Since FY2006, these multiple audits have been systematized
so that they could be conducted in three types of audits: (1)
environmental management audits covering in-house companies and nine key group companies: (2) environmental
technology audits of products covering about 40 divisions,
and (3) environmental audits of sites covering 106 business
and production sites, including non-manufacturing sites
and non-consolidated subsidiaries. In-house companies
and group companies conduct self-audits (self-inspections)
within their companies based on the same standards in
order to check business and production sites with relatively
low levels of environmental impact that are not covered by
site environment audits.
Audit items for these three audits are reviewed annually to
improve evaluation level. In FY2012, we evaluated the level
of environmental management based on audit items linked
to the goals of the Fifth Environmental Action Plan, thus
stepping up environmental management with the aim of
becoming one of the world’s foremost eco-companies