Social

As part of its human resources philosophy, the AISIN Group believes that each of our co-workers is a key player and the strength of our Group. Based on this belief, we have purposely placed "colleagues" at the top of the value we provide in our Group Philosophy. Through the implementation of our human resources management goals, we will create new value and provide our colleagues with job satisfaction and happiness in life.

During the period of rapid quantitative expansion, we cultivated “the ability of people and organizations to continue to efficiently produce results as a homogeneous group.” However, in terms of our vision of people and organizations for 2030 and the direction of our critical measures, this ability is not necessarily suitable in the current environment, which requires anticipating needs and changes and providing products that are not extensions of existing products.
New ideas that are not bound by precedent are essential to solving problems without simply extending existing solutions. We have identified the areas that we have to change while utilizing our existing strengths in order to adapt to a changing environment, and have sorted out what the AISIN Group aspires to be. Various measures are in place to achieve that vision.

Direction of the vision and priority measures for personnel and workplace goals for 2030

• Group and global consolidated basis
• Activities of all employees/people grow more than anywhere else
  • Developing people and workplaces that pursue challenges
  • Activities and growth of professional human resources
  • Priority investments for nurturing professional human resources
• Other initiatives regarding “Human resources”
• TOP MESSAGE - Promotion of diversity and inclusion -

The AISIN Group aims to become a corporate group that encourages taking on challenges through the Group’s global consolidation, and empowers all employees so as to develop people who are better than anywhere else. To achieve these goals, the key is to respect the human rights of all people together with our employees, as well as our internal and external stakeholders. In addition, respect for human rights is foundational in all of our business activities. We are keenly aware of the need to more thoroughly understand the various human rights issues associated with the activities we carry out in each country and area of business, and take appropriate measures.

AISIN Group Human Rights Policy

Based on this stance, the Human Rights Expert Committee formulated the AISIN Group Human Rights Policy in 2021. The AISIN Group have declared that we will fulfill our responsibility to respect human rights, and have incorporated this into important regulations of each function, including those of our group companies and supply chain.

The scope of human rights risks covered by our Human Rights Policy includes discrimination; harassment; child and young workers; immigrant labor; forced labor; basic working conditions, such as wages (minimum wage or living wage), working hours, and holidays; safe and healthy working environments; dialogue with employees; diversity and inclusion; minorities (including women, LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities); rights of indigenous peoples and local residents (such as land, forests, and water resources); use of security forces; privacy; consumers (product safety and provision of information); and bribery and corruption.

AISIN Group Human Rights Policy

The AISIN Group aims to settle the due diligence process regarding human rights throughout the Group, including the supply chain, by 2025. To achieve this target, it is important to clarify the human rights risks and the status of countermeasures taken. While continuing to achieve a 100% implementation rate for a survey to identify human rights risks, we will advance steps toward the target and details of the survey through a cycle of due diligence regarding human rights, including internal and external education, and talks and negotiations with stakeholders.

As part of our manufacturing activities, we procure a wide variety of items, including parts and materials, from numerous suppliers around the world. In each of these transactions, the AISIN Group works to increase collaboration and establish trust relationships with our suppliers based on our basic philosophy of seeking growth and prosperity as good business partners.

To promote sustainable procurement activities throughout the supply chain under the basic principles of “Coexist harmoniously and share prosperity with suppliers with a view to stability in our trades in the long term” and “Carry out open and fair trade,” we have rolled out the Basic Procurement Policies globally.

Basic Policy

Promoting the Basic Procurement Policies at Group companies in Japan and overseas

We believe in coexisting and sharing prosperity with our suppliers and strive to achieve mutual development. Based on this belief, we have established the Group Procurement Policies for our procurement activities. In FY2024, we held a briefing on our procurement policies* in each of our main global operating regions of Japan, North America, China, ASEAN, and India. We share information on current trends in our business environment and roll out our Group Procurement Policies.

* For the briefings, we invited suppliers with a high degree of transaction dependency in each region (752 Japanese companies and 1,152 overseas companies).

Safety and Health are above everything else

As a corporate group conducting global business, creating safe, healthy workplaces for our employees and all other personnel working on our premises is crucial at all of our sites.
Based on the core principle that Safety and Health are above everything else is the foundation of value creation in a company, Aisin continually strives to enhance the health and safety of all employees.

Based on the core principle of Safety and Health are above everything else, we have formulated the AISIN Consolidated Safety and Health Policy and the AISIN Group Health Declaration, and we carry out our activities based on this policy and declaration.

AISIN Consolidated Safety and Health Policy

The AISIN group Declaration of health

Group Safety Vision for 2030

Toward the goal of eradicating serious accidents and accident that requires time off from work, we promote health measures to promote activities to thoroughly prevent recurrences, raise health awareness, and make health activities as our daily routine.
We have set the Group Safety Vision for 2030 and KPIs, and are working to create a workplace environment in which employees can work with peace of mind, stay healthy both mentally and physically, and continue to play active roles.

• Occupational health and safety management system
• Initiatives to prevent the reoccurrence of fires and minimize possible damage
• AISIN Group Unified Fire Prevention Priority 6 Items
• Initiatives for healthy business practices
• Other initiatives regarding “Safety and Health Promotion”
• Acquisition status of ISO45001 certification

Upholding “To our customers, inspiration and trust” in its Corporate Principles, the Aisin is committed to improving quality and creating new value that exceeds our customers’ expectations.

In the AISIN Group Way, our action principle “Supreme Quality” is foundational to everything we do. We carry out TQM,* intending to enhance not only the quality of our products and services but also the quality of our work, ensure mutual cooperation between all our employees, and improve our company frameworks based on a customer-first approach.

* Total Quality Management

Quality policy

We have defined the system of our quality assurance activities in the Quality Manual and have established the quality policy, based on which we promote our quality activities.

Establish a global system to achieve the best quality, and deliver safety and relief to our customers.

• Establish a globally acceptable quality assurance system by considering the next-generation product and service quality and enhancing governance, and audit and modify the system.
• For the DX society, build a management system that is always capable of responding to the progress in electrification, growth fields, and carbon neutrality, and develop human resources capable of creating new value.

One of the tenets of our Corporate Principles is to “act independently and aspire to contribute to society.” Under this tenet, the AISIN Group Principles of Corporate Behavior pledge to “actively engage with society and contribute to sustainable development based on an awareness that companies are members of society.”

AISIN Group Principles of Corporate Behavior (Chapter 7)

• We respect the cultures, traditions, and the like of countries and local communities around the world, and strive to establish mutual trust with local communities and stakeholders.
• We actively make efforts to solve social issues by investing our human resources, expertise, and other management resources.
• We make efforts to help realize a sustainable society in cooperation with various stakeholders, including NPOs, local communities, and administrative organs.
• To help realize a sustainable society and solve various social issues, we support our employees with various forms of voluntary social participation, including volunteer activities.

AISIN Group Principles of Corporate Behavior

Together with a wide variety of stakeholders, we carry out various social contribution activities with our focus on the three categories of protection of nature and the environment, nurturing youth, and community building and development. Through these activities, we are working proactively to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of common goals for international society to achieve by 2030.

Protection of nature and the environment:

We will promote environmental conservation activities in order to pass on a better natural environment to the next generations.

Nurturing youth:

We provide support for the healthy growth of children, who will play key roles in the next generation.

Community building and development:

We will promote sustainable “community building and development,” whereby all people can live safely and securely.