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Product Stewardship

Management System

Policy and Basic Approach

The Mitsui Chemicals Group’s Responsible Care Policy states “We will assess the risks to people and the environment from our products throughout their life cycle, while working to ensure the health and safety of all persons and to reduce the environmental impact of those products.” We also stipulate Mitsui Chemicals Group’s Principles for Chemicals Management to unify our basic group-wide approach.

 

As a member of the supply chain, the chemical industry is responsible for chemicals management from product development to disposal (product stewardship). The Mitsui Chemicals Group promotes voluntary chemical management in addition to compliance with the regulatory requirements of each country.

 

Cooperation with business partners is indispensable to minimize the risks to people and the environment throughout our product life cycle. The Mitsui Chemicals Group continues to collect chemical information from suppliers, assess the risks concerning our products, and maintains mutual communications with customers on any hazards in our products and how to handle them safely.

Mitsui Chemicals Group’s Principles for Chemicals Management

Mitsui Chemicals Group will contribute to the development of a safe and sustainable society by managing chemicals in accordance with the following principles in order to ensure the health and safety of all persons and reduce environmental impact.

 

  1. We establish Chemicals management policies and rules, and take actions in accordance with them.
  2. We manage our chemicals management system appropriately.
  3. We promote the safe handling of chemical products throughout the value chain through risk communication with our business partners.
  4. We understand the needs of our stakeholders and provide appropriate product information.

We determine medium- to long-term goals based on the above Policy and Principles, while taking into account global chemical management trends and the Group’s business direction. We implement initiatives while creating an action plan every year.

 

We will implement chemicals management in a planned manner based on the following Basic Strategy for long-term targets.

Long-Term Goals (Our Ideal Vision for 2030)

Based on a high level of quality awareness among all employees and an information infrastructure that can be used by the Group globally, transform our management structure into one that can encompass the entire supply chain, from development to disposal, accomplish an active mechanism of providing information, and deliver a greater value to our customers with our high quality products and services.

Basic Strategy for Long-Term Goals

  1. Transforming our management structure into one that can encompass the entire supply chain, ranging from development to disposal (process assurance)
  2. Building a management structure responding to the circular economy and accomplishing an active mechanism of providing information
  3. Securing, development, and assignment of Quality Human Resources
  4. Streamlining of operations utilizing digital technology

The Mitsui Chemicals Group’s Chemicals Management

The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Chemicals Management

The Mitsui Chemicals Group assesses the risks to humans and the environment posed by chemical substances by considering the entire product life cycle, from the planning stage of the business, through development, manufacturing, distribution, use, recycling, and final consumption to disposal. The Group provides safety information based on the assessment results for appropriate risk management at each stage of the product life cycle to ensure people's health and reduce the environmental impact. In addition, we will promote product design to improve resource recycling and management of chemical substances contained in products, and work to build a circular economy business model through the supply chain. In fiscal 2020, we established a Global Policy on chemicals management and are working with domestic and overseas affiliates to improve the chemicals management system for the entire Group.

System and Responsible Officers

Policies and measures related to chemicals management are discussed by the Responsible Care Committee as part of Responsible Care.

 

The responsible officer for the RC & Quality Assurance Division, who is responsible for this task, reviews and establishes the group-wide chemicals management policy, and ensures that the policy is understood and put into practice in Mitsui Chemicals. The officer also provides advice, instructions, and guidance to the responsible officers for the business sector. The general manager of the RC & Quality Assurance Division combines the latest trends in chemicals management policies and laws from different countries with information gathered from regulatory experts to create concrete measures for compliance, and promotes the implementation of such measures across the Group. Under the initiative of the general manager of the RC & Quality Assurance Division, the director of the Chemicals Safety Department supports the implementation of concrete actions, which include conducting product information surveys and product risk assessments, complying with chemical regulations and standards, and creating SDSs and product labels.

 

Based on these company policies, the general manager of the business division that owns the product and the responsible officer for the business sector responsible for that division are responsible for the chemicals management of each product. In addition, the general manager of laboratories is responsible for human- and environment-friendly product development; the general manager of the Purchasing Division is responsible for raw material procurement; and the general manager of each Works is responsible for managing the chemical products handled at Mitsui Chemicals' Works.

Product Stewardship System (Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.)

Chemicals Management System (Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.)

Internal Audit

The RC & Quality Assurance Division conducts chemicals management audits of each business division and affiliated companies of the Mitsui Chemicals Group.*

Audit on chemicals managementAuditing DivisionRC & Quality Assurance Division
ScopeBusiness divisions of Mitsui Chemicals Head Office, branch offices, laboratories, and domestic and overseas affiliates
DetailsThe management system for chemicals management, its operational status, and the status of compliance regarding the manufacture, import, and sales of chemicals are checked.
FrequencyIn principle, once every three years

*The Internal Control Division, as the third line of risk management, conducts audits from an independent standpoint to ensure that the audits are properly carried out.

Goals and Results

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MetricScopeFY2022FY2023FY2030
(Medium to Long-term)
GoalsResultsLevel AchievedGoalsGoals
Number of legal and regulatory violationsMitsui Chemicals Group0000