The Oji Group delivers safe products, fully recognizing that its corporate social responsibility entails providing quality and services that enable customers to use its products with peace of mind. Going forward, we will continue to fulfill the trust of our customers by ensuring that all of our employees reliably implement the following commitments.
Established: January 1, 1995
The Group confirms the safety of the chemicals (including materials) during the selection phase of procurement in an effort to improve product safety. The Group also provides information to customers.
The safety of chemicals used is ensured by means of a Pre-use Evaluation System and Information Updating System.
When considering the use of a new chemical, the Oji Group conducts a pre-use assessment by checking laws and regulations, hazard information, and green procurement by major industry associations, etc. using proprietary pre-use evaluation sheets and makes a determination whether the chemical can be used.
Chemical substance management regimes are being strengthened in Japan and overseas, and accordingly, the Group regularly updates evaluation sheets and information by regularly evaluating chemicals in use and confirms their safety.
In the event that information on revisions to laws and regulations concerning chemical substances or new hazard information is reported for raw materials currently used in our products, we will consider alternatives for those that we have determined we should not continue to use from the standpoint of safety due to the presence of hazardous chemical substances, etc.
For example, for D4 and D6, which are designated as monitoring chemical substances under the Law Concerning the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture, etc., and listed as SVHC under REACH, we are working to change the relevant raw materials by making them subject to alternative management.
(Of the 25 raw materials subject to alternative management for D4 and D6, 15 have been replaced or are no longer in use as of the end of 2023.)
In recent years, there has been a growing movement to regulate PFAS mainly in Europe and the U.S. Among PFAS, PFOA, which was decided to be added to Annex A (abolition) by the POPs Convention and designated as a Class I Specified Chemical Substance under the Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture, etc., was contained as an impurity in some raw materials. However, we have completed the process of replacing such raw materials before the law came into effect.
The Group responds to customer inquiries based on safety information for various chemicals verified using the Pre-use Evaluation System and the Information Updating System.Responses to customer inquiries are made using Research Reports*1, Article Information Sheets (AIS)*2,Safety Data Sheets (SDS)*3 and other information.
