Sustainability

compliance

Compliance program operations

The Group strives to instill a compliance awareness among its officers and employees, including thorough adherence to its rules, corporate ethics and social norms, including its management philosophy and code of conduct.
To increase the effectiveness and continuity of these activities, we update our guidebook every year by reorganizing our code of conduct and regulations in an easy-to-understand way, and conduct compliance education every year based on the contents of that guidebook. We also measure the effectiveness of our guidebook and education every year through a compliance survey, which we use to improve our guidebook and education. We have established and are operating this annual PDCA cycle as our "Compliance Program."

Whistleblowing system

Our group has implemented an internal whistleblowing system to prevent, detect early, and address acts that violate our group's regulations, corporate ethics, and social norms. If an officer or employee of our group commits or is likely to commit an act that violates laws and regulations, internal regulations, or corporate ethics in the course of business, whistleblowers can report it using their real name or anonymously. The reporting window is located outside the company, and the system is operated in accordance with the rules stipulated in the regulations to ensure that whistleblowers do not suffer any adverse treatment as a result of making a report.
(Number of internal whistleblowing cases: 3 in FY2022 / 11 in FY2023 / 7 in FY2024)