Unimicron established the "Health Management Center" in 2014 in Taiwan, with the concept that prevention is more important than treatment, includes employee health examination, health education, health consultation and evaluation, health promotion questionnaire survey, improvement of the workplace, and evaluation of return to work/assignment after injury/illness. Through various health promotion activities and services, we implement Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) since 2021, which care for the physical and mental health of each employee and create a friendly workplace where safe and happy work is done. In 2022, we have 18 full-time nurses and it has provided a total of 108,967 services, taking full care of employees' health issues in the workplace and non-workplaces, and protecting their physical and mental health. In addition, we awarded the "2022 National Award for Healthy Workplace - Maternal Health-Friendly Award".
Item | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Physicians (People) | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
Registered Nurse (People) | 17 | 19 | 21 | 18 |
Service Sessions (Session) | 348 | 330 | 422 | 394 |
Service Hours (Hours) | 1,044 | 990 | 1,266 | 1,185 |
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In 2021, Unimicron implemented the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and collaborated with Lifeline to provide employees with psychological, medical and financial planning services to show our employees that we care, to improve their physical and mental health, and to help them resolve issues that may affect their work performance. Each employee is entitled to two free-of-charge, one-on-one professional counseling sessions per year, and the Health Management Center will provide assistance for cases with special needs or in case of extraordinary events. In addition, appropriate training courses and seminars are held for different groups to take care of the physical and mental health of employees.
Sensitivity training and EAP service-related education training for the Health Management Center, the Human Resources Division and lower-level managers.
Enhancing the communication skills of front-line content persons (e.g., nursing staff, employee relations managers/lower-level managers) to help in the assessment or immediate management of employee health problems.
Providing mental health courses on various topics such as marriage management and communication, interpersonal/workplace communication and self-growth, focusing on issues that can affect employees’ work, life, and family.
Through the EAP online briefing and the distribution of the Chinese and English versions of cards promoting EAP services to employees, a total of 157 people used EAP services by the end of 2022 since its launch in August 2021. In the future, Unimicron will continue to care for the physical and mental health of employees through this program.
In addition to promoting the maternal health protection program in accordance with the "Regulations Governing the Implementation of Protection of Maternal Health of Female Laborers," Unimicron has also established a pregnancy notification platform for pregnant employees, with online notification by unit supervisors, and the Health Management Center will immediately activate the five-heart level maternal health protection management mechanism, implementing comprehensive maternal protection measures. In 2022, Unimicron provided 208 person-times of pregnancy care.
The unit supervisor or the person herself will report online, the Human Resources Division will confirm the shift, and the staff nurse will provide pregnancy care, a guardian station handbook for the new mother, a pregnancy armband (for quick identification to avoid danger) and a pregnancy goodie bag.
Arrange for occupational physicians to conduct health consultation, hazard identification and assessment, visit work sites, and confirm risk levels.
Implement management measures according to the risk classification, provide preventive and improvement measures. The third-level management employees will be visited by the occupational doctors on site, appropriate job placement is provided, and the occupational nurses will continue to follow up.
The Company provides continuous care and management measures during pregnancy, organizes pregnancy health education seminars, arranges exclusive parking spaces for cars and motorcycles, sets up special rest chairs for pregnant women at work sites, opens up elevator access for pregnant employees, and provides a flexible leave system for maternity leave, paternity leave and accompanying prenatal checkup leave.
The Company provides postpartum counseling, care and return to work assessment, breastfeeding guidance and breastfeeding manual. There are 10 comfortable and safe breastfeeding rooms throughout the Company; we provide psychological stress relief (EAP counseling/stress relief seminars/massage services), seminars on diversified issues (parenting education/ and parenthood classes), four-cancer screening and HPV vaccination activities.