Human Rights and Labor
Basic Stance
Recognizing that respect for human rights is a vital corporate social responsibility, the KOBELCO Group, as a global business group, fully respects the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Bill of Human Rights, and ILO Core Labour Standards for the protection of human rights adopted by the United Nations. In order to clearly demonstrate its commitment to respect human rights, based on the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and other international standards, the KOBELCO Group has established the Kobe Steel Group Basic Policy on Human Rights.
Management Structure
- With the objective of mitigating the risk of human rights violations in all of our business activities, we believe that it is important to face all stakeholders who are affected by human rights issues and understand their issues. Based on our Group's Basic Policy on Human Rights, we will conduct human rights due diligence that will lead to the avoidance and prevention of human rights violations associated with our business activities, and strive to properly respond to human rights issues related to our business activities while valuing dialogue with relevant stakeholders.
- In the event that a serious problem of human rights violations occurs, a report is submitted to the person responsible for human rights issues, and then the Board of Directors receives a report on the details, discusses them, investigates the facts of the matter, and takes appropriate action.