ATX Group is committed to providing workers with a safe, healthy, and conducive work environment. To ensure the health and safety of employees, and prevent accidents at the workplace, we have formulated comprehensive procedures for managing occupational health and safety ("OHS"). For OHS Management System, all ATX Group factories set up management organizations, management methods and procedures, and establish regular auditing procedures in accordance with the ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System, RBA Code of Conduct, and local regulations, so as to effectively prevent all kinds of accidents, and the management system includes all the workers in the factory, and to implement the goal of "Zero Accident" management.
The OHS Committees at ATX's facilities are tasked to keep abreast of local regulatory updates and evaluate internal policies, emergency response and environmental safety procedures, so as to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations. On an annual basis, we perform hazard identification and risk assessment procedures on the work environment, facility, equipment and services, to determine risk levels and devise appropriate management plans based on severity of hazard, frequency of occurrence and incidence rate. For high-risk work environments, immediate risk control measures are put in place to reduce risks.
In addition, we identify higher-risk operating environments within our facilities such as locations that could expose employees to ionizing radiation, noise, dangerous chemicals, and provide such employees with high quality protective equipment and regular health examinations to monitor their health.
Occupational injury management
Occupational injury and incident reporting and investigation procedures are firmly established at all ATX facilities. When an occupational injury incident occurs, standard operating procedures shall be followed and reported to local authorities in accordance with the management policy and local regulations, while injury incidents are reviewed regularly to improve preventive measures. The collection on occupational injuries controlled by the subsidiaries do not include traffic accidents. In 2023, a total of 5 occupational injuries occurred in ATX SZ, 20% of which were physical injuries and 80% of which were ergonomic injuries caused by human factors, due to personal accidental falls, abnormalities in work tools, and personal non-compliance with the law, which is now being improved through on-site environmental improvements, improvement of work tools and safety training for personnel, and other measures.
Occupational injury statistics
1 Injury Rate = (total number of injuries×200,000)/total hours worked, excluding traffic accidents
2 Disabling Injury Frequency Rate (FR) = (total number of disabling injuries x 1,000,000) / total hours worked
3 Disabling Injury Severity Rate (SR) = (disabling injury work loss days x 1,000,000) / total hours worked
Occupational Injuries and Improvement Measures
Accident Reporting and Investigation Process
Contractor Operation Safety Management
ATX facilities have established contractor management policies to ensure that safety protocols are observed when contractors work at our facilities and to achieve the target of zero contractor occupational injuries. Eight high-risk types of operations at ATX’s facilities were identified which include work on fire operation, restricted space operation, temporary electricity operation, work at height, disconnection operation, groundbreaking operation, lifting operation, and blind extraction and plugging operation, for which stricter SOPs were instituted. Additionally, ATX will continue to request contractors conducting high-risk operations to meet the requirements specified in the ISO 45001 management systems.