Environmental Education
Environmental Education that Leads to Employee Awareness and Action
Be it through educational or on-the-job opportunities, the Daikin Group promotes employee awareness of how our business affects the environment to encourage employees to take positive action for its preservation.
In Japan, we hold e-learning on the intranet once a year in order to enhance employees' understanding about the environmental issues most important to Daikin. We have an in-house environmental newsletter that introduces actions that each company division are taking. The intranet and Daikin newsletter also provide the useful tips to reduce the environmental impact at home such as how to save electricity and water usage.
Employees Take Eco-Action for World Environment Day
To coincide with World Environment Day on June 5, since fiscal 2008, Daikin has had a range of environmental activities at the company and employees' homes.
In fiscal 2010, 10,775 employees, or about 98% of all employees, took part. Daikin managed to reduce CO2 emissions by 3.8 tons through activities including eco-driving (driving at a constant speed, stepping lightly on the accelerator pedal), setting air conditioning 1 degree higher than usual, using less paper, and leaving the company at the end of the official working day and turning off all lights and air conditioning.
PR and educational tools to raise employees' environmental awareness
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| In-house environmental newsletter |
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| E-learning textbook |
FY2010 Environmental Education (All Daikin Group Companies in Japan)
The Daikin Group in Japan conducted the following company-wide education. Individual company divisions also conducted their own educational activities.
| Name of activity |
Personnel involved |
No. of times held |
| Environmental e-learning |
All employees |
Once |
With the goal of raising environmental awareness and knowledge, participants learn about a wide range of environmental issues, especially those directly related to Daikin's business, such as global warming and ozone layer depletion, as well as new environmental topics each year that are relevant and current.
In fiscal 2010, besides chemical substances, we continued the study of biodiversity (begun in fiscal 2009) to understand how it relates to Daikin, since in 2010 COP10 (Tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity) was held in Nagoya. |
| Environmental managers education |
Environmental managers |
Twice |
In fiscal 2010, we started lectures for newly appointed environmental managers. Through lectures and workshops, participants deepened their understanding of the workings and rules of the company-wide EMS, environment-related legal systems, and the roles and authority of the managers in Daikin's environmental system.
Experienced environmental managers underwent training to re-aquaint themselves with the issue of roles and authority, and also held discussions on improving leadership abilities. |
Briefings on legal matters
① Education on waste management law
② Education on fluorocarbons recovery and destruction law |
Managers and other heads of relevant work areas |
Held at four sites (Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, Tokyo) |
① Participants learn the main points of managing waste so that they can raise their competence in dealing with waste management law (making contracts with subcontractors for waste disposal, creating waste manifests).
② Participants learn the main points of fluorocarbons recovery and destruction so that they can raise their competence in dealing with flurocarbons recovery and destruction law (creating a log that tracks the fluorocarbon). |
