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Risk Management
At Mazda, we are committed to the promotion of risk management as part of our responsibilities in corporate
management policy. Risk management not only strengthens our levels of compliance, it also enables us to respond
effectively to a wide variety of internal and external risks.
Risk management activities implemented throughout all divisions
Mazda established a Risk Management Office in January 2002 in its
Company-wide Administrative Organization, and set the target of ‘all
directors and employees being actively involved in risk management’.
Based on this, we created a Risk Management Committee, and have
worked since then on the infrastructure for risk management
regulations. In January 2003 we issued our Basic Mazda Risk
Management Policy, and in February 2004 we established our Risk
Management Regulations. Risk management activities began on a
company-wide basis in FY 2004, with activities promoting risk
assessments and countermeasures being rolled out in each division.
As a result, some 232 items were cited throughout the company as
requiring some form of risk management measure, and already 208 of
these have been resolved. The remaining 24 items are being
addressed.
Structure for maintenance of Risk Management System
Education and training
Simulation
Risk communication
Risk management documentation creation and maintenance
Monitoring identified risks
Maintaining and managing records
Risk management system observation
Mazda Risk Management Promotion Structure
RM Structure standard procedure
Under emergency procedures
President
President
Directors responsible for RM
Existing committees
Directors responsible for RM
RM Committee
Secretariat: Risk Management Office
E-risk Management
sub-committee
Ethics Committee
Human Rights Committee
General Health and Safety Committee
Security-related Export Control Committee
Company-wide Quality Committee
Fire Prevention Control Committee, etc.
Emergency Response Office
Division managers
Subsidiaries and affiliates
Divisions
Divisional RM Promotion Manager
All employees
In cases where an inter-departmental response is required, and the existing
crisis management organization cannot deal with the level of risk, the
directors responsible for RM will work in cooperation with the President to
establish an Emergency Response Office, and to appoint a General Manager
to such an office.
Glossary: 1
Risk Management
The process of dividing risks into controllable and
uncontrollable categories (an example of uncontrollable
risk being natural disasters), and maximizing the
controllable risks area.
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