• Last updated:2021-10-18

   The Institute of Occupational Safety & Health（hereafter referred to as IOSH）has been offering guidance to businesses regarding investment in industrial safety and improving workplace conditions. Since 2009, the IOSH has helped 366 enterprises mitigate cutting and entanglement hazards and improve ventilation, reducing the cases of workers suffering from disability and injury at work by 36.1% and 22.8%, as well as achieving energy expenditure savings of NT$223,240,000 and NT$76,170,000 being put into improving industrial safety shortcomings, giving an industrial safety investment rate of 34.1%.
   On December 12, the IOSH held the Enterprise Industrial Safety Investment and Guidance Achievement Presentation Meeting at the NTUH International Convention Center, at which companies that have performed excellently with respect to industrial safety investment and reducing occupational injuries were commended. This event displayed safety and health guidance achievements of four years and invited companies that have an excellent track record in terms of investing in industrial safety to share their experience, as well as providing an "air compressor noise, light and energy saving connected module", giving attendees an experience of the way health and safety and energy affect each other; the event contents were rich and practically useful; attendees were labor health and safety management officers from various businesses, workers, students and staff from occupational health and safety related college departments and people who care about industrial safety.
   More than 98% enterprises in Taiwan are small and medium enterprises, which means industrial safety is under less supervision generally. In light of this, in 2009 the IOSH began using the energy saving re-investment in industrial safety guidance model to assist enterprises in Taiwan reduce energy bills; the enterprises then voluntarily used over 15% of the money saved every year（occupational safety investment） in improving industrial safety shortcomings in factories. Over the past four years the enterprises the IOSH has provided guidance to range from traditional manufacturing industry metal surface treatment SMEs to high-tech semi-conductor companies; 648 cases of improvements of cutting, pinching and rolling equipment that can likely cause worker injury and ventilation that exposes workers to danger have been carried out. In addition, an occupational danger training film, related industrial safety forms and proposals that meet the requirements of regulations, worker reference processes for high risk work, health and safety improvement legends and integrated health, safety and energy saving improvement technology guide and promotional materials have been produced and provided to companies that have not received guidance so that they can follow the steps to improving and investing in industrial safety. More detailed achievements were announced during the meeting.
   The IOSH has already used the energy saving re-investment in industrial safety guidance model to create a value-added result that is a win-win-win situation for enterprises, labor and the government. It is hoped, through this activity, to give businesses a better understanding of the fact that investment in industrial safety can really reduce the occurrence of occupational injuries. Finally, the CLA reiterates that "For business to do industrial safety well, sufficient investment in improvement in needed". 

• Source:Department of General Planning
• Publication Date:2013-02-19
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