Safety, Occupational Health, and Environment at Work Management
Safety, Occupational Health, and Environment at Work are the most important aspects of the business and its stakeholders, particularly employees, suppliers/contractors, and communities and society due to accidents or diseases from work can affect life and property of employees and other stakeholders including impact to business to resolve and provide compensation to those involved. Because of this, the Company has set in place a Safety, Health and Occupational Policy which requires employees and contractors to perform safety duties and responsibilities for themselves and their colleagues in compliance with safety regulations and standards including operational risk assessment and building safety awareness to employees and the involved to be built safety occupational health organization culture.
Safety, Occupational Health and Environmental Policy
The Company is committed to providing a safe workplace, promoting an occupational health, and improving an environmentally friendly and socially responsible production process by
1) Comply with the safety, occupational health and environmental legislation, the requirement of prohibited hazardous substances used in products and other related requirements, legislations, and obligations.
2) Improve and develop the management system of safety, occupational health continuously by providing the necessary resources which including personnel, time, budget and an appropriate or a sufficient training to achieve occupational health and safety objectives.
3) Eliminate hazards and reduce risks by assessing work risks which cover all activities and 5S Management in the workplace to be well organized, encouraging employees to participate in survey, inspecting and fixing non-conformity issues to raise to be the standard of the company. Also, employees will be protected from punishments or unfair treatment because of reporting incidences, risks, and opportunities.
4) Promote the occupational health, safety condition of working for the prevention of work-related injury and illness by complying with the objectives, risks and opportunities of occupational health and safety management system and the organization context.
5) Protect the environment and prevent pollution by reducing the environmental impact of the operations and developing environmentally friendly production process continuously.
6) Promote the efficient use of resources, including maximizing energy conservation.
7) Promote the conservation of biodiversity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including the participation of community development for providing a sustainable society.
8) Encourage the participation and consultation about occupational health, safety and environment for employees and other related parties.
The Company has defined safety goals and implements and include monitoring and continuously improvement of safety occupational health performance to comply with standard of Occupational Health and Safety Management System (ISO45001) that has certified, which is an Internationally Accepted Standards.
Safety, Occupational Health, and Environment at Work Performance
The Company has established guidelines related to occupational health, safety and working environment supervision covering employees, operators, contractors, and subcontractors such as risk assessment, preparation of safety manuals and operating procedures, working place monitoring, including emergency response preparedness to ensure that employees and other have a good working environment and good health. The goals and operations are as follows:
| Unit | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||
| Total number of hours worked by employees | Hours | 5,756,252.33 | 5,790,211.98 | 5,807,613.15 | |||||
| Number of fatalities from working | Person(s) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Minor accident (Off work less than 3 days) | Time(s) | 2 | 5 | 0 | |||||
| Major accident (Off work more than 3 days) | Time(s) | 2 | 5 | 2 | |||||
| Number of employees who were injured being off work for 1 day or more | Person(s) | 4 | 6 | 2 | |||||
| Rate of Injury severity rate is zero (Injury Severity Rate: ISR) | % | 4.70 | 6.56 | 2.64 | |||||
| Rate of Illness from work-related rate is zero | % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Due to rapid changes in the world situation of economy, environment, and society, including changes in technology that affect business. The Company is aware of the impact of such changes. Therefore, the Company gives priority to maintaining and development of employees who are the most important human resource. In 2023, the Company had the number of employees working hours decreased from 2022, which the Company focused on strictly complying with labor laws and including control and monitoring regularly.
In 10 years ago, the Company has never had a serious accident in which the cause of fatality and rate of illness from work-related diseases is zero as the result of measures and operations on safety, occupational health, and working environment continually.
