OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

In 2022, the Company conducted a regular health checkup for employees, where the health checkup allowance was increased to NT$10,000.
In addition, Our three health checkup packages are designed for the most common types of cancers among Taiwanese people, including the "ultrasound package" with breast ultrasound, gynecological ultrasound, thyroid ultrasound, and cardiac ultrasound.　The data of employee health checkup results as of the end of October 2023 have been imported into the Company's health management platform for timely health risk analysis (a comprehensive indicator of metabolic syndrome risk + coronary heart disease risk) and arranging consultation with doctors or health promotion activities

We installed automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in our 6 premises in Taiwan, and inspect and check them regularly. Moreover, our first aider deployment is better than that required by law. As of the end of 2023, there were 73 employees who are qualified first aiders in Taiwan, and personnel retraining has been organized periodically. 

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 2023, in addition to hiring professional physicians to give speeches, we also collaborated with local health authorities to organize a number of health promotion activities. In all workplaces of the Company, a total of 32 sessions of health-related education, training, and promotion were held, including external training for occupational safety personnel, with 3,019 participants.

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. In 2022, we held 89 massage sessions, participated by 1,674 employees. 

With the aim of improving employees' health knowledge and self-management abilities, the Company shared health information with the employees from time to time via email and the Yang Ming Monthly, YM You & Me. In 2023, 10 columns about occupational safety were issued to provide the latest health knowledge and helpful management tips in order for the employees to better manage their health. 

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 2023, 62 at-sea medical consultations were carried out, providing comprehensive medical support for seafarers. 

In support of the government's vaccination policy, Yang Ming made a request to the Qidu District Public Health Center to send medical staff to the Company to provide flu vaccination for our employees so as to protect their own health, their families, and the overall health of the Company. Headed by the Chairman, hundreds of employees waited in line for the vaccination, demonstrating their high-level determination to protect themselves and the entire organization. 

• 25 health lectures, with 2,818 participants 
• 8 EAP communication campaigns and 1 seafarer EAP communication campaign, participated by 50 seafarers 
• 89 massage sessions, with 1,674 participants. 
• 11 columns about occupational safety published in the Yang Ming Monthly, YM You & Me 
• 134 at sea medical consultations performed 

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.