Corporate Responsibility Practice
Friendly Workplace
SAS firmly embraces the concept of “Workplace Health and Safety”. In addition to strict compliance with occupational health and safety laws and other relevant legal requirements, the company is committed to organizational operations and staff participation. The company also continues to provide optimized resources for health and safety facilities improvements in the plants in accordance with the nature and risks of the organization to prevent injuries and hazards. The ultimate goal is to safeguard the health and safety of employees, contract workers, and relevant third parties.
Safe Work Environment
We have introduced the occupational health and safety management system (ISO 45001: 2018), with heightened focus on stakeholder expectations and managerial and staff participation. Occupational health and safety (OHS) is no longer regarded as an “independent operation” but has to be viewed from the angle of sound operation and sustainability. We adheres to the provision of safe and healthy work environments and modified pollution prevention and occupational hazards eradication, while conducting counselling with workers and their representatives, with the entire workforce made aware of individual liabilities and engaged in the environmental health and safety activities.
All SAS plants convene quarterly meetings of OHS committees. The President or Vice Presidents in the plants are appointed to oversee the meetings as the chairman. Also present throughout the meetings are all department supervisors and labor representatives. Discussions cover OHS related matters including OHS management plans, operational environment monitoring/improvements/strategies, OHS training/ audits/management appraisal, accident prevention and education as well as and health management and promotion. Meeting deliberations are recorded, implemented, and improved with continuous tracking.
SAS is fully aware of the importance of workplace safety. Hence, SAS has promoted the activity of “Everyone’s attention on engineering safety is our safety culture” and emphasized on the importance of discipline and employee autonomous management. Employees are encouraged to actively report false alarm incidents and watch out for each other regarding workplace safety. The goal is to continuously strengthen employees’ safety awareness and enhance workplace safety.
Healthy Workplace
The physical health of employees is a key factor for the maintenance of work-life balance. Exceeding legal requirements, SAS has hired general practitioners to provide free on-site services including health consultation, guidance, and assessment, as well as follow-up tracking health issues, referrals, and medical services. In addition, SAS is committed to the three pillars of maternal care, prevention of ergonomic hazards and prevention of burnout. The company safeguards the physical and mental health of our staff members through a wide range of health care initiatives, sporadic health talks, and health promotion activities in an effort to create a blissful and healthy work environment.
SAS embraces the concept of diversified employee health care. Analysis of health data is carried out annually based on employee health check reports. Annual health management plans that meet relevant needs and cover planning of improvements are formulated to maintain employees’ physical health. In addition, SAS carries out customized health checks taking in consideration of various physique of different operating personnel. Health check items and frequency exceed legal requirements and are combined with free cancer screening (colon cancer, cervical cancer, mammography, and oral cancer) in conjunction with hospital services to maintain a firm grasp of employee health conditions without any oversights. Upon completion of health check operations, professional on-site medical personnel will conduct follow-up tracking regarding abnormal results. This data serves as a key reference for health improvement activities and health promotion initiatives.
We put extensive attention on the control and management of epidemic infectious disease, established a complete disease prevention system and stipulated an active report system for infectious disease to maintain various normal business operations. Moreover, we provided employees with prompt epidemic information regarding the foreign and domestic epidemic situation irregularly and also announced them on our internal website in order to remind our colleagues to enhance personal sanction and knowledge for disease prevention. We hold free flu vaccination activities in the plant each year to enhance flu immunity of employees. Furthermore, for our colleagues going on business trips, we provided them with “disease prevention bag for business trip” for them to carry with them at all times; and meanwhile, we provided them with the outbreak situation of the their trip destination and the health care promotion for disease prevention to ensure that colleagues on business trips are free from disease threats.
Physical and Mental Balance and a Blissful Workplace
SAS views its employees as its key assets. Only with healthy employees can we raise the corporate productivity. As such, besides a firm commitment to providing a safe, healthy, and friendly workplace, the company organizes several staff outings through its Benefits Committee on an annual basis. These outings will hopefully replenish employees’ energy and build team cohesion. Family members are encouraged to participate in these outings for employees to bond and build a strong rapport amongst themselves, to show concern for family members after work hours, and to enhance work-life balance.
SAS listens to the voice of its employees. Various channels such as labor-management consultation meetings, employee suggestion boxes, OSH committees, meetings on the old pension system, and a staff benefits committee allow employees to freely express their views and opinions. Employees are able to fully express their opinions via meeting exchanges and discussions. This enables an effective bidirectional communication channel between the labor and the management, rendering win-win results for both parties. In addition, the HR Department sends out electronic weekly newsletters containing articles, columns, English learning sections, and events and health information. These newsletters provide employees with new knowledge and an opportunity to participate in internal and external events. This also enables employees to achieve a work-life balance and maintain their physical and spiritual health while performing their work duties.
SAS also appoints dedicated management personnel who help facilitating the work and daily lives of foreign blue-collar migrant workers. Annual activities are organized to show constant concern for the foreign staff members and to understand their needs and problems so as to conduct timely communication and assistance for them to enjoy work and lead a happy life in Taiwan.
Social Concern
Since 2003, compassionate manufacturers in the Hsinchu Science Park have been organizing Christmas gift collection activities on Christmas Eve to fulfill the dreams of underprivileged children. SAS continues to promote this Dream Fulfillment Activity in cooperation with Accton Cultural & Educational Foundation. These little gifts help fulfill the dreams and desires of these children. We are all Santa Clauses who can spread hope and love to these children. Each year, our employees have all taken part in the gift sponsorship activities with great enthusiasm. Over the years, a great number of Christmas gifts have been given to children in remote areas and social welfare organizations through the platform of this activity. In addition, we even extend our colleagues’ gratitude by donating the same monetary money converted from the amount of moon cakes donated by our colleague. We gathered everyone’s love and conveyed to the minority groups. In 2019, we started to proactively contact remote elementary schools, Huashan Social Welfare Foundation and World Vision International (Taiwan) to understand the resources they required and provided appropriate assistance to improve the living inconvenience of elementary schools and the new year festival dinner for elderly who lived alone.