Toshiba Group Environmental Audits and Performance Evaluation System

Toshiba Group conducts three types of internal audits: (1) “environmental management audit” of key Group companies, (2) “environmental audit of sites,” specifically production sites and non-production sites with high electricity consumption, and (3) “environmental technology audit of products” of business divisions. These internal audits are aimed at evaluating the status of the environmental management structure, compliance, facility management, and other relevant areas within Toshiba Group, and having discussions to identify and improve issues. We link the audit areas and criteria of the environmental audit of sites and environmental technology audit of products with those of the environmental management audit, to closely verify the environmentally conscious aspects in our business activities, products and services. Further, production sites with relatively low environmental impacts are excluded from the environmental audits of sites but use the same audit criteria to conduct a self-audit (inspection) within each Group company.

To improve assessment quality, we review these audit areas every year in the environmental management audit. In FY2022, the evaluation focused on the activity results and plans of the audit item 7th Environmental Action Plan, and confirmed the status of the initiatives.

• Inconsistencies between the actual implementation of policies and the internal regulations
• Insufficient management of investment effects

• Active promotion of carbon neutrality actions within the company
• Promotion of environmental education according to each company's product groups and business characteristics

The objective of the environmental technology audit of products is to improve the environmental quality of products and increase their contribution to the environment. To this end, the audit checks compliance with relevant legal requirements and the ECP* standards set for each product (group) to secure environmental quality and the progress of ECP creation activities, which have the goal of creating products that contribute to reducing environmental impacts.

* Environmentally Conscious Products

The objective of the environmental audit of sites is to improve each site’s environmental control by checking its environmental management status, control status of each environmental issue type (water discharge, air pollution, noise, waste, chemicals, energy consumption, etc.) at representative facilities, and compliance system to obey applicable laws and regulations, agreements, and rules, among others.

Toshiba Group evaluates key Group companies’ environmental management levels every year. We select the progress of the Environmental Action Plan, initiatives for the achievement of carbon neutral, evaluation and awards from inside and outside the company for environmental activities as performance evaluation criteria and evaluate their levels from various perspectives. In FY2022, we will review these criteria in line with the Seventh Environmental Action Plan to evaluate 21 activity items in total. We submitted the evaluation results to the Performance Evaluation Committee and reflected the environmental management level assessment results in the performance evaluation results of each evaluated company.