Recognizing 48 companies at the awards ceremony for suppliers
In addition to sharing business policies and purchasing measures with suppliers, Honda holds awards ceremonies for suppliers. At one such meeting in January 2011, President Takanobu Ito met with participants from 325 companies to explain Honda's policy of harnessing Japan's lead in organ izational reform and innovation to provide customers with high-quality products quickly, inexpensively, and in a low-carbon manner. Next, Honda presented letters of appreciation to 48 suppliers who made outstanding contributions to the company's business in development, cost, quality, parts, and special (superior quality and global quality) categories. Then Masaya Yamashita, Chief Operating Officer of Purchasing Operations, explained Honda's future approach to purchasing and the company's new Green Purchasing Guidelines and asked the assembled suppliers to redouble their cooperation.
President Mikio Sunaga (right) of Moriroku Technology Company, Ltd., accepts four awards from Honda President Ito (left).
Striving to achieve a safer labor environment
Honda has consistently worked to encourage the creation of safe work environments at its suppliers' manufacturing sites in order to fulfill founder Soichiro Honda's assertion, "There can be no production without safety."
Since 2009, we have been augmenting classroom lectures and training on occupational health and safety management systems by conducting simple audits of manufacturing sites with suppliers and encouraging each company to move quickly to develop and introduce an occupational health and safety management system that suits the characteristics of its own production system. Going forward, we will continue to work with suppliers to eliminate industrial accidents as part of our efforts to create workplace environments in which employees can do their jobs with peace of mind.
