Compliance Management at Factories

Panasonic ensures legal compliance at its factories as a prerequisite for its operations, and regularly measures a level of environmental impacts including gas emissions, water discharge, noise, odor levels at factories. For cases that could have resulted in a serious violation of the laws, we share relevant information across all our manufacturing sites to prevent the recurrence of similar problems.

In fiscal 2009, there were three cases in which pollutant levels exceeded legal standards at our sites in Japan, and also one such case outside Japan. In response, we made the necessary notifications to the local governments concerned and implemented countermeasures against causes of the incidents. Also, with regard to the generation of waste related to the change of our company name and the unification of our brand names as Panasonic, we implemented thorough risk management measures.

• Aggregated data of business sites in countries that have regulations in place