Basic Environmental Plan : FY2006
The Olympus Group has adopted a Basic Environmental Plan as a part of our medium-term planning to provide a framework for medium-term environmental activities. Under the Olympus Group Corporate Conduct Charter and Code of Conduct, Olympus will formulate a detailed action PLAN, then DO what has been planned, CHECK the results, and finally ACT on specific environmental measures.
Every three years, the Olympus Group conducts self-assessment reviews of activities in our medium-term planning to reflect changes in the business climate. Under the current Basic Environmental Plan that was launched in 2006, the Olympus Group is striving to make the eco-design (*1) an integral feature of our business as Olympus travels the road to becoming an environmentally advanced organization by fulfilling our responsibilities toward creating a sustainable society. The four pillars of the Olympus Group environmental initiatives are described below.
I. Products: Creating Sophisticated Environmentally-Conscious Products
II: Facilities: Implementing Eco-Efficient Management
III: Management: Practicing Global Environmental Management
IV: Communication: Enriching Environmental Communication
Eco-communication, the first pillar, was not included in earlier Basic Environmental Plans. If the Olympus Group is to become an environmentally advanced company, Olympus must attain the understanding and active cooperation of each individual stakeholder. This is why Olympus ranks the qualitative improvement of our communication with stakeholders as a high priority.
*1 Eco-design = A comprehensive environment-responsive measure to reduce environmental load in society and realize a sustainable economic society. Eco-design aims to create new added value, optimizing manufacturing/producing technologies, business models, and social systems both from environmental and economic viewpoints.
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