Environmental management

Sanden strives to keep the management cycle for the Group's environmental preservation activities (overall PDCA cycle) and the environmental management cycles of each ISO14001 certified business site.
By combining responses to environmental issues at the Sanden Group level with issues at each business site and location, Sanden empowers all of its personnel to participate in the promotion of environmental preservation activities.
In addition, based on the Environmental Charter and Medium-Term Basic Environmental Policy, which are based on our corporate philosophy, each group company sets its own goals, and each item is implemented under the environmental program of each site. Company-wide environmental audits (internal environmental auditing) are conducted several times a year to ensure that environmental preservation activities at each site conform to Sanden’s policies and plans. At the G-HSE Committee meeting that is held by the Administration Division every quarter, confirmation is conducted of the rollout of the company-wide policy, performance evaluation, and the progress of measures. In addition, the scope of responsibility each site has for addressing environmental issues is made clear.

To realize sustained improvement in the level of its environmental management, the Sanden Group has been advancing with efforts to obtain such environmental management system certification as ISO14001 certification.
In Japan, the management systems for three sites were integrated for standardization in 2023.As of Dec. 2023, the Sanden Group had obtained environmental management system certifications for a total of 14 sites in Japan and overseas (certification rate of 94%).