Governance

Compliance

All officers and employees of our Group pursue and engage in fair corporate activities in good faith, based on our Compliance Charter and Code of Conduct.

Compliance Charter

Compliance Charter

  • We will comply with all relevant laws, regulations and social norms, and act with a high sense of ethics.
  • We will respect people’s basic human rights and personality, and will eliminate all forms of discrimination.
  • We will respect the culture and customs of each country and undertake business activities that contribute to environmental conservation and to local communities.
  • We will maintain and strengthen safety and health in the workplace and local community by ensuring thorough risk management.
  • We will establish relationships of trust with our stakeholders by engaging in fair, transparent transactions and disclosing information in a timely manner.
  • We will ensure strict management of corporate information, personal information and information about other companies.

Compliance promotion framework

To strengthen compliance across our Group, the Compliance Committee appoints compliance committee members to Fujikura Kasei and compliance promotion officers to major subsidiaries. These officers disseminate information on legal trends to members of their department or Group company, and hold study workshops for employees.
We also have a Compliance Hotline (whistleblowing system) in place, so that employees who discover a wrongdoing or business activity that might be in violation of a law or regulation could report it to the Compliance Committee Secretariat or the company attorney’s office without suffering any disadvantage whatsoever.

Structure and role of the Compliance Committee

Fair trade initiatives

Fair trade and ethics policy

Our corporate activities are made possible by our firm partnership with our business partners. As a member of society, we will steadily comply with the following provisions and engage in corporate activities with a fair and sincere attitude so that we may gain the trust of all our stakeholders.

  1. Preventing Corruption
    We will not engage in or be a party to bribery, excessive gifts and business entertainment, threats, or embezzlement, and will comply with this policy on a continuous basis.
  2. Prohibition of unfair competition
    We will neither give nor receive goods or services that have di rect or indirect value for the purpose of acquiring new businesses or inappropriate advantages.
  3. Proper information disclosure
    We w ill provide or disclose accurate i nformation s o that our stakeholders can make appropriate judgment about our company, and will not make any false report reg arding the information we provide/disclose.
  4. Respect for intellectual property rights
    We will respect not only our own intellectual property rights b ut also the intellectual property rights of our competitors and business partners.
  5. Compliance with laws and regulations
    We will comply with all laws, regulations, and social norms concerning fair competition and fair trade as we pursue fair business practices, and will not engage in cartels or other such restrictive agreements , unfair transactions, or misleading representations. We will ne ither make contact with anti-social forces nor slander, defame, or infring e on the rights of others.
  6. Protection of whistleblowers
    We will protect the confidentiality of the information we obtain via internal reports of wrongdoings and the anonymity of whistleblo wers, and will eliminate any retribution against whistleblowers.
  7. Responsible procurement of minerals
    We will properly judge and address the use of conflict minerals in our products in line with our quality management system and chemical substance management system.

Survey of the status of CSR initiatives by our business partners

Today, the scope o f social dem and i ncludes no t only initiatives of our company alone but also initiatives along our entire supply chain. Therefore, we have conducted a survey of the status of CSR initiatives by our business partners.
We had our business partners further their understanding of CSR activities by having them read through our various policies. These include our CSR policy, the Fujikura Kasei code of conduct, human rights policy, occupational health and safety policy, environmental policy, energy conservation policy, fair trade and ethics policy, quality policy, chemical substance management policy, and information security policy. We also requested them to self-evaluate the status of their initiatives regarding the eight items below.
We will conduct the survey again as necessary and continue our initiatives for enhancing CSR along our entire supply chain.

Survey items

Human rights initiatives

At Fujikura Kasei, we consider respect for human rights an important foundation for business continuation and ensure it is promoted mainly via the Compliance Committee.
Human rights initiatives are undertaken in line with the Japanese government’s“ Guidelines on Respect for Human Rights in Responsible Supply Chains” regarding initiatives expected of companies.
Respect for human rights will always form the basis of our relationships with stakeholders who could be impacted by the supply chain of our business activities. We will also promote human rights to prevent any such impacts.

Responses to information security

We have formulated our information security policy and information security education document based on the awareness that it is essential to take measures against information risks.
The Information Security Subcommittee is responsible for promoting information security compliance. It is a company-wide cross-cutting organization led by the chairperson (director) of the Compliance Committee and composed of the general manager of the Information Systems Department and management-level members from the management and business departments in each site.
In line with the guidelines of industrial organizations with which our business partners are affiliated, in addition to other social requirements, the subcom mittee revises th e com pany’s information security education documents and otherwise engages in strengthening compliance.