Social Responsibility&
Environmental Report

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Introduction〇 Introduction・・・・・・・・・・・・・1

This report introduces the approach taken anddetails of initiatives addressing sustainability by the
SOSHIN ELECTRIC Group in an aim to spreadawareness of the Group’s activities among all of its
stakeholders.
This report provides an insight into our track recordin addressing the key elements of these activities,
namely “SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ” and“ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION”, throughdetailed case examples of initiatives implemented
and quantitative data disclosure.

〇 SDGs(Sustainable Development Goals)・・・2〇 Social Responsibility Report
Respect for Humanity ・・・・・・・・4
Ensuring a Comfortable Workplace
Environment, Human Resource
Development, CSR Initiatives・・・・・5
Cooperation with Local Communities
and Social Action Programs ・・・・・6
Ensuring a Comfortable Workplace
Environment ・・・・・・・・・・・・9〇 Environmental Report
Environmental Management System・ 10
Approach to Energy Saving ・・・・・11〇 Data Collection
Environmental Data・・・・・・・・・13
Social Data ・・・・・・・・・・・・15□ Period Covered
Activity results: FY2022
Data collection: FY2018 - FY2022* Results for FY2022 collected from April to
December 2022 due to changes in the fiscal
year.

□ Coverage
SOSHIN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
SOSHIN DEVICE CO., LTD.
SOSHIN POWERTECH CO., LTD.
RISSIN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
SOSHIN ELECTRONICS (M) SDN. BHD

Issued in October 2023

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SDGs
Approach to SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
We consider it as one of our important social responsibilities to contribute to the extensive solutions ofsocial problems through our business activities on our indexes of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
adopted by the United Nations.
We take actions to our possible goals by materializing our offered values.

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SDGs
Approach to SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
We consider it as one of our important social responsibilities to contribute to the extensive solutions ofsocial problems through our business activities on our indexes of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
adopted by the United Nations.
We take actions to our possible goals by materializing our offered values.

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Respect for Humanity◆Respect for human rights

We remain a company that respects individual characteristics, including a person’s race,
nationality, gender, beliefs, personality, or disability, fostering a workplace where each and every
employee can work cheerfully and lively, and have equal access to education and training toprovide a real sense of growth.

◆Improvement of compliance

We work to promote compliance with rules and eliminate workplace discrimination, harassment,
and other acts that infringe upon human rights through compliance training provided by legal
advisors and internal reporting.
We also provide information security training, trade management training, competition law
training and other training courses with a view to strengthening compliance.

◆Basic employment policy

The SOSHIN ELECTRIC Group actively engages in new graduate and mid-career hire
recruitment activities based on human resources plans that account for mid-to-long termbusiness development.
We appropriately assign the right people with necessary ability and experience to the right job,
including promoting the recruitment of foreign nationals, and promote activities with anawareness of employees’ job satisfaction and ease of work.

◆Enhancement of healthy mental state

The SOSHIN ELECTRIC Group has arranged study sessions for acquisition of knowledge about
mental disturbance, self-care and line care through consolidated services by industrial
physicians, consultant physicians and health nurses to ensure employees’ mental health.
In addition, training of managers, control of overtime work and strict observance of the previously
established no-overtime day program have been implemented against excessively long-time
work.

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Social Responsibility Report
Ensuring a Comfortable Workplace Environment, Human Resource
Development, CSR Initiatives◆Realization of work-life balance

The SOSHIN ELECTRIC Group has extended its reduced working hour program for parents ofyoung children until the second year of primary schools (previously, this program applied until thefirst year of primary school) in order to help parents achieve a balance between work andchildcare.
In addition, eligibility for the refreshment leave program for bettering employee physical andmental health was extended to start from employees 25 years of age and up (previously, 35
years of age and up).
Also, steps have been taken to allow for greater flexibility in working styles since FY2021, with
the introduction of an hourly paid leave system being one example of such.

◆ Creating an environment conducive to improving conversational English

The SOSHIN ELECTRIC Group allows anyone interested to take online English conversation
lessons. We have established an “English conversation box” to facilitate employees learning
conversational English.
In addition to conversational English, we have also worked to establish a diverse range ofcorrespondence courses in the aim of becoming a company that provides a real sense of growth
and achievement to employees.

◆ CSR activities in the supply chain

CSR required of suppliers by the SOSHIN ELECTRIC Group: Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) activities include controlled substance management and green procurement.
In order to achieve decarbonization across our supply chain in the future, we will track CO2
emissions related to products and services purchased from suppliers, and in transporting andshipping, and take steps to reduce CO2 emissions.

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Cooperation with Local Communities and Examples of Social Action
Programs

Photo taken December 2022
SOSHIN POWERTECH CO., LTD.

Photo taken November 2022
SOSHIN DEVICE CO., LTD.

◆Beautification campaign around factory
We conducted trash pick-ups around SOSHIN
DEVICE and RISSIN ELECTRONICS factories.

◆ Christmas gifts for local child carefacilities
SOSHIN POWERTECH and SOSHIN DEVICE
gave Christmas gifts to local child care facilities.

Photo taken November 2022
Asama Plant

Photo taken May 2022
Chikuma Plant◆ Support for the Nagano-ken Labour
Bank’s food drive program◆ Environmental Beautification
Campaign (Adopt System )We assist with food drives run by the Labour
Bank at our Asama Plant and Chikuma Plant.

We planted flowers donated by Nagano
Prefecture in planters at Chikuma Plant andput them on sidewalks near the factory.

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Cooperation with Local Communities and Examples of Social Action
Programs

Photo taken May 2022
Head Oﬃce◆ Donation of emergency food supplies
When replacing our emergency food stocks at
our Head Office, we donated surplus foodsupplies to Second Harvest Japan (food bank).

Photo taken May and November 2022
SOSHIN POWERTCH CO., LTD.

◆Greeting campaign
We participated in a greeting campaign heldby the urban development committee in the
Yamanokuchi district of Miyakonojo City.

Photo taken November 2022
Asama Plant

Photo taken September 2022
Head Oﬃce◆Cooperation to blood donations
We participated in blood donations at our
Head Office, Asama Plant, and Chikuma
Plant.

◆ Internship program with local highschools
Students from Sakudaira General TechnicalHigh School got first-hand experience into
making noise filters at the Asama Plant.

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Social Responsibility Report
Cooperation with Local Communities and Examples of Social Action
Programs

Photo taken October 2022

◆ Environmental fair in Saku
We held solar car building workshops forchildren under our affiliate, Saku Saku
Himawari (LLP).

Photo credit: Picchio◆ Donations to the NPO Picchio
We donate to Picchio, which is involved inwild flora and fauna preservation activities.
https://npo.picchio.jp/
Eco-caps for vaccines(No. of vaccines）◆ Eco-cap campaign
The used plastic bottle caps we collect are soldas recycling materials by recycling companies,
and part of the profits are donated to JCV (Japan
Committee, Vaccines for the World’s Children) .
In FY2022, we collected enough caps for 13
vaccines.

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Social Responsibility Report
Examples of a Comfortable Workplace Environment (Health and Safety)

Safety patrols (Asama Plant)

Disaster prevention training(Chikuma Plant)◆Health and safety

We ensure the health and safety of employees and provide a comfortable workplaceenvironment, while actively pursing health and safety activities in an aim to achieve zero
occupational accidents.
Major activities include prevention of serious incidents through risk assessments, extraction andcorrection of risk factors through employee surveys on safety, as well as enhancement of fire
prevention activities.
Fire prevention activities currently promoted include receiving fire risk diagnoses from externalorganizations for the purpose of “preventing fires”, the results of which were reflected in our fire
prevention activities and fire prevention management rules. We are also promoting the
introduction of highly sensitive smoke detective systems.

ISO45001:2018 certificate◆Acquisition of ISO45001 Certification in all the domestic sites

The SOSHIN ELECTRIC Group obtained “ISO45001:2018” Certification at all domestic sites in
FY2022.
We will look to leverage our management system to prevent serious accidents and implement
health and safety activities to live up to our customers’ expectations and trust.
We plan to receive certification for our overseas group companies in FY2023.

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Environmental Report
Environmental Management System◆ Environmental policy

1． Compliance with legislation, pacts, agreements with customers and voluntary standards
2． Identification of environmental objectives and organized continuous promotion of activities
with local communities to reduce environmental loads
3． Development, design, production and marketing of environmentally-friendly products
4． Implementation of preventive measures and monitoring of environmental pollution
5． Continuous encouragement of education, training and enlightenment activities to raiseawareness of the roles and responsibilities of employees, as well as all other people
involved in our business activities◆System of promoting environmental preservation activities

Decisions on policies and tactics of the SOSHIN ELECTRIC Group regarding environmental
preservation will be made by the “Environmental Committee” which the Director responsible forenvironmental matters chairs. The policies and tactics decided will be put in action across thecompany via factory managers, the location manager and the managers responsible forenvironmental matters for each site.
Activities for which the environmental organization is responsible include a monthly
environmental meeting, as well as the Environmental Committee held semi-annually. Thesemeetings are to track progress toward CO2 emission industrial waste discharge targets,exchange information on the environment, and continue the promotion of the environment
preservation activities.

◆Qualiﬁcation for ISO14001 and environmental audits

The SOSHIN ELECTRIC Group has acquired the authentification of International Standards of
ISO14001 (2015 version).
The effectiveness and suitability of the management system is verified by external inspections byaccreditation bodies, environmental surveys by the environmental control department, andinternal environmental audits by the execution department (internal environmental auditors: 262).
Applicability of ISO14001: 2015 qualiﬁcation【【環境保全組織】
Environmental Organization】
Top
Management
トップマネジメント

Environmental
環境委員会
committee

Environmentalorganization (Site)
環境組織（サイト）
Manager,environmental
aﬀairs
環境管理責任者（統括）(general)Head Oﬃce 本社
Asama Plant
浅間工場
Japan
国内

Environmental
事務局
secretariatoﬃce

Chikuma Plant
千曲工場
RISSIN ELECTRONICS
立信電子㈱ CO.,LTD.
SOSHINPOWERTECH CO., LTD.
双信パワーテック㈱SOSHIN DEVICE
CO., LTD.
双信デバイス㈱Overseas SOSHIN ELECTRONICS(M) SDN.BHD

海外

双信エレクトロニクスマレーシア* Organizational charts within each site are omitted.

◆ State of activities addressing environmental targets for FY2022
Plan

Achievements

CO2 emissions [t-CO2]

6,365

5,877

Reduced due to lower production volumes

The amount ofdischarged waste [t]

210

262

Increased due to the disposal of plant
equipment

Complaints

00

No complaints from local community

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Comments

Environmental Report
Approach to Energy Saving◆Approach to the introduction ofrenewable energy◆Introduction of highly efficient air
conditioners

We have implemented a solar power systemat the Asama Plant, and will review further
solar power installations at other sites in the
future.

We completed the installation of highefficiency air conditioning systems at four
domestic manufacturing sites by FY2022.

◆ Conversion of all lighting at domestic
manufacturing sites to LED
We converted the lighting system at four
domestic manufacturing sites to LED by
FY2022.

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Data Collection

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Environmental Data
Domestic and Overseas Group Total
Category

Greenhouse gases(GHG)(t-CO2)

Fiscal 2018 Fiscal 2019 Fiscal 2020 Fiscal 2021 Fiscal 2022

Scope 1, 2 total

7,325

7,343

7,689

8,236

6,681

Scope 1

383

447

482

631

547

Scope 2

6,942

6,896

7,207

7,605

6,134

Results for FY2022 collected from April to December 2022 due to changes in the fiscal year.
Scope 1: Direct emission of greenhouse gases by the business operator itself (fuel combustion,industrial processes, use of A-type heavy oil, fuel oil, gases, gasoline, non-CO2 greenhousegases by the Company)
Scope 2: Indirect emissions associated with the use of electricity, heat and steam provided by a third
party (electricity purchased by the Company)
Scope 3: Other indirect emissions not falling under Scope 1 or 2 (emissions by other companies related
to the activities of the business operator)* Progress is being made on calculating Scope 3 estimates, which shall be disclosed in the following
fiscal year13

Domestic Group Total
Category

Unit

Purchased power

Fiscal 2018

Fiscal 2019

Fiscal 2020

Fiscal 2021

Fiscal 2022

Kwh

15,557,971

15,047,367

15,627,893

16,675,699

12,998,468

Kwh

155,800

150,209

149,865

145,323

113,608

Kwh

-

-

-

-

942,125

A-type heavy oil

L47,20049,65053,95048,90012,200KeroseneL

23,843

22,467

24,21623,6558,323

Gas (LPG)

kg

36,93743,38453,99274,54577,737GasolineL

18,40912,474

10,722

9,515

8,961

Water consumption㎡

17,517

13,52919,463

19,833

18,623

Total emissions

t

258

268

221

256

262

Basic unit divided
by sales amountt/100 million
yen

3

4

3

3

3

Amount of substances subject to the Pollutant
Release and Transfer Register handled

t

10

8

11

13

11

Non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions (CO2conversion) PFC

t-CO2

150

75

75

184

259

Unit

Fiscal 2018

Fiscal 2019

Fiscal 2020

Fiscal 2021

Fiscal 2022

Solar
power
Renewable
generationenergyGreenenergyEnergy consumption

Water resources

WastesOverseas Group Total
Category
Purchased power

Kwh

970,364

1,041,701

1,164,300

1,088,110

988,960

Kwh

-

-

-

-

-

Kwh

-

-

-

-

-

A-type heavy oil

L

-

-

-

-

-

Kerosene

L

-

-

-

-

-

Gas (LPG)

kg

294

896

980

868

714

Gasoline

L

8,423

8,965

5,100

3,552

4,139

Water consumption

㎡

5,047

4,964

6,109

5,298

5,262

Total emissions

t

69

59

67

83

80

Basic unit divided
by sales amountt/100 million
yen

6

7

6

7

5

Solar power
Renewable generationenergyGreenenergyEnergy consumption

Water resources

Wastes14

Social Data

All data is accurate as of March 31, unless otherwise noted.
*1 Data as of April 1*2 Calculated for regular employees*3 Contract employees, reinstated employees, part-time employees

Scope：Domestic Group

Items
Items

Unit

No. of employees
Male

Persons

FemaleRatio of female employees of total%

No. of persons in management
positions
Male

Persons

Fiscal 2018 Fiscal 2019 Fiscal 2020 Fiscal 2021 Fiscal 2022
670

657

630

626

640

481

470

452

450

466

189

187

178

176

174

28.2

28.5

28.3

28.1

27.2

113

111

108

110

111

110

108

106

107

108

3

3

2

3

3

2.7

2.7

1.9

2.7

2.7

1.6

1.6

1.1

1.7

1.7

FemaleRatio of female managers of total
Ratio of female managers to total
female employees%

No. of foreign employees

Persons

3

3

2

3

3

No. of directly employed non-regular
employees *3

Persons

15

16

17

21

20

No. of dispatch employees

Persons

80

92

113

150

107

41.9

42.6

42.5

43.5

43.8

39.5

40.2

39.6

41.2

41.4

Female

44.4

45

45.4

45.7

46.2

No. of continued years of service

15.7

16.6

16.9

17.3

17.2

15.0

15.8

15.9

16.1

15.7

16.4

17.4

17.9

18.4

18.6

Average age
Male

Male
FemaleYears of
age

Years

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All data is accurate as of March 31, unless otherwise noted.
*1 Data as of April 1*2 Calculated for regular employees*3 Contract employees, reinstated employees, part-time employees
Items Items

Unit

Fiscal 2018 Fiscal 2019 Fiscal 2020 Fiscal 2021 Fiscal 2022

No. of new graduate hires *1
Male

15

13

11

19

13

13

10

8

14

9

2

3

3

5

4

13.3

23.1

27.3

26.3

30.8

4

7

5

38

27

3

6

4

33

19

1

1

1

5

8

Persons

FemaleRatio of female hires%

No. of mid-career hires
Male

Persons

FemaleRatio of mid-career hires to the total
number of hires

%

21.1

35

31.3

66.7

67.5

Turnover *2

%

3.4

3.3

3.7

3.7

4.1

-

71.4

75

77.7

50

100

100

100

100

100

Ratio of child careleave/special annual
leave (child birth by
spouse) taken

Male%
FemaleRatio of employees returning to work
after child care leave (female)

%

100

100

100

100

100

Injury or illness rate

-

0.8

0.3

1.9

1.8

1.3

Frequency of occupational accidents

-

0.53

1.14

0

0

0.68

No. of
cases

0

0

0

0

0

Stress check take-up rate

%

100

100

100

100

100

Ratio of employees with a disability

%

2.92

2.97

3.03

3.14

3.13

No. of fatal accidents

16Inquiries
ESG Promotion Office664-1 Sarukubo, Saku City, Nagano 385-0011
Tel. +81-267-4511
Please send any opinions or feedback to this report.
Email:environment@soshin.co.jp

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