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CSR Policy

To become a sustainable company

 

In recent years, the corporate role as “a good corporate citizen” has become increasingly important. Advanet undertakes various activities to gain trust from a wide range of stakeholders as a member of Eurotech Group, which develops corporate activities domestically and internationally.

 

Needless to say, we practice environmental conservation measures based on the proper understanding of environmental protection. We also provide our customers with high-quality products to fulfill functions as a social stable device for tax payment and employment.

 

Also, Advanet employs and cultivates personnel with an abundance of individuality for our sustainable development and makes efforts to create a work environment that allows all employers to work in comfort. We actively promote hiring new graduates, experienced people, women, and people with disabilities. We also have introduced a continued employment system to utilize the experiences and skills of the elderly and also assist in self-motivated capacity development. Furthermore, we strive to improve working hours, better management, and improve various systems related to child care and family care so that all employees can maintain a healthy work-life balance.

 

We sincerely consider our responsibilities for the above-mentioned tasks as a corporate citizen and are intensely aware of the necessities to return our profit to society and its citizens.

 

Advanet continues to take on various activities to become “a sustainable company useful to society”.

Advanet CSR English

Code of Conduct

Revision Date: June 19, 2019

Human Rights/Labor

Health & Safety

environment

ethics

Management System

Purpose of Code of Conduct and Scope of Application

This code of conduct applies to all employees of Advanet.

This code of conduct applies to all our employees, and conformance to Advanet policies, all laws and regulations, in-house rules, and contracts with customers is expected. Employees are also expected to act ethically, avoid risk by assuming risks associated with actions, and strive for improvement.

Human Rights/Labor

  • Employment Autonomy: We guarantee free choice in employment to all employees and do not make any employees to work by force.
  • Young Workers: We do not hire children who have not reached the minimum working age. We abide by laws and regulations for young workers.
  • Working Hours: We properly manage all employees' working hours and days off not to exceed the legal limit of each country/region.
  • Wage and Welfare: Earnings paid to all employees conform to wage-related laws. We do not conduct unjust cuts in wages.
  • Humanitarian Treatment: We respect all employees' human rights and prohibit inhumane treatment, including various types of harassment and mental and physical oppression.
  • Elimination of Discrimination: We protect all employees' identities and strive to create a workplace without unlawful discrimination.
  • Freedom of Association: We respect our employees' right to organize to implement collective bargaining and realize labor-management consultation.

Health & Safety

  • Workplace Safety: We assess workplace safety risk and secure safety using appropriate management methods.
  • Emergency Preparedness: We assume possible emergencies, prepare measures, and ensure that employees in the workplace are informed to protect their lives and safety.
  • Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases: We comprehend industrial accidents and occupational diseases to take appropriate preventive measures.
  • Industrial Health: We identify/assess/control the effects of chemical/biological/physical substances on all employees. We take measures to control such substances so as not to exceed safety standards.
  • Work that applies a load to a worker's body: We indentify activities that could apply a load to a worker's body and conduct appropriate management of the work environment and work behavior.
  • Machine Safety: We monitor if safety measures for production machines and other machines are appropriate.
  • Sanitary Equipment, Meals, and Housing: We maintain the safety, health, and beautification of facilities provided for employee use.
  • Communication of Safety and Health: We post safety and health regulations in the facility and periodically promote seasonal awareness of safety and health in the company newsletter.

environment

  • Environmental Certificate and Report: We acquire required environmental certificates, approval, and registration, and keep them up to date, and follow the requirements for operation and reporting.
  • Antipollution and Resource Saving: We provide antipollution equipment at the source of pollution and change production/maintenance/equipment processes to minimize pollutant emissions and waste generation.
  • Hazardous Substances: We control chemicals and other substances that can pollute the environment, deal with reducing environmental risks caused by those substances, and eliminate banned chemical substances from the product production processes.
  • Solid Waste: We identify, control, and reduce solid waste (non-hazardous waste) and make efforts to dispose of or recycle those solid waste responsibly.
  • Atmospheric Exhaust: We confirm atmospheric exhaust of hazardous substance generated during production processes before emission and implementing periodical monitoring, control, and disposal, and monitor the exhaust management system.
  • Limit of Materials: We conform to the Recycling and Waste Related Labeling Act and all laws, regulations, and customer requirements that prohibit or limit the use of specified substances in products and production processes.
  • Water Management: We make efforts to save water and prevent pollutants from entering waterways.
  • Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Effect Gas Emission: We eliminate the waste of resources and energy at all business activity stages and reduce the amount of emitted greenhouse effect gases, including CO2.
  • Surrounding Environment: We consider the surrounding living environment and deal with issues such as offensive odors, traffic, noise, and vibration to build a good relationship with community residents.

ethics

  • Sound Corporate Activities: We maintain a sound and appropriate relationship with political administration and support our policy to prohibit all kinds of bribery, corruption, blackmailing strictly, and embezzlement.
  • Elimination of Inappropriate Profit: We never provide or receive inappropriate profit in relationship with all stakeholders. Also, we never provide antisocial forces with inappropriate benefit.
  • Information Disclosure: We actively and lawfully disclose the appropriate corporate information to groups holding legal rights and make sure to protect our information resources from unauthorized access.
  • Intellectual Property: We respect the intellectual properties of others as well as properly evaluating ours.
  • Appropriate Export Management: When we export or provide our products and technical information, we conduct export management based on the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act and other relevant laws to prevent goods and technologies which are capable of being applied to weaponry or military use from being transferred to the hands of dangerous countries or terrorist groups.
  • Fair Business, Advertisement, and Competition: We prohibit anticompetitive conduct that interferes with fair, transparent, and free competition.
  • Ensuring Anonymity and Elimination of Retaliation: We protect the information of external and internal whistleblowers who bring to light unlawful acts and prohibit any acts of retaliation against them.
  • Responsible Minerals Procurement: Following the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, we cooperate with the unuse of conflict minerals produced in Congo and its surrounding conflict areas, which can become funding sources for armed forces.
  • Information Security: We properly manage and protect every information asset, including the personal information of all our employees and customers.

Management System

  • Our Company Efforts: We operate a comprehensive CSR management system based on human rights and labor, health and safety, environment, and ethics in accordance with RBA (Responsible Business Alliance) in addition to the certification standards such as ISO9001, ISO14001, and ISO27001.
  • Accountability and Responsibility of Executives: We select a corporate representative who regularly reviews the functionality and efforts of the management system.
  • Statutory Requirements and Customer Requirements: We continue to conduct activities corresponding to changing statutory requirements and customer manufacturing needs, which lead to societal contributions.
  • Risk Assessment and Risk Management: We build processes to identify compliance conditions, working practices related to environmental/health and safety, and business affairs, relatively judge the importance of identified risk, and implement appropriate procedures and management.
  • Improvement Target: We establish policy, target, and implementation plans to improve society and the environment and regularly evaluate the implementation status and results.
  • Training: We provide all employees with the necessary education and training to take actions following the code of conduct, various laws, and company rules, which are the foundation of the code of conduct.
  • Communication: We build and maintain the necessary processes to provide all employees and customers with clear and accurate information about our company policies, the content of our activities, our expectations, and our business performance.
  • Workers' Feedback, Participation, and Complaint: We grasp all of our employees' understanding and opinions of the practices and conditions determined in the code of conduct and build/maintain process leading to continuous improvement.
  • Audit and Assessment: We regularly assess to the laws and regulations related to the society and environment, the code of conduct, and requirements from customers.
  • Corrective Action Process: Concerning Nonconformance Discovered by Assessments, Inspections, Research, and Review Related to the Code of Conduct: We consider possible recurrence prevention measures within an appropriate time and implement those corrective measures.
  • Documentation and Recording: We record information considered necessary for business as documents or data and appropriately organize, store, manage, and dispose of them following the document management regulations.
  • Suppliers' Responsibilities: We inform our subcontracting companies of the code of conduct and request their compliance

Actions Dealing with Whistleblowing

When a person discovers a violation of a law or regulation, violation of the company rules, including the code of conduct, facts concerning the above-mentioned violations, he or she should report the infraction to the concerned authority.

Reported matters shall be investigated to confirm the facts and solved by the best possible measures.

When a whistleblower reports a valid violation to the concerned authority without malicious intent, he or she shall not be fired or receive other forms of reprimand due to the whistleblowing.

Acquired Certifications

ISO 9001

ISO 14001

ISO 27001

CSR Promotion System

Advanet CSR English Organigram

Eurotech Group CSR

Social responsibility is an integral part of the way we do business at Eurotech.

 

We pursue the objectives of growth, innovation and commercial results, while simultaneously balancing quality of life, working standards and human rights. This commitment is reflected in the principles, policies and management conduct adopted by our company, in order to promote creativity, innovation and fair business outcomes and hence to reinforce shareholders' trust in our company.

 

In addition to steadily reinforcing structural capital, Eurotech Group strives to support our employees and develop social relationships, considering this to be a fundamental investment to ensure the company's competitiveness, stability and longevity.

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