All applicable laws and regulations must be complied with, and all employees' health and safety must be secured.

Ensuring health and safety is 1st priority before any other business judgment, and accident prevention is everybody's responsibility.

Health and Safety management is a continuous improvement process through constructive analysis, discussion and cooperation involving employees and labor union.

Dangers and risks associated with daily activities must be identified and evaluated. Necessary preventive measures must be put in place systematically to achieve a safer and healthier working environment.

Health and Safety education program must be implemented at all levels in our group.

Management must account for the Health and Safety risk analysis providing all necessary guidance and resources to mitigate all identified risks.

All sites must enforce basic safety best practices, such as preventive risk analysis, and execute all corrective actions as part of the site safety continuous improvement program.

Product information must be provided to ensure end user Health and Safety .

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. Health and Safety policy must be duly communicated and understood by all  people involved in the activities of our group to improve their health and safety.

Recognizing the importance of globally environmental preservation, Sumitomo Metals and the group companies have established the action guidelines to fulfill its social responsibility in doing business activities. The Sumitomo Metals Group contributes to the realization of globally environmental preservation and the building of a reduce-reuse-recycle society through the activities harmonizing with environmental preservation and socio-economic development.

The head office, steel works, research laboratories and the group companies jointly promote the measures from the viewpoint of environmental preservation and energy and resource conservation. We establish, maintain and improve Environmental Management System, e.g. ISO14001 to promote and ensure our voluntary and consecutive activities for environmental preservation.

Sumitomo Metals conducts a wide range of environmental activities including energy saving, the reduction and recycling of resources, and the development of environmental technology. We continue to be actively engaged in a number of programs aimed at constructing an environmental-aware society, and at environmental preservation on a global scale.

In FY2008, environmental measures costs comprised 20.0 billion yen in environment-related capital investments, and 54.0 billion yen in maintenance costs related to environmental preservation. In addition, the cost of environment-related R&D, such as the development of eco-conscious products, was 12.8 billion yen.

For more details on costs and results of environmental measures, including CO2 emission reduction, energy saving, recycling and waste disposal, please refer to Sumitomo Metals web site.