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Toshiba Lighting & Technology adheres to Toshiba Group Procurement Policy in selecting suppliers and maintaining business relationships with them based on their practice of complying with laws, their consideration for human rights and the environment, their capacity to provide a stable supply of goods and services, their flexibility to responding to fluctuations in supply and demand, and their readiness to continue to supply goods and services in the event of natural disasters.
Toshiba Group Companies:
1. comply with laws and regulations, and social norms, with the Standards of Conduct for Toshiba Group, and bring high ethical standards to procurement activities;
2. provide suppliers(including, throughout this document, candidate suppliers) with equal opportunities for transactions with Toshiba Group;
3. fulfill corporate social responsibilities, together with suppliers, and engage in sustainable procurement activities; and
4. carry out procurement activities with suppliers on a basis of mutual understanding and a relationship of trust.
Select and carry out transactions with suppliers who agree with and execute 1 to 3 below.
1. Compliance with laws and regulations, and social norms
Comply with the laws and regulations, and social norms of countries and regions where business activities are carried out
2. Consideration for human rights and the occupational safety and health of workers
Respect human rights and make every effort to realize a safe and hygienic work environment for business activities
3. Consideration for the environment
Promote business activities with consideration for the global environment
Toshiba Group carries out business in a wide range of products and services at the global level, participates in the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and observes the Responsible Business Alliance Code of Conduct (RBA Code of Conduct), and in doing so promotes procurement activities that give full consideration, from all perspective, to requests from stakeholders. We accordingly ask all suppliers to meet the following requests, and to ensure that their suppliers do the same.
(1) Compliance with laws and regulations, and social norms
Suppliers are requested to conduct business activities that comply with all relevant laws and regulations, and the social norms in the countries and regions where they do business, and to observe the following measures.
(2) Consideration for human rights and occupational safety and health of workers
Suppliers are requested to respect human rights in their business activities, to ensure safe and hygienic work environments, and to observe the measures described below. Suppliers are also requested to understand and observe the Toshiba Group Human Rights Policy and the Toshiba Group Responsible Minerals Sourcing Policy (both posted on the Toshiba website)
*Toshiba Group Human Rights Policy (Link to Toshiba Corporation website. )
*Toshiba Group Responsible Minerals Sourcing Policy (Link to Toshiba Corporation website. )
(3) Consideration for the Environment
Suppliers are requested to understand that Toshiba Group positions environmental initiatives as an important management issue, and to promote proactive initiatives for the production of products that are in harmony with the environment. Suppliers are also asked to promote the following measures based on Toshiba Group Green Procurement Guidelines (posted on the Toshiba website).
*Toshiba Group Green Procurement Guidelines (Link to Toshiba Corporation website. )
*Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation Green Procurement Guidelines
(4) Continuation of sound business management and disclosure of information
Suppliers are requested to promote sound business management, as a basis for continued transactions. Suppliers are also requested to ensure disclosure of information on human rights and occupational safety and health, the environment, financial status and business performance, and on business risk (e.g. damage from disasters, adverse environmental and social impacts, and serious violations of laws and regulations). Disclosure of false records, false indicators or false information is unacceptable.
(5) Securing superior quality
Suppliers are requested to support Toshiba Group in maintaining and improving the quality of products provided to customers, to collaborate with Toshiba Group in setting up a quality assurance system that is ISO 9001 compliant, to cooperate in receiving third-party certification and observing laws and regulations, and to meet the requirements specified below.
In addition, suppliers are expected to understand and observe “Toshiba Quality Assurance Guidelines for Suppliers” and “Toshiba Software Quality Assurance Guidelines for Suppliers“ which summarize Toshiba Group’s expectations of suppliers’ quality assurance activities, and “Toshiba Product Security Quality Assurance Guidelines for Suppliers (Software Edition)” which summarizes software vulnerability countermeasures.
(6) Information security
Suppliers are requested to prevent any leaks of confidential or personal information, and to ensure and maintain a high level of information security.
(7) Constructing a stable supply system and continued supply following a disaster, etc.
Suppliers are requested to build a stable, flexible system for the supply of goods and services, one that is able to meet our customers’ requirements for continuous supply of products, respond to sudden fluctuations in supply and demand, and to ensure reliable delivery schedules. In addition, in the event of a disaster (natural disaster, epidemic, fire, terrorism, war, civil war and the like), suppliers are requested to make every effort to cooperate with Toshiba Group to ensure continued supply, and to share supply chain information, including on the status of their own business partners. During normal business activities, suppliers are requested to cooperate with Toshiba Group in risk management activities.
Procurement Division, Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation