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The Ashimori Industry Group (Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd. and its domestic and overseas group companies, hereinafter referred to as “we”) has been supported for many years since our founding in 1878 by numerous people including local communities, suppliers, customers of the countries and regions in which we operate, and we have grown and expanded our business by tackling new challenges continuously. We are committed to endeavoring to respect human rights in our business activities and we hereby set forth the Ashimori Industry Group Human Rights Policy Statement, which every person in the Ashimori Industry Group should observe based on the Ashimori Group Code of Conduct, guided by the International Bill of Human Rights (Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenants on Human Rights), the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (International Labour Organization (ILO)), the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact, and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, in order for us to be beneficial continuously to society especially in manufacturing products to keep people safe and make them feel secured.

We understand that our business activities may directly or indirectly affect human rights, we recognize that respect for human rights is an important issue to be addressed in the management of our business, and we are committed to making every effort to fulfill our responsibility to ensure that human rights are respected in all of our business activities.

This policy statement is applied to all executives and employees of the Ashimori Industry Group. We are committed to acting responsibly so that all stakeholders understand and agree with this policy statement. We will strive to respond in an appropriate manner to human rights abuse by our suppliers, business partners, or customers.

We will secure a workplace free from all discrimination and harassment of any form on the grounds of nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, age, creed, religion, disability, sexual identity and orientation, or otherwise. Likewise, we will not tolerate any type of human rights abuse such as forced labor and child labor.
We respect the freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining.

We will provide appropriate education and training to all our executives and employees in order to ensure that this policy statement is established firmly and implemented effectively in all aspects of our business.

We understand that we must identify and prevent or mitigate any actual or potential adverse impacts on human rights associated with our business activities through our human rights due diligence process.

In case it is certain that we have caused or been implicated to adverse impacts on human rights by our business activities, we take appropriate remedial action.

We will disclose information on our human rights actions appropriately.

We will conduct dialog and consultation with relevant stakeholders on our effort for this Human Rights Policy Statement in course of promoting our actions for respecting human rights.

This Human Rights Policy Statement was approved by the Board of Directors of Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd. on April 26, 2023.

Ashimori has its own fire brigade, which operates as a fire and rescue division within the organization of the municipality of Settsu, where Ashimori’s Head Office and Osaka Plant are located.
The skills and knowledge built up through periodic drills and exercises are put to work by our fire brigade to help secure safety in the event of fires or other disasters at Ashimori or in the community.

For many years, the Ashimori Head Office and Osaka Plant (Settsu, Osaka Prefecture) have been featured as an example of a manufacturing company in supplementary textbooks for third- and fourth-grade elementary school students in Settsu City.
Up until 2020, the Head Office and Osaka Plant welcomed third-grade students from local elementary schools for factory tours every year in the fall. The Covid-19 pandemic made group tours difficult, so in 2021 and 2022, employees visited schools to lead lessons for students.