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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
IX. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
REPORT
Because corporate development must be balanced by environmental protec-
tion and social responsibility, honest management, employee care, a green
environment, and giving back to the society are guiding concepts for HTC
corporate management. Our employees work together to make sure we ful-
fill our responsibilities as a corporate citizen. HTC has made the following
commitments:
>Full compliance with local laws and regulations.
>Protecting employee work-related rights and ensuring fair
employment opportunities.
>Active participation in energy saving, greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions reduction, and environmental protection work in all
areas.
>True financial transparency management.
>Continuing innovation in products and services to raise cus-
tomer satisfaction.
>Simultaneous attention to shareholder interests, underprivileged
groups in society, and support of various public service activi-
ties.
HTC sets a high ethical standard through its outstanding corporate gover-
nance and its responsibility as a corporate citizen.
To promote sustainable management of the company, HTC will maintain its
concern with actively improving the environmental, safety, and health con-
ditions at its plants and making environmental protection and occupational
health and safety part of its management system. The ISO14001 and
OHSAS18001 certifications that HTC has already obtained add strong sup-
port to our push to become a global brand.
In addition to the efforts to adopt energy-saving measures at its Taoyuan
production facilities and completion of the 2008 carbon emissions invento-
ry and inspection, HTC has extended these measures to other facilities to
achieve carbon emission inventory and inspection management. HTC
hopes to reduce any impact on global climate change resulting from carbon
emissions through effective, comprehensive management.
In the area of energy savings, HTC is reducing electricity use by implement-
ing time-controlled lighting between floors, installing infrared sensor light-
ing switches in some areas, and replacing old T8 lighting fixtures each year
with T5 energy saving lighting fixtures in plants and offices.
In the area of waste reduction, HTC continues to reduce the volume of gen-
eral industrial waste resulting from its manufacturing processes and to
increase resource recycling. The actual recycling rate for HTC mobile
phones, such as reuse and recovery rate and recycling and recovery rate,
exceeds the requirements of EU WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic
Equipment) standards. In the area of the disabling injury rate and the sever-
ity rate, HTC performs risk assessments, on the basis of which it adopts
necessary corresponding measures to reduce the number of accidents
resulting from production processes, equipment, and environments, and
the number of harmful exposures to chemical products.
In response to the concern with corporate social responsibility, HTC making
its efforts in the area of environmental protection, health and safety man-
agement, and healthy workplace environments are shown below.
Environmental protection
HTC has passed the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System certifi-
cation, and actively seeks to comply with local laws and regulations in rela-
tion to the environment and to carry out related environmental protection
work. It also vigorously promotes various energy-saving and waste-reduc-
tion activities, which include replacing traditional light bulbs with energy-
saving bulbs, introducing water-saving devices, reusing recycled rainwater,
effectively controlling the use of air conditioning systems, using heat
pumps in dormitories in place of natural gas, and promoting waste sorting
and recycling. In 2009, in response to global concerns about greenhouse
gases, it undertook an inventory of its carbon emissions and actively
assessed related carbon reduction strategies with the goal of reducing
emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, thereby helping fulfill its
responsibility as a corporate citizen.
1 Environmental, health, and safety organizations and
systems
HTC's environmental, health, and safety policies and effective implementa-
tion of related management measures provide a safe and healthy working
environment for its employees. HTC abides by the basic concepts below in
order to provide a higher quality of life for its employees, customers, sup-
pliers, and contractors.
>Considering environmental protection, safety, health, hygiene,
manufacturing and quality are equally important.
>Thinking the safety and health of employees, customers suppli-
ers,and contractors are equally important.
>Requiring our employees to obey relevant safety standards and
working procedures.
>Working to prevent any foreseeable dangers and proceeding
loss control system.
>Following the requirements of relevant laws and regulations.
>Maintaining the Environment Safety and Hygiene management
system based on the spirit of continual improvement.
HTC puts its full efforts behind implementing Environmental Management
Systems (ISO14001:2004) and Occupational Health and Safety
Management Systems (OHSAS18001:2007), and by means of planned
activities in recognition of laws and regulations, it provides employees with
a working environment that integrates environmental, safety, and health
protection into a pleasant environment.
The environmental safety and health committee convenes regularly to study,
discuss, liaison, and make recommendations regarding labor safety and
health matters. Meetings focus on the environmental, safety, and health
projects under implementation during the quarter and the status regarding
accomplishment of company goals and policies, the analysis of accidents
inside or outside the plant, employee health promotion, implementation of
environmental matters, and results of testing in the employee's working
environments. Reports on the above matters are delivered to the committee
members and labor representatives.
2Measures to improve energy savings and energy-
saving guidance
During their construction, both production facilities and offices incorporate
water- and electricity-saving design concepts, and energy-saving improve-
ments continue to be made during later operation, while HTC also contin-
ues to provide guidance within the company to promote energy and water-
saving concepts.
3Pollution prevention
HTC's primary product lines are handheld computers and smart phones. In
the manufacturing processes for those products, exhaust emissions are
generated only during soldering operations, and solid waste is generated
during other operations. No wastewater is produced during manufacturing
processes, with the exception of employees' domestic wastewater. HTC
makes pollution control of all types a high priority, and to reduce our envi-
ronmental impact, HTC continuously devotes extensive funding to pollution
control facilities and assigns dedicated personnel to them. The company
provides those personnel with external training to obtain the relevant certifi-
cation and assume full responsibility for all pollution control facilities.
Through training and auditing, appropriate management assures that nor-
mal operation of all pollution controls is maintained in such a way as to
result in a steady reduction of our environmental impact, to achieve the ulti-
mate goal of clean production.
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Domestic wastewater is piped directly to the wastewater treat-
ment facility for the industrial area, where it is treated to meet
effluent standards and released through the industrial area
wastewater drain.
> Resource recycling rates are increased by encouraging sorting
of waste and reduced waste production; reducing initial waste
production is the primary working goal and reuse a foremost
consideration. After collection, the parts of plastic assembly
panels that can be recycled are reused, and the remaining recy-
clable materials are outsourced to a recovery enterprise
approved by the Ministry of Economic Affairs' Industrial
Development Bureau for waste purification and processing into
industrial-grade materials for further use.
Other waste is dealt with by physical sorting to increase
reusability, and parts that cannot be reused are incinerated. Only
when landfill disposal is unavoidable does it become the final
method of handling.
HTC carries out regular online reporting in accordance with
laws and regulations with regard to the status of production and
temporary storage of waste.
> HTC continues to promote resource recovery and recycling of
general domestic waste such as aluminum foil, PET bottles,
steel and aluminum cans, and plastic containers, making waste
minimization one of its environmental activities. Used batteries,
fluorescent light tubes, and computer and electronics equipment
are also fully recycled.
> Employees are provided with environmentally friendly tableware
for use in the employee cafeteria. Environmentally friendly cups
are also provided for internal personnel, guests, and persons
arriving on business in order to reduce the use of paper cups.
4Greenhouse gases inventory management
HTC is actively carrying out its responsibility as a corporate citizen to pro-
tect the Earth's environment. In line with implementation of the guidance
plan for greenhouse gas reduction by the Industrial Development Bureau of
the Ministry of Economic Affairs, HTC inventories the sources and volumes
of its greenhouse gas emissions according to the IISO14064-1 standards.
>Inventorying greenhouse gas emissions allows better under-
standing of energy use and is helpful in establishing energy-
saving strategies.
>At the beginning of each year, HTC obtains an inventory certifi-
cate from a certification agency that conducts inspection of
HTC's greenhouse gas inventory.
>HTC discloses information on its greenhouse gas emissions
each year through the Taiwan Environmental Protection
Agency's National Greenhouse Gas Registration Platform and by
means of information disclosure through international nonprofit
organizations.