Supply chain environmental management
The Green Program is designed to develop eco-products and is operated in conjunction with partner firms.
Green Program
In conjunction with partner firms, the company operates what is known as the LG Electronics Green Program, a certification system that encourages environmental awareness in an attempt to reduce hazardous substances in a product and the environmental damages they cause. This program was designed to comply with national and international hazardous substance-related regulations, to offer eco-products to customers, to refrain from using hazardous substances during the production stage of raw materials and parts, and to minimize the negative impact on the environment. LG Electronics and its partner firms aim to establish themselves as environmentally friendly companies. The program has, therefore, targeted all of LG Electronics' partner firms that supply parts, raw materials, and other materials.
Under the standards established by the Green Program, LG Electronics and its partner firms are assessed on their environmental management systems and hazardous substance management methods for a given product. A company that passes the environmental awareness evaluation is awarded a Green Program certificate, giving it the all-important public image of a company that is doing its bit for the environment.
See details of certification procedure.
Certification procedure
Subcontractors
- Submit the following documents:
- Analysis report of environment-related substances
- Composition table of environment-related substances
- Non-use certificate
- Control list of environment-related substances
- Improvement plan (if required)
- MSDS or MIL sheet (if required)
- Samples for analysis
Partner firms
- Obtain an Environmentally Friendly Components Supply Guarantee Agreement
- Submit the following documents:
- Analysis report of environment-related substances
- Composition table of environment-related substances
- Non-use certificate
- Control list of environment-related substances
- Improvement plan (if required)
- MSDS or MIL sheet (if required)
- Samples for analysis
- Implement an environmentally friendly quality assurance system
- Establish, maintain, and operate the system
- Produce self-evaluation results
LG Electronics (Division)
- Confirm existence of Environmentally Friendly Components Supply Guarantee Agreements
- Confirm compliance with work procedure
- Confirm permitted maximum concentration level of hazardous substances
- Confirm criteria of non-compliance cases in warehouse inspections
- Audit and verify suppliers' environmentally friendly quality assurance systems
- Review by Environmental Certification Review Committee
Certification
The Green Program Certification is a system that awards a certificate after evaluating the environmental management system and hazardous substance management methods. The three criteria for the certification are the environmental management systems, hazardous substance management, and the product management system. In order to earn the Green Program certificate, a company must score more than 80 points, including the compulsory 42 points. In order to receive the certificate, the company also has to submit the following documents, specified by LG Electronics: Analysis report of environment-related substances, composition table of environment-related substances, non-use certificate, control list of environment-related substances, etc. Once LG Electronics has reviewed the submitted documents and has verified the systems of its partner firms, the certificate can be issued.
See details of certification criteria.
Certification criteria
| Description |
Environmental Management System |
Management System |
Effective Term |
| Environment-related substances |
Materials and products |
Follow-up control |
Renewal examination |
| Total |
30 points |
40 points |
30 points |
- |
- |
| 100 points |
| Certification criteria |
Over 80 points (42 from compulsory items) |
1 year |
2 years |
| Target firms |
All firms supplying products, parts, raw materials, and supplementary materials to LG Electronics. |
Documents for Suppliers
LG Electronics distributes related information such as the "Manuals for Preparation of Environmental Regulations" and the "Standards for Managing the Six Hazardous Substances Specified in RoHS," both online and offline, so that its partner firms can easily adapt their operations to the Green Program. which also contains detailed LGE principles and standards with regard to hazardous substance management.
Click here to download the latest version of the 'Manual for Preparation of Environmental Regulations'
