Environment, Health and Safety Management

Environmental Education
Representatives from office facilities in each region of Japan are working together to issue
an environmental education textbook.
At each manufacturing plant, we are conducting special programs for personnel
whose work involves important environmental aspect.

Stance on Environmental Education

Environmental Education at Manufacturing Plants

At TEL, we believe that if all personnel share a similar knowl-

At manufacturing plants, we consider various scenarios in orderedge about the environment, and if we can raise that environmental

to prevent accidents that might pose major environmental threats,awareness, each person can promote more effective activities in hisand we implement programs through environmental education andor her own work in order to reduce environmental impacts. We in-training to ensure that accidents do not occur. When new employees

clude environmental education as a key topic in our training program

or workers join the company, we provide education so that they canfor new employees, and we also have special programs for directors,

help achieve the local environmental objectives and targets. We also

management personnel, and internal auditors.

make it mandatory for certain workers (those whose work involves
important environmental dimensions) to have education, training andEnvironmental Education at Office Facilities

legally recognized certification for each registered facility or process.

During fiscal 2001 we started a common environmental educa-In addition, when building new facilities or undergoing renovations,tion program targeting all personnel at six office facilities, including

and when starting to use newsales, administrative employees, field engineers, part-time cafeteria

chemical substances, we holdemployees, and temporary cleaning employees. The trainers weremeetings to explain MSDS in-

mostly personnel from the regional EHS committees. Teaching mate-formation and the use of pro-rials consisted of original texts developed by a working group madetective equipment. We also

up of representatives from each region. During fiscal 2001, about

conduct routine emergency-re-

2,500 employees participated in the program.

sponse trainings.

Training in the use of silane gas(a flammable gas used in
the manufacture of semiconductors)

T O P I C S

Number of Certified Environmental Education
Trainers and Training Frequency at Office Facilities
Location

Number of trainers

Frequency

Fuchu

4724

Akasaka

2421Osaka

613

Yokohama

45

Sapporo39Narita

15Total8577

Green Purchasing
We are promoting green purchasing with our
Green Procurement Guidelines, which were createdin January 2001 and distributed to suppliers. We define "green products" as products with designs thattake into account the issues of resource conservationand natural resource protection, environment, healthand safety, and energy conservation. Supplies andoffice materials for TEL are purchased through Tokyo
Electron Logistics Ltd., making it possible to determine accurately the total amount of supplies and materials purchased. In fiscal 2001, 22% of all our purchases were green products. All copy paper, business cards, company brochures and catalogs are
made of recycled paper, and this environmental report, too, is made using 100% recycled paper.

Green Purchasing by TEL
Green products:
21.88 million yen (22%)
Certificate for completion of theenvironmental education trainer's program
Environmental education lecture

General products:
79.52 million yen (78%)

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