Occupational Illness Prevention and Management

Special Operations that are Hazardous to Health

There are 13 statutory special operation sites at FPCC (dust, noise, high temperature, n-hexane, vinyl chloride, benzene, ionizing radiation, butadiene, dimethyl formamide, carbon disulfide, chromic acid, cadmium, and mercurate). Doctors will visit our sites according to the frequency required by the law, and will evaluate the health of employees performing special operations and the association with their work. The evaluations are jointly conducted together with supervisors, employees, nurses, safety and health personnel, and personnel representatives on site. We continue to prevent occupational illnesses through health examination follow-up, individual healthcare for employees, and operating environment and individual exposure monitoring. Overall results in 2021:

Preventive management of cerebral and cardio vascular diseases caused by work
Comprehensive improvement of hearing protection. Personnel under level 4 management all engage in noise operations, and the Company has been making workplace improvements in recent years. We have adopted new personal protective equipment (3M Peltor integrated with Motorola connector) to prevent exposure during operations when personnel need to remove their ear plugs for communication.

Employee health management and occupational disease prevention results

Periodic re-training of first aid personnel

Artificial Hazard Assessment and Management
1. All employees are subjected to the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire every 3 years starting in 2015 to identify high risk groups. All employees filled out the third Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire through the electronic evaluation system in 2021, and evaluation results are as follows:

2. As of the end of December 2021, physicians completed interviews with 46 employees (suspected to be work related), in which 1 was work related, and the unit's supervisor and safety and health engineer are currently formulating an improvement plan.

1.We began distributing questionnaires for middle age and elderly employees (age 45 and above) to conduct self-assessments of their work conditioning every 3 years starting in 2021. Health workers then conduct objective assessments of questionnaire results to prevent deterioration in physical functions, such as musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems, vision, and hearing, from affecting their work performance. Severe cases may even result in occupational illness. The questionnaire aims to improve employee safety and health, and results of the first assessment are as follows: There are no unfit employees in the current phase.

2.Physicians providing health services conducted interviews and found the causes of employees who were rated "poor" in the work ability self-assessment Due to chronic illness (7 employees), cancer (5 employees), mental health (3 employees), and musculoskeletal disease (3 employees). All employees were determined to be competent for their current job.

3. We invited a speaker from Chang Gung Biotechnology to offer the "Middle Age and Elderly Health Seminar," which allowed employees to understand how to adapt in life to mitigate the impact of aging, and also the importance of maintain physical and mental health.