Requests to Our Suppliers
The NIPRO Group engages in purchasing activities with consideration for human rights,
industrial safety, and the environment based on its Purchasing Policy.
Suppliers are requested to understand this policy and ensure the following.
1.

Ensuring safety and stable supply Please supply products and services whose safety and efficacy are fullyensured.

 If there are any changes in the specifications of products or services supplied
to the NIPRO Group, please fully examine the impacts on the products orservices and notify the NIPRO Group in advance.

 Please establish an appropriate maintenance system in ordinary
circumstances so that the supply system will not be threatened due to damage
to the factory or manufacturing machinery, equipment, etc.

 Please establish an appropriate business continuity plan (BCP) to alleviate
supply interruption risk.

 If a supply interruption occurs due to an unavoidable cause, please report it tothe NIPRO Group as soon as possible.
2.

Compliance Please comply with all of the applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances in all
relevant countries and regions.

 Please eliminate all relations with anti-social forces and any companies orgroups having close relations with anti-social forces.

 Please do not perform animal experiments if there is an alternative means,
and if such experiments must be performed, handle them in as humanemanner as possible, such as using the minimum number of animals andminimizing their pain and stress to the greatest extent possible.

 Please provide your employees with training and education so that they will
work under high ethical standards, and establish an organization system thatallows any problem in the workplace to be reported without fear of retaliation
or intimidation.
3.

Privacy protection

 Please do not acquire personal information of any stakeholder by illegalmeans, and strictly protect any acquired personal information and use it inaccordance with the appropriate processes as prescribed.

 Please establish appropriate security systems to protect personal information
against any unauthorized access.

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Promotion of just and fair trade The NIPRO Group will always choose suppliers based only on the results offair competition, and requests that its suppliers also conduct fair and sincere
business activities.

 Please eliminate any act of corruption to obtain inappropriate profit in relation
to medical professionals, government officials, or any other third parties. Actsof corruption include bribery, excessive business entertainment, illegal
kickbacks, and provision of benefits not based on the results of fair competition.
The NIPRO Group will not accept any gifts or business entertainment
considered inappropriate under normal social standards, regardless of whether
it is intended as an act of corruption.

 If requested by a NIPRO Group employee to perform an act that is problematicin terms of compliance, or if a suspicious act by a NIPRO Group employee isnoticed, please inform the NIPRO Group as soon as possible using its
communication form.
5.

Consideration of environmental conservation
 Please comply with the applicable environment-related laws, regulations, andordinances of all relevant countries and regions.

 Please cooperate in the acquisition of environment-related licenses, permits,
and approvals as requested by the NIPRO Group.

 Please establish systems for safely processing, storing, and reusing waste
products, exhaust gas, and wastewater, and ensuring appropriate control ofthem. Particularly for waste products, exhaust gas, and wastewater that may
adversely affect the human body or environment, please carefully examine suchpossibility before release, and process them under appropriate controls.

 Please obtain, and provide as necessary, accurate information on thechemical substances contained in your products supplied to us, to ensure
conformity to the regulations of relevant countries and regions.
6.

Human rights perspective

 Please do not use services that utilize forced or slave labor or humantrafficking, but use free-willed employees only.

 Please do not allow any child labor, and if employing workers younger than 18years old, confirm that they have reached the statutory employment ages in therelevant countries or regions and that they have completed statutory compulsory
education, and do not cause them to engage in dangerous work.

 Please provide your employees with appropriate wages, breaks, and leave
conforming to any applicable laws and regulations, and endeavor to promote
fair working practices.

 Please do not discriminate against your employees on the grounds of race,religion, belief, nationality, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, ordisability, and deal with each of them as an individual with dignity.

 Please provide your employees with work environments free from inhumane
treatment. Inhumane treatment includes sexual exploitation, physical andmental abuse, and any type of harassment.

 Please fully ensure the safety and health of your employees’ workplaces, andprotect them against all dangers by fully examining and controlling theprocesses where their safety and health may be threatened.

 Please respect your employees’ freedom of association, and ensure a system
for them or their representative to smoothly communicate with management
regarding working conditions.

 Please do not use materials containing conflict minerals such as tantalum, tin,tungsten, and gold, which may indirectly support human rights abuses.
7.

Supply chain management

 Please share these initiatives with your suppliers in an effort to build
sustainable supply chains.

 Please establish systems for accurately recording these initiatives, andkeeping and submitting upon request such records, to respond toinvestigations and confirmation by the NIPRO Group regarding such initiatives.

 Please set company goals and promote continuous improvement throughinternal and external progress evaluations, to further develop these initiatives.