Our contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) describe the major challenges that we face to ensure a sustainable, peaceful, prosperous, and equitable life on earth for all.
It forms the basis of Hitachi Rail’s idea of sustainability: to offer an integrated and sustainable mobility ecosystem, capable of contributing to the achievement of prosperity and quality of life in balance with natural capital.
We know that the role of rail transport is crucial in achieving the goals of decarbonisation and in bringing people, territories, and relationships closer together for social and economic well-being.
Click on each of the Goals below to explore how Hitachi Rail contributes to achieving them, through its business strategy and corporate commitments.
Air quality
We’re managing production processes by reducing emissions of substances that affect the natural composition of the air and impact biodiversity, local communities, and employee health.
Employee welfare
We offer employees modern and flexible tools and working models to meet specific personal needs and ensure work-life balance.
Support for local communities
We ensure the social development of the territory and communities in which the Organisation operates, through local stakeholder engagement initiatives aimed at generating long-term sustainable value.
Training and career development
We train, recognise and develop our people, through the development of dedicated activities and programmes aimed at increasing professional skills and promoting growth paths raining and career development.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We promote inclusion and value gender, generation, and cultural diversity as factors for growth and innovation.
Water consumption optimisation
We ensure a responsible water supply by rationalising consumption and carefully managing water discharges to minimise environmental impacts.
Reduction of emission and mitigation of climate change
We effectively manage the potential environmental impacts of the Group's activities, contributing to the overall reduction of atmospheric emissions.
Reduction of energy consumption
We manage operations with a holistic approach to reducing energy consumption and the rational use of resources.
Training and career development
We train, recognise, and develop our people, through the development of dedicated activities and programmes aimed at increasing professional skills and promoting growth paths raining and career development.
Employee welfare
We offer employees modern and flexible tools and working models to meet specific personal needs and ensure work-life balance.
Occupational Health & Safety
We guarantee, through the creation of safe and healthy working environments, the psychophysical health of all Group personnel and of all those who access offices, maintenance centres and production centre.
Supply chain management
We ensure that our values are shared throughout the supply chain, setting purchasing processes on monitoring the social and environmental performance of counterparts.
Eco-design
We rethink production processes from a circular economy perspective to make the finished product and its production/maintenance process more efficient and less resource intensive.
Customer focus
We develop products and services according to criteria of honesty, fairness, transparency and collaboration to maintain a solid relationship with customers and based on listening to their need.
R&D and product innovation
We develop innovative and technologically advanced solutions to take advantage of digitisation and automation opportunities and offer state-of-the-art products and services.
Data protection security
We ensure the professional management of sensitive and personal data through the use of state-of-the-art procedures, tools and technologies, ensuring an effective IT security management system and efficient use of information asset.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We promote inclusion and we value gender, generation, and cultural diversity as factors for growth and innovation.
Ethics, integrity and transparency
We act in compliance with the regulations in force in the individual countries in which we carry out our activities, implementing controls to prevent and monitor corruption in all its forms and to ensure ethical and transparent business conduct.
Air quality
We’re managing production processes by reducing emissions of substances that affect the natural composition of the air and impact biodiversity, local communities, and employee health.
Waste management
We ensure proper waste management aimed at safeguarding the environment, favouring the reuse and recycling of recoverable material, also through continuous training and updating of internal staff.
Support for local communities
We ensure the social development of the territory and communities in which we operate, through local stakeholder engagement initiatives aimed at generating long-term sustainable value.
Reduction of energy consumption
We manage operations with a holistic approach to reducing energy consumption and the rational use of resources.
Water consumption optimisation
We ensure a responsible water supply by rationalising consumption and carefully managing water discharges to minimise environmental impacts.
Waste management
We ensure proper waste management aimed at safeguarding the environment, favouring the reuse and recycling of recoverable material, also through continuous training and updating of internal staff.
Eco-design
We rethink production processes from a circular economy perspective to make the finished product and its production/maintenance process more efficient and less resource intensive.
Customer focus
We develop products and services according to criteria of honesty, fairness, transparency and collaboration to maintain a solid relationship with customers and based on listening to their need.
Supply chain management
We ensure that our values are shared throughout the supply chain, setting purchasing processes on monitoring the social and environmental performance of counterparts.
R&D and product innovation
We develop innovative and technologically advanced solutions to take advantage of digitisation and automation opportunities and offer state-of-the-art products and services.
Reduction of emission and mitigation of climate change
We effectively manage the potential environmental impacts of the Group's activities, contributing to the overall reduction of atmospheric emissions.
Waste management
We ensure proper waste management aimed at safeguarding the environment, favouring the reuse and recycling of recoverable material, also through continuous training and updating of internal staff.
Support for local communities
We ensure the social development of the territory and communities in which we operate, through local stakeholder engagement initiatives aimed at generating long-term sustainable value.
Supply chain management
We ensure that our values are shared throughout the supply chain, setting purchasing processes on monitoring the social and environmental performance of counterparts.
Ethics, integrity and transparency
We act in compliance with the regulations in force in the individual countries in which the Organisation carries out its activities, implementing controls to prevent and monitor corruption in all its forms and to ensure ethical and transparent business conduct.
Hitachi Rail Partnerships for Sustainable Development bring together diverse stakeholders, including governments, businesses, civil society organisations, academy, and communities, to collaborate and work towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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