Promotion of Environmental Management

[Organizational Structure for Environmental Management System Promotion]

Hoshizaki has a structure for making legal submissions.

Laws such as the Energy Conservation Act and the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) Law require submission of a large number of documents. Hoshizaki works to ensure that all legally required documents are submitted without omission. To this end, we have compiled lists for each law, pertaining to air, water quality, noise, vibration, soil, etc., covering the relevant reporting agencies, reasons for reporting, document names, submission addresses, submission dates, legal provisions, etc. Furthermore, we constantly monitor the revision status of each regulation. A single division is designated as responsible for reporting, and they ensure against checklists once a year that we have properly reported all matters required for the current year.
Those laws are not easy for everyone to comprehend even if every employee were to read them. The development and operation of our systems has made it much easier for employees to understand the laws, as well as enabling us to implement legal compliance without omission.

We independently audit our own systems.

The requirements of ISO 14001 include implementation of regular internal environmental auditing, development of independent systems and evaluation of the state of their operation. Every fall, Hoshizaki conducts internal environmental audits of each division at each site.

Hoshizaki strives to enhance the skills of its Internal Environmental Auditors.

Hoshizaki conducts its own annual checks (internal environmental audit) to determine whether the environmental management systems of each business site conform to the environmental rules previously agreed to and whether the rules are being appropriately implemented and maintained.
While these internal audits are conducted by qualified internal environmental auditors, their skills may become outdated over time. In an effort to maintain and improve the skills of internal audit staff, the company conducts skill enhancement seminars each year prior to the audits.
At the seminars, an active environmental auditor, invited as seminar instructor, gives intense practical training based on actual case scenarios, and they refine one another's skills. These opportunities are leveraged in the internal environmental audits that follow shortly after.