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In addition to providing a comfortable and friendly work
environment as described above, HTC is also very concerned
about measures closely related to the lives and well-being
of its employees, such as providing appropriate control and
management systems for plant air quality and comfortable
lighting in work areas, to ensure that its employees can work
in the best possible environment.
3-2. Human-based Management for Housing Units
Based on the space layout and the needs of individual
tenants, HTC's housing units for its employees (including
students) include facilities such as a fitness center, library,
reading room, recreation room, computer center (with
Internet access), and other living and entertainment facilities.
HTC hires full-time administrators and guards for the housing
units and has established an automatic police reporting
system to ensure the safety of the employees living in the
housing units.
3-3. Human Rights Guarantees for Labor
• HTC has incorporated issues regarding human rights
into the education and training for new employees,
and has specifically included in the employee guide
its promotion of gender equality and the prevention
of workplace sexual harassment, and has strived to
guarantee the rights and interests of its individual
employees.
• HTC hires translators, administrators and counselors that
are familiar with the languages of foreign employees in
order to provide them with assistance in terms of local
living, language, culture, and spiritual needs.
• HTC strictly prohibits, and maintains a complaint
reporting system for any kind of discrimination, workplace
harassment and improper disciplinary actions.
（4） Environmental protection
HTC makes pollution control of all types a high priority,
devoting extensive funding to pollution control facilities
and the deployment of dedicated personnel in the effort to
reduce our environmental impact. The company provides
those personnel with external training to obtain relevant
certification, allowing them to assume full responsibility for
pollution control facilities. Through training and auditing,
normal operation of all pollution controls is maintained
through appropriate management designed to steadily
diminish our environmental impact, and HTC anticipates
continual reductions in environment impact and achievement
of the environmental goal of completely "clean production."
Since its incorporation, HTC has regularly retained qualified
inspection providers to carry out tests on work environments
in its production plants, and all tests have met government
requirements. HTC has obtained ISO14001: 2004 certification
for environment management systems and the ISO14064-1
Greenhouse Gases Emissions Verification Opinion Statement.
HTC has introduced the ISO50001: 2011 energy management
system, and has undergone verification by a third-party
certification institution. HTC strives to improve energy
efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions through
systematic energy management and effective energy-saving
measures, and actively carries out its responsibility as a
corporate citizen.
4-1. Environment Management
(1) Environment Management System
• HTC regularly identifies issues related to the
environment in its plants, and based on those
environmental considerations, includes any variations
in major manufacturing processes, operations,
production facility surroundings, and plants locations
in the scope of consideration.
• HTC regularly reviews the applicability of laws and
regulations to its operations in order to understand
the impact of their amendment with respect to
application and compliance issues.
• In accordance with the results of assessment in areas
of environmental considerations, HTC sets up annual
targets in order to determine the future direction of its
efforts and the desired outcomes.
• Through internal and external audits, HTC identifies
the best timing for implementing improvements in
order to achieve the goal of continuous improvement.
• HTC establishes relevant procedures and documentation.
4-2. Reduction, Recycling and reuse of waste materials
(1) Proper handling of waste materials
• In line with the requirements of laws and regulations,
HTC hires a lawful institution in charge of handling and
disposing general industrial waste to properly handle
its industrial waste.
• HTC has established a monthly inspection schedule,
on the basis of which it carries out regular inspections
in the areas for storage and temporary placement
of waste materials, and requires that any non-
conformities be corrected within one week.
• HTC has established a self-assessment form and audit
procedures for its environment, safety, and health
inspections, for use in operations management and
risk assessment management.
• HTC from time to time dispatches personnel to follow
vehicles from the institution in charge of handling
and disposing waste materials for inspection in order
to make on-site verification of waste disposal and
handling processes.
• Safety and health inspections:
HTC conducts regular inspections of forklifts, high-
voltage electrical equipment, low-voltage electrical
equipment, air compressors, general exhaust
ventilation systems, generators, elevator equipment,
work environments, high-pressure compressed air
storage tanks (with load capacities of one ton or
more), regular inspections of fire fighting equipment,
radiation dosimetry checks, local exhaust ventilation
system inspections, autoclave (small-sized pressure
containers) inspections, and examination of building
structures and public safety.
• Emergency Response:
HTC has established an annual response plan and
implements emergency response drills.
• Medical Care:
Purchase of medical consumables, physical
examinations for new employees, medical checkups
for employees already on the job, and medical
checkups and management relating to special hazards.
• Safe and Health Activities
In cooperation with government policy, HTC
implements safety and health promotion activities
and participates in various symposiums, and widely
displays all types of related posters, comic strips,
and slogans, which are updated frequently, and also
exchanges views on work safety and improvement of
work efficiency.
2-5. Contractor Management
(1) Management of Work by Contractors
• Notices and explanations on hazardous conditions
are provided in the work area prior to contractor
employees entering HTC plants.
• Prior confirmation of information on the contractor
and their personnel.
• Supervision of high-risk operations.
• Supervision of the personnel entering HTC plants.
• Confirmation of safety conditions at the work site.
• Work safety and health management at newly built
plants.
• Request and confirmation of necessary insurance for
contractor employees.
(2) Audits on the Safety and Health of the Contractors
• In accordance with relevant labor safety and health
regulations, HTC has incorporated requirements
for safety and health management operations in
its contractor contracts, specifying the obligations
and responsibilities of the contractors and assessing
the risks of the work environment and dangerous
machinery and tools, in order to understand and
prevent risk factors.
• HTC has established a system of inspections for work
sites, and in accordance with the relevant labor safety
and health regulations and the requirements of the
contract, carries out regular and irregular inspections
and audits on safety protection measures in the work
environments, the safety and health education records
of the workers, and examinations of the machinery,
tools and equipment before, during and after use.
（3） Friendly Workplace
3-1. Variety of Services
Fun and Benefits Committee: FAB budgets are used for
providing a variety of benefits for the employees, such as
healthy recreation facilities, scholarships for children of
employees, daycare centers, bonuses for holidays and festivals,
gift certificates for bookstores, department outings, club
subsidies, and group insurance. In addition, HTC has also set up
an outdoor multi-sport playing field and a fitness center.
HTC provides its employees with a variety of services,
including a convenience store, coffee shop, travel agency,
health center and resident physician, fitness center, outdoor
multi-sport playing field, game area, massage station,
and library. To enhance the quality of employee working
environments, it has also actively expanded green spaces
around the plants; it has designed and built spaces for easy
handicapped access for workers and visitors with physical
disabilities; it has entered into a contract with the Eden
Social Welfare Foundation to set up a dedicated full-time
area for massage by the blind in the fitness center, providing
employees with quick relief of stress and muscle soreness; and
in addition to providing breast feeding rooms for mothers,
HTC has also launched, in partnership with Philips Avent in
2011, a special project showing its support for breast feeding
by installing breast feeding products and creating a friendly
work environment for mothers. The goal is to meet the diverse
needs of its employees for a friendly workplace environment.
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