Environmental Report

EHS Management
TEL Group has gone global with its EHS activities.

TEL’s EHS

EHS Management System

Based on the recognition that TEL’s business activities affect theEach of the manufacturing plants have formulated environmental

environment, we have been conducting environmental management

management systems and obtained certification based on ISO14001.

and obtaining the certification based on ISO14001 at each plant

Yokohama office of Tokyo Electron Device Ltd. and Miyagi plant ofsince 1997. We also recognize that the need for every person

Tokyo Electron AT Ltd. are to be awarded certification in 2004. Weinvolved in our business to continuously lead safe, healthy and satisfying

are also forming a Occupational Safety and Health Management System

lives is as vital as our attention to environmental issues. In order tobased on OHSAS18001 and the guidelines of the Japan Ministry ofclarify our position, we formulated the TEL Credo and Principles on

Health, Labor and Welfare as a part of EHS management.

Environmental Preservation and the TEL Credo and Principles on
Health and Safety in 1998. We have also clearly articulated ourpositions on the environment, health and safety in our management

ISO14001-qualified plants andthe plants to be awarded certification

philosophy and promoted implementation of our EHS (Environment,Company namePlant andoffice name

(Scheduled)
Certification dateTokyo Electron AT Ltd.
Tokyo Electron FE Ltd.

Sagami plant

December 10,
1997

1110-1997-AE-KOB-RvA

Tohoku plantFebruary 19,
1998

1118-1998-AE-KOB-RvA

May 15,
19981124-1998-AE-KOB-RvA Rev.1

Health and Safety) system throughout TEL group companies.

EHS Promotion Structure
EHS-related activities are supported by the three pillars of:Tokyo Electron AT Ltd.

“Product EHS,” “Customer-site EHS,” and “Factory and Office EHS.”
TEL’s EHS Promotion System

Product EHS
ExecutiveCommittee

Product EHS
TechnicalCommittee

Global EHS Committee

Tokyo Electron Kyushu Ltd.

Sales/Marketing/
Product EHS
Committee

Yamanashi plant(Fujii/Hosaka area)
Miyagi plant

To be awardedin December 2004

Saga plant

March 12,1998

1119-1998-AE-KOB-RvA

Kumamoto/Koshi plant

March 26,
1998

1120-1998-AE-KOB-RvA

Ozu plant

August 27,
1999

1414-1999-AE-KOB-RvA

Product EHS(EHS activities forequipment used inproduction in TEL)Tokyo Electro Device Ltd.

Certification
numberYokohama office

To be awardedin July 2004

EHS Activities Monitoring System
In order to strengthen our EHS Management System, TEL is striving
to raise the monitoring standards. The monitoring of this system and its

Customer-site
EHS Committee

accomplishments are executed in parallel by the plants, within the TEL

Customer-site EHS(EHS activities
at customers’ locationsgroup companies and by third parties. The most actively promoted of)these at present, is the TEL Internal Assessment, which is an interchange of EHS evaluations conducted by EHS representatives from eachplant. It started in FY 2003. In FY 2004, it was performed at two plants.
In FY 2005, we are bringing theTEL Safety andHealth Committee

standard higher by adding Environmental Performance and Legal

Factory and Office EHS
TEL EHS
Committee(EHS activities
in each region

Compliance and product EHS to)the current Occupational Healthand Safety and Work Safety as
new items.

TOKYO ELECTRON

10Environmental Sustainability
Report 2004

On-site inspection