Build a healthy workplace
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Novatek continues to cultivate diverse and enjoyable sports and health activities in daily life, allocating a significant budget each year to organize a variety of themed events, offering sports and health gifts, providing unlimited official leaves to support staff participation in sports events, and encouraging employees to arrange vacations to spend time with their families and relax. By taking care of employees' physical and mental well-being, Novatek creates a win-win situation for health and wealth, promoting work-life balance. As a result, Novatek was awarded the Taiwan iSports Certification by the Ministry of Education in 2023. |
Employee assistance program and on-site physician consultation service
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Since 2003, Novatek has implemented an "Employee Assistance Program" by hiring professional counselors to provide counseling services, relieving employees' mental and emotional stress. The Company fully subsidizes the cost with no limit on the number of sessions. In 2023, counseling services were provided 201 times, with a cumulative 2,639 sessions since the program was launched. Additionally, the Company arranges for on-site physicians each month to provide consultation and assistance on various health and wellness matters, catering to the well-being of employees. In 2023, a total of 83 sessions were conducted, serving 211 patients. |
Health promotion activities
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Novatek cares about the health of its employees. Every year, the health manager refers to the abnormal items in the health examination report of the employees, the on-site physician consultation advice and other information to carry out the health management for the employees, plan and conduct practical and diversified health promotion seminars and activities, and regularly provide various health information for the employees. A medical column is compiled every month to protect the health of the employees. In 2023, six major themed seminars and activities were planned, and 33 sessions on six major themes were actually implemented, attracting a total of 2,521 participants. The participation rate of employees engaging in the health promotion activities was 88.1%, reaching the set target (≧40%). |
Maternal care and childcare measures
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To provide employees with more support for childbearing and childcare, starting from 2022, Novatek has implemented "childcare allowance and work from home for parenting". If an employee has a child under the age of six, the Company will provide a subsidy of NT$ 5,000 per child per month. In addition, a flexible working system will be implemented, allowing parents to work from home for up to 15 days per year, giving both parents the opportunity to share the economic and child-rearing responsibilities. |
Working Environment and Protection of Employee Safety
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The Company values the protection of both the environment and labor safety and successfully obtained LRQA certification, ISO 14001 Environmental Management System certification and ISO45001 Occupational Safety and Health Management System certification, with validity period until May 28, 2025. In 2021, the Company conducted office area inspection half-yearly , factory area disinfection and vector mosquito control measures every month, public safety inspections and reporting operations for buildings biennially in accordance with laws and regulations, quarterly maintenance and testing of fire safety equipment, monthly maintenance and testing of high/low voltage electrical equipment as well as monthly inspection and maintenance of factory facilities to provide employees with a safe and hygienic working environment. |
Personnel safety and health training
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Each department assigns related personnel to carry out relevant health and safety education and training in accordance with the training program through physical or online courses or external training on a regular or irregular basis. In addition, personnel of the contractor are required to present the training materials through the “Operation Health & Safety Management Procedures for Contractors” to ensure the health and safety of their personnel within the Company. There were 37 sessions of EHS (Environmental, Health, Safety) and energy management related training courses held in 2023, with a total of 617 participants. |
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Environment, safety and health related education and training held in 2023 |
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Occupational safety and health management
Novatek has introduced ISO 45001 Occupational Safety and Health Management System, covering 100% of all employees in the Company (2,989 employees, 127 resident outsourcing employees Note 7), and related workers have the right to withdraw to ensure the implementation of occupational safety and health management. According to the definition of disabling injury from occupational accident provided by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Ministry of Labor, after excluding traffic accidents that occurred outside the Company, there were no cases of disabling injury, no cases of occupational diseases, and no death due to work for all Novatek employees in 2023. For sporadic traffic accidents occurring outside the Company, Novatek, through the quarterly meeting of the EHS (Environmental, Health, Safety) and Energy Management Committee, explained the course of the accidents, produced case studies from them, and then announced them to the employees to prevent similar accidents from happening in the future. In 2023, Novatek had no violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act resulting in penalties.
