Sustainability

Basic philosophy and framework for promotion
Since our establishment, we have sought to fulfill our responsibil-

understand the need for rigorous corporate governance inity to society through our business activities, acknowledging theincreasing the trust of society and fully leveraging our competi-

importance of sustainability for ourselves and for society. In light oftive edge. Further, recognizing that protecting the environment isdramatic socioenvironmental changes and the increasingly serious

essential to our ability to provide services that deliver safety andnature of issues such as crimes and accidents, cyber crimes, illness

peace of mind and make life more comfortable and convenient,and aging, and natural disasters, the entire SECOM Group is work-

we incorporate consideration for the environment into all aspects

ing as one to create the ANSHIN Platform, a service infrastructureof our operations.

designed to provide services that deliver peace of mind to people
in their everyday lives, as well as to society as a whole.

Our day-to-day business activities are structured to both facilitate sustainable growth, as well as to resolve ESG-related issues.

The key to our efforts to further enhance corporate value is

We believe that increasing corporate value by expanding our busi-

having human resources who are committed to providing satis-

ness activities directly improves our ability to address ESG-related

faction that exceeds customers’ expectations. The evolution ofissues, which in turn enables us to contribute to the achievementsocial imperatives continues to underscore the importance ofof the SDGs. We thus continue to place a priority on maintaining

securing and fostering talented human resources who have thea strong relationship and encouraging dialogue with our various

ability to adapt to change and create value and who seek tostakeholders as we advance sustainability. To further strengthen

contribute to society. By ensuring that SECOM’s Philosophy

sustainability initiatives, in October 2019 we established thepermeates our operations and encouraging adherence to theSustainability Promotion Office, which functions as a Groupwide

SECOM Group Code of Employee Conduct, we have built abody, collecting and sharing information from relevant depart-diverse team of people who thrive in a free and open corporate

ments while working to reinforce efforts to address ESG-related

culture, which we recognize as our greatest asset. We also

issues and enhance related disclosure.

Support for the UNGCIn May 2018, we became a signatory to the United Nations
Global Compact (UNGC) and pledged our support for the Ten
Principles of the UNGC, which are classified into the four
categories of ”Human rights,” “Labour,” “Environment”
and “Anti-corruption.”

Earning selection for inclusion in ESG investment indices
Our efforts to address ESG-related issues continue to earn highkey global ESG investment indices. These include all four indicesmarks from third-party assessment organizations around the world.

for Japanese equities used by Japan’s GPIF*.

Of note, we have been selected as a constituent of a number of* The four indexes used by the GPIF are the FTSE Blossom Japan Index, the MSCIJapan ESG Select Leaders Index, the MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index(WIN) and the S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index.

THE INCLUSION OF SECOM CO., LTD., IN ANY MSCI INDEX, AND THE USE OF MSCI LOGOS, TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS OR INDEX NAMES HEREIN, DONOT CONSTITUTE A SPONSORSHIP, ENDORSEMENT OR PROMOTION OF SECOM CO., LTD., BY MSCI OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES. THE MSCI INDEXES ARE THEEXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF MSCI. MSCI AND THE MSCI INDEX NAMES AND LOGOS ARE TRADEMARKS OR SERVICE MARKS OF MSCI OR ITS AFFILIATES.

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