Environmental Management Systems

As the foundation of environmental sustainability management, Panasonic Group set up EMS at all of our manufacturing sites across the world in fiscal 1999, and has, in principle, continued to have the respective sites ISO14001 certified since then.

Moreover, in order to further strengthen the environment management world-wide, we set up EMS also at our nonmanufacturing sites; the respective sites also have obtained ISO 14001 certification. In October 2011, we published the Environmental Management System Establishment Guidelines that summarizes the EMS concepts for different business forms such as manufacturing, sales and services, and head office administration, aiming to build the EMS in accordance with the Basic Rules for Environmental Affairs on a global scale. Based on the Guidelines, we are implementing Environmental Sustainability Management to achieve the targets set in the GREEN IMPACT PLAN 2024+1.

Panasonic Industry Co., Ltd. and Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd. provide seminars for their members to learn the basics of the EMS, and training for auditors to work at different levels, such as internal and chief auditors. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, holding trainings in conventional assembly form was impossible from fiscal 2021. The remote training scheme has enabled employees who could not participate in training because of time constraint participate in the training actively, resulting in highly effective training. Since fiscal 2024 when the pandemic subsided, holding training in face-to-face form has been possible, and some of our operating companies restarted training in hybrid form with face-to-face and online, utilizing merits of both forms. Furthermore, each operating company is upgrading its program contents to implement and enhance their management on sits. Such programs include practical programs including various methods such as roleplaying, and audit-related programs such as on audit policy and focused auditing points aiming to standardize internal auditors skills at high level.

As an independent activity focusing on legal compliance, an important element in the environmental management system, our Group holds cross-company mutual environmental audits (Details here). The Panasonic Corporation of China organizes training for auditors carrying out cross-company mutual environmental audits every year, inviting outside experts on environmental audits to give our auditors that latest information on environmental regulations and to strengthen their auditing skills and capabilities. In fiscal 2025, a simulated on-site audit was conducted at Panasonic Kitchen Appliances Technology (Jiaxing) Co., Ltd.