Honda Worldwide | Honda Environmental Annual Report 2001

1. Product Recall Action

The company's policy on product recall action is in accordance with the statutes of Honda's Quality Committee. In the course of fiscal 2000, there were no environment-related product recall Action.

2. Compliance with Legal Acts and Regulations / Action in Emergencies

All factories have an ongoing commitment to environmental improvement activities in accordance with the Management System Standards of ISO14001. With respect to all environmental aspects, the company has established and strictly abides by its own voluntary standards that are more stringent than the national or regional regulation values. In accidents or emergencies liable to cause environmental pollution, individual factories and their each department have clearly defined procedures and priorities to prevent or mitigate pollution. Daily activities include regular emergency drills and training events to acquire and improve competence in accident and emergency defense procedures.

Fiscal 2000 was another year without any violation of the legal regulations and emergencies. The noteworthy incidents are as follows.
There were two complaints about noise of construction works during our plant stoppage (during the consecutive holidays). We took immediate actions to correct the problem and followed the matter up by again cautioning the internal staff and the constructors.
The following incident did not directly concern Honda but did elicit an active response on our part. The event was a shipwreck disaster that occurred in February 2001 when a cargo vessel freighting Honda cars ran aground off the coast of Genkai Island in Fukuoka Prefecture. Immediately after the accident, Honda together with the car freighter began to gather information on the oil treatment spilled by the ship owner in accordance with the instructions of the Japan Coast Guard and on the oil spill washed out to sea. The freight company has introduced an environmental management system and was therefore in a position to take the necessary actions and measures, including the ongoing monitoring of the oil leak from the shipwrecked vessel by the watch ship even after the Japan Coast Guard had checked the oil treatment operation and the checking of the vessel to ensure that no oil was leaking out from it. (It was decided to salvage the sunken ship in May 2001.)

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