Happy Workplace
Healthy Workplace
● Strategy: OH&S Policy: Total Participation, Zero Accident, Health and Safety
● Goals of 2030: Cultivate CLC's OH&S culture (Effective 2025, a 5% yearly growth for participants of OH&S promotion activities and talks)
CLC Safety and Health Policy
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To care about employee health, we established the HSE Promotion Committee in 2000. In conformity to the management framework of ISO 45001 and through the well-established health management system, we draw up implementation plans each year in terms of employee healthcare and wellness promotion focusing on health protection, LOHAS, and physical and spiritual care by HSE personnel, factory nurses, and occupational specialists of CLC plants and mills to proceed with health management to build a healthy workplace, hoping to build a comprehensive health protection zone through wellness promotion and strengthening sanitation management against the pandemic and the personal health risk management of employees.
Supervise the plants and mills to hold the wellness promotion activities, and set the goal of increasing by 5% every year after 2025Through constantly organizing wellness promotion activities, optimizing healthcare projects, and implementing workplace health, we hope to pass the certification for the Badge of Accredited Healthy Workplace of the Ministry of Health and Welfare for all CLC plants and mills across Taiwan to become health enterprises. We have also set the goals for the number of participants in wellness promotion activities. There are 1,942 participants in 2023 (include online: total 7,420 participants).
We have established an OH&S Committee at each mill/plant with members including the site supervisor, OH&S personnel, and other related employees. Labor representatives are recommended by employees (proportion of labor representatives of each mill/plant is 33.3%~60%). Personnel include production workers, leaders, section chiefs, TPM executive secretary, and mill/plant nurses. The OH&S Committee holds a committee quarterly to discuss and promote mill/plant OH&S-related decisions and activities.
Continuously assisting with the establishment of overseas ISO 45001 occupational health and safety management systems, the Binh Duong Mill, Binh Duong Plant, Viet Long Plant, Long An Plant, and Bac Giang Plant all completed their applications in 2023. The Bac Giang Plant is also in the process of applying.
Labor and Management Representative of the OH&S Committee in 2023
HSE Risk Assessment with a Total of 4,226 OH&S Proposals Were Received
We establish our HSE assessment criteria according to ISO 14001:2015 and ISO/CNS 45001:2018 management systems. Every year, they periodically assess the risks and opportunities to be addressed, propose improvement or control measures, and report them to the management review meeting for resolution, with the follow up by the mill/plant management representatives. Once equipment, SOP change, the corrective actions for an occupational accident or nonconformity are modified or occurred, hazard identification and assessment shall be performed again.
Near misses are important indicators of potential risks. We make the best use of the HSE management system to follow up near miss reports and corrective actions. To urge all mills/plants to improve OH&S performance, we introduce the improvement proposal system to encourage employees to propose improvement for operation safety or the work environment. In 2023, a total of 4,226 OH&S proposals were received, and mills/plants with outstanding HSE performance were rewarded at the year-end.
In 2023, 14 employee disability injuries were reported (Taiwan, China and Vietnam), and pinch hazard and fall was the main type of occupational injury. We also actively implement improvement procedures to move forward zero accidents:
To keep our commitment to valuing the health and safety of all CLC partners, we also included the occupational accidents of non-CLC employee resident at CLC premises in our statistics. In 2023, CLC had a total of 2 cases of non-employee disabling injuries, with no reported cases of occupational diseases.
OH&S Education and Training Management
For HSE personnel to timely capture the changes and trends in OH&S related laws and regulations, we have setting up our own OH&S education and training program and sending staffs to participate in conferences and talks from time to time. In addition, each mill/plant sends senior staffs familiar with OH&S-related laws and regulations and with practice experience to help other employees understand the spirit and focus of implementation of related laws and regulations together with external experts and scholars by means of seminars or on-site diagnosis to strengthen their awareness of hazards in the work environment and protect the health and safety of workers. Since 2021, we have created a "Health Promotion Column" in CLC Bimonthly, sharing a total of 16 articles on topics such as "Eating for Health and Slimness" and "Healthy Teeth Lead to Overall Health." Additionally, we have organized a total of 6 events focusing on areas like stress management and psychological care, with a total participation of 142 individuals.
We are actively promoting cancer prevention and screening activities, encouraging employees to receive flu vaccinations, and providing timely health checks and preventive measures for our employees. The average OH&S training for each employee in 2023 is about 28.1 hours.
Enhancing the Management and Efficiency of Visits by External Units of HSE
We constantly optimize OH&S management, by enhancing the efficiency of HSE information transmission and the effectiveness of the HSE management system, we have established the HSE mill/plant visit electronic response system to timely capture real-time data and improve the HSE effectiveness. There were 137 times of the HSE mill/plant visits in 2023.
Contractor Management
To enhance contractor HSE management, and maintain in-house operation safety and the safety of the contractor's employees and equipment, we have also established and implemented the Contractor HSE Management Regulations. In 2023, we arranged 4,757 hours of contractor education and training for 7,121 persons.
• Select and verify qualified contractors to undertake contracts.
• Sign the OH&S and environmental management undertaking.
• Hold consultative organization meetings to publicize hazard factors required notification.
for in-house operation.
• Perform plan entry control and apply for safe work permit.
• Implement in-house construction control and abide by in-house OH&S management regulations.
• Work safety check points: open fire, work at height, lifting/hoisting, risk management, cutting.
• Publicize the electrical equipment management regulations.
Cross-factory Audit/OH&S Rating
Every year, each mill/plant implements the annual HSE system targets and KPIs. Then, the HQs Health, Safety & Environment Department follow up their performance through periodic monitoring and measurement with the cross-factory audit and annual mill/plant assessment. The collected information is submitted to the management for the reference of decision-making and thereby set the targets and KPIs of the next year. In addition, though the HSE rating, we perform cross-factory and cross-division learning and exchange to establish a better OH&S management system.
We also arrange non-regular visits to paper mills and paper box plants in Vietnam to conduct EHS inspections. These inspections cover on-site 5S management, environmental management, and on-site safety and health management, as well as the operation of related management systems. Through cross-plant audits overseas, we aim to deepen and implement occupational safety and health management practices.
In 2023, we performed cross-factory OH&S audits on Corrugated Container Division at 7 mills and conducted annual OH&S rating on Containerboard Division, Household Products at 4 mills/plants.
Health at CLC: CLC Health Management System Platform & LINE Health Group
We developed the "CLC Health Management Platform" to monitor employees in high health risk groups online. Professional in-house nurses and occupational medical specialists analyze their data and provide health advice.
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Heath Inspection |
We value the mental and physical health of employees. Every new employee must submit a physical examination report, and active employees must take the annual health checkup. For employees working in special work environments, we provide special health checkups (e.g. noise, dust, and ionized radiation examination). Cases requiring management and follow-up as determined by the physician will be followed up according to the protection plan and provided with sufficient information for further medical attention. • In 2023, a total of 3,597 employees took the general health checkup, with an achievement rate of 98.9%; and 1,187 employees took the special health checkup. For employees with abnormal results, we also actively provided health guidance and related consultations by medical staff. • Has hired Dr. Guan-Tang Li as medical director since 2021 and provided severe illness, health care and other related issues consultation every week. |
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Improving Operation Environment |
Besides improving the ventilation equipment, we installed cooling equipment at focused work zones to provide employees with a comfortable work environment. |
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Safeguarding Respiratory Tract through Advance Deployment! Non-Smoking Workplace and Smoking Cessation Class from 2020 |
Smoking is completely prohibited in all company premises to eliminate secondhand smoke. Since 2020, the company has introduced additional smoking cessation programs and periodically conducts tobacco control education and training to help employees quit smoking. |
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Health Promotion |
We promote various health management and health promotion activities in order to build a happy, healthy workplace. • In 2023, we organized a total of 82 health promotion activities and talks with 1,942 participants (include online: total 7,420 participants). |
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Health Protection |
In conformity with the overwork, maternal, ergonomic, workplace violence, and respiratory protection issues as stated in the Occupational Safety and Health Act, we arrange stress relief talks, core muscles exercise, and ergonomic hazards prevention talks or on-site instructions to protect the health of employees. |
Achievements in Workplace Health Promotion
In 2023, CLC actively promoted various health activities and seminars to help employees with weight control, cancer prevention, and flu vaccinations. CLC also vigorously enforced a no-smoking policy throughout the entire facility. Additionally, special attention was given to situations that might cause physical or mental harm to employees while performing their duties. Appropriate preventive measures were taken, including completing written statements for assessment, to ensure the comprehensive protection of all employees' physical and mental health.
Advocating for work-life balance and encouraging nationwide exercise, CLC created sports spaces in 11 plants/mills across Taiwan. We encouraged employees to form clubs and actively participate in health and leisure activities, fully subsidizing these clubs. Since 2020, CLC has partnered with the Sports Administration's "Sports Calendar Platform" to publicize events and competitions, actively creating a truly happy enterprise and implementing a healthy and enjoyable workplace.
