Materiality |
Recognized Opportunities and Risks |
MCHC Group Management |
Product responsibility |
- Growing interest in the quality, safety and environmental performance of products and services
- Reducing the use of chemicals and harmful substances, and demands for information disclosure
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To ensure that customers can use products and services in relief, pursue initiatives to ensure the quality and safety of products throughout lifecycle and minimize the adverse effect on the environment. |
Human development and training |
- Developing the capabilities of human resources based on medium-term human resource development policies
- Enhancing the return on investment from human resource development
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Seek to offer equal opportunity in hiring, placement, advancement and skill development, while pursuing the acquiring and development of human resources based on a medium- to- long-term perspective. |
Occupational health and safety |
- Ensure the health and safety of employees, while improving productivity and ensuring business continuity by preventing accidents
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Implement safety management in accordance with national and regional laws and regulations and develop safe workplace environments while maintaining and advancing the physical and mental health of employees. |
Human rights awareness |
- Rising concerns over human rights violations through corporate activities
- Emerging risks to human rights in the supply chain
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Respect the dignity and rights of all people in corporate activities and require that business partners refrain from violating human rights or engaging in inappropriate discrimination. |
Information security and privacy |
- Digitizing all manner of information including corporate information and personal information
- Increasing information security risks due to the widespread adoption of IT/IoT
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Recognize the importance and responsibilities associated with protecting information assets and manage information adequately to prevent the confidential information of customers, business partners, MCHC or other parties from being leaked. |
Diversity and inclusion |
- Retain and cultivate talented employees based on a human resource strategy that respects diversity
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Incorporate a diverse range of human resources and views without regard to their nationality, age or belief, and promote diversity and inclusion through our corporate activities in enhancing corporate value. |
Contribution to communities |
- Building relationships of trust by actively engaging in exchanges with and contributing to communities in areas where we conduct business
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Broadly contribute to society through business activities while deepening understanding of various communities and continually responding to their requests and expectations. |
Initiative and leadership |
- Accelerated responses and solutions to environmental and social issues through proactive participation in initiatives
- Promotion of the identification of social issues and requests for government and legislative action
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Proactively participate in industry bodies and related organizations, along with getting involved in and leading the guideline- and rule-making process.
Demonstrate leadership in the activities of external bodies.
Strengthen partnerships with NGOs and NPOs. |
Stakeholder engagement |
- Promotion of the proactive disclosure of corporate information and mutual understanding with stakeholders
- Acceleration of responses and solutions to environmental and social issues
- Progress on collaboration to share and solve global sustainability issues including the Paris Agreement and SDGs.
- Greater use and proliferation of corporate assessments focused on an ESG perspective
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Enhance the disclosure of information in both qualitative and quantitative terms (Refine the website and the integrated report) and upgrade and expand opportunities for dialogue (hold business presentations, IR meetings, presentations for local residents and other meetings; promote dialogue with ratings agencies; proactively implement collaboration programs and other events in the supply chain, etc.) |
Information and communication technology |
- Coming of the age when more and more companies are introducing ICT and IoT
- The development and use of AI and autonomous robots are being encouraged
- Change of employees’ work styles
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Boost productivity by establishing specialized departments for purposes such as developing information gathering and shared infrastructure for corporate activities and strengthening the IT management environment.
Push ahead with ICT-driven workstyle reforms and health and productivity management. |
CSR in supply chain |
- Growing impact of resource, energy, procurement and logistics risks on the financial aspects of business continuity.
- Acceleration of responses and solutions to environmental and social issues through the sharing of standards and collaboration
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Promote dialogue and collaboration in supply chains.
Step up measures such as green procurement, the sharing of standards, the switch to resources with a low environmental impact, the reduction in procurement risk, and efforts to strengthen the modal shift in transportation and logistics. |