Health and Safety Workplace

Health and Safety Workplace

SKFH cares about the health and well-being of employees, provides a comprehensive benefit system, and builds child-friendly facilities to support employees to take care of their families and career. In addition, we also attach importance to the safety and health in workplace, and improve the health and vitality of employees through institutionalized management and health risk assessment and tracking. Although employees of SKFH and its subsidiaries are engaged in administrative and commercial services without high risks, in order to provide a healthy and safe working environment for all employees, suppliers, customers and other stakeholders, we have established an Occupational Health and Safety Policy in accordance with domestic and international regulations and standards on occupational safety and health, which has been approved by the Board of Directors and implemented.
In addition, in order to remove risks from the workplace environment, we regularly review and communicate with labor representatives, employees and related workers on occupational safety and health issues, unsafe behaviors and health risks, as well as set action plans and priorities through risk identification and management, set quantitative targets, and continuously improve the performance of occupational safety and health management. Through occupational safety and health education and promotion, we hope to raise workers' awareness and knowledge of occupational safety and health. We promote the implementation of employee care programs in safety, health and wellness so that all employees can have a safe and comfortable workplace.

Occupational Safety and Health Committee

The major subsidiaries of SKFH have established the “Occupational Health and Safety Committee” in accordance with regulations. The President or the Vice President serves as the chair and the rest of the committee members are composed of employees from the Occupational Health and Safety Department, medical staff, heads of various departments and more than 1/3 of labor representatives. There is an "Occupational safety and health management entities" under the Committee, which is responsible for formulating, planning, supervising and promoting occupational health and safety related business.
The committee meets quarterly to discuss safety and health issues, such as reviewing workplace health and safety policies, safety and health work codes, annual work strategy plans and various safety and health recommendations, and reports to the board of directors after tracking the effectiveness of various resolutions to ensure that the implementation of various health and safety efforts meets employee needs and corporate expectations.

Health Risk Management

SKFH adheres to the concept of "Healthy Workplace" and we follow the "Safety and Health Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Procedures". To assess the work environment or operations of employees, the causes of internal and external accidents, the severity of accidents, and potential risks. Through the risk assessment process, we identify and analyze the risk factors in terms of the degree of impact and frequency of occurrence of common occupational accidents, the top ten annual health check abnormalities, or abnormal workloads of employees (shift work, night work, long working hours, etc.), and identify the main health and safety risks as modern civilized diseases and traffic accidents. The company has also formulated risk mitigation action plans, such as: annual health posture activities, health education services, functional evaluation of contracted specialists, four major programs for labor health protection (the "Workplace Maternal Health Protection Program," "Human Factors," "Abnormal Workload," and the "Workplace Violence Prevention Plan"), and enhanced promotion of the concept of road driving among employees.

In addition, to ensure the effective implementation of mitigation measures, we incorporate the effectiveness of the implementation of occupational health and safety management programs into the KPI items of the president, senior management and occupational health and safety department (e.g., employee health examination rate, environmental assessment and hazard identification, frequency and severity of disabling injuries, etc.) as an important element of salary performance-linked assessment. At the same time, we adopt the concept of "all-around protection" and carry out risk control measures in the P-D-C-A management cycle, and after prioritizing the results of risk analysis and integrating action plans with quantifiable targets to address these risks, we report them at the board of directors' meetings on a quarterly basis and deliberation or external audits are carried out in the management review meeting every year. In 2023, there are no major defects in the internal audit results of SKFH and its subsidiaries; in January, SKL passed the re-  evaluation and renewal of the occupational health and safety management system (ISO 45001:2018), and there were no defects in the external audit results. 

In order to improve safety and health management in the workplace, when an injury or accident occurs, supervisors at all levels at SKFH's major subsidiaries should follow the "Safety and Health Work Rules" and report the accident to the responsible unit after learning of it. The responsible unit should include OHS education and training materials, as appropriate, after investigation, analysis and follow-up to prevent similar incidents from happening again.

Health Risk Management