Governance and Risk Management

Governance and Risk Management

The Hitachi High-Tech Group has developed a system of environmental management promotion for the purpose of strengthening our environmental management and promoting effective environmental activities in the Group as a whole.

The Environmental Committee strengthens the Group’s governance in environmental field and shares information by formulating strategy for the environmental field in general as well as taking steps to minimize environmental risks and risks related to chemical substances contained in products. We are also building the organizational structure to implement more finely-grained administration of our environmental activities as a whole.
Under this committee, we have established two subcommittees. The first is the Eco- Management Factory Subcommittee, which consists of managers who directly promote environmental activities at domestic manufacturing sites and environmental managers. The other is the Eco-Management Office Subcommittee, which consists of members appointed from each site involved in activities to reduce the risk of chemical substances contained in products and environmental activities in commercial transactions at sales and service sites.
The Chair of Environmental Committee is the senior executive who is responsible for environmental management. The Chair makes decisions on topics with certain impact on our business and ones which need to be discussed from the perspective of internal control. The Chair then reports these to the Internal Control Supervisory Committee. Other duties include identifying climate change risks that affect business operations and addressing those risks on the basis of risk assessment by classifying each risk as either a prioritized issue or continuous monitoring one.

Regarding "Contributing to a Sustainable Global Environment," one of the areas of Sustainability Focus Areas(Materiality) for our group, we formulate proposals and plans on decarbonization, circular economy, and nature positive, and promote further effectiveness through evaluating achievements at our own sites and throughout the value chain, including customer sites. In addition, important matters relating to environmental strategy are discussed by the Sustainability Promotion Committee, which is chaired by the President and has directors and executive officers on its members.