human resources who can utilize their "individual characteristics" and continue to play an active role by demonstrating their strengths independently. We have also appointed a person in charge of employing people with disabilities within the company. We have also set up a consultation desk for both those with disabilities and the workplace.
Furthermore, we have established a cooperative system for maintaining health and relieving concerns about daily life by coordinating with the company's health promotion office, external support organizations, and medical institutions through the person in charge.
By utilizing an app that makes conversations visible, holding sign language classes, and holding study sessions to get to know each other, we provide opportunities to learn about differences in vision and thoughts, leading to smoother communication.

Number of people with disabilities employed

Contribution to society

AISIN Group is engaged in tree-planting activities with the aim of contributing to carbon neutrality and protecting the environment.We are continuing to work on these activities at our bases in various countries, including preventing sand and gravel collapses and greening Mount Fuji in Japan, preventing desertification in Inner Mongolia in China, and preserving mangrove forests in Thailand.

AISIN Group benefits greatly from the Yahagi River, which provides water for Plant and daily life. In order to protect the forest at the source of the water, the group concluded a "Forest Adoption Agreement" with Neba Village, Shimoina County, Nagano Prefecture, which is located in the headwaters of the river, in 2004. The group cooperates in the development of walking trails, tree planting, thinning, and other activities, and has received certification for its CO₂ absorption effects. As part of this, the group holds "Forest Creation Activities" in Neba Village, AISIN Group employees and their families participate in environmental education and forest regeneration activities.

In collaboration with local governments and NPOs, AISIN implements environmental education programs for elementary school students. Through hands-on experiences and games, children become aware of the importance of the environment and are guided to practice eco-friendly activities in their daily lives.

At a welfare facility in China, our employees interacted with children and donated toys and daily necessities. At a Japanese language school in the United States, our employees supported classes and donated operating expenses. In Brazil, we donated clothing and children's books to elderly care facilities and child welfare facilities, supporting local communities at our bases in each country.

Employees act as instructors and hold programming classes for local elementary and junior high school students, providing a fun opportunity to learn about programming through missions and games in which students must operate a robot car as intended.

Our Judo holds judo classes for local children, providing opportunities for children to become familiar with sports in a variety of locations, including child welfare facilities, infant homes, child development support and after-school day care centers, and the ANJO Sports Festival for Everyone.

Four AISIN Group companies have made a donation to support the damage caused by the 2024 earthquake centered in eastern Taiwan.

We collect plastic bottle caps and donate vaccines to children in developing countries through an NPO.

We support the activities of the NPO Aichi Children's Hospice Project, which aims to create a place where children with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities and their families can spend time in peace.
We are expanding our support by setting up "lemonade stands" selling lemon drinks in the employee cafeteria and at company events, and donating the proceeds to the organization.

Through NPOs, we donate disaster preparedness food to individuals and welfare organizations in need, contributing to solving poverty issues and reducing food waste in the local community.

Since 2019, we have been donating a portion of the proceeds from our vending machines to the Japanese Red Cross Society. In 2024, the Head Office, Fujioka Branch, and Handa Plant received a letter of appreciation from the President. These donations are used for emergency relief and reconstruction support to save people suffering from disasters, conflicts, illnesses, etc. around the world.