Basic Approach

The TRE Group believes that human resources are the foundation for sustainable business continuity and considers the creation of pleasant and fulfilling work environments a priority task.

Our employees are the driving force behind all of our corporate activities. The TRE Group clearly declares its commitment to prohibiting gender discrimination and child labor in its Code of Conduct, and is striving to promote diversity and inclusion to provide all employees an equal opportunity to utilize their unique talents. Additionally, in order to enhance our corporate value while adapting to changes in the external environment, it is essential that we work to attract and retain personnel with diverse values and provide them with opportunities to foster their growth. By creating a work environment where a diverse workforce can exhibit their abilities to the fullest and work with enthusiasm and peace of mind, we aim to build an organization where both the Group and its employees can continue to grow sustainably.

Creating Pleasant and Fulfilling Working EnvironmentsMaterial Issues

Employee

Action plan

Workplace health and safety

Basic approach to workplace health and safety

The TRE Group considers the health and safety of its employees to be a fundamental element of its business continuity and is committed to creating workplaces where all employees can work in a healthy, safe, and secure environment. We are fully committed to our guiding principle that “The TRE Group places top priority on safety,” and strive to ensure safety is maintained in all of our business activities.

Basic Policy on Health and Safety Principle

Awards for sites that achieved accident-free records

consecutive record without a lost-time injury. The TAKEEI Group has also established an award system for sites that have achieved zero accidents or disasters. TAKEEI aims to use this system works to further raise awareness of safety, and the Group is working as one to achieve zero accidents and disasters.

Promoting workplace health and safety management

Each of the Group’s operating companies has established their own safety management systems. Under the leadership of top management, health and safety managers and the safety management division at each work site work together to improve the effectiveness of safety management, and identify and address any problems or issues.

In the event of an accident, we promptly investigate the cause and study and implement measures to prevent recurrence. We have established a system for sharing information on serious accidents or disasters across the Group, and promote a range of safety management initiatives to prevent similar accidents or disasters from recurring.

In addition, to maintain and improve the physical and mental health of our employees we conduct regular stress checks and strive to ensure appropriate management of working hours.

Initiatives to enhance our organizational strength

Attracting and retaining talent

With Japan's birthrate declining and its population aging rapidly, the country’s working population ratio is projected to decline from 63.8% in 2010 to 58.1% in 2030. Accordingly, we are stepping up our efforts to recruit young talent.

The ability to secure a stable source of talent is also a pressing issue for the TRE Group. As part of our recruiting efforts, we are working to share our hiring know-how across the Group in order to enhance new graduate hiring at our Group companies, as well as broadening our recruiting scope, such as hiring mid-career talent.

One initiative TAKEEI CORPORATION implements as part of its talent retention efforts is the “Elder System,” in which

Promoting diverse work styles and supporting career development

Expanding efforts to promote women’s career development

The Group does not discriminate based on gender, and we have female employees succeeding in a variety of areas including factory work, sales, planning and management. In addition, in view of changing career preferences and working environments, we are working to make a variety of career paths available to our employees, prevent the loss of talent through resignation, help recruit of talented personnel locally, and promote women's career development by creating an environment that allows women to continue working after childbirth and while raising children. Programs in this area include the Limited Area Career-track System that makes it possible for employees to advance their career without relocating, and the introduction of the Job Group Change System that allows flexibility for employees wishing to change job groups in line with their career aspirations.

At present the ratio of female managers in the Group is 5.2%, but have set a target of doubling the number of female, and are actively working to improve the business and work environment and promote employees to management positions based on their abilities, regardless of gender.

Support for balancing work with childcare and care-giving

The Group has introduced Reduced Working Hours for Childcare System to support employees caring for children. It allows them to choose to work six or seven hours in a day until their children graduate from elementary school. To support care-giving, we have made care-giving leave, caregiving absences and reduced working hours available so that employees can focus on caring for their families without worry. Going a step further, the REVER Group has introduced an Accumulated Paid Leave System for employees with family members who need care, allowing them to accumulate paid leave that would otherwise expire.

TAKEEI CORPORATION also has a Comeback System that provides recruitment information to former employees who left because of childcare, care-giving, a spouse’s transfer or another reason but wish to rejoin the company. We are also working to enhance systems that make it possible for individual employees to adopt their preferred working styles depending on their circumstances.

Supporting self-directed career development

To respect the wishes of the individual when it comes to personnel placement, the Group provides opportunities for employees to convey their ideal career plans to their supervisors and the human resources department so that, by increasing mutual understanding between the company and the individual, we can create an organization where individuals can exhibit their abilities to the fullest.

TAKEEI CORPORATION also distributes a Job Card annually where employees can enter the future tasks and transfer locations they are interested in, providing an opportunity for them to challenge themselves in the jobs they are aiming for of their own accord. The company has also introduced an Internal Recruitment System designed for the optimal placement of motivated personnel in departments that need them. Going forward, we will promote initiatives to encourage self-directed career development by expanding opportunities for career choice within the company, including expanding the operation of the Internal Recruitment System.

Local Community

Living and thriving together with the local community

Basic approach to social contribution

The TRE Group regards its social contribution activities as key initiatives that contribute to the sustainable growth of both society and its business, in order to continue coexisting with society as a member of the local community. As a company that aims to solve societal challenges through our environmental businesses, we also believe that communicating the Group’s initiatives to local residents and other stakeholders an important part of our mission, and are focusing on initiatives related to environmental education.

Furthermore, we believe that active participation in volunteer and charitable programs that address local challenges and needs is essential in order to establish a relationship of trust with the local community and to grow together. We contribute to the development of local communities and the environment through our activities, as well as provide donations and other forms of societal support, taking into account the social and public benefit of each program. The CSR and Sustainability Promotion Department leads social contribution initiatives in collaboration with the TRE Foundation for SDGs Promotion, Group companies, and related divisions.

Initiatives by the TRE Foundation for SDGs Promotion

The TRE Foundation for SDGs Promotion promotes a range of initiatives aimed at achievement of the SDGs in order to protect our precious earth with its bountiful land, forests, and oceans (Only One Earth®), and pass it on to the next generation. We will continue to actively pursue social contribution activities related to the SDGs as well as environmental preservation programs in and around the municipalities and local communities in which we operate.

Initiatives to conserve the local environment

Afforestation initiatives in collaboration with welfare-related companies

Supporting cleanup efforts at Lake Suwa Fireworks Festival

REVER’s Ichihara Plant hosts plant tours as part of Ichihara Environment Festival

Hanamaki Biomass Power Generation Co., Ltd. and Hanamaki Biomass Chip Co., Ltd. host a social studies field trip