▶️Safety Management in Workplace
WPG Holdings attaches great importance to employees' occupational health and safety and is committed to ensuring their personal safety. The company regularly maintains office environments, establishes emergency response measures, and organizes workplace safety advocacy courses, including general safety and health education, occupational accident prevention, disaster prevention, and fire drills. These initiatives aim to enhance employees' awareness and knowledge of workplace safety management. Additionally, WPG Holdings offers diverse health promotion programs to share with employees. In 2023, AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) were installed in the workplace. In 2024, AED usage guidance and general first aid trainings were incorporated into the regular safety and health education curriculum.
Occupational Health and Safety Management Objectives
Safety Management in Workplace
WPG Holdings' industry is classified as a low occupational health and safety risk industry. Safety and health measures for workers, activities, and scope of work are implemented in accordance with the Regulations Governing Occupational Health and Safety of the Ministry of Labor. Cross-departmental units are responsible for maintaining employees' health and safety in the workplace. In May 2024, the "Occupational Health and Safety Support Center" was established to carry out various safety and health measures, prevent occupational accidents, and ensure the safety and health of workers, creating a better and safer work environment for employees.
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, the Company will provide care and seek to understand the cause of the incident, and employees may request leave for recovery 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.
- 2024 Occupational safety Education Training
- 2024 Emergency Response and Fire Drill
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Occupational Accidents Statistics Table
- Occupational Accidents Statistics Table
Workplace Emergency Response Measures
In response to changes in internal and 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. In the event of such emergencies, an incident investigation will be initiated to analyze the cause and develop response measures to ensure employee safety.
Since 2017, WPG Holdings has launched an office emergency response program and has regularly promoted emergency response drills and related training each year. The training covers emergency response procedures, fire safety knowledge and facility usage, Call Tree instructions, and training for members of the fire prevention team. From 2021 to 2022, due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to reduce in-person gatherings, WPG Holdings continued to conduct emergency response training and awareness sessions online to ensure that employees remain equipped with the knowledge and capabilities to respond effectively to emergencies. Starting in 2023, on-site emergency response and fire evacuation drills have resumed on a biennial basis. In
2024, the company conducted a hybrid approach with online fire safety training and emergency response drills.
WPG Holdings emphasizes employees' responsibilities in occupational safety and hygiene, as well as the importance of self-protection. The Company complies with occupational safety and health regulations. When employees identify an imminent danger while performing their duties, they are entitled to stop work and evacuate to a safe location without endangering others, and must report the situation to their immediate supervisor immediately. By law, no adverse action may be taken against employees who exercise the right to withdraw from unsafe work. WPG also ensures that each operating location complies with relevant local regulations.
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 2024, WPG Holdings China collaborated with external traditional Chinese medicine practitioners to offer employees free health check-ups and treatments. Through professional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment, employees were able to timely understand their physical condition, prevent illnesses, and strengthen their health. They also gained valuable knowledge of health, enhancing their health awareness and self-care abilities, while furthering the company's care and attention to their well-being.
Winter Solstice is not only an important solar term among the twenty-four solar terms, but also a traditional day for ancestor worship in Chinese folk culture.
The Winter Solstice is also one of the Four Major Seasonal Festivals and is regarded as a major festival of the winter season.
In southern China, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and holding feasts during the Winter Solstice. In northern China, there is a tradition of eating dumplings on this day every year.
In 2024, WPG Holdings China organized a 24 Solar Terms Check-in Activity. Through this event, the company shared health tips based on the solar terms with employees, including health recipes, wellness concepts, and provided wellness products as gifts. Overall employee satisfaction for this activity reached 4.9 out of 5 points.
- Health Promotion Seminar 2024
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.