Invigorating Local Communities
As its own essential SDG goal, the azbil Group aims to contribute to society at all business sites through activities rooted in the local community, with active participation by every employee, and it is working to achieve this target. To facilitate the practice of continuing and systematic activity, we established a dedicated social contribution department in FY2021, and formulated aims and key themes for its initiatives. In FY2022, in line with global conditions, we promoted employee participation at our business locations and at sponsored events, while ensuring the safety and security of the local community and our employees. By strengthening the efforts of all employees to address social issues both in Japan and overseas, we will continue to aim to contribute “in series” to the achievement of a sustainable society.
Aims
We aim to achieve a sense of solidarity and accomplishment as the azbil Group by establishing a corporate culture that helps individual employees to plan and implement solutions to societal problems and achieve ongoing personal growth, and to participate in initiatives that bring individual employees together with various stakeholders.
Key themes
- Areas involving the global environment
- Areas involving people (particularly fostering the next generation)
Supporting education in elementary schools
The azbil Group provides educational support as part of our efforts to contribute to the local community. In FY2022, in conjunction with the completion of the buildings in the Fujisawa Technology Center, which is our R&D base, we conducted an energy conservation tour for third graders of Takaya Elementary School in the suburbs of Fujisawa. This was the first time for the azbil Group to conduct an energy conservation tour for elementary school students, and our employees served as lecturers to the approximately 150 students, explaining the Group’s activities connected to the achievement of the SDGs. As a result of the lesson, we received letters from the children, and we continue to interact with them.
Energy conservation tour (image courtesy of Townnews-Sha Co., Ltd.)
In FY2021,one of our employees spoke about his own work in a social studies lecture during a teaching unit entitled “Workers and Our Lives.” He spoke to over 200 third graders from Katase Elementary School and Takaya Elementary School in Fujisawa City, near the Fujisawa Technology Center which is our R&D base. In the course of his speech, he also explained that the azbil Group is engaged in activities connected to the achievement of the SDGs. As a result of the lesson, we received a newspaper the children created about the Group and their written impressions of the lesson, and we continue to interact with them.
The employee in class