Policy
Product Safety Charter
The Oji Group delivers safe products, fully recognizing that its corporate social responsibility entails providing quality and services that enable customers to use its products with peace of mind. Going forward, we will continue to fulfill the trust of our customers by ensuring that all of our employees reliably implement the following commitments.
- Complying with all safety-related laws and regulations, we will also implement appropriate management to follow voluntary standards.
- We will continually improve our Group-wide quality control system, striving to ensure safety.
- We will provide timely and appropriate information on product safety and proper usage.
- We will proactively gather information on products involved in incidents and make reports to relevant authorities in compliance with the law. We will also faithfully take necessary action to find the root causes of incidents and strive to prevent their recurrence.
- We will continuously review our management system through regular internal audits, always striving for improvement.
Established: January 1, 1995
Initiatives
Confirmation of Raw Material (Chemical) Safety and Provision of Information to Customers
The Group confirms the safety of chemicals (including materials) during the selection phase of procurement to improve product safety. The Group also provides information to customers.
Confirmation of the Safety of Chemicals Used
The safety of chemicals used is ensured using the Group’s Pre-use Evaluation System and Information Update System.
Pre-use Evaluation System
When considering the use of a new chemical, the Oji Group conducts a pre-use assessment by checking laws and regulations, hazard information and green procurement guidelines from major industry associations, etc. using proprietary pre-use evaluation sheets. The group then determines whether the chemical can be used.
Information Update System
Chemical substance management systems are being strengthened in Japan and overseas, and accordingly, the Group regularly updates its evaluation sheets and information by regularly evaluating the chemicals it uses and confirms their safety.
Response to the Revision of Laws and New Hazard Information
In the event that information regarding the revision of laws and regulations concerning chemical substances or new hazard information is reported relevant to the raw materials currently used in our products, we will consider alternatives for the materials that we have determined we should not continue to use from the standpoint of safety and reduce the number of raw materials containing hazardous substances.
For example, for D4 and D6, which are designated monitoring chemical substances under the Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture, etc., and listed as SVHCs under REACH, we are working on reducing their use by making them subject to alternative management.
(Of the 25 raw materials subject to alternative management for D4 and D6 that we are looking to replace, 19 have been replaced or are no longer in use as of the end of 2024.)
In recent years, the movement calling for the regulation of PFAS has been growing, mainly in Europe and the U.S. Of the PFAS, the POPs Convention added PFOAs to its Annex A (chemicals to be eliminated) and they were designated Class I Specified Chemical Substances under the Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture, etc. They are an impurity contained in some raw materials, but we completed the process of replacing these raw materials before the law came into effect.
Provision of information to customers
The Group responds to customer inquiries using the safety information about various chemicals that it has verified using the Pre-use Evaluation System and the Information Update System. The Group uses Research Reports*1, Article Information Sheets (AIS)*2, Safety Data Sheets (SDS)*3 and other information to respond to customer inquiries.
