Diverse Employment Channels

“Using right person for the right position and using local materials.” KYEC Groups offer a diversity of employment channels with emphasis on thriving local economy. KYEC Groups also upholds to protection and giving feedback by creating more employment opportunities for local residents. Local employees are giving priority in consideration for employment and currently the number of employees from Hsinchu and Miaoli account for nearly 67.5% of total employees. The proportion of KLT&ZKT employees in Jiangsu Province accounts for about 27%

Meanwhile, we profoundly believe the outstanding employees are the biggest assets of KYEC Groups and hence we are committed to provide recruitment process in conformity with laws and regulations in addition to maintaining human rights without employing child labor and will not give preferential treatment due to race, social ranking, nationality, religion, disability, sexual orientation, labor union qualification, political party, or age difference.

Systematic Education Training

KYEC Groups adopt right person for the right position in terms of talent development by constructing a complete and explicit training system and system operation. The diverse training solution and incentive system are designed to assure training quality effect and function of strengthening human resource development；Regarding human rights issue, through education and training, all KYEC colleagues understand the importance and respect for corporate governance and employees’ human rights, and jointly create a communicative and friendly working environment. In the evaluation of various national awards, won many TTQS evaluation gold medals and won the National Talent Award in 2016(the first company in packaging and testing industry won the award),and implement a comprehensive and complete education and training.

The aforementioned complete “Selection, Education, Appointment, and Retention” related human resource management policy allows employees to bring their skills into full play at workplace and collaborate with KYEC Groups in creating a win-win future.

We introduced RBA in 2010, including the five sections in labor, health and safety, environment, corporate ethics, and management system. KYEC Groups fully complies with the laws and regulations as well as RBA code of conducts from the country where the operation office is located. We also request the next-level supplier to understand and implement in order to assure the safe working environment to be provided by the company and the suppliers, so that employees can receive respect and dignity with commitment for the enterprise to undertake environmental protection responsibility in management and comply with code of ethics.

Human Rights Management

KYEC has formulated a human rights policy to prevent any violation of human rights, so as to ensure that all employees(including contracts and temporary personnel),suppliers, and outsourcers(including suppliers who provide contract labor),all must abide by this policy and measures.

Through risk management, relevant management measures, continuous improvement mechanisms, and various risk assessment methods are used to prevent or avoid occurance of human rights incidents, and to protect the rights and interest of relevant stakeholders.

Workplace Safety

KYEC Group values all of our workers, and by promoting the TOSHMS standard (Taiwan Occupational Safety and Health Management System) and ISO 45001: 2018 Occupational Safety and Health Management System (the certificate is valid until November 25, 2026), it identifies all possible hazards that may occur within the factory. Risks are assessed, controlled, and continuously improved upon using the PDCA cycle concept. At present, the coverage rate of the KYEC Group’s occupational safety and health management system has reached 100%; through the operation of the management system, we are committed to creating a healthy and safe workplace environment for the KYEC Group and ensuring the health and safety of workers.

Environment Protection, Safety & Hygiene Policies

KYEC is a professional semiconductor testing enterprise that dedicates its efforts to provide integrated IC backend turn-key service.  As a leading company of this field, taking good care of our staff without fail is our major responsibility and first priority.  To adhere to the conception of “earth vision”, we have established the environment protection, safety, and hygiene system for fulfilling our policies and social responsibilities & obligations. We promise to：

＊Effectively utilize energy resources, promote waste reduction and recycling, reduce waste water and greenhouse gas emissions, and do not use ozone-depleting substances.

＊Continual improvement and promotion the environment, safety and healthy performance, and prevent pollution, injury and diseases to be in accordance with environment protection, safety and health regulations and customer’s standards.

＊To expand this conception as the responsibility of every staff of KYEC.

＊To pursuit the goal of “Zero disaster” and “Zero injury” with implementation of risk management and healthy improvement promotion.

＊To establish the management system of “Green Supply Chain” to ensure the working environment and employee’s health; and reduce the impact on environment from products, manufacturing processes, and related services.

The policy above is published to the public for appealing all employees and the public to participate and work on environment, safety and hygiene.

Occupational Safety and Health Committee

King Yuan Group's Occupational Safety and Health Committee consists of representatives from labor and management, totaling 146 members, with the General Manager serving as the Chairperson. Among the members, 70 are labor representatives, accounting for 48% of the committee members. The committee meets quarterly to review the Company's occupational safety and health management practices, the effectiveness of various management procedures, safety and health training plans, and occupational injury investigation reports.
The spirit of full participation is the focus of the occupational safety and health management system.In 2023, the King Yuan Group had 195 improvement proposals, Through proactive reporting, we jointly supervise and reduce the occurrence of occupational accident.

Health & Safety Education and Training

Each year, King Yuan Group plans safety and health training programs, providing professional training to enhance employees' safety knowledge and reduce accident rates. All employees receive at least one hour of safety and health education training every year, and the OSH Committee regularly reviews training outcomes.

Safety management and emergency response

King Yuan Group follows local occupational safety and health regulations at each operational site to establish hazard identification and risk assessment procedures for the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) management team under the OSH Committee to execute. The OSH management team annually conducts professional hazard identification and risk assessment training, Each year, the OSH management team reviews the workplace of each operational site and upstream and downstream suppliers, categorizing risks into five levels: severe, high, medium, low, and minimal based on factors including severity, likelihood of occurrence, and existing protective measures.

The Company also plans emergency response drills every year and schedules the emergency response drill plans for each department for classes to attend the drills according to the schedule. KYEC actively participates in the Joint Defense Organization of Toufen, Zhunan, and Tongluo Industrial Parks to exchange experiences in environmental, safety, and health management and to achieve mutual support.
In 2023, the Company conducted 75 emergency response drills. Statistics of drill types and sessions from 2021 to 2023 are as follows:

Occupational Incident Handling

King Yuan Group employees experienced a total of 20 occupational accidents in 2023, occupational accident rate is 1.08, higher than the previous year's rate of 0.88. After reviewing the causes, the Company's Occupational Safety and Health Committee found that increased physical work injuries contributed to the higher accident rate this year. As a result, the committee will re-examine management shortcomings, enhance awareness campaigns, and organize additional educational training to improve workplace safety and employees' safety awareness. The Occupational Safety and Health Management Team conducted a thorough investigation and has improved the existing management measures, continuously monitoring the effectiveness of the implemented improvements.