Environment, Health and Safety Management

Environmental Communication
We believe that efforts to spread the word about our Credo and Principles on Environmental Preservationand the status of our environmental initiatives will add further impetus to environmental activities.

Stance on Environmental Communication,
Publishing of Environmental Reports

Product and Environment Seminar for International SEMATECHInternational SEMATECH is an industry association of device

TEL is actively working to promote health and safety and mini-manufacturers that have business activities in the United States,

mize the environmental impacts arising from its business activities. InEurope, Korea and Taiwan. It conducts many activities in the area oforder to further boost the effectiveness of future activities, it is es-environment, health and safety, and has considerable influence on

sential that everyone involved in the companies' activities dissemin-manufacturers. TEL has introduced the life-cycle assessment (LCA)

ate and share information to the greatest extent possible and work

approach in its operations, analyzed the environmental dimensions of

toward better communication. At TEL, we have been striving to pro-products, and is linking this knowledge to environmental strategies.

vide information by publishing environmental reports since the year

We presented a well-received seminar on products and environ-2000.

mental strategies in August 2001 for International SEMATECH,
and plan to offer the association a seminar on the LCA approach in2003.

EHS Seminars in Taiwan
In November 2001, we offered the 2001 TEL Seminar on Environment, Health and Safety in Hsin-Chu for our Taiwanese customers,
Environmental Report 2000

Environmental Report 2001

in particular for the personnel in charge of EHS issues. TEL makeshealth and safety a top priority, not only for our own employees, but

Information by Internet

also for our customers.

Anyone can access our environmental reports via TEL website. We
also plan to release up-to-date information via the Internet about environmental accounting.

In-House Community News Magazine andPublication of the EHS Times
In order to promote higher awareness and more action on EHS
issues, we carried a series of articles, entitled "Welcome to EHS," in

http://www.tel.co.jp/index_e.html

SEMI Akira Inoue EHS Award

our in-house community news magazine. In the articles, staff of theTEL Environment, Health and Safety Center covered key topics, such

Every year in December, Semiconductor Equipment and Materi-as environmental preservation activities and environmental reporting,als International (SEMI), a global industry association, awards The

safety education, and the importance of reporting accidents. In addi-Akira Inoue Award for outstanding achievement in environmental,

tion, the Center prints the EHS Times every two months. Besides in-health and safety in the semiconductor industry. It goes to the person

troducing the discussions of the EHS Committee in understandable

or team in the semiconductor industry that has made the greatest

terms, the publication also runs a column carrying exchanges ofcontribution worldwide to the advancement of environment, healthopinion on EHS topics.

and safety during the year. This award was created to commemorate
the late president of TEL, Akira Inoue, who worked actively to promote environmental, health- and safety-related activities throughout
the industry. The first award was presented in 2000 to Pasquale Pistorio, the President and Chief Executive Officer of STMicroelectronics,
a joint Italian-French semiconductor manufacturer. He worked tirelessly for years to convince corporate management to improve EHS
principles and practices around the world. In 2001, Craig R. Barrett,President and Chief Executive Officer of Intel Corporation, received
the award.

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Environmental series
in the in-house community
news magazine
AEOLUSEHS Times