Environment, Health and Safety Management

Communication with Stakeholders
We believe that promoting communication with all our various
stakeholders will lead to growth of the TEL.

Stance on Environmental Communication

EHS Seminars in Taiwan

TEL is working to reduce the environmental impact arising fromIn 2002 we repeated the TEL EHS Seminar in Hsinchu for ourbusiness activities, and is actively working on health and safety is-

Taiwanese customers after the first offering the previous year. Manysues. To promote these activities as effectively as possible, it is es-customers participated, and personnel from various TEL businesssential that everyone involved in the companies’ activities dissemin-units made presentations on the TEL stances on the environment,

ate and share the appropriate information to the greatest extent pos-health and safety, on the results of LCA of our products, energy con-sible and work toward better communication. TEL has been publish-

servation examples, the uses of our products, and points to consider

ing environmental reports since the year 2000, and these reports as

when using them. At the end of the seminar there was an active

well as other information about TEL’s approaches to the environ-question-and-answer period about the safety of tools and TEL’s

ment, health and safety are available on our Web site.

initiatives.

URL

http://www.tel.com

In the future we plan to continue holding this seminar, and toprovide information such as theenvironmental and safety aspectsof our products.

EHS seminar in Taiwan
Environmental Report 2000 Environmental Report 2001 Environmental Report 2002

Publishing the EHS Times and Using the Intranet

Activities in the Industry

TEL publishes the EHS Times as an in-house magazine on EHS.

TEL is a member of the Semiconductor Equipment Association

In it, we introduce in understandable terms a variety of informationof Japan (SEAJ) and is actively communicating with the industry

relating to EHS, such as the discussions of each committee, and ini-

about environmental activities. Specifically, we participate in the en-tiatives in each Group company and region. Such EHS-related news-

vironmental committee of SEAJ, and have cooperated in the creation

letters are being made by each company and in each region, andof Ecodesign Guidelines and Green Procurement Guidelines. In Eco-play an important role in spreading awareness about EHS issues.

design Guidelines we helped formulate guidelines relating to LCA

Also each company and region is actively using the intranet to post

methods for semiconductor manufacturing equipment as well as en-and exchange information. In particular, the departments in charge ofergy conservation, hazardous substances, and reduce/reuse/recycle

EHS in overseas offices are working to share information by introduc-initiatives for this equipment. In the Green Procurement Guidelines,

ing the particular laws of each country and examples of local cus-

we summarized methods to tackle environmental issues in cooper-toms.

ation with suppliers. In formulating these guidelines, we were able touse the foundations built by our own experiences in LCA and green
purchasing in TEL over the past
few years.

The intranet

EHS Times

Presentation at the Forum on
Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology

TOKYO ELECTRON Environmental Sustainability Report 2003

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