Logistics
Applicable SDGs
Safety in Logistics
We consider it essential to ensure safety and security—not to mention compliance with applicable laws and regulations—when storing, loading, and transporting/delivering chemical products.
Many of the products we transport are hazardous substances, such as high-pressure gases, hazardous materials, and toxic materials. Leaks, explosions, fires, and other major accidents involving these substances could significantly impact the safety and environment of host communities. As such, ensuring safety in logistics poses a critical issue.
Safety Measures While Transporting Products
In order to ensure logistics safety and strict compliance with transportation laws, we have formed the Logistics Safe Environment Cooperation Committee in collaboration with our logistics partners entrusted with transporting hazardous substances. Together, we work as one to prevent accidents, disasters, environmental pollution, and other incidents during transportation.
Initiatives to Prepare for Logistics Accidents
- To ensure prompt and accurate responses in the event of an accident, we regularly conduct emergency notification and disaster containment drills in collaboration with our logistics partners, simulating scenarios such as “leaks, fires, and other hazardous substance incidents during transportation.”
- We provide logistics companies with safety training to ensure that both managers and drivers are fully informed about the characteristics and safe handling of hazardous substances, aiming to prevent accidents.
- We create “Yellow Cards” for each product that describe actions to be taken and what needs to be reported to relevant parties when an accident has occurred during transportation. Logistics partners are required to carry the Yellow Card while transporting products.
- We signed a “Hazardous Material Emergency Response Service (HAZMATers)” agreement with the Maritime Disaster Prevention Center in order to further strengthen our accident response system by utilizing their specialized teams, equipment, and materials.
Sustainable Logistics
In support of the “White Logistics Movement” jointly proposed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, we made the Declaration of Voluntary Activities for White Logistics Movement.
Amid serious truck driver shortages, Japan’s logistics sector is facing a critical situation. In a bid to stabilize logistics services that are indispensable to daily life and industrial activities and contribute to economic growth, the “White Logistics Movement” seek to enhance the productivity of truck transportation, increase efficiency in logistics, and realize a working environment where women and senior drivers can work comfortably.
Under the Declaration of Voluntary Activities, we will remain committed to improving logistics and reducing environmental impact in collaboration with customers and logistics partners, aiming to realize sustainable logistics.
