Designated Investigation Agency | Procedures for Comprehensive Soil Investigation to Protect Corporate Credit
A method for inventorying environmental risks at low cost through phased sampling in phases 1 to 3, in order to protect corporate compliance and social trust.
This document is a utilization guide for phased comprehensive soil surveys created for B2B companies and factory managers aiming to promote ESG management, strengthen corporate governance, and ensure compliance. It helps to early inventory potential environmental risks on company-owned land to robustly protect the company's social credibility. If legacy risks, such as underground infiltration of chemicals, are lurking on the operational site, neglecting them could lead to expanded contamination, potentially jeopardizing the company's brand value and social credibility in the future. This guide explains the step-by-step approach from Phase 1, which involves scrutinizing past handling history, to Phases 2 and 3, which focus on collecting field data. It completely eliminates unnecessary budget expenditures by avoiding uniform investigations across the entire site and implements "tiered sampling" based on historical evidence to narrow down sampling points, thereby detailing a process that achieves high cost-effectiveness and reliable cost optimization. The objective legal evidence from Geotech, a Ministry of the Environment-designated investigation agency, strongly supports the establishment of a safe management foundation and sustainable corporate value.
basic information
As a technical specification for comprehensive soil surveys for corporate governance purposes, we will strictly apply the standard soil evaluation procedures defined in the latest guidelines from the Ministry of the Environment and JIS standards. In Phase 1 document review, we will trace the chemical substance handling ledger, industrial waste management manifest, and facility piping diagrams of the target facility to structurally assess the potential contamination probability. In Phase 2 and 3 field investigations, we will promote surface sampling for uniform evaluation of the site and stepwise sampling for areas where non-compliance with standards has been detected, creating a reliable environmental risk report based on official analytical methods registered under the measurement certification business.
Price information
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Price range
P3
Delivery Time
P4
Model number/Brand name
Soil contamination survey
Applications/Examples of results
This research method is utilized for corporate CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities, the maintenance of environmental management systems (such as ISO 14001), responding to environmental audits required by global supply chains, and voluntary risk screening during changes in land use for company-owned land during family succession or organizational restructuring within a group. It is suitable for pre-screening potential contamination risks on-site without halting operations at factories or business locations, providing objective evidence to demonstrate safety to external stakeholders. It addresses governance needs to avoid long-term negative legacies and to ensure corporate value and social credibility.
