Employees are the most important assets of an enterprise. Asia Cement continues to build a cohesive workplace environment, and offer diversified development through a competitive remuneration system to assist employees in refining the necessary skills for the work, to create a friendly working environment and to create a good interactive organizational culture. By providing this solid foundation, the Company expects that employees can reach their full potential and grow together with the business. It is the most solid foundation of Asia Cement’s sustainable operation.
《Policy commitment and management system》
- Establish a competitive remuneration system and a complete employee welfare and retirement benefit system.
- Establish a talent development quality management system.
- Establish a complete performance management and promotion system.
- Provide employees with a complete training system for growing.
- 100% gender equality in Asia Cement.
Asia Cement has always believed that only healthy employees working in a safe environment can produce safe products that are trusted by customers. The Company treats safety and health of workers as the top indicator when evaluating the performance in the hope of providing a safe, healthy, and high quality work environment.
Occupational safety and health management
- Policy
- Method of evaluating effectiveness
- Each year implementing management and performance assessment, confirming results’ move toward the targets.
- Continue to trace the status of implementation and target achievement through Sustainability Implementation Committee and its work force.
- Action plan
- The project of enhancing safety awareness and the training of occupational safety and health.
- Conducting ordinary routine health check and the health check for the workers involving in hazardous work with health risks.
- Conducting training by combining knowledge and skills based on the occupational competency, learning, and hazard prevention.
- Target
- Number of fatality (%) : 0
- Number of occupational accident : 0
- Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (FR) reduced by 20% per million work hours
- Lost Time Injury Severity Rate (SR) reduced by 20% per million work hours
- Total Recordable Injury Index (FSI) reduced by 20%
- Coverage:
Including 100% of Asia Cement employees and contractors.
- Mechanism of appeal
File petition to occupational safety and health department for suspected occupational disease, physical or mental infringement.
Target for Occupational Safety and Health Index of Asia Cement and Its Subsidiaries
Asia Cement has a 100% health and welfare plan for 5 consecutive years and provides employees with occupational disaster insurance.
Comprehensive organization and system of occupational safety and health management
The occupational safety and health department and staffs are established in all plants and the headquarter of Asia Cement in compliance with relevant laws. A proper management system is introduced and implemented based on attributes and number of employees of the business unit. Similarly, by law, an occupational safety and health committee is established in each site, the chairman which is the general manager (or the plant manager), and the members include the head of the business unit, professional staffs, with labor representatives taking at least 1/3 of the total seats. At least one meeting is held each quarter to offer suggestions of safety and health policies; to review, coordinate, and suggest related matters.
Business units that do not meet the condition of setting occupational safety and health committees are required to establish “Labor Management Meeting” and elect labor representatives in accordance with government regulations. Employees’ participation, counseling, and communication shall be carried out in the Labor Management Meeting, which are held every three months, along with occupational safety educational trainings as needed. Non-employee workers’ participation, counseling and communication shall be carried out in the contracts and occupational safety educational training.
Organizational Chart of Occupational Safety and Health Committee at the operation site:
Health & safety performance as factor in executive compensation
According to the review and risk assessment of safety and health management results, a program of occupational health and safety management is announced each year and the inspection of results is executed routinely or non-routinely in each business unit. An accreditation is implemented each quarter (including active performance and passive performance) and the performance result of each business unit is reported to the occupational health and safety committee. Health & safety performance as factor in executive compensation. The evaluations of the occupational health and safety management performance in all manufacturing plants were all at safety level.
Operating normal labor union, signing routine group agreement, ensuring various welfare of employees
All employees of Asia Cement Hsinchu and Hualien Plants joined employees’ union and signed group agreement, representing 69.7% of the total employees in Asia Cement. The headquarter created a “Labor-Management Meeting” in accordance with relevant government regulations. For headquarters, the labor union is not organized, thus, it is not required to sign the group agreement. While a portion of the agreed events signed between the labor union and the Company are applicable to all employees. The Labor Union regularly holds director and supervisor meetings, tentative Director and Supervisor meeting and General Assembly of member representatives. Labor-Management meeting is held every three months, in addition, various activities are conducted frequently to enhance physical and mental health of employees.
The Company signed a special bonus agreement (enforced from 1989 till now) with Hualien Plant Corporate Labor Union, the agreement has been in effect for many years, and is renewed every three years. The agreement of this time is ended in October 2025. It will be renewed with the same terms and conditions. Labor union was not organized in the subsidiaries of Asia Cement, hence, the group agreement was not entered.
Percentage of employees participating in the union (2021-2023):
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Occupational safety and health educational training
Asia Cement established a comprehensive occupational safety and health management team which periodically or by project conducted on-the-job educational training. In addition to strive to mitigate risks, Asia Cement assisted and facilitated subsidiaries and contractors by way of educational training tours. Hence, they could increase the safety awareness and reduce occupational disasters.
Target of Asia Cement GCCA occupational safety and health index
- 2023 Asia Cement GCCA Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Target
| Target of Asia Cement GCCA occupational health and safety index | Type | 2021~2023 industry average | 2019~2021 Asia Cement average | 2023 Asia Cement | 2023 Target achieved | 2025 Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disabling Frequency Rate of per 1 million work-hour (FR) | Employees | 2.79 | 0.69 | 1.09 |
| 0.55 |
Contractor | 1.27 | 0 |
| 1.02 | ||
| Disabling Severity Rate of per 1 million work-hour (SR) | Employees | 832 | 89 | 2 |
| 71 |
Contractor | 15 | 0 |
| 12 | ||
| Frequency-Severity Indicator (FSI) | Employees | 1.52 | 0.25 | 0.04 |
| 0.20 |
Contractor | 0.14 | 0 |
| 0.11 |
| Item | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of employee fatality (persons) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of contractor’s employee fatality (persons) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of Third-parties fatality (persons) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rate of fatality per 10,000 employees (%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rate of fatality per 10,000 employees of the contractors (%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of days lost by employees (day) | 257 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of days lost by contractors (day) | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of employees’ injury (times) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Number of contractors’ injury (times) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of employees' lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) | 2.07 | 0 | 0 | 1.09 |
| Number of contractors' lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) | 2.57 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of employees’ injury (persons) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Number of contractors’ injury (persons) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Disabling Frequency Rate (FR) of employees per 1 million work-hour | 2.07 | 0 | 0 | 1.09 |
| Disabling Frequency Rate (FR) of contractors per 1 million work-hour | 2.57 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Disabling Severity Rate (SR) of employees per 1 million work-hour | 266 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Disabling Severity Rate (SR) of contractors per 1 million work-hour | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lost Time Incident Rate of employees | 0.41 | 0 | 0 | 0.21 |
| Lost Time Incident Rate of contractors | 0.51 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total Recordable Injury Rate of employees | 0.41 | 0 | 0 | 0.21 |
| Total Recordable Injury Rate of contractors | 0.51 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Note 1: Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR): The number of lost time injured that occurred per 1 million man-hour worked (3 decimal places or less are not counted).
Note 2: Disabling Injury Frequency Rate (FR): The ratio of actual disabling injuries per million-man hours worked (only down to three digits after decimal point).
Note 3: Disabling Injury Severity Rate (SR): The total number of days lost per million-man hours worked due to injury (only down to decimal point).
Statistics of occupational injury
In 2023, the recordable locations of occupational injury events in Asia Cement and its subsidiaries included Ya Tung Ready-mixed Concrete and Fu Ming (Da) Transport, the type of workers was employees. Not any employee or non-employee fatality caused by occupational injury at all operational locations. There were no injuries or deaths of personnel of contractors caused by occupational injuries in all operating bases.
Statistics for Occupational Injury in Asia Cement and its Subsidiaries:
| Site | Type | Recordable Occupational Injury Case (%) | Severe Occupational Injury Case (%) | Type of Occupational Injury | Corrective Prevention Measure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACC Hualien Plant | Employees | 1（1.7％） | 0（0％） | Particulate matter contact with eyes |
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| Ya Tung Ready-mixed Concrete | Employees | 4（4.4％） | 0（0％） | Fracture/pinch/- fall/spray |
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| Fu-Ming(Da) Transport | Employees | 5（6.22％） | 1（1.24％） | Falling/tip-ping/other traffic accidents/con-tact with high and low temperatures |
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Note 1: Rate of Occupational Injury= number of cases ÷ total hours worked x1,000,000 (3 decimal places or less not counted).
Note 2: Definition of severe occupational injury: over six months to recover back to the condition before the injury.
Indicators for work safety assessment of Asia Cement (China) in 2023
| Item | Safety level | Major occupational accidents | General occupational accidents | Total working hours | Accidental injury frequency rate (FR) | Accidental injury severity rate (SR) | Frequency severity index (FSI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performance | Safe | 0 | 7 | 7,229,810 | 0.97 | 46.47 | 0.21 |
Note1: FR = number of disability injuries × 1,000,000/total working hours
Note2: SR=number of disability injury days×1,000,000/total working hours
Note3: FSI=square root of FR×SR/1,000 FSI
In 2023, Asia Cement (China) invested a total of 140.7 million CNY for safety related work and no employees suffered from occupational diseases stipulated. The occupational disease rate (ODR) was 0%.
Penalty cases relating to the violations of Occupational Safety and Health Act and Labor Standards Act
Base | Description of violations in 2023 | Amount of fine | Corrective action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hualien Plant | The employee's eyes were chemically burnt due to the escape of dust during the material plugging process. It was determined that the Plan violated Article 287 of the Occupational Safety and Health Facility Rules - failing to make workers wear proper protective equipment and Article 6, Paragraph 1 subparagraph 7 of the Occupa-tional Safety Act - failing to prevent the hazards caused by dust. |
NTD100,000 | Improvements in safety measures for material access and blockage operations. Please refer to the above table for details. |
| Fu-Ming(Da) Transport | Employees understand the Company's regulations for the management of fuel surplus/loss and do not sign receipts for the detailed report of fuel surplus/loss. The Company deducted the fuel spill amount from the salary of the offender for that month, who did not receive a full salary. Note 1 | NTD 20,000 | The Company already paid the amount originally due for fuel loss, and will seek compensa-tion through other means in the future. |
Note 1. The Company has formulated the Procedures for Oil Surplus/Loss Management for Drivers. After the monthly settlement of the daily fuel consumption, if the actual fuel consumption is lower than the approved fuel consumption level, it is considered to be a fuel surplus; if it is greater than the approved fuel consumption level, it is considered a fuel loss. In order to encourage drivers to save fuel, a bonus is given to drivers for the portion of fuel saved, and if there is a fuel loss, the driver must pay back the Company the additional fuel used at the cost x0.98.
Note 2. In 2022, ACC and its subsidiaries were not subject to fines arising from violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Labor Standards Act.