Environmental Auditing
Internal Audits
The environmental internal audits of the Yokogawa Eectric Corporation Headquarters & Main Factory consist of systems, legal compliance, and performance audits. Internal audits were conducted at all sites at least once during the year. Although some minor inconsistencies and items to be watched were identified, these were quickly addressed and corrected.
Internal Audit Inspection Items
| Systems audit | Audit of organizations/systems, target management, education, operations management/corrections, and other data to check whether the system is functioning effectively |
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| Legal compliance audit | Audit of the operation and monitoring of regulated values (qualifications, notice submissions, and measurement data) and other data to check whether legal and other requirements are being followed |
| Performance audit | Audit of targets and actual results, regulated values, and other data to check whether the self-determined operation items are being implemented properly |
Periodic Inspections
The annual surveillance inspections were conducted at the Yokogawa Electric Corporation Headquarters & Main Factory as well as at Yokogawa Manufacturing by an ISO14001 certifying organization. Yokogawa's continuing efforts were praised and registered by the inspection team regarding the following aspects:
- Yokogawa Electric Corporation Headquarters and Main Factory were recognized for their expansion of identified positive environmental aspects associated with their core business, and for their effective communication with the external parties by hosting the "Executive Forum on Energy Conservation and Environment".
- Yokogawa Manufacturing was recognized for its expanded scope for identifying positive environmental aspects, and for its efforts to strengthen its internal audit system by educating and training additional auditors.