What are the SDGs?
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are international development goals to be achieved from 2016 to 2030, which are stated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that was adopted at the United Nations Summit held in September 2015. They consist of 17 goals and 169 targets, and pledge “Leave no one behind.” The SDGs are universal goals applicable, not only to developing countries but also developed countries, and Japan is actively working to achieve these goals.
Reference source: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan homepage
Initiatives for making kamaboko that achieves customer satisfaction and interaction with the local community
- Through education for improving the level of manufacturing and sales of kamaboko that achieves customer satisfaction, as well as passing down our manufacturing techniques, we will upgrade the structure for delivering safe and reassuring products to our customers.
- We will welcome factory tours for both individuals and groups, cooperate with local sporting events, and value our interaction with the local community.
Specific initiatives
- We will further improve our skills in pursuit of making kamaboko that achieves customer satisfaction.
For information on our efforts to pass down our manufacturing techniques, please click the link below.
(https://www.shiraken.co.jp/corporate/en/philosophy/technique.html) - We only sell kamaboko that are grilled in the morning and limit the length of time our kamaboko are sold at the shop in order to maintain good taste and quality.
- We will promote interest and understanding of food through factory tours to allow local elementary school and junior high school students, as well as other customers, see and learn about our raw materials and the dedication of our skilled professionals.
- We will actively cooperate with sporting events for children, deepen ties with the local community, and contribute to activities that support the future and good health of children.
Initiatives aimed at realizing a comfortable workplace environment and energizing the organization
- We will promote maintaining and improving the “physical and mental” health of our employees and creating a safe work environment.
- We will actively promote initiatives for creating a foundation for health management and for improving work engagement.
- We will aim to realize a framework that enables the active participation of women.
Specific initiatives
- We will encourage and implement physical exercise and stretching before starting work.
- In order to support continuous physical activities of our employees, we will hold bowling and golf competitions in the company.
- We will provide specific health guidance after regular health check-ups and health guidance by the company physician.
- We will continue maintaining a 100% ratio of employees who have received a stress check.
- We will work to increase the ratio of receiving secondary health check-ups, non-smoking ratio, and ratio of exercise habits such as walking.
- We will enhance self-care of employees and line care in the workplace with the aim of creating a safe workplace environment, and plan and implement various training.
- We will place importance on employee work-life balance, including support for working while also providing childcare and family care, and thereby maintain employee motivation for work and create a workplace environment where employees energetically work while utilizing their individual capabilities.
- We will grasp the problems that prevent active participation of women and examine solutions by interviewing employees.
- We will create a working group made up of mainly female employees and continue holding discussion meetings for the SDGs initiatives, such as realizing gender equality.
- We will consider and indicate diversification and clarification of the career paths for women.
- For information regarding our health management, please click the link below.
(https://www.shiraken.co.jp/corporate/en/about/company.html#healthCare)
Initiatives aimed at continuing to protect the environment for making kamaboko
- We will strengthen our business continuity capabilities and provide education, training, and drills in preparation for future disasters.
Specific initiatives
- We will continue to implement training for enabling rapid evacuation based on the disaster prevention and weather information.
- We will revise and notify employees our “Emergency response Q&A” based on the training results that explains the initial responses to be taken.
- In order to limit global warming, we will install solar panels and promote the use of renewable energy.
- We will use locally grown vegetables as part of the ingredients used for making kamaboko and thereby secure energizing the local community and capabilities for production continuity.
- We will give lectures nationwide about the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake, as well as the disaster prevention and BCM (Business Continuity Management) activities thereafter, to raise awareness for preparing for the future disasters.
For inquiries about the SDGs, please contact our General Management Division (0225-95-2845).