Compliance

Basic Approach

The NESIC Group regards compliance not only as the observance of laws and regulations, but as a broader concept that includes social norms and common sense. We believe it is important to maintain the reputation and trust we acquire from society as a sound company, and to seek to improve the corporate value of the NESIC Group as a whole, by having each employee fulfill their social responsibility with a strong sense of ethics. Based on this approach, we work to promote compliance with the goal of moving from the “cultivation” stage of compliance to that of “cultural level.”

Code of Conduct and Compliance Education

The Code of Conduct has been established to help ensure that individual employees make decisions, and act, responsibly at all times.

Clear understanding of the Code of Conduct is promoted through annual businessperson education held in a face-to-face format, and through job-level specific group education, as well as online programs for all employees. In addition, numerous education programs are conducted on topics such as the Subcontract Act, the Construction Industry Act, the Worker Dispatching Act, and fair trade.

Corporate Ethics Hotline

The NESIC Group has established its Corporate Ethics Hotline, so that compliance problems in corporate activities may be discovered early on and ethical problems and legal violations may be prevented altogether. The Corporate Ethics Hotline is an internal reporting and consultation resource for employees to use when they are concerned that certain behavior may be in violation of laws, regulations, internal rules, or social norms, and, for any reason, feel they cannot consult with their supervisor or relevant departments.

Compliance Awareness Survey of Employees

A survey of employees is conducted to gauge their awareness of compliance and determine the extent to which compliance awareness has taken hold within the NESIC Group in Japan.

Results of these surveys are compared to those from similar surveys at other companies to assess compliance awareness for the NESIC Group as a whole, and within individual organizations, and then develop organization-level improvement measures.