Enhancing the Ability to Contribute to Solving Social
Issues through Employee Training as well as Social and
SDGs Contribution Activities

To realize a sustainable society, SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group emphasizes management’s ability to sustain business, create profit, contribute to solving social issues in its bid to both contribute to solving social issues and corporate growth.
In order to accelerate the development of Products to Enhance Sustainability and expansion of related markets, we undertake the training of Group employees to broaden their ability to contribute to solving social issues.
Through this training, we are working to help employees think in ways that will connect to management’s ability to sustain business and the ability to generate profit.

In addition to encouraging the growth of employees through on-the-job experience, we provide training that enables employees to recognize issues while also fostering an awareness toward problem-solving and the ability to take action.
On top of knowledge-based training, we are endeavoring to transform the consciousness of employees by having them spearhead activities that focus on solving social issues (i.e. SDGs). Moreover, we are encouraging a change in behavior through activities (i.e., activities that contribute to SDGs) that improve the ability to help solve social issues.

SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group not only contributes to solving social issues through its business activities, but also through social contribution activities that make the most of the characteristics and resources of the Group in various aspects related to society. We have positioned the environment, the next generation, and local communities as the three main areas of our activities. In addition, we define and promote activities that contribute to the SDGs as activities that contribute to society.

SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group conducts voluntary activities to contribute to the SDGs at each business site and by employees of its domestic and overseas Group companies.
Personnel from domestic and overseas Group companies and the ESG Management Department collaborate to instill greater awareness of and contributions to the SDGs. We are also fostering a corporate culture that contributes to the SDGs through a Plan-Do-Check-Action (PDCA) cycle, and are developing human resources to promote SDGs contribution activities.

Under the Medium-term Management Plan launched in fiscal 2023, we are renewing our awareness of the interrelationship between environmental issues, such as climate change, resource recycling as well as water-related risks and biodiversity, and are strengthening our efforts to find solutions that do not involve trade-offs throughout the product life cycle.
In line with this understanding, we conducted e-learning utilizing a role-playing format aimed at thinking about actions that do not require a trade-off and actions that generate synergies, when thinking about complex issues.

News about climate change and resource recycling is frequently reported in newspapers and on the Internet. In order to let employees know what environmental issues these are related to and what solutions are effective, we distributed current environmental topics.
We introduced our internal and external efforts to help employees learn about the environmental issues that are occurring today and to help them think about solutions.
Based on the results of the Ability to Contribute to Solving Social Issues Review conducted in FY2022, we felt that training should be provided on a job responsibility basis, and accordingly implemented the program with content divided by job responsibility. In fiscal 2023, we adopted the Japanese carbon pricing concept and the Green Transformation (GX), and explained the relationship with business operations through e-learning for general employees and the relationship with management for those in managerial positions and above.

In fiscal 2021, SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group began applying a human resource indicator that serves as a benchmark for individual progress in order to ascertain the current state of knowledge and actions that employees require to solve social issues and to encourage self-improvement.
Under the current Medium-term Management Plan, we will continue to use this human resource indicator.
Specifically, we conduct the Ability to Contribute to Solving Social Issues Review encompassing employees in Japan each year to measure their ability to contribute to solving social issues. This dovetails with our Vision Statement (Vision 2030): To realize a sustainable society, we support the basis of LIFE and will create peace of mind for the future. This Review allows us to keep track of each employee’s knowledge and behavioral growth.

In fiscal 2023, we changed the questions in the Ability to Contribute to Solving Social Issues Review to better reflect employees' self-awareness. Benchmarks were also recalculated based on this.
The average score for the Group as a whole was 49, which was set as a benchmark under the current Medium-term Management Plan.
After implementing training programs for one year, we conducted the Ability to Contribute to Solving Social Issues Review again to determine growth from the benchmark.
The average score for this second Group-wide review in fiscal 2023 was 51 points, an improvement of 2 points from the benchmark.
When we checked the degree of knowledge and action goals achievement, we found that knowledge was 59% and action was 45%. The results showed that there was a larger gap between action and our goals.
When checked by job responsibility, the average score was highest in the order of management, managers, and general employees. Based on these findings, we decided that we needed to train employees according to their responsibilities, and conducted e-learning for managers and above and for general employees.
Based on the results of this review, we will continue to promote stratified training programs according to job type and responsibility in fiscal 2024. We will also plan and conduct training programs that promote behavioral change.

SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group is making steady efforts to raise awareness of the SDGs and social issues. Specifically, we are actively raising awareness through such means as disseminating information on the SDGs contribution activities of each Group company and sharing SDGs-related information with the persons in charge.
In fiscal 2023, we held activity promotion study sessions for those in charge, where they learned about the relationship between solving social issues and social contribution activities, as well as examples of activities.
In addition, we are working to revitalize activities by supporting efforts to improve activities implemented at our business sites and encouraging people to take on the challenge of new activity programs through the SDGs Challenge.

A total of 167 initiatives were implemented at domestic sites, 51 of which were SDGs Challenges.
From fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2025, we have and will continue to promote social contribution activities that contribute to solving social issues such as climate change measures, resource recycling, biodiversity conservation, and regional cooperation, and are working to revitalize these activities.
We will continue to contribute to solving social issues through social contribution activities from the perspective of the SDGs.

SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group is working to conserve the natural environment in order to realize an earth with maintained biodiversity as stipulated in the SEKISUI Environment Sustainability Vision 2050. Working in collaboration with NPOs and other organizations, we are developing social contribution activities related to the local environment such as nature conservation activities in each region while at the same time presenting in-house awards for outstanding activities. We believe that it is effective to develop environmental human resources and solve social issues by having employees take the initiative in carrying out activities.
Group offices carried out various measures including clean-up activities in surrounding areas, forest conservation, and environmental education in fiscal 2023.

We quickly exchanged food and water stockpiled at the site for emergency use, and donated the unused portion to the ○△□ Children's Cafeteria in Saitama Prefecture. The cafeteria then distributed this food and water to people living in the community. As opposed to its disposal, this enabled us to effectively utilize food.

Since fiscal 2022, we have participated in the disaster prevention event Preparedness Festa organized by the Kawasaki City Crisis Management Headquarters. Through such hands-on activities as assembling disaster toilets and miniature versions of the Cross Wave rainwater protection product, we helped raise awareness toward to the need to prepare for disasters among citizens.