Seeing occupational safety, security and accident prevention, environmental conservation, and product safety as key foundations for its business activities, JSR Group conducts all business undertakings under the following Responsible Care^® (RC) policy.

1. 1.We strive to ensure the safety of employees and local communities, and to contribute to environmental conservation and a sustainable global environment by ascertaining risks associated with our business activities and executing countermeasures.
2. 2.We strive to comply with laws, ordinances, and voluntary regulations by gathering information on and ensuring the full development of laws and regulations required for business activity.
3. 3.We strive to ensure the safety of our products by developing products with consideration for safety, health, and the environment and providing information about them.

• What is Responsible Care® (RC) according to the Japan Chemical Industry Association website

When laws concerning the environment and safety are adopted, enacted, or amended, the Headquarters department in charge distributes information to each business site to keep them fully informed.

JSR Group identifies laws and regulations requiring compliance based on compliance regulations and conducts annual self-checks to ensure that business departments conform with these laws and regulations.

• 5. Disclosure of Legal and Regulatory Violations

As an environmental management system that supports our environmental management, JSR Yokkaichi Plant obtained ISO 14001 certification in 1999 and has kept this certification up to date each year since.

JSR Group companies, mainly manufacturing bases, have also obtained ISO 14001 certification, and are promoting environmental conservation activities using a management system that complies with this standard.

JSR Group strives to minimize risks in occupational safety, security and accident prevention by operating the PDCA cycle using a management system configured according to the circumstances of each business.
To verify the effectiveness of this management system, each business site carries out internal safety audits and patrols along with management reviews regularly every year in an effort to achieve continuous improvement.

In addition, in the unlikely event of an accident or disaster, we have compiled a manual to ensure appropriate and effective measures to prevent the spread of damage, and we conduct regular drills to ensure this system operates effectively.

The following Group companies had obtained ISO 45001 certification, a certification which they have kept up to date.

The auditing team from the Environment and Safety Department of the JSR headquarters conducts annual audits of JSR Group plants and laboratories. In these audits, we conduct interviews with audited departments in accordance with the audit plan and check sheet for occupational safety and security and accident prevention, environmental conservation, and chemical management, and verify the effectiveness of the management system based on objective facts (evidence, on-site inspections, etc.).
In the effectiveness verification, we not only point out areas for improvement, but also focus on the strengths of each department. We also share the results obtained with each of the Group's business sites in an effort to improve the safety level of the entire Group.

These audits are also used as a forum for sharing and discussing issues faced by audited departments, and the Group is working as a whole to resolve issues in environmental and safety activities.

Furthermore, in audits conducted at JSR, since FY2015, we have been providing opportunities for dialogue between top management and employees to share the thoughts of both management and frontline operations, and to energize environmental and safety activities through greater mutual understanding.

Details of environment and safety audits can be found using the link below.

• Occupational Safety, Security and Accident Prevention “3. Activity Record: Security and Accident Prevention (3) RBPS-based Safety Audits”

At JSR, to further encourage environmental protection activities, we created the Environment Merit Award for employees who have made important contributions to environmental protection through a range of activities that include environmental product and technology development, environmental impact reduction, and assisting local communities with environment-related issues. Six employees received this award for two areas of excellence in FY2023.

JSR Group holds the Safety and Health Forum every year with the aim of raising the level of safety awareness and safety activities among employees.
In 2023, the forum was held at JSR's Yokkaichi Plant, and three business sites selected from the Group in Japan gave presentations on best safety practices.

• ●Initiatives to eliminate occupational accidents in research departments (JSR Tsukuba)
• ●Use of ICT cameras to eradicate unsafe behavior (JSR Yokkaichi)
• ●Risk reduction activities at TUM Ube Plant (TUM Ube)