The company discloses that it conducts ongoing risk assessments by prioritizing employees and business partners, and uses a Plan-Do-Check-Action cycle to address risks such as slavery and human trafficking and other human rights violations. Additionally, it discloses that it conducts a human rights potential risks assessment workshop to examine potential human rights risks of each stakeholder across divisions and addresses risks that may pose a significant effect on its business. Also, it examines what risks exist in the company and also conducts risk assessments. Further, it discloses that its Human Rights and DE&I Steering Committee conducted a comprehensive human rights due diligence potential risk assessment workshop, identifying two crucial human rights themes: the well-being of foreign workers in Japan, including those in subsidiaries, affiliates, and supply chains, and the working conditions of producers and farmers supplying raw materials to the company. Additionally, it discloses that it surveyed its group excluding its production sites using its own Human Rights Checklist until 2021 and then switched to Sedex. Further, it discloses that it has employed Sedex's self-assessment and self-evaluation questionnaires, achieving a 100% response rate from both the group companies and production sites. Additionally, it discloses that further research (interviews) was conducted on foreign workers, which was identified as an important human rights theme during the potential risk assessment workshop and the interviews were conducted by Caux Round Table Japan (CRT Japan), a non-profit organization working in the field of business and human rights, with foreign workers (including technical intern trainees) at partner companies of two its group plants. Moreover, it discloses high human rights risks for each stakeholder that includes forced or compulsory labor; human trafficking ; child labor; poor working conditions ; restriction of freedom of association and collective bargaining; inadequate wages (non-payment, or wages below the living wage) ; discrimination, harassment, unhygienic accommodations, poor working environment, privacy, etc.