OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

The Company values employee health, regularly arranging employee health examinations and caring about personal health conditions together with employees. We provide health examination frequency and amounts (NT$10,000) exceeding legal requirements. With common cancers among nationals as the main focus, three major health packages are planned: "Ultrasound Package," "Lung Cancer Package," and "Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Package." Additionally, for cholangiocarcinoma or pancreatic cancer that nationals fear, an "Abdominal MRI Package" is also established. Older colleagues can also arrange "Neurological Examinations" to understand brain-related diseases, whether brain structure is abnormal, damaged, or deteriorated.

Fleet Installation of Automated External Defibrillator (AED) & 12-Lead Electrocardiogram (12 LEAD EKG). 708 seafarers obtained cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR) and automated external defibrillator(AED) certification and 233 seafarers completed the 12 LEAD EKG Education and Training.

The Company employed 3 on-site health service doctors and 3 professional nurses as required by law to provide employees with professional health management and consultation services in corporate health management and promotion activities. 

In 2024, in addition to hiring professional doctors for lectures, we also cooperate with local health authorities to hold over 40 health promotion activities, with a cumulative participation of 2,653 people. Besides lectures, the Company simultaneously uses internal messaging to disseminate occupational safety information.

The Company has been working on EAPs in collaboration with the Hsinchu City Lifeline Association to offer employees unlimited initial consultations and 4 free expert consultations and provide them with a sound support system. They can consult about problems related to marriage, family, parent-child relationships, financial management, and laws, and we will help them properly deal with the problems that affect their physical and mental health. 

The Company actively fulfilled corporate social responsibilities by working with the Enlightenment Association for the Disadvantaged in Keelung City to offer employees a soothing massage service. This service was not only widely welcomed by the employees, but also highlighted the Company's attention to social responsibilities.

The company values employee welfare and health and has obtained Sports Enterprise Certification from the Ministry of Education's Sports Administration. In recent years, the Sports Administration has promoted "Technology Fitness Activities," applying technological fitness testing to enhance of personal fitness, and demonstrate the effectiveness of regular exercise. The activity assessed physical health through InBody analysis (height, weight, body fat percentage, waist and hip circumference, body age, basal metabolic rate), grip strength (muscular fitness), back-support seated forward bend (flexibility fitness), and three-minute progressive stationary knee-lift stepping (cardiopulmonary fitness). The company encourages employees to participate in evaluating their physical condition. A total of 645 employees joined with aged ≤44 (Younger Group) and 33% aged 45-65 (Mature Group). A total of 202 people achieved the standard, and 92 employees received excellent awards.

All medical needs at sea are treated as Level 1 needs in ER and require professional medical doctors to give advice or determine if seafarers are in need of emergency hospitalization based on the medical suppliers and medicines on the vessel. In 2024, 24 at-sea medical consultations were carried out, providing comprehensive medical support for seafarers. 

The Company's onshore expatriates will consult with on site medical doctors before departure. The on site medical doctors will recommend which vaccines colleagues should receive in advance based on the epidemic diseases and local medical conditions of the assigned location. Colleagues will then follow the "Vaccination Recommendation Form" filled out by the on-site medical doctors, and the company provides full subsidies. For seafarers, all crew members of the company's fleet are required to receive yellow fever vaccinations, and some crew members are required to receive cholera vaccinations due to port requirements, with costs fully subsidized by the company.

• A 6-month "Healthy Walking, Lasting Wellness program was launched. engaging 593 employees from all workplaces in the north, central, and south regions signing up to participate, encouraging employees to regular walk and exercise more to strengthen cardiopulmonary function, improve metabolism, prevent obesity, support digestion, and mitigate risks of hypertension, hyperglycemia, and hyperlipidemia.
• All workplaces of the company cooperate with local health centers to arrange vaccination station services or screening activities. Through corporate vaccination activities, employees do not need to allocate additional time to arrange vaccinations, implementing health care for employees, and can also improve overall social health, achieving multiple benefits.

Office operations are mainly performed in the Company’s working environment, and some employees are stevedore or dockworker banksmen, signalers or workers. After the Occupational Safety & Health Office reviewed the Company's workplaces and working environments in support of the Ministry of Labor's “Ergonomic Prevention Measures,” it found that the Company's employees have been subjected to potential hazards of musculoskeletal disorders and eyestrain arising from long-term computer use, and therefore, it has promoted different health promotion activities on a continuous basis ever since, including: 

• Providing large monitors or dual monitors for the employees to increase eye comfort; purchasing ergonomic office desks and chairs, reducing discomfort after sitting for a long time. 
• Working with on-site service doctors to launch the “Ergonomics – Walking Around Service” where the Company's employees in different regions are provided with assistance in making individual adjustments and finding the sitting posture that best suits them as well as health education; inviting physical therapists from Taipei Veterans General Hospital and Cathay General Hospital to give health lectures at the Company, sharing tips to prevent “ergonomic hazards” and providing health care advice to encourage the employees' self-care to get rid of stiffness in back muscles. 
• Collaborating with the Keelung City Government and Enlightenment Association for the Disadvantaged to officially engage 9 visually-impaired massagists in November 2022 to provide massage services. Through muscle relaxation massage (20 minutes per session), employees' stress can be reduced, thereby boosting work efficiency. 
• Organizing a 15-minute “Office Aerobics” session in every afternoon, where employees may choose to do aerobics (stretching) or stroll/walk around the sports field to limber up and enhance their cardiopulmonary function. 

1. Combination with Existing Functions Related to Health Management and Promotion Activities: Planning, reservation, activity reminder, implementation result, subsequent tracking and reminder, activity history search, and indicator analysis and comparison functions are integrated into the same platform for easy daily management, reducing manual work time and improving operational efficiency. 
2. Post-Health Checkup Health Management: Employees at a high level of health risk may be identified based on the default health management classification criteria and prioritized for health consultations and tracking as well as subsequent health management, replacing the manual determination process to increase operational efficiency and save work time. 
3. Health Indicator Management: This enables quick generation of work reports and analysis reports to make health management plans and review outcomes based on individuals or groups’ health trend changes, enhancing operational efficiency and saving work time. 
4. Health Checkup Data Input Management: Health checkup data may be input in the specified format, reducing manual work time and boosting work efficiency. 
5. Improvement of Health Management Services: The convenience of use by employees e.g. making activity reservations, receiving notifications, viewing and searching personal health data, and implementing subsequent self-health management is increased, thereby building good personal health habits. 

Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation follows the regulations of the Maritime Labour Convention.
Seafarers must have at least 10 hours of rest in any 24-hour period (which can be divided into two periods, with one period being at least 6 hours) and at least 77 hours of rest in any 7-day period. In emergencies requiring work during rest periods, compensatory rest is provided. Work schedules and rest records, signed by both the responsible officer and the crew member, are posted in accessible areas to ensure rest rights and mitigate fatigue's negative effects.

• Alcohol Testing Procedure: The company has established a "Drug & Alcohol Control" procedure (2900A109). When seafarer handover duty, the handover seafarer should check the take over seafarer’s alcohol in the breath (BrAC) by breath alcohol testing machine and keep the record in “On duty watch-keeping crew alcohol examination record”
• Drug Testing Procedure: Before boarding, seafarers must submit a physical examination certificate and provide drug test documentation.