Compliance
We are committed to various group-wide initiatives intended to further improve and strengthen compliance system in accordance with our Corporate Code of Compliance.
Compliance system
In order to reinforce our compliance, our Board Meeting has established group-wide compliance policies, “Code of Conduct” and the other codes of conduct, and the executive officer responsible for compliance decides medium- to long-term and annual action plans.
Under the supervision of the executive officer responsible for compliance, the Legal Department promotes various group-wide initiatives for the entire Group including affiliated companies.
Activities to improve compliance
Level-based training
We provide systematic training courses on compliance for new employees, promoted mid-level employees, and promoted managerial employees, depending on their respective job positions and roles.
We also provide periodic training courses on compliance for employees depending on their levels to instill and establish compliance awareness.
Awareness initiatives in each workplace
To ensure the penetration and adoption of compliance throughout the workplace, we conduct training courses on compliance for each workplace once every six months. This training has become a forum for active discussion within each workplace based on a training program that covers violations of corporate ethics and legal violations and similar actions prepared based on situations that actually arose at other companies. We have been implementing this program also at our Group companies in Japan.
Awareness activities on our portal
Our corporate intranet hosts a portal. It lists various kinds of manuals including the manuals as to basic information on contracts, competition laws in various countries, observance of anti-bribery laws and subcontract law, links to websites covering related laws and regulations, and a FAQ page.
This site presents the latest available information, and it is updated whenever the relevant laws and regulations are revised.
Whistleblower System
As part of our initiatives to implement compliance, we have established the Whistleblower System under which facts or suspicions of compliance violations inside the company can be freely reported to the internal reporting desks we have set up both inside and outside the company. The intention of the whistleblower is always respected in determining whether or not to disclose the details of the information and the name of the whistleblower, with the objective of protecting the whistleblower.
Compliance with Anti-Bribery Laws and Competition Laws
For Compliance with Anti-Bribery Laws ( Nippon Shokubai Group’s Code of Conduct )
Nippon Shokubai Group Companies strictly prohibit any corruptions in breach of applicable laws in our business activities.
In order to express and give shape of such group policy, we adopt the group code of conduct, which all the individuals working for Nippon Shokubai Group Companies should comply with.
For Compliance with Competition Laws ( Nippon Shokubai Group’s Code of Conduct )
Nippon Shokubai Group Companies will conduct all business transactions based on free and fair market competition principle.
In order to express and give shape of such group policy, we adopt the group code of conduct, which all the individuals working for Nippon Shokubai Group Companies should comply with.