EHS Management

Scope

GlobalWafers implement environment, health and safety management system (ISO 14001:2015/ISO 45001:2018) covers all activities, products and services. We actively enforce to improve the performance of EHS to ensure the effectiveness management system of EHS.

Policy

Protection Measures for Working Environment and Personal Safety

GlobalWafers committed to provide a safe, healthy and comfortable working environment. To build a safe working environment, other than complies with the relevant local safety and health regulations, GlobalWafers also works on reviewing, auditing, communicating, educating and training to all colleagues to raise the awareness of safety, health management. Also, we timely take appropriate corrective measures to achieve continuous improvement to protect the safety and health of employees, contract workers and related third parties as well as create a sustainable business environment.

Certification

GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
  1. All staffs shall keep health physical and mental status, as well as good sanity.
  2.  Through 5S execution
  3.  No smoking, betel nuts and liquor in factory
  4.  Smoking is only allowed in smoking area and no littering cigarette butts.
  5.  Wear protection when handling hazardous materials.
  6.  Mark hazardous materials and no breakage.
  7.  Set qualified dispensers in factory and regularly exams.
  8.  Disinfect whole factory annually
  9.  Keep great toilet ventilation
  10.  Full observation of 6S
  11.  No spitting, littering cigarette butts and trash
  12. Follow protocol and SOP in every work
  13. Don’t be abrupt when facing no SOP work. One should carefully apply other SOPs or discuss
    with leaders before execute.
  14. Workers and inspectors should wear helmet with fasten strings when working at over 2 meters
    heights or falling objects.
  15. Use safe rope when working in open areas with over 2 meters heights.
  16. Set up “danger” signs when power outage. Signs can only be removed when all problems are
    cleared and employees are off the spot.
  17. Wear personal protections according to different stations. Any danger should be reported immediately.
  18. No chasing, running or anything dangerous while working.
  19. Following instruments and equipment limitations

As a good corporate citizen, GlobalWafers Co.,Ltd. should naturally fulfill its social duty, respect human rights and continue to observe the issues of conflict minerals*; therefore, we perform thorough investigations on our suppliers, to make sure metals like tin (Sn), tantalum (Ta), tungsten (W) and gold (Au) were not mined from the Congo and its neighboring countries controlled by said armed groups, and work together with our suppliers through responsible procurement.

  • We do not to purchase conflict minerals from mines in the Conflict Regions.
  • We demand our suppliers and its suppliers not to purchase and use conflict minerals from conflict areas in the Congo.

For each citizen’s fulfilling responsibility, GlobalWafers Co.,Ltd. aggressively involve into green purchasing, require suppliers must follow below principles:

  • The supplied goods comply with government laws both domestically and abroad (such as RoHS, REACH and WEEE and so on) of the environmental protection product.
  • Prior to purchase the office affairs, computer facilities, electronic equipments with Green Mark (i.e. Energy Saving, Water Saving, Green Building Materials) which announced by official authorities to protect the environment.
  • Suppliers shall reveal the third party impartial unit test report to assure as without the use of hazardous substances when necessary.

 GlobalWafers cooperates with a huge number of contractors in an effort to spur the industry development. We have formulated clearly defined contractor management guidelines to safeguard the health and safety of our partners and fulfill our pledge to provide a safe and healthy work environment.
When signing contracts with contractors, we request that they comply with OSH related laws and regulations and abide by relevant requirements of the company regardingpersonnel qualifications, construction work, machine tools and materials, and safety equipment. Accident occurrence rates are minimized through a series of management measures including pre-contracting and pre-construction hazard notices, construction application management by responsible units, access controls for contractors, management of construction operations, and post-construction verification in addition to sporadic on-site audits by health and safety management personnel in plant areas.

Employees are the most valuable asset of GlobalWafers. We are committed to creating a safe and comfortable working environment and regard employee health as the key element to Company success and sustainable development. Take the Taiwan region as an example. The plants have set up medical rooms equipped with full-time nurses and special professional medical doctors and continue to promote the 4 core protective measures: maternity protection, human injury prevention, overwork prevention, and illegal infringement prevention. The goal is to protect colleagues’ physical and mental health, create a happy and healthy workplace environment via diversified health care programs, and provide health seminars and various types of health promotion activities. In 2021, GlobalWafers won the CHR Healthy Corporate Citizenship Promise Enterprise certification label from ” Health Magazine,” which showcases the Company’s commitment to creating a benchmark for a happy and healthy workplace.

 

Energy Policy

GlobalWafers, a professional silicon wafer manufacturer, not only devotes itself to improving process, quality and service, but also pursues a sustainable future. GlobalWafers acts actively with stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers and general publics to reduce environmental impacts and aims to be a benchmark of environmental protection in the industry.

In order to fulfill corporate social responsibility and achieve sustainable  operation , GlobalWafers follows the principles of raising energy efficiency and promoting energy saving and carries out the projects of energy review, reduces energy intensity and cost, improves energy  performance and enhances market competitiveness.

GlobalWafers is committed to accomplishing the following:

  • Regulatory compliance

  Obeying the laws of energy and other relevant requirements.

  • Energy saving and carbon dioxide reduction

  Practicing energy saving measures and reducing the emission of greenhouse gas.

  • Energy-efficient product procurement:

  Purchasing equipment with high energy-efficiency and low environmental impact.

  • Continuous improvement

Continuous reviewing to improve energy performance and improve energy  management system performance.

  • Sustainable development:

Providing essential information and resources to achieve the goal of energy saving and fulfill the corporate social responsibility.

Water Resources Management Policy

GlobalWafers is a world-leading supplier of semiconductor wafers, continuously providing high-quality products to meet our customers’ needs. At GlobalWafers, we remain committed to our corporate sustainable development vision. In response to global climate change, causing heavy rains or droughts, we recognize the importance of water resources management and share concerns with our stakeholders who have also included water resources management in their priority issues. In addition to complying with the regulations, GlobalWafers strive to deepen our employees’ awareness of the risks posed by climate change, reduce the environmental impact and maximize the efficiency of water usage, so that we can put sustainable management of water resources into practice from top to bottom.

We are committed to:
1. Respond to the commitment of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
2. Enhancing the Level of Water Resources Governance and Setting the Corporate Water Conservation Goal.
3. Reducing Pollution, Implementing Reroute Management, and Improving the Efficiency of Water Usage.
4. Complying with the Laws and Regulations.
5. Water Information Disclosure Transparency.
6. Respond to the WASH initiative and provide the clean water resource in the workplace.