2011 Suzuki CSR Report - global suzuki

Introduction
Special Topics
Corporate
Philosophy and CSR
Environmental
Responsibility
05 Environmental Education for Employees,06 Emergency Training,07 Environmental Incidents, etc.
Social
Responsibility
Data
SUZUKI CSR REPORT 2011
05 Environmental Education for Employees
■Education according to Managerial Hierarchy
As part of our employee education program, we provide
new employees with awareness-raising workshops
concerning such basic environmental subjects as Suzuki's
environmental philosophy, policy, issues, and ecodrive
concept. Also, we provide other employees with
environmental training according to their job functions. In
addition, internal auditor training is provided to management
level employees. In fiscal 2010, environmental education
was provided to 17,000 persons throughout the entire
Suzuki Group. In individual plants, special educational
programs to prevent environmental accidents were carried
out especially for employees working in environmentallyimportant
processes. Also various educational programs
were provided to new employees, management level
employees, and all factory employees.
■Education to Obtain Special Qualifications
We encourage employees to obtain special qualifications
relating to the environment management. In fiscal
2010, 142 employees were newly qualified as pollution
prevention managers, 38 as energy managers, and 486 as
internal environment system auditors.
■Education for Overseas Trainees
In fiscal 2010, we accepted 136 trainees (mainly plant
managers, production engineers, or designers) from
overseas plants, and provided them with our environmental
education on environmental policy, segregation of wastes,
energy-saving countermeasures, etc. to promote the
environmental activities on a global scale.
T o p i c s
T o p i c s
Efforts at Overseas Plant (MAGYAR SUZUKI)
Persons in charge of environment at each shop (manufacturing process) including the Engineering Section are called to
have a regular meeting once a month. Topics for discussion are:
❶Check thorough observance of environmental rules inside and outside the plant (thoroughly notify employees of the
rule for sorting and collecting general wastes, industrial wastes, and hazardous substances from the plant)
❷Education for personnel who handle volatile organic solvents (amount to be handled, actions when solvents flow out,
etc.)
❸Implementation for countermeasures for problems pointed out upon ISO14001 audit
The information used to be transferred from a person in charge of safety in the Engineering Department to persons in
charge of environment of each shop. However, we changed this system, and now hold the meeting with employees in the
group/section leader class of each shop in order to raise environmental awareness of the entire plant.
06 Emergency Training
We look for locations and operations that have the
potential of causing an environmental accident or
emergency and hold emergency drills with employees
and other related suppliers. In fiscal 2010, 131 times of
emergency drills (including 18 times of night drills) were
conducted at domestic plants.
These drills were held at our overseas plants.
07 Environmental Incidents, etc.
We conducted the soil survey for the land in Toyokawa
Plant site to be sold to Toyokawa City, and maximum 1.2
mg/L of fluorine (the standard value is 0.8 mg/L) was found
at 3 out of 118 investigation points. We investigated the
cause and assumed that natural fluorine existing in soil
since before Suzuki purchased this plant site was detected
because fluorine had never been used in this site. We
reported this fact to Aichi Prefecture, had the soil cleaned
by digging and removal, and reported the completion of
the countermeasure to Aichi Prefecture.
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