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To make all-employee participatory sustainable environmental management really effective, the commitment of senior management and the active efforts of all divisions are essential, and so is the fostering of employees who can carry out sustainable environmental management in their own operations. Although sustainable environmental management concerns corporate activities, these activities are the accumulation of the actions of individual employees. The Ricoh Group has about 82,000 employees throughout the world. The results of sustainable environmental management will widely differ depending on the awareness of individual employees. Therefore, we are conducting education and awareness building activities for our employees so that they may grow as "global citizens," "employees of the Ricoh Group," and "specialists in promoting sustainable environmental management."
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Implementation of Educational Measures Based upon an Environmental Awareness Survey  (Ricoh Group/Japan)
The environmental awareness of each employee is important to realize sustainable environmental management. The Ricoh Group defines high environmental awareness as knowledge of the environment and participation in environmental activities. The Ricoh Group takes a variety of measures for environmental awareness activities and education based upon regular environmental awareness surveys of employees, aiming to foster employees who can spontaneously incorporate environmental viewpoints into their own business activities and put them into practice. In fiscal 2006, elementary environmental e-learning was conducted for employees in Japan, and a pamphlet offering information on sustainable environmental management was distributed.
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Implementating the Ricoh Group Environmental Awareness Survey in Fiscal 2006 (Ricoh Group/Japan)
The Ricoh Group has set targets concerning how much environmental knowledge and power of action Ricoh employees should have, and it has prepared and produced an educational curriculum based upon the results of a survey conducted in fiscal 2005. We were able to confirm the effectiveness of the education in the survey conducted in February 2007. Priority in education was given to improving understanding of sustainable environmental management and on how far individual employees' work affected the environment. A comparison of the answers to these questions with those of the previous year revealed significant changes, proving that educational measures were definitely effective. We plan to formulate educational curriculums for each job type and division in the future.
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Sustainable Environmental Management Network
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