Environmental Policy

In conformity with Basic Environmental Management Rules for the Yokogawa Group, each site of the Group shall strive, in all its activities, to:

Establish, maintain, and improve its environmental management system.
Each site establishes an environmental management system in order to promote and continuously improve its global environmental conservation activities. To maintain and improve the system, each site accurately evaluates the burden of its activities on the environment, sets environmental objectives and targets that are technically and economically viable, and carries out environmental audits.
Provide environmental training.
Each site actively provides training for global environmental conservation to ensure that employees understand the Environmental Philosophy, Code of Conduct for Environmental Conservation, and Environmental Policy of the Yokogawa Group to improve their environmental awareness, and to act autonomously with consideration of the environment in both their work and life in the local community.
Abide by legal regulations.
Each site abides by laws, legal regulations, and other requirements concerning the environment, in order to proactively conserve the global environment.
Carry out resource recycling-based operations.
Throughout its activities, each site endeavors to utilize energy and resources efficiently, to prevent global warming, to reduce waste, and to promote the reuse and recycling of resources with the aim of eliminating emissions.
Minimize environmental pollution.
Each site strives to eliminate the use of substances that adversely impact the environment, such as toxic chemicals, and ozone-destroying substances, by using safe substitutes or employing safe technologies to avoid the risk of environmental pollution.
Create environmentally friendly products.
Each site develops and produces environmentally friendly “green” products in consideration of the environmental burden throughout the products’ lifecycles, from material purchase, manufacture, and distribution to their use and disposal.
Supply society with environmental solutions.
Each site supplies society with value-added products and services for conserving the earth's environment through measurement, control, and information technologies.
Contribute to local communities.
Each site encourages its employees to participate in environmental conservation activities under their own initiative as good corporate citizens.
Make environmental information available to the public.
Each site actively makes environmental information, including its environmental policy and conservation activities, available to the general public.