Issue Date: August 2, 2023
As employees are the key driver for continuous innovation and sustainable development at a company, providing employees with a safe workplace is the responsibility of a company. With “building a safe and healthy workplace” and “zero occupational disaster” as our safe workplace management targets, we endeavor to ensure that employees and workers at Coretronic are able to work in a healthy and safe workplace.
Occupational Safety and Health Management System
We have fully institutionalized environment, safety and health management (ESH) regulations so that our employers and workers comply with them. In addition, we have formulated our own safety and health policies while regularly reviewing our safety and health performance, enhancing personnel training, implementing risk management, and conducting on-site inspections on a regular basis to ensure that our workplace is safe. The scope of internal and external verification of occupational safety and health management systems in 2022 covered the number of employees and workers reported in “Occupational Disaster Management.”
Aside from implementing occupational safety and health management in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations in different countries and introducing hazard prevention measures and related management regulations according to the nature of different workplaces, we have also established occupational safety and health organizations and the Occupational Safety and Health Committee, which are led by senior executives. Occupational safety and health personnel at plants are responsible for auditing the third-party verification of our occupational safety and health management system based on the ISO 45001 standards, with a 100% pass rate at plants in Taiwan and Wujiang, as well as Coretronic Projection (Kunshan). Plants in Taiwan have also been awarded the CNS 45001 certification. We hope to achieve the goal of continuous improvement with the implementation of various work plans in the management cycle to reduce the occurrence of occupational disasters, and thus ensure the safety and health of all our employees and stakeholders.
Occupational Safety Risk Management
Coretronic has established the Rules for Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment. The management unit pushes each department to review and revise hazard identification and risk assessment data on an annual basis. Before making changes to processes, equipment, raw materials, and operating environments, we carry out identification of hazards, such as chemical, physical, ergonomic, biological, and other occupational safety and health hazards (including social and psychological hazards). We also require the relevant personnel in charge of hazard identification and risk assessment to undergo at least three hours of risk assessment training. Each unit carries out classification of equipment or manufacturing processes in different operating environments, and makes an inventory of duties and operations according to potential hazards arising therefrom. After recording each step in an operation in the “Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Form” in coordination with the operating procedures of each department, each unit converts hazards into risk levels according to their severity and likelihood of occurrence, and then determine and adopt the corresponding risk controls. We formulate improvement plans and make continuous improvements in response to higher-risk hazards identified by plants each year, so as to provide our employees and workers with a safe workplace. In the event of a major occupational disaster, we will classify the disaster as a high-risk hazard and implement risk control. Plants in Taiwan and China completed risk assessments for various operations and reported no unacceptable risk or significant hazards in 2022.
According to the occupational safety and health regulations in both Taiwan and China, the employer or the responsible person in the workplace must stop operations and evacuate all employees to safe location when there is an imminent danger in the workplace. If an employee opines that there is a potential hazard in the duties he performs, the employee should stop the operation and retreat to a safe location without endangering the safety of other workers, and report the situation to his/her immediate supervisor. As stipulated in the relevant operating procedures, no punishment will be imposed on employees who take the initiative to report such hazards and retreat to a safe location due to concerns over occupational safety hazards.
Consultation, Involvement and Communication of Occupational Safety Issues
In an effort to create a comfortable and safe workplace and facilitate labor-management communication, plants in Taiwan convene Occupational Safety and Health Committee meetings on a regular basis, while plants in China also convene Occupational Health Management Committee meetings and safety routine meetings. The aforesaid committees, which consist of managers at all levels, occupational safety and health personnel, and labor representatives, are tasked with proposing recommendations on the occupational safety and health policies formulated by Coretronic, as well as deliberating on, coordinating, and making recommendations on occupational safety and health-related matters. These committees meet every quarter to make decisions on the planning and operation of the occupational safety and health system, and announce the corresponding results in writing or by electronic means. Meanwhile, employees at Coretronic are encouraged to propose occupational safety-related recommendations on the Environment, Safety and Health Opinion Platform, where the management unit will provide voluntary assistance after receiving the recommendations, and no punishment will be imposed on those who provide such recommendations. In addition, we organize contractor coordination meetings each year to educate and consult contractors on occupational safety issues, as well as communicate these issues to them.
【Items Discussed and Negotiated by Occupational Safety and Health Committee】
- Continuous promotion of a safe workplace and occupational disaster prevention
- Continuous promotion of energy saving, carbon reduction, and industrial waste reduction at plants
- Regular training to raise employees’ safety and health awareness
- Continuous rollout of ESH audit
- Management review to ensure the effective operation of the ESH management system
In 2022, a total of 24 occupational safety and health committee meetings and 62 contractor coordination meetings were convened by plants in Taiwan and China. No work safety-related disputes were reported in 2022.
【2022 Taiwan Occupational Safety and Health Committee】Hold the meeting quarterly, and the percentage of labor representatives in the Occupational Safety and Health Committee in Taiwan Plants are as follows:
| Taiwan Plants | Number of Labor Representatives | Number of Committee Members | Percentage of Labor Representatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | 9 | 16 | 56% |
| Chunan Plant | 13 | 21 | 62% |
| Tainan Plant 1 | 8 | 21 | 38% |
| Tainan Plant 2 | 3 | 9 | 33% |
| China Plants | Number of Labor Representatives | Number of Committee Members | Percentage of Labor Representatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kunshan Plants | 6 | 13 | 38% |
| Wujiang Plants | 6 | 15 | 30% |
Occupational Safety and Health Training
In order to ensure that each employee is familiar with occupational safety and health-related laws and regulations and our occupational safety and health management mechanism, we have established the operating procedures for occupational safety and health training, and conduct occupational safety and health programs for employees in accordance with the law and job requirements to enhance employees’ understanding of occupational safety and health.
In 2022, plants in Taiwan and China conducted occupational safety and health training with the participation of 30,912 people over 439,537 person-hours in total. On-the-job occupational safety and health training includes on-the-job training for occupational safety and health supervisors, occupational safety and health personnel, supervisors involved in hazardous operations, fire prevention management personnel, members of the Occupational Safety and Health Committee, and regular employees.
| Item / Area | Taiwan | China |
|---|---|---|
| Number of new employees attending occupational safety and health training | 1,078 | 17,390 |
| Number of employees attending annual fire protection or civil defense regiment training | 351 | 6,933 |
| Number of employees attending on-the-job occupational safety and health training | 1,838 | 2,345 |
| Number of contractors attending annual in-house training | 956 | 21 |
| Total number of participants | 4,223 | 26,689 |
| Total person-hours of training | 11,601 | 427,936 |
Disaster Response Exercise
- In an effort to inculcate the concept of disaster prevention in employees and bolster the crisis awareness and emergency response capabilities of our emergency response team, we not only review our emergency response plan on a regular basis, but also conduct fire drills periodically in collaboration with the fire department at plants to strengthen employees’ response capabilities through practical exercises.
- In 2022, plants in Taiwan and China conducted a total of 32 disaster response exercises and fire drills, which saw the participation of 8,696 people over 10,853 person-hours in total.
Occupational Disaster Management
- In order to reduce the occurrence of occupational accidents and manage the risk of occupational disasters in a systematic manner, we have not only formulated the operating procedures for work-related injury and accident management, but also set up the “Accident Reporting, Work-related Injury, and Environment, Safety and Health Anomaly Handling Record” platform to record the causes of accidents and keep track of the corresponding corrections and improvements. In the event of a work-related injury, we immediately re-examine and assess the hazards and risks involved to bolster disaster prevention. At the same time, we also implement accident analysis and make necessary improvements through regular internal inspections, compliance with accident management regulations, as well as the reporting system and investigation mechanism to ensure that the workplace is safe. In 2022, a total of 7 near-misses and one work-related injury (excluding traffic accidents), which was a scald injury, were reported at plants in Taiwan. Accident investigations, analysis, and safety promotion for these cases have also been completed, thereby achieving our target in 2022.
- At Chunan Plant, an average of 301 employees at Chunan Plant took part in the Safety and Health Self-management Campaign hosted by the Industrial Safety and Health Association and joined the “Disaster-free Work Hours Record Campaign” each month from March 27, 2019 to December 31, 2022. As of the end of 2022, we have accumulated a total of 2,155,464 hours in disaster-free work hours. In the future, we will devote ourselves to maintaining a safe workplace with the goal of “zero disaster in the workplace.”
- In 2022, a total of 11 work-related injuries were reported at plants in China, including 8 slip and fall accidents and 3 machinery pinch-point injuries, thereby achieving our target in 2022. Specifically, Wujiang plants recorded a total of 9 work-related injuries in 2022, an increase of 2 cases from 2021. In an effort to effectively prevent occupational disasters, Wujiang plants planned to conduct safety training for operators at various stations such as automated equipment at production lines, assembly lines, and jigs while educating employees to maintain concentration when walking, adding more warning signs on machinery and equipment, and ensuring the implementation of the 5S methodology in the workplace. Moreover, the Wujiang plants also planned to implement on-site inspections to reduce the occurrence of occupational disasters. On the other hand, with a total of 2 work-related injuries reported at Kunshan plants in 2022, these plants will continue to strengthen education and training for operators and implement on-site management and disaster prevention operations to achieve our annual targets.
| Area | Taiwan5 | China5 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Work-related Injury Rates in 2022 | Employees4 | Workers4 | Employees4 | Workers4 |
| Number of hours worked | 3,019,048 | 435,944 | 9,153,560 | 2,971,928 |
| Rate of fatalities as a result of work-related injury1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of high-consequence work-related injuries (excluding fatalities)2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rate of high-consequence work-related injuries (excluding fatalities)2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of lost day due to disability | 5 | 0 | 691 | 0 |
| Number of recordable work-related injuries3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Rate of recordable work-related injuries3 | 0.3 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 |
| 1. Rate of fatalities as a result of work-related injury = Number of fatalities as a result of work-related injury / number of hours worked x 1,000,000 2. Rate of high-consequence work-related injuries (excluding fatalities) = Number of high-consequence work-related injuries (excluding fatalities) / number of hours worked x 1,000,000. The number of high-consequence work-related injuries refers to the number of people who were medically diagnosed with a serious injury or illness as a result of an occupational disaster. 3. Rate of recordable work-related injuries = Number of recordable work-related injuries / number of hours worked x 1,000,000. The number of recordable work-related injuries at plants in Taiwan refers to the number of occupational injuries that should to be reported as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, whereas the number of documentable occupational injuries at plants in China refers to the number of occupational injuries recorded in accordance with our company’s rules and regulations. 4. Employees and workers: Figures for plants in Taiwan are calculated based on the statistics on occupational injuries reported from January to December 2022, whereas figures for plants in China are calculated based on the data provided in the human resource system. 5. Plants in Taiwan include Headquarters, Chunan Plant, Tainan Plant 1, and Tainan Plant 2, whereas plants in China include Kunshan plants (Coretronic Projection (Kunshan) and Coretronic Optics (Kunshan)) and Wujiang plants (Coretronic Display (Suzhou), Coretronic Optotech (Suzhou), and Coretronic Optics (Suzhou)). |
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Contractor Management
Aside from employees, contractors are also our important partners. With a view to ensuring the health of our partners, maintaining safety at our facilities, and implementing our commitment to a workplace health and safety, plants in Taiwan have put in place clear operating rules for supplier and contractor management while carrying out contractor evaluation on a regular basis to ensure that contractors meet the rules for entry into plants. At the same time, we attach great importance to communication with other workers and notification of hazards to them as we require construction contractors to attend the “Contractor’s Workplace Hazard Notification and Agreement Meeting” before entering plants, as well as make it compulsory for all construction workers to undergo “Contractor’s Environment, Safety and Health Training Program.” We also engage in effective management of construction applications and control of pre-, mid-, and post-construction management via an electronic construction application system.
With the implementation of contractor safety and health management, no contractor accident has been reported at plants in Taiwan for eight years in a row from 2015 to 2022, while no contractor accident was reported at plants in China in 2022.
