Basic Philosophy

TOA Group fulfills its corporate responsibility for our business, environment and society, and makes our business operations harmonized with sustainable development of our company, society and earth. We are committed to provide valuable products and services to our clients through fair procurement practices which we also encourage our suppliers to join in.

Basic Policy

1. 1.Building partnerships
   • We aim to mutually evolve and develop with each other by creating new value together based on relationships of trust with our suppliers.
2. 2.Fair and equitable transactions
   • We conduct fair and equitable transactions with our suppliers.
3. 3.Priority to deal with good suppliers
   • We give priority to suppliers with excellent quality, cost, delivery performance, service, environmental friendliness, respect for human rights, and other factors, and consider reviewing transactions with suppliers with significant problems.
4. 4.Compliance with laws and ethics
   • We comply with all relevant laws and regulations (e.g. Antimonopoly Act, Subcontract Act, Labor-related laws, Act on the Protection of Personal Information, etc.).
   • We comply with social norms (prohibition of child labor, forced labor and discrimination, consideration for human rights, etc.).
   • We do not use conflict minerals.
5. 5.Consideration for the global environment
   • We strive to understand the impact of our activities on biodiversity and promote efforts to avoid and reduce such impacts.
   • We strive to reduce water consumption and promote the preservation of water resources.
   • We promote the control of waste generation and its reuse, and promote cooperation in the de-plasticization of containers and materials.
   • We are committed to the procurement of sustainable palm oil.

Basic Philosophy

Based on the recognition that risk assessment is the most important issue, TOA Group actively promote the following activities of basic policy with the aim of realizing a healthy and safe workplace for our employees so that we can improve our business performance by reducing risks related to human rights and labor in our business activities in the design, development and manufacture of cosmetics and quasi-drugs.

Basic Policy

1. 1.Health and safety of our empolyees
   • We strive to accurately understand the impact of the TOA Group’s business activities on the mental and physical health of our employees, promote occupational health and safety risk preservation activities, and reduce the potential risk of occupational accidents.
   • We comply with laws and regulations related to occupational health and safety.
   • We promote occupational health and safety activities in the spirit of the TOA Group Charter of Corporate Behavior.
   • We make our occupational health and safety policy known to all employees and promote occupational health and safety education to ensure that activities are conducted in accordance with this policy.
   • We strive to ensure that outside contractors, temporary employees, etc. who are contracted to work in our facilities have the same health and safety as our employees.
   • In order to minimize the impact of an emergency situation, we establish the emergency response procedure and conduct the training for safety confirmation.
2. 2.Working conditions
   • We comply with laws and regulations, properly manage working hours, holidays and vacations to create a working environment in which employees can work in good physical and mental health.
3. 3.Social dialogue
   • We respect basic labor rights including the right to organize and bargain collectively by employees in accordance with laws and regulations, and strive to build sound labor-management relations through dialogue with our employees.
4. 4.Career management and education
   • We provide systematic and planned training and strive for human resource education and career management.
5. 5.Child labor, Forced labor and Human trafficking
   • We eliminate all child labor, forced labor and human trafficking.
6. 6.Diversity, Discrimination and Harassment
   • We do not tolerate discrimination or any action that offends personal dignity, harassment or other unfair treatment of any person for any reason, including nationality, citizenship, place of birth, race, skin color, creed, religion, ancestry, ethnicity, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, social status or any other basis specified in laws and regulations.
     In addition, we do not tolerate conduct that causes physical or emotional distress such as sexual or power harassment.

Basic Philosophy

Based on the recognition that the preservation of the global environment is an important issue common to all humankind, TOA Group actively promote the following activities of basic policy with the aim of realizing people’s health and an affluent society by reducing the environmental impact of our business activities in the design, development and manufacture of cosmetics and quasi-drugs.

Basic Policy

We assess the environmental impact of the TOA Group’s business activities, promote the prevention of environmental pollution and continuously improve our environmental compliance. We comply with environment-related laws, regulations, ordinances and other agreements. We engage in environmental preservation activities such as waste reduction, recycling, energy conservation and resource conservation. We establish environmental objectives and targets to reduce our environmental impact. We make our environmental policy known to all employees and our stakeholders, and promote environmental education to ensure that our activities are in accordance with this policy.

1. 1.Health and safety of our empolyees
   • We support the Paris Agreement and other international frameworks related to global warming countermeasures, and through our business activities, we reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that may cause climate change.
   • We engage in product development and production activities that take into consideration energy consumption and environmental impact.
2. 2.Water
   • We strive to reduce water consumption and promote the preservation of water resources.
3. 3.Biodiversity
   • We strive to understand the impacts on biodiversity in our value chain and promote efforts to avoid and reduce such impacts.
4. 4.Local pollution and Contamination accident
   • We strive to contribute to the local community by reducing environmental risks such as local pollution and contamination accident.
5. 5.Raw materials, Chemicals and Waste
   • We strive to develop products using environmentally friendly raw materials such as naturally derived ingredients and natural materials.
   • We promote the control of waste generation and its reuse, and promote cooperation in the de-plasticization of containers and materials.