- Organization for Promoting the Management of Safety, the Environment and Quality Assurance
- Audit on Safety, the Environment and Quality Assurance in Fiscal 2007
Based on the Responsible Care* policy, we undertake business activities in consideration of the environment, safety and quality assurance.
* Responsible Care
"Responsible care" is a Voluntary Initiative with company's commitment to improve all aspects (all stages of chemical substances throughout the product's life cycle, from development through disposal) of Environment, Health and Safety and to communicate with the public about activities and achievement.
Organization for Promoting the Management of Safety, the Environment and Quality Assurance
The Mitsubishi Rayon Group adopts a top-down approach for managing safety, the environment and quality assurance, according to which the Safety, Environment & Quality Assurance Committee determines basic management policies and measures (Committee Chairman: President of Mitsubishi Rayon). Placed beneath the CSR Committee established in April 2007, the Safety, Environment & Quality Assurance Committee plays a role in CSR activities carried out by the Mitsubishi Rayon Group.
Establishment of Quality Management Committees
The Mitsubishi Rayon Group has established a committee for each stage of quality management at Head Office, production centers and manufacturing plants, and seeks to raise quality through process quality management, discussion of quality issues and measures to resolve any issues.
Items for quality assurance
1.Management of raw materials, parts, etc.
2.Management of manufacturing drawings for products, quality standards, etc.
3.Management of manufacturing processes, manufacturing facilities, etc.
4.Management of subcontractors
5.Management of inspections, tests and measuring and test equipment
6.Management of encasement, packaging, labels, warehouse arrivals, storage and shipments
7.Quality records and audits
8.Processing non-compliant products and handling complaints
Audit on Safety, the Environment and Quality Assurance in Fiscal 2009
Audit types
| Audit type | Audit target |
|---|---|
| General audit Audits conducted by management under the Safety, Environment and Quality Assurance Committee (with a corporate auditor and an executive member of the union as observers). |
MRC* |
| Departmental audit Audit to supplement general audit; this is a detailed audit on the sampled departments. | MRC* |
| Group company audit Audit that is implemented as part of the Group's management under approval by the Safety, Environment & Quality Assurance Committee. |
Group companies |
| Special audit Audit that is implemented under the direction of the Chairman of the Safety, Environment & Quality Assurance Committee in the event of a serious accident or disaster. | Mitsubishi Rayon Group |
| Product liability and quality assurance audit Audit that is implemented on the entirety of business activities from marketing to production under approval by the Safety, Environment & Quality Assurance Committee. | MRC*product lines |
| Extraordinary audit Extraordinary audit that is not one of the above regular audits. |
Mitsubishi Rayon Group |
| Quality assurance audit to contract manufacturing partners Quality assurance audit of companies manufacturing MRC products as subcontractors. |
Contract manufacturing partners |
List of audits executed in fiscal 2009
| Audit type | Audit target | |
|---|---|---|
| General audit | Otake Production Center, Toyohashi Production Center, Toyama Production Center and Yokohama Production Center |
Safety and the environment |
| Departmental audit | Otake Production Center (Three departments), Toyama Production Center (three departments), Toyohashi Production Center (five departments) and Yokohama Production Center (three departments) |
Safety and the environment |
| Group company audit | Group companies overseas (Three companies) and Group companies in Japan (two companies) |
Safety, the environment and quality assurance |
| Special audit | - | Occupational and other serious accidents |
| Product liability and quality assurance audit | Department in charge of acrylicsheet, acetate fibers, polysaccharide, aqua business-related products, coating materials. | Product liability and quality assurance |
| Quality assurance audit to contract manufacturing partners | Contract manufacturing partners (eight companies) | Quality assurance |
Audit results for fiscal 2009
| Audit type | |
|---|---|
| General audit | The audit confirmed that all production centers were vigorously carrying out safety and environmental activities. Each center was instructed to base future activities on detailed feedback from the production floor in order to improve their effectiveness. |
| Departmental audit | All audited departments were actively implementing a wide range of activities and achieving positive results. Each was instructed to carry on their activities while reviewing them to improve their effectiveness to the point where the activities become part of their normal work routine. |
| Group company audit | All audited companies were confirmed to be taking proactive action based on the organized management system. Each company was asked to thoroughly carry out individual activities so as to achieve significant results. |
| Security audit | Operations under a new management system are underway, but since a part of the system is not yet fully functioning, instructions were given to rapidly raise management effectiveness. |
| Special audit | No audit was performed this year. |
| Extraordinary audit | This year, as there were significant changes in production center operations, the management status of the Yokohama Production Center, where wastewater channels and content (volume and composition) have totally changed, was audited. Individual countermeasures to prevent leakages and handle abnormalities were taken. Instructions were given to assure consistency in the production center as a whole. |
| Product liability and quality assurance audit | Operations were confirmed as taking place in line with the quality assurance system. More effectively use of the quality assurance system was requested in order to improve management. |
| Quality assurance audit of contract manufacturing partners | Quality control operations reviews and further improvements were requested. |
Targets for combining environment-related data
Only companies that mainly engage in manufacturing and processing are subject to the combination of environment-related data. See (1) through (4) below for expressions used in this report.
(1)MRC Group: companies that come under the following categories (2) to (4)
(2)MRC: Mitsubishi Rayon and Group companies operating at Mitsubishi Rayon's production centers
(3)Domestic Group: consolidated subsidiaries in Japan other than those which come under the above category (2)
(4)Overseas Group: consolidated subsidiaries in other countries
