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Third-Party Opinion
Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Our Efforts
I understand finalizing the business restructuring without exceptions was as I mentioned above, CSR due diligence from the perspective of human Here we report on the situation and efforts of the company (as of July 2011) concerning the earthquake off the coast painful. You also had to respond to the Great East Japan Earthquake that rights now encompasses the entire value chain. I would expect to see further of northeastern Japan that occurred on March 11, 2011.
occurred on March 11. I respect your waste treatment and recycling efforts in development in your efforts. Furthermore, your report does not mention light of the significant damage inflicted by the quake on your facilities, how women in the company are developing their careers, an omission that could become a significant disadvantage in the course of globalization.
Damage and Reconstruction at the Company
I deeply appreciated your expressed commitment to promoting CSR Civic engagement and support for community development are among management in response to the times, which is consistent with ISO 26000 the seven core themes of ISO 26000. Your efforts in these areas as part of standards published in 2010 and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Major Damage to Business Sites
stakeholder engagement are also noteworthy.
While one of the two rotary kilns (Kiln No. 1) was flooded by the tsunami, the other (Kiln No. 5) was not damaged. Enterprises 2011, as wel as your presentation of the three perspectives Operations at Kiln No. 5 were suspended, however, due to damage to material supply and shipment facilities. We The development of human resources through communication should also are conducting restoration efforts toward resuming cement production with Kiln No. 5 in November 2011. We described under Commitment of Top Management, which implies that include efforts in the workplace as wel as interactions between employees started using Kiln No. 5 to incinerate debris generated by the tsunami from the cities of Ofunato and Rikuzentakata and society. The overal network of al employees, with each one having Your review of supplier issues as a particular concern in your overal contact with the general public, represents the social capital of the company, relationships with key stakeholders is certainly timely. The global trend to Out of our 14 service stations (SS) in the Tohoku region, eight on the Pacific Coast were damaged.
which contributes to corporate value.
Because the damage to Shiogama East SS and West SS was relatively light, the first post-March 11 earthquake apply a CSR focus to due diligence processes, however, has advanced to the The scope of this report is basical y Taiheiyo Cement Corporation cement carrier to the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region arrived at Shiogama East SS on April 20, 2011, and we were point that Japan’s CSR stance could be perceived as outdated. In the human able to resume shipments of soil stabilizer (GEOSET) using a part of the functions of the two stations. At the six (non-consolidated), although expected actions are now turned toward stations (Hachinohe East, Hachinohe West, Sendai, Soma, Onahama North and Onahama South) where operations rights area, the ISO and OECD documents mentioned above are based on a providing information about considerations and efforts across the entire are still suspended, we are working toward completing restoration by the end of August 2011.
report written by John Ruggie, the United Nations Special Representative of Until our SS network has been completely restored, we wil continue supplying cement to affected areas via value chain beyond the consolidated companies. I therefore feel that you back-up shipments from other stations, particularly Sakata South (Yamagata Prefecture), Aizu (Fukushima the Secretary General, which advocates for the principles of “Protect, Respect should expand the scope of the report as soon as possible. I am sharing this Prefecture), and Yaita (Tochigi Prefecture).
and Remedy.” These guiding principles were endorsed by the UN Human comment ful y aware of your efforts with WBCSD-CSI concerning CO2 and Rights Council in June this year and adopted as a framework by the UN. Let me add that human rights due diligence has become essential beyond the I appreciate the significant improvement in the Check/Act information in workplace to include business relationships and the entire value chain.
Immediate Post-Earthquake Response
Support for Affected Areas
response to my suggestion made last year. I recommend, however, that you Your environmental efforts are praiseworthy, including your initiative that use more footnotes on technical terms given the expanding readership of On the night following the earthquake, we set up the Emergency From March 15 to April 7, 2011, we maintained the Kitakami Satel ite within the serves to link forward and reverse logistics in a recycling-based society, Countermeasure Headquarters, led by our President, Keiji Tokuue, and the office of System Base Corporation, our subsidiary company based in Kitakami City, development of environmental y aware products, and engagement with entire company did everything possible with the cooperation of cement Iwate Prefecture, to col ect information and provide support for the damaged biodiversity. I would like to see these efforts more powerful y communicated plants and branches to confirm the safety of employees, identify damage Ofunato plant and other efforts. On March 16, we began dispatching trucks loaded and expanded across the world. In terms of providing detailed data, you and transport life-saving goods to affected areas.
with provisions from our business partners and group companies and life-saving goods provided by our plants and branches to affected areas (total of twenty might consider broadening the integration of the Web into your Earthquake Response to Date
10-tonne trucks, fourteen 4-tonne trucks, and two other trucks). The provisions covered a broad range of goods, such as beverages, food, clothing, toilets, Western companies typical y strive to gain a solid standing in society by prefabricated cabins, batteries, motorbikes, fuel, tools and equipment for use in the developing advanced technologies into industry standards. I encourage you Set up the Emergency Countermeasure Headquarters, led by affected areas, including Ofunato City.
to also pursue this strategy as an international leader in the cement industry.
Although you are implementing a number of actions to support employees, Confirmed the safety of all employees, including those working at the Ofunato plant and Tohoku branch Future Plans
We established a task force to support reconstruction of the most heavily Delivered life-saving goods to Ofunato City damaged Ofunato plant, and the entire company is working to restore Publicly announced the safety of employees, status of damage, Response to Third-Party Opinion
operations there. We have started incinerating debris, although we can We have asked Mr. Goto to review our work for three consecutive years. His thought-provoking opinions Publicly announced the contribution of life-saving goods currently handle only 300 tonnes a day. We cannot move on to support valued at 50 mil ion yen and a donation of 80 mil ion yen (from have been the source of significant encouragement for our CSR efforts.
reconstruction efforts in the Tohoku region without dealing with the the company and group) to support victims and the affected debris first. Despite the various obstacles involved in dealing with it, we These three years have been an extremely chal enging time for the company. We are reassured by his have accepted this chal enge. The resumption of cement production in President Tokuue visited the Ofunato plant; recovery plan was expression of appreciation for the three perspectives we have identified during this time and have been autumn of this year is in sight. In terms of our service stations that are pursuing. Mr. Goto suggested adopting the “Protect, Respect and Remedy” principles for human rights, as First post-March 11 earthquake cement carrier to the Pacific currently shut down, we are working to restore six of them by the end of coast of the Tohoku region arrived at Shiogama East SS described by international standards such as ISO 26000, and broadening our perspective to encompass the August 2011 in order to stably supply cement to affected areas.
Set up a reconstruction project team for the Ofunato plant The cement industry has been supporting the nation’s infrastructure and entire value chain. As a company that is poised to expand its global operations, we reaffirm the importance Tohoku Electric began supplying industrial power to the society and contributing to building Japan for 130 years. We wil strive to of this issue and wil keep it firmly in mind. We wil also consider his other recommendations for expanding remain in an essential position for the future rebuilding of the nation.
Started trial incineration of debris using Kiln No. 5 at the the scope of our report and for promoting human resource development through interactions with society. One thing was incidentally confirmed during the earthquake: the We place high priority on engaging with stakeholders to deliver the value demanded by society through Director, strength of cement and concrete against disaster. We here reaffirm our Ofunato plant began incinerating debris and other materials mission to “deliver safety and security through cement and concrete” and from Ofunato City, Rikuzentakata City, etc.
innovation. I look forward to hearing the frank comments of the readers of this report.
will continue vigorously pursuing this objective.

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