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A Healthy and Friendly Workplace

In order to take care of the health of our employees, Giga not only provides health checkups that are superior to the regulations, but also sends out health promotion information to our employees on a regular basis.

We also regularly send out health promotion information to our employees, including dietary health, infectious disease prevention, knowledge of chronic diseases, exercise knowledge, etc. By utilizing lively and diversified contents, our employees can easily absorb medical knowledge.

The contents include dietary health, prevention of infectious diseases, understanding of chronic diseases, and knowledge of exercise, etc. By utilizing lively and diversified contents, employees can easily absorb medical knowledge and organize various health-related activities for fun and education!


Workplace Safety

Giga follow the regulations on occupational safety and health and the regulations of domestic and international management systems to promote various safety and health measures to achieve risk prevention and to provide a safe and friendly working environment on a continuous basis.

Giga follow the regulations on occupational safety and health and the regulations of domestic and international management systems to promote various safety and health measures to achieve risk prevention and to continuously provide a safe and friendly workplace. Giga have all passed ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems certification. Health and safety risk assessments are performed for each project to identify possible risks, with audits to timely control risks and achieve continuous improvement goals.


Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Management Committee

The labor representatives of the OSH Management Committee are selected by Labor-Management Meeting at GIGA, labor representatives are selected according to local laws and regulations, and the percentage is higher than requirements of laws and regulations. The Committee is responsible to review workplace health related plan, performance, coordination, and suggestions. All representatives may fully express opinions of safety and health, the committee is a transparent communication platform for employee direct participation. The conclusion and agreement from each meeting will be documented as reference for further monitor or planning for occupational health and safety.

Safety and Health Risk Management

GIGA have set safety and health management mechanism, through various prevention measures and training for all kinds of risk management to enhance employee’s awareness of workplace safety and health. Each department follow Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Procedure to identify the possibility and severity of risk, and to find out hazard points for improvement.


Health Risk Management

To Regularly Conduct Employee Health Checkups

Employee health checkups are conducted every two years to collect information such as employee age, work, life schedule, and working conditions. The correlation between health risks and work are analyzed to identify high-risk employees for proactive health management. Resident physicians provide consultations for employees identified as high-risk while to reduce the risk of serious illness, nurses provide regular follow-ups and support.

For employees with anomalies in the results during their health screenings, individual health instruction and education by the resident physician is organized. Assistance is provided (if necessary) to who required to seek medical treatment. Resident physicians scheduled and nurses regularly visit each site to assist in treating/preventing general/occupational diseases/injuries, and offer health advice and first-aid for all employees.

Emergency Medical Service

Nurses provide employees who fall ill or injured are given immediate care and assessment of the need for further medical care, and arrangement of medical institutions.

First-aid personnel in each site and shift are enough regulatory requirements. In production area, first-aid personnel uniforms are specially marked for quick and easy identification. When emergency needs arise, emergency resources can be immediately sought after.

Health Promotion Activities

Health promotion information is sent to employees regularly, which includes diet management, prevention of infectious diseases, and chronic disease information, etc. Using lively and diversified contents, employees can easily absorb medical knowledge.

COVID-19 Prevention Management

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When COVID-19 was spreading rapidly at the end of 2019, GIGA and Ardentec headquarters immediately set up a Pandemic Prevention Committee. The committee worked with all the departments to establish and implement relevant operational guidelines and to arrange pandemic prevention programs. At the same time, the response measures of the headquarters and subsidiaries are aligned to establish a pandemic prevention mechanism and prepare supplies to prevent the spread of infectious diseases and viruses. Thus, we are able to ensure that our employees are safely protected against COVID-19 and that there is no impact on our operations and workforce.

Pandemic Prevention Plan