The 2021 National Occupational Safety and Health Award held by the Ministry of Labor, Executive Yuan announced the winners today (17), and CHIMEI was honored with Enterprise Benchmarking Award. Upholds CHIMEI’s purpose to bring "Xingfu (well-being through contribution)" to every corner of the world, the company has established proactive, positive and caring health and safety culture, continuously improving and implementing comprehensive safety, risk, emergency response and health promotion management, in order to create a safe and happy work environment and work towards corporate sustainability. CHIMEI has won the highest recognition for its promotion of health and safety in the workplace.

The National Occupational Safety and Health Awards is a series of awards established by the Ministry of Labor to promote health and safety in the workplace, improve overall occupational safety and health standards, and ensure occupational safety and health. The qualifications for the enterprise benchmarking award requires the recipient to have won the 5 star occupational health and safety organization award and the occupational health and safety management system certification, and no major occupational accidents shall have occurred in the current year and in the previous 3 years.

CHIMEI is dedicated to the protection of the health and safety of employees and partner companies in a friendly workplace. To achieve this, CHIMEI has established the “Occupational Safety and Health Management Committee”, which promotes a comprehensive management system. CHIMEI has obtained the ISO 45001 and CNS 45001 certifications and complies with international human rights and ethical standards for friendly workplaces. It is also the first chemical engineering manufacturer in Taiwan to obtain the SA8000 certification. CHIMEI Corporation periodically organizes danger identification and improvement activities every season. The company adopted the practical proposals from the grassroots to actively prevent operational risks and effectively improve the work environment and employee safety. In recent years, the company has actively promoted digital transformations utilizing smart factories to create friendly workplaces. CHIMEI has also implemented AI in achieving safe tanker truck loading/uploading. In order to care for employee safety during their commutes, the company implemented VR motion sensing technology to train employees the concepts of defensive driving and to enforce the ideas of safe driving. For emergency response management, CHIMEI has established a dedicated firefighting crew and signed a support agreement with Tainan City Fire Department. CHIMEI has listed its firefighting vehicles in the Tainan City Fire Department emergency dispatch system to fulfill its corporate social responsibilities.

CHIMEI provides complete protection for the life and health of its employees. Every year, the company organizes health examinations for all employees and employees can search for their health examination data and trends of previous years in the CHIMEI employee app. Employees can conduct self-health management. In addition, CHIMEI has also hired doctors and therapists to provide services onsite. In order to encourage employees and their families to exercise and maintain their mental and physical health, CHIMEI has built a dedicated multi-function sports center and organized various workout classes. CHIMEI is dedicated to protecting the health of its employees and their families together.

CHIMEI strongly believes in sustainable management for corporations and must be based on safe, healthy and friendly workplaces. These ideals shall be implemented from the heart and must be completely applied. From internal individuals and organizations to external contractors, we must work together to build the ideal home and seek continued improvements through the “A Step Up” spirit.