Environmental Education
Olympus Group is aiming to share values about Environmental issues through mutual communications by promoting in-house environmental education. We will work on reduction of Olympus' total environmental load by involving all the employees.
Company-wide Environmental Education
Olympus provides environmental education for all of its employees in Japan and overseas. Programs are designed to match the roles and aims of participants and the types of business activities in which they are involved. Olympus aims to increase the number of environmental and occupational safety and health specialists at its various sites and is working toward this goal by systematically training personnel.
Basic training for New Graduation Employees
Company-Wide Environmental Education Programs Implemented by Environmental Departments
| Seminar | Number of Seminars Held Annually | Number of Participants |
|---|---|---|
| Training for internal auditors of ISO 14001 | 8 | 116 |
| Follow-up training for the revised ISO 14001 | 1 | 24 |
| Basic training for New Graduation Employees (hired by HQ) | 4 | 257 |
Note1: Seminars are aimed at Olympus group companies in Japan.
Number of Personnel with Environmental Management Qualifications
| Qualifications | Number of Personnel | Number of Personnel | Number of Leggally-Qualified Personnel | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pollution Control Managers | Air | 29 | 12 | 2 |
| Water Quality | 81 | 26 | 16 | |
| Noise | 10 | 6 | 0 | |
| Vibration | 6 | 6 | 0 | |
| Senior Pollution Control Managers | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Managers for Industrial Waste Requiring Special Treatment | 69 | 63 | 16 | |
Note2: This information refers only to Olympus Group companies in Japan.
Environmental Awareness Month
Olympus Group held the global campaign in June as the Environmental Awareness Month based on following common slogan to "Reduce group greenhouse emission to prevent global warming with every employee's effort and actions".
This year, we held the several events as environmental awareness month, president message to employees, E-learning for all employees, and other following actions to enhance to not only enhance environmental awareness but promote environmental actions.
Main Activities in Environmental Awareness Month
| Activities | Attendants |
|---|---|
| Environmental basic E-Learning education to all employees All employees in Japan received basic environmental education to learn global warming issues and environmental actions by intranet. |
10,523 |
| Challenge Japanese Environment Ministry initiative Olympus promote employees to attend "One people reduce One-kg CO2 emissions in One day". |
763 |
| Internal photo competition for posters of Environmental Awareness Month Olympus collected the photos as the theme of "Global Warming" globally, and posted 3 outstanding photos to post the poster of "Environmental Awareness Month" in all Olympus Group. |
46 |
| Enhancing Energy Saving Activities To enhance energy saving activity, each workplace made effort by checking lights, temperature, humidity and air leaks. |
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Posted posters for Environmental Awareness Month |
Energy saving activities in each workplace |
ECOLY-Points Program for Environmental Activities
In fiscal 2009, Olympus introduced the ECOLY (ECO+Olympus) points program for environmental activities. The program is open to all Olympus Group employees.
The catchphrase for the program is “Eco Fun.” The aim is to encourage employees to participate in environmental initiatives by creating an accessible space that can be enjoyed by as many employees as possible. We will achieve this by placing relevant environmental information and interesting content on the intranet. Employees who participate in the ECOLY program earn points, which can be redeemed for eco-goods, according to the contribution made through their activities. By supporting employees’ environmental activities in this way, Olympus aims to instill environmental awareness in individual employees and encourage them to share environmental information and participate on a continuing basis.
ECO + Olympus = ECOLY
The ECOLY Process
Each month, employees will be given information about eco-friendly activities that they can do on a day-to-day basis, including CO2 reduction, 3R (reduce, reuse, recycle) activities, and water resource conservation. In addition to these day-to-day environmental initiatives, we will also arrange community-based activities, such as tree-planting. For example, in fiscal 2008 employees helped to develop a forest in Kanagawa Prefecture.
We will maintain and expand these environmental activities in fiscal 2009. In addition, we will introduce a new system that allows employees to redeem ECOLY points as cash donations to the World Wide Fund for Nature Japan.
The ECOLY program has only just begun. Watch it grow!
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