Environmental Education and Enlightenment

In order to promote environmental activities with the participation of all employees, the Fujitsu Group is implementing a wide range of environmental education and enlightenment efforts for employees in all divisions based on the idea that improving the environmental awareness of every one of our employees is required. We have also established a system for recognizing outstanding efforts.

• In-House Award Scheme

Our Environmental Education System

To ensure that our environmental activities take firm root, the Fujitsu Group believes it essential to inculcate and raise the environmental awareness of each and every employee to a point where it links to actual practice. To this end, the Group has been carrying out environmental education and enlightenment training since 1995, based on the system described below.

In addition to having all of our employees undertake environmental e-learning once every three years to acquire a basic understanding of environmental issues, environmental education also forms a part of the general training given to new entrants when they join the company and to ordinary employees, middle managers and senior executives whenever they are promoted. On top of this, customized environmental training is also delivered to individual areas of the business such as sales, systems engineering (SE), design, quality assurance and production. We are implementing facilities management education and internal auditor education as professional education for employees in charge of work related to the environment.

Implementing Environmental e-learning

Once every three years, we implement an environmental e-learning program for all Fujitsu Group employees. This program is aimed at publicizing, understanding, and implementing the Fujitsu Group Environmental Protection Program and to carry out environmental protection activities that conform to ISO 14001.

In FY 2010, we implemented an environmental e-learning program whose main theme was informing people of the Fujitsu Group Environmental Protection Program (Stage VI), which started in FY 2010, and continuation of ISO 14001 certification.

Environmental Leader Course

In April 2010, people responsible for promoting the Fujitsu Group's environmental management system gathered at the Group's Nakatosa Kuroshio no Mori site in Nakatosacho, Kochi Prefecture, for a one-night, two-day training course to learn about biodiversity.

Through the training, the participants deepened their understanding of biodiversity through practical activities, such as checking the quality of river water. This hands on training encouraged them to consider precisely what needs to be done to conserve biodiversity and helped them to acquire the planning skills and know-how they need to become environmental leaders when they return to their places of work.

Environmental Education for Engineers

The Corporate Environmental Strategy Unit carries out a range of environmentally-related education, such as equipment-dismantling training for engineers and tours of recycling centers for members of the Sales Division.

As a new trial program for fiscal 2009, every member of our Sales and Systems Engineering divisions in Japan was invited on a tour of a recycling center at five locations throughout the country. A total of ten tours were held, with a total of 131 participants.

Promoting Awareness Through Environment Month

The Fujitsu Group holds a number of events to raise environmental awareness among our employees in conjunction with the Environment Month sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment. These events include lectures and movie presentations on the environment at our places of work. In 2009, about 200 employees in the Kawasaki district attended our screening of the National Geographic Channel's "Six Degrees Could Change the World" DVD documentary, which shows the changes the earth will undergo due to climate change.

Moreover, each company in the Group is engaged in a variety of environmental programs. For example, PFU Ltd. employees participate in several social-contribution programs, such as picking up trash in the Kahokugata Polder Windbreak Forest and on the roads they use to commute to work, and also visit environmental facilities. In addition, Fujitsu Semiconductor Technology Ltd. is running a flower planting program.

Development of Environmental Learning Materials

In order to share with the outside world the environmental education expertise it has developed for its employees, Fujitsu has teamed up with Fujitsu FOM Limited to create a set of learning materials for environmental education entitled Global Environmental Issue Keywords, and has been marketing them since May 2008 in the form of books and E-learning materials.