Conduct Business Activities Respecting Human Rights

The Kurita Group, which operates globally, is faced with diverse labor environments, business customs, and trade practices, and recognizes the need to respect the human rights of our employees and other stakeholders throughout the supply chain. Based on this recognition and in light of international norms concerning human rights, we aim to respect human rights of all people, as a commitment to “humanity” in “an environment in which nature and humanity are in harmony,” as expressed in our Corporate Philosophy.

The Kurita Group has established the Kurita Group Human Rights Policy to complement Corporate Philosophy and the Kurita Group Code of Conduct. This policy states that the Kurita Group will respect human rights as set forth in the International Bill of Human Rights and the fundamental rights and principles set forth in the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, and will promote efforts to respect human rights based on the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
Furthermore, to ensure that efforts to respect human rights are thoroughly implemented in the supply chain, we request that our suppliers also take human rights into consideration, seek their understanding and cooperation, and conduct regular monitoring surveys to confirm compliance.

The Kurita Group is committed to conducting business activities respecting human rights by setting targets for conducting human rights due diligence on suppliers, the accident severity rate, rate of participation in human right-related training, and the establishment of a liaison for remedies from human rights violations. Targets and results for this materiality are shown as below.

The Kurita Group has established a human rights due diligence system in accordance with the procedures of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Human Rights Due Diligence

The results of human rights risk evaluations at the Company are as follows.

Evaluation of Employee Human Rights Risks

The number of cases of discrimination (including harassment) reported by employees of the Kurita Group is as follows. The Human Resources and Legal Departments conduct fact-finding investigations that ensure anonymity, and when facts are confirmed, the relevant employees are given guidance, warnings, and other responses.

Number of Consultations Regarding Discrimination

Given the nature of its business, the Kurita Group recognizes that, there are many situations where its employees face safety risks for manufacture and delivery of water treatment chemicals or assembly, delivery, and installation of water treatment facilities.
We therefore position “health and safety as the top priority in conducting business” and are committed to ensuring safety and supporting health to create a working environment where our executives and employees can work with peace of mind.
In addition, the Kurita Group has established the Kurita Group Occupational Health and Safety Policy as a groupwide policy to ensure the health and safety of executives and employees, create comfortable working environments, and improve on them. Based on this policy, we will continuously promote initiatives for health and safety.

The Company and Group companies in Japan work to share the value of making safety the highest priority in carrying out business, and to foster a culture in which employees take personal responsibility for safety. Since fiscal 2021, targeting departments related to manufacturing and construction sites of the Company and Group Companies in Japan, we have been conducting a safety culture diagnosis to gauge the extent to which efforts to prevent work-related accidents have taken root in each organization. We work continuously to monitor safety status and make improvements.

Number of Safety Patrols

Number of Participants in Safety Education (the Company)

For accidents that occur at the Company and Group Companies in Japan, the Company’s dedicated department, which promotes onsite safety, investigates the cause of accidents, formulates measures to prevent recurrence, and communicates them to the Company and Group Companies in Japan.
In addition, to prevent the recurrence of serious occupational accidents that have occurred in the past, we operate the Kurita-Safety Approach Tool (K-SAT). K-SAT is a tool that accumulates knowledge learned from past work-related accidents in the system, allowing personnel to extract and utilize the information they need. By using this tool, we will develop knowledge from past work-related accidents into risk assessments that contain no omissions. By ensuring that decided measures are implemented onsite, we will strive to prevent the recurrence of work-related accidents.

System to Anticipate and Prevent Work-Related Accidents (K-SAT)

• A mechanism for structurally identifying and rendering the mechanisms of defects into shareable knowledge, to be used to prevent defects and stop issues from reoccurring. A quality management approach mainly used in the manufacturing sector, developed by Yasuhiko Tamura of the Institute of Structured Knowledge Yielding Co., Ltd.

The types of injuries that occurred at the Company and Group Companies in Japan in fiscal 2024

The Company conducts regular health examinations for employees. We ensure that all eligible employees receive their examinations.

The Company’s employees may handle organic solvents, designated chemical substances, and other materials when performing analysis and experiments. To deal with hazardous operations by its employees, the Company has devised exposure prevention measures, such as installation of onsite ventilation equipment and protective equipment. We also conduct special health examinations based on surveys of employee’s substance usage records.

The Company conducts measures to improve employee health, such as seminars on how to improve diet, measuring physical age, and holding health events such as walking rallies.

In our initiatives to prevent mental health issues, each Health and Safety Committee holds seminars on mental health. In addition, we conduct a Stress Check, which is a survey given to all employees for promoting self-awareness, carried out under the guidance of the stress check systems designed by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare according to the Industrial Safety and Health Act.

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