Enhance the Plan-Do-Check-Action
(PDCA) cycle for the entire Group and each
business site and division and encourage
all employees to participate in the cycle.
The Ricoh
Group's environmental management system
(EMS) is an important tool in facilitating
sustainable management on a global scale.
The Ricoh Group as a whole and each of its
business sites and divisions are using the
PDCA cycle for EMS, for which management
reviews1 are conducted. The achievements
of business sites and divisions are checked
against their environmental action plans in environmental
accounting. All employees are encouraged
to participate in the cycle. Furthermore,
based on the Groupwide Strategic Management
by Objectives (SMO), which takes an environmental
conservation perspective, the Ricoh Group
evaluates the business performance of its
divisions2.
1. The review is conducted by the management to ensure the appropriateness and efficiency of EMS.
2. The SMO system, with the additional environmental item, is applied to divisions.
Activities Participated by All Employees
To raise
the level of environmental achievement,
the Ricoh Group encourages all employees
to participate in environmental activities,
including those engaged in R&D, product
development, materials procurement, manufacturing,
transportation, maintenance and other services,
and collection and recycling. They are encouraged
to conduct environmental activities as if
they belonged to an environmental activity
planning division, and these activities
are regarded to be as important as QCD activities*.
To improve environmental activities, various
meetings are held by relevant environmental
committees in each region, and internal
benchmarks and know-how needed for the activities
are shown to employees from time to time
to make them more environmentally conscious.
*QCD activities are activities that control
and improve quality, cost, and deliveries.
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