Social Activity Goals and Results

Goal achieved or steadily progressing:    Goal not achieved:

Items

Boundary

Fiscal 2022 Goals

Fiscal 2022 Results

Evaluation

Fiscal 2023 Goals

Procurement

Sumitomo Chemical Thoroughly ensure
Groupcompliance, maintainand enhance sustainableprocurement, andpromote initiatives forrespecting human rights
in the supply chain

Promoted thorough compliance among
relevant internal and external parties,
promoted initiatives for respecting humanrights by studying high-risk raw materials,
strengthened sustainable procurement
by revising the Supplier Code of Conduct,
promoted sustainable procurement bystrengthening collaboration with business
partners through monitoring, feedback, andtrade briefings, and promoted initiatives forrespecting human rights through detailed
surveys using human rights questionnaires(Sumitomo Chemical results)

Thoroughly ensurecompliance, maintainand enhance sustainableprocurement, andpromote initiatives forrespecting human rights
in the supply chain

HR Management

Sumitomo Chemical Employ humanGroup
resources and greatly
strengthen recruitment
capabilities

Secured personnel by promoting
recruitment practices aligned with various specialized fields and recruitment
categories

Employ diverse humanresources and further
strengthen recruitment capabilities

Sumitomo Chemical Manage global humanGroupresources and work on
workforce managementthat is responsive tobusiness expansion

Revamped personnel database,appropriately placed personnel in response
to business expansion, and systematicallyconducted global human resources
development

Manage global
human resources andwork on workforce
management that isresponsive to businessexpansion

Sumitomo Chemical Develop personnel andGrouprun HR systems to promote employee growthand development

Formulated action plans based on
Sumika “Let’s Do This Declaration”

Develop personneland run HR systems
to promote employee
growth anddevelopment

Sumitomo Chemical Promote sustainability,
Group
DE&I, and work-lifebalance

Promoted measures at each Group company
based on the Group’s Basic Principles on thePromotion of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusionand executed action plans based on theSumika “Let’s Do This Declaration”

Promote sustainability,
DE&I, and work-lifebalanceOccupational Lost-workday
Safety andinjuries
Health /Frequency rate
Industrialof lost-workday
Safety andinjuries
Disaster

Sumitomo Chemical020

Partner companies*1060

Sumitomo ChemicalGroup*2

Less than 0.1

0.50

Less than 0.1

Prevention

Sumitomo ChemicalGroup*2020

Severe industrial Sumitomo ChemicalGroup*5accidents*4000Logistics
Lost-workday
injuries in logistics*6000

Severeaccidents*3

Note: Further details are provided in the supplementary data (pages 1–10).
*1 A partner company injury is defined as one suffered within a Sumitomo Chemical worksite by an employee of a company affiliated with a subcontractor (includingconstruction and logistics companies) or other company (including spot construction-related companies and delivery companies not included in an association).
*2 For the purposes of occupational safety and health, the Group is defined as Sumitomo Chemical (including its partner companies and others) and consolidated subsidiaries
in Japan and overseas.
*3 Severe accidents are defined as those that result in a fatality or those that result in severe lost-workday injuries, including blindness or loss of a limb.
*4 S evere industrial accidents are defined as industrial accidents resulting in any of the below conditions.
    • The local residents suffer injuries requiring at least regular hospital visits or treatment.
    • Employees at the facility suffer injuries that require at least one lost workday.
    • The damage to the facilities totals more than 10 million yen.
*5 For the purposes of industrial safety and disaster prevention, the Group is defined as Sumitomo Chemical (including its partner companies and others) and consolidated
Group companies in Japan and overseas.
*6 Lost-workday injuries in logistics are defined as those that are related to logistics and occur within Sumitomo Chemical worksites as well as those that caused by majorlogistics subcontractors outside of worksites.

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Goal achieved or steadily progressing:    Goal not achieved:

Items
ProductLaws andStewardship / regulations
ProductSafety /Quality
Chemicals
Assurance
management

Boundary

Fiscal 2022 Results

Evaluation

Fiscal 2023 Goals

Sumitomo
ChemicalContinue to act precisely Acted precisely in accordancein accordance with
with relevant laws and regulations
domestic and overseas
laws and regulations

Continue to act preciselyin accordance withdomestic and overseas
laws and regulations

Sumitomo
ChemicalContinue to promoterisk-based chemicals
management andinformation disclosure

Systematically put in place risk
assessment methods

Continue to conductrisk-based chemicals
management andinformation disclosure

Sumitomo
ChemicalContinue to promoteutilization of theComprehensive Chemical
Management System(SuCCESS) and develop
concrete plans for
expansion to Group
companies

As part of our efforts to promoteutilization of SuCCESS, 15 Group
companies in Japan use thesystem. We use SuCCESS to calculate the manufactured volumes
reported to the government
under the chemical substances
control law via a substance volume
tracking (SVT) system as well as
to calculate exported volumes inresponse to overseas regulations

Continue to promoteutilization of SuCCESS
and develop concreteplans for expansion toGroup companies

Risk assessment Sumitomo
ChemicalContinue to steadfastly
perform product safety
risk assessments

Performed 56 product risk
assessments

Continue to steadfastly
perform product safety
risk assessments

Logistics
quality-relatedincidents

Sumitomo
Chemical*No Rank A or Rank B
incidents, two or fewer
Rank C incidents

No Rank A or Rank B incidents, noRank C incidents

No Rank A or Rank Bincidents, two or fewer
Rank C incidents

Sumitomo
Chemical Group

Provide support toachieve the United
Nations Sustainable
Development Goals• Provided support for tree-planting activities and education
through Matching Gift programs• Support for solving
Environmental issues in Africa

Provide support toachieve the United
Nations Sustainable
Development Goals

Sumitomo
Chemical Group

Provide prompt andprecise support inresponse to emergencies
and disasters in Japanand overseas

Assisting in relief for the Turkish
and Syrian earthquake

Provide prompt andprecise support inresponse to emergencies
and disasters in Japanand overseasSumitomo
Chemical Group

Promote social
contribution activities
distinctive to theSumitomo ChemicalGroup by leveraging
the strengths of each
workplace

Participated in and cooperated
with local events, held science
workshop classes, held plant
tours, etc.

Promote social
contribution activities
distinctive to theSumitomo ChemicalGroup by leveraging
the strengths of each
workplace

Sumitomo
Chemical Group

Continue to expand
information disclosureusing SDGs andpromote interactive
dialogueContinued to expand information disclosure using SDGs andpromote interactive dialogue

Continue to expand
information disclosureusing SDGs andpromote interactive
dialogueand information
disclosure
Chemicalmanagement
systemCommunities

Fiscal 2022 Goals

Note: Further details are provided in the supplementary data (page 11).
* Includes some Group companies in Japan that have Works within a Sumitomo Chemical worksite.

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