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ASUS conducts working environment inspection periodically in accordance with
domestic regulations and arrange special workers education and training and health
inspection to ensure the health of workers responsible for special working process.
8. Establish TOSHMS management and complete global chemicals control system
amendment
For the safety and health of the company’ s employees and subcontractors; also, for
preventing accidents and environmental pollution from occurring effectively, ASUS
has procedures amended in accordance with the TOSHMS of the competent authority
and the amendment of global chemicals control system completed.
9. Charity activities
ASUSTeK has focused on “shortening digital divide,” “upgrading innovation ability,”
“incubating science and technology talents,” “encouraging cooperation between
industry and academia,” and “promoting environmental protection and power saving”
in a long run. ASUSTeK has ASUS Foundation setup in 2008 to have resources
integrated effectively, to feedback the society more effectively, and to fulfill corporate
social responsibility.
Activities promoted by ASUS and ASUS Foundation in 2009:
(1) Work with ETMALL arranging “Infinite love, online tribe” activity to donate 135
computers to 17 tribe elementary schools.
(2) Work with APEC on the shortening digital divide plan (ADOC 2.0); also,
construct the following digital learning centers with Institute for Information
Industry to help children in remote areas and on the street break free from poverty.
- Setup one digital learning center in Jakarta Indonesia
- Setup two digital learning centers and two digital learning automobiles in
Philippines
(3) Sponsor scholarship to colleges and universities in China for cultivating talents
(4) Sponsor eleven exhibitions including Cowparada public arts activities, Taipei 4th
Digital Art Festival, and Taipei Contemporary Art Gallery. Promote culture and
art business aggressively, recover traditional local art, and upgrade citizen’ s
spiritual life.
(5) Sponsor Hondao Senior Citizen’ s Welfare Foundation to promote digitalized
exercise in senior citizens community
(6) Cooperate with Public TV promoting environmental protection education and
arranging national environmental protection documentary tournament
(7) Sponsor Public TV to film a documentary on black-faced spoonbill for promoting
environmental conservation education.
(8) Sponsor ADOC 2.0 private office publishing books and filming documentary to
promote digital learning and shorten digital divide.
(9) HSBC and ASUS Foundation donated 16 computers together to the “Minority
Community Project” of EDEN Foundation
(10)Sponsor Matthew Lien to help Taiwan Fund for Children and Families raise funds
for concerts
(11) Sponsor farmers to adopt toxic-free rice field
(12) Work with National Tsing Hua University to arrange Indigene Science Internet
exhibition and help arrange indigene children education.
(13) Donate computers to help promote digital learning (Tzuchi, HongHua Children’ s
Orphange, organic rice field…)
(14) ASUSTeK encouraged employees to donate money voluntarily and join disaster
relief program.