▶️Safety Management in Workplace
WPG Holdings attaches great importance to employees' occupational health and safety and dedicates efforts to ensuring the employees' safety, maintaining regularly the work environment, and formulating emergency response measures, and also organizes public safety advocacy courses from time to time, including general safety and health education, occupational accident prevention, disaster prevention, and fire drills, to strengthen the employees' awareness and knowledge of safety management in the workplace, providing diverse health promotion programs to share with our employees. In 2023, WPG Holdings installed AEDs in the workplace,and organized 2 automated external defibrillator (AED) equipment teaching and general first aid training programs, which were included in the regular training courses.
Safety Management in Workplace
WPG Holdings’ industry is classified as low occupational health and safety risk industry, so we implement safety and health measures for workers, activities, and scope of work in accordance with the Regulations Governing Occupational Health and Safety of the Ministry of Labor. Inter-departmental units are responsible to maintain employees’ health and safety in the workplace. The Occupational Health and Safety Management System would be introduced together with the Occupational Health and Safety Committee and other mechanisms in the future to provide the employees with a safer work environment. By identifying the potential risks in the workplace, WPG Holdings actively prevents or compensates for the adverse effects of related risks on the employees and provides sufficient training to establish an occupational safety awareness to ensure safety and health of all employees. In addition, to ensure work safety, occupational safety management measures are stipulated in the Company’s Work Rules. If employees encounter commuting or occupational accidents, they can also request leaves in accordance with the Work Rules. The full-time employees could also use free group insurance, including accident insurance, hospitalization medicate insurance, and other related claims and subsidies.
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Workplace Health and Safety Promotion and Training
- Occupational Accidents Statistics Table
Workplace Emergency Response Measures
In response to changes in internal/ external risks, WPG Holdings conducts hazard identification and risk assessment related to occupational accidents and confirms the key risks that need improvements every year for hierarchical control and tracking management. Assessment results show that workplace interruption is one of the top five risks. In order to ensure that employees have sufficient knowledge and ability to respond to emergencies, WPG has set short, mid, and long-term goals since 2016. In 2017, business interruption emergency response procedures were formulated to prepare for disasters such as fires, earthquakes, and infectious diseases. In addition, the company established a crisis and emergency response center, and a Call Tree crisis reporting mechanism, which can be activated immediately upon natural disasters or major emergencies, to ensure immediate control of employees' safety status.
Since 2017, WPG Holdings has launched an emergency response plan, and regularly conducted emergency response drills and related training every year. The training course includes emergency response procedures, fire safety knowledge and facilities, Call Tree instructions, and fire prevention group training. From 2021 to 2022, due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic which caused reduction of gatherings, related on-site drills and trainings were temporarily canceled. Instead, emergency response trainings and advocates were conducted online.
Promotion of Laboratory Safety Standards
WPG Holdings has formulated relevant standards on laboratory environmental safety to ensure the quality of laboratory environmental safety. Clear guidelines and standard operating procedures are applied to instruct the laboratory staff on how to properly handle chemicals, equipment, and laboratory operations to mitigate the risk over accidents. Meanwhile, the standards also include emergency response plans, such as fire escape procedures and first-aid measures. To ensure effective response in case of emergency and establish the laboratory emergency reporting channel for prompt handling in case of emergencies.
Employee Health Promotion
WPG Holdings cares about employee health. We provide regular health checkups for office staff once every two years and arrange annual health checkups for warehouse and logistics staff, as well as on-site health consultation services by specialist doctors. In order to ensure that employees have more diversified and accurate information about health and safety, WPG Holdings is committed to arranging various soft courses and activities, such as health seminars, on-site oral cancer screening (breast, cervical and colorectal cancers), physical fitness tests, blood donation activities, and on-site consultation with resident doctors, etc.
In 2023, WPG Holdings organized a three-month low carb competition in Taiwan. Through the professional teaching and assistance from nutritionists, employees with diabetes and abnormal physical health index could adopt a healthy diet to lose weight, help them improve posture, and prevent the occurrence of chronic diseases. A total of 60 employees participated in the competition. At last, they lost weight by 5% averagely, 3% in body fat percentage average, 5% in Glycated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) averagely, and 7% in waistline averagely. The highest fat reduction percentage attained 8.92%. Apparently, they achieved remarkable results.
A health consultation room is set up at the headquarter, equipped with diagnosis and treatment beds, and first aid kits for injured and ill employees to temporarily rest. Designated medical personnel is available to assist with general emergency treatment, health care consultation, health education, and preventive healthcare. Nursery rooms are set up both at the headquarter and Linkou warehouse to ensure the health and rights of female employees. Smoking is prohibited in all office areas in accordance with the law. In order to encourage employees to maintain good health and promote employee friendships, each group provided subsidies to set up sports clubs, including softball clubs, badminton clubs, yoga clubs, and fitness clubs. The employees can borrow the training classroom on the 20th floor of WPG’s headquarter building as a venue for club activities during off-duty hours, in order to relieve stress and improve physical fitness.
