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The company has continued to raise awareness of issues to both its employees and external vendors in the interest of creating a safe and comfortable working environment through a collective effort. In line with its emphasis on a culture of industrial safety, CPC is putting particular effort to focus on the following points:
• Implementation of the Taiwan Occupational Safety and Health Management System (TOSHMS) and continuous improvement with respect to its operational environment. CPC received ISO 45001 reversion verification, aligning with international norms. To reinforce industrial safety practice mandates, CPC has established inspection and auditing teams to go onto construction sites for non-scheduled on-site inspection and auditing, and set out the “Management procedures for safety and health of contractors” and “Guidance on safe work permit.” CPC has also established contractor evaluation system in order to urge the implementation of self- management and reduce occupational accidents among their employees on CPC sites.
• In conjunction with the implementation of occupational safety laws, CPC conducts periodic reviews of industrial safety and health rules, as well as continuously reviewing and revising standard operating procedures.
• CPC is strengthening industrial health management protocols, scheduling regular employee health checkups, analyzing and tracking those health checkup results, promoting a healthy lifestyle and emphasizing the importance of employees’ mental health.
• CPC is implementing a risk management and process safety management (PSM) and establishing equipment safety management processes – periodic, regular thorough inspection of oil tanks and pipelines and the installation of monitors and leak detection systems along their extended sections.
• CPC is strengthening fire prevention and response capabilities, organizing local joint emergency response teams, ensuring that the personnel, facilities and emergency response and rescue gear used by all units are mutually supportive in application, so as to minimize losses due to fire and other disasters.
• CPC is implementing on-site safety inspections with graded results, continuously improving systems, equipment and implementation through observation of their preparedness, and raising awareness of the importance of industrial safety disciplines.
• Empowering industrial safety inspections team with senior managers using “management by walking around”, professional industrial safety inspections, pre-operational industrial safety inspections of new and renovated workplaces, and tracking all deficiencies discovered through the information system until remedial improvements have been completed.
• Planning and executing health and safety training and awareness programs, developing and providing online study courses and establishing an industrial safety test-question database, as well as compiling and publishing industrial accident case study-based teaching materials.
• Based on classifying the identified emergencies, developing a plan for various emergency response drills and regularly conducting emergency simulations to strengthen contingency and disaster prevention capacity. In 2023, CPC held a total of 359 disaster prevention drills, including five no-warning emergency response drills and four large-scale emergency drills.
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