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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 issues related to safety, hygiene (health), fire prevention, greetings, road 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.

Safety Month
In line with National Safety Week from July 1st to July 7th, ADVICS has designated July as Safety Month and is conducting safety awareness activities.

Fire Prevention Month
Learning from the fire that occurred at the Kariya Plant on February 1, 2007, ADVICS designated February as Fire Prevention Month and is conducting activities to raise awareness of fire prevention.

Quality

We held quality case study exhibitions at all domestic group companies and in 10 overseas countries. Actual problems that have occurred, customer feedback, quality improvement efforts, etc. were exhibited, and participating employees filled out a questionnaire about their impressions. We encourage employees to apply what they have learned and realized to their own work.

We are calling for quality improvement examples and quality slogans from all domestic group companies and 10 overseas countries. By awarding and introducing excellent examples and slogans, we hope to foster mutual technological improvement.

Slogan Excellence Award

Compliance with rules: You want to follow the rules but you can't. That's when you should consult your boss or get help.

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.

In order to foster a culture that respects the priority of SQDC (safety, quality, delivery date, and cost), we regularly produce quality awareness videos that introduce lessons learned from past cases. We distribute them in multiple languages so that many employees can watch them. Employees appear in the videos to encourage employees to think about quality as their own issue, and employees are also in charge of writing the lyrics, composing the music, and singing the awareness song. At supplier appreciation events, we convey ADVICS' thoughts on quality by performing the awareness song live.

Supply chain

In order to be conscious of working closely with our business partners and implement management aimed at reducing and strengthening risks throughout the entire supply chain, we agree with the purpose of the "Partnership Building Promotion Conference for Opening the Future," which includes the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and others, and announced 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"

We aim to further strengthen partnerships with suppliers by sharing our procurement policy with them and presenting awards to outstanding suppliers. We listen to honest opinions in annual supplier surveys and work to increase supplier satisfaction and improve procurement operations.

The Global Procurement Conference is a forum where members from each base gather to build a global procurement foundation and ensure the best parts and materials at the most competitive prices in a long-term, stable manner. By sharing each other's policies and measures and discussing industry-specific procurement strategies, the conference strengthens communication and realizes One Voice in procurement. ^*​

• As a procurement function, we must come together and share the same ideas and ideas.

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

• Supply Chain Risk Assessment Management

In order to ensure that procurement does not directly or indirectly contribute to conflict or child labor, we are continuously conducting conflict mineral surveys up the supply chain together with our suppliers. 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 create a workplace where it is easy to take paid leave and provide follow-up support when employees take leave. We aim to be a company where each employee can feel a sense of accomplishment and growth at work, and can enrich their private lives through leisure time, working with enthusiasm.

Average number of paid holidays taken

In order to further strengthen our competitiveness, we are increasing the opportunities for staff to secure excellent foreign human resources and incorporating the unique perspectives and ways of thinking of foreigners to improve and revitalize the organization's creativity. In addition, we are cultivating human resources who can be active globally through overseas trainee programs, which are also beneficial for companies, and send young employees to overseas bases for training.

To enable female employees to play an even more active role in the company, we are continuously organizing working groups to propose and implement measures to management to improve their careers, work environment, and job satisfaction, with the goal of achieving a 6.1% female managerial ratio by 2030. We are also working to improve the work environment for female employees in technical positions, creating an environment where women can easily improve their skills.

In order to provide stability in both "employment" and "life" necessary for continuing to work, we have appointed a person in charge of employing people with disabilities within the company and have set up a consultation desk for both the person in question and the workplace. In addition, through this person, we have established a cooperative system for maintaining health and relieving anxiety in daily life by cooperating with the in-house health promotion office, external support organizations, and medical institutions. 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, which leads to the fostering of smooth 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 continue to work on this at our bases in each country, 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 river, we signed a "Forest Foster Parent Agreement" with Neba Village, Shimoina County, Nagano Prefecture, where the river originates, in 2004. We cooperate in the development of walking paths, tree planting, thinning, and other activities, and have received certification for our CO2 absorption effects. As part of this, we hold "forest creation activities" in Neba Village, where AISIN Group employees and their families take part in environmental studies and forest regeneration activities.

In cooperation with local governments and NPOs, AISIN implements environmental education programs for elementary school students. Through experiences and games, children learn about 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, and are 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.

Twenty-one AISIN Group companies made donations to the Central Community Chest of Japan and the Japanese Red Cross Society to support the earthquake victims. They also provided food, hygiene products, and other supplies through local governments.

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

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 March 2023, we received a "Certificate of Appreciation from the President" for this support. These donations are used for emergency relief, reconstruction support, and preventive activities to save people suffering from disasters, conflicts, and illnesses around the world.