
Sustainability | SocietySocial and Environmental Consideration at Manufacturing Sites
- Our Approach
- Structure
- Fiscal 2020 Goals and Achievements / Evaluations and Future Activities
- Concrete Activities
Our Approach
TDK recognizes that striving for social and environmental consideration at the Group’s production sites and fulfilling our social responsibilities is important as a supplier to continue our business. We strive to understand issues and make continuous improvements in a three-stage framework comprising self-assessments, audits, and training and dialogue.
Structure
We have specified a person in charge at each manufacturing site to promote this approach, with the Headquarters CSR function providing supervision.
Fiscal 2020 Goals and Achievements / Evaluations and Future Activities
Fiscal 2020 Goals | Achievements |
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To achieve 100% implementation of CSR self-checks at manufacturing sites (TDK Group manufacturing sites) | Achieved 100% implementation |
To achieve 100% implementation of labor, human rights, and ethics risk assessments at manufacturing sites (TDK Group manufacturing sites) | Achieved 100% implementation |
To ensure audit opportunities once every two years by a third party (high-risk countries in Asia, including China) | 100% implementation except for one site, due to repercussions from Covid-19 |
To continually implement CSR training | Training conducted remotely for ASEAN-area HR meetings |
To implement internal audits on workers’ rights and corporate ethics by internal auditors | Achieved 100% implementation at targeted sites |
Fiscal 2021 Goals |
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To achieve 100% implementation of CSR self-checks at manufacturing sites (TDK Group manufacturing sites) |
To achieve 100% implementation of labor, human rights, and ethics risk assessments at manufacturing sites (TDK Group manufacturing sites) |
At all production sites, to conduct at least once every 3 years either an RBA-approved third-party audit (VAP, AMA, CMA), customer CSR audit, or CSR assessment based on the RBA VAP Operations Manual |
To conduct training for personnel involved with CSR in Japan and overseas |
To achieve 100% implementation of labor, human rights , and ethics internal audits at targeted manufacturing sites |
Evaluations and Future Activities
In fiscal 2020, changes occurred in work styles in response to
Covid-19 restrictions, and a switch was made to remote auditing
with online field audits. This and other adjustments have allowed
activities to go on largely as scheduled.
From fiscal 2021 forward, we will continue to improve and
strengthen regular activities, while improving efforts that have
fallen short nationally or regionally. Using the RBA framework, we
will plan initiatives to be implemented more consistently
group-wide.
Concrete Activities
Self-assessments
Frequency | Implementation site | Content | |
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CSR self-checks | Every year | All TDK Group production sites | Personnel in charge at the sites will answer questionnaires regarding the RBA check items (human rights, health and safety, environment, and ethics). We will give feedback on the results and implement improvement measures at each site. |
Labor, human rights, and ethics risk assessments | Every year | All TDK Group production sites | The check items are updated every year based on social trends. Personnel in charge at the sites will answer questionnaires. We will develop and execute improvement plans based on analysis results. |
CSR Self-Checks
At TDK, we create a TDK CSR self-check sheet concerning human
rights, health and safety, environment, and ethics by adding
questions specific to TDK to the RBA check items, which is a
global standard, and conduct a self-diagnosis at all production
sites every year. This is intended to let us grasp the current
situation at production sites, extract potential issues and
their responses, and provide quick responses to customers’ CSR
survey requests.
After the personnel in charge at the sites answer the
questionnaires, we analyze their answers at the Sustainability
Promotion Headquarters and provide feedback to each site.
In fiscal 2020, questions on managing hazardous substances were
added to the RBA check items. Also, feedback was provided to
specified sites on how to make improvements when less than ideal
responses were received on check items.
Labor, Human Rights, and Ethics Risk Assessments
Regarding risk assessments, we clarify the risks in labor, human
rights, and corporate ethics that are not covered by other
efforts such as environmental or occupational health and safety
risk assessments, take measures to promote improvements and
corrections if there are residual risks, and implement the
assessment every year at all production sites for the purpose of
carrying out the PDCA cycle at each base and making continuous
improvements.
We update the check items every year based on social trends, and
after the personnel in charge at the sites answer the
questionnaires, we analyze the answers at the Sustainability
Promotion Headquarters and provide feedback to the sites. Based
on that, the sites establish and execute improvement plans.
In fiscal 2020, based on a change in labor law related to wages,
we created check items for wages and items to evaluate the
status of the work interval system and supplier responsibility.
Risk assessment results showed issues that presented risk, but
measures were already in place, so there were no remaining
risks.
Audits
Frequency | Implementation site | Content | |
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Self-audits | Once every two years |
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Simple CSR audits | Once every two years |
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Corporate internal audits | Every year |
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Audits by customers | As necessary |
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The four types of audits are self-audits, simple CSR audits,
corporate internal audits, and audits by customers. TDK-led
audits that are not conducted by customers are conducted based
on the RBA audit items and have established a mechanism that can
maintain the level of labor, safety and health, environment,
ethics, and management systems at global standards. Audits by
external auditing firms are implemented once every two years in
countries and regions that we recognize as high risk according
to our own standards.
In fiscal 2020, Covid-19 made it difficult to conduct field
audits, so remote audits were conducted online, keeping
activities going generally as scheduled.
Trainings and Dialogues
With a systematic understanding of RBA and customer requirements related to CSR, we provide timely training for quick responses. In fiscal 2020, upon the revision of the RBA Code of Conduct, we conducted training for ASEAN-area personnel meetings. Also, as a member of the RBA, we have been promoting participation in many kinds of training offered by the RBA to raise the level of our CSR activities even further.