Safe and Healthy Workplace

ECOVE places strong emphasis on occupational safety and employee health, and has fully implemented the ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System. Through systematic management, the Company continues to strengthen risk prevention and control mechanisms to safeguard employee safety and health. By implementing hazard identification, risk assessment, and continuous improvement processes, the Company builds a safe work environment and practices preventive management to reduce accident and occupational health risks. ECOVE also promotes occupational safety education and training, emergency response drills, and regular health examinations, while establishing employee participation and communication mechanisms. Through employee representative systems and regular meetings, employees are encouraged to jointly participate in the improvement of safety and health issues.
　
In addition, ECOVE extends its safety management requirements to contractors. Through safety assessments and audit mechanisms, the Company encourages supply chain partners to implement occupational safety and health management, strengthens cooperation and exchange, and jointly reduces industrial safety risks.
　

ISO 45001 Certification

ECOVE has always upheld the core principle of prioritizing safety, health, and the environment, and follows seven occupational safety and health policies to ensure that all operating sites meet the highest safety standards. Since 2009, ECOVE ESC and 10 Energy-from-Waste Centers under ECOVE have obtained OHSAS 18001 and TOSHMS certifications. In 2011, in response to the policy of the Ministry of Labor, these certifications were fully upgraded to CNS 15506 and have continuously passed verification. Since 2018, ECOVE ESC's 10 operating sites, ECOVE WMC, and ECOVE SRC have progressively obtained ISO and CNS 45001 certifications, ensuring that the occupational safety and health management systems, internal audits, and verification coverage at all operating sites reach 100%. The scope applies to all employees, contractors, and outsourced service providers. In 2025, ECOVE ESC, ECOVE WMC, and ECOVE SRC again passed ISO and CNS 45001 certifications, ensuring the continued eective operation of the occupational safety and health system.
　

Note: The 10 operating sites comprise ECOVE headquarters, Keelung plant, Southern Taoyuan plant, Miaoli plant, Houli plant, Wurih plant, Xizhou plant, Tainan plant, Nanke plant, and Gangshan plant. Although ECOVE MEC does not meet the headcount threshold for establishing a standalone occupational health and safety management system, its operations are located within a certified operating site. ECOVE and ECOVE ESC share the same headquarters premises, while ECOVE MEC operates within ECOVE ESC's Miaoli plant. Accordingly, all employees and non-employee workers at these locations are covered by the occupational health and safety management system.

Awards and Recognitions

ECOVE is committed to building a strong safety and health culture and continuously strengthening the self-management capabilities of all units. The Company actively encourages participation in external safety and health evaluations. Through continuous improvement and the implementation of management measures, ECOVE has received repeated recognition from external organizations, demonstrating the eectiveness of its occupational safety and health initiatives. In 2025, ECOVE and its subsidiaries received the following awards:
 

Policies and Committees

Guided by the principle of giving equal emphasis to environmental protection and workplace safety, ECOVE has incorporated safety, health, and environmental (SHE) management into key policy directions. Following the ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System framework, the Company continues to refine its management practices and is committed to building a safe, healthy, and protected work environment for employees and contractors, while safeguarding physical and mental well-being.
　

ECOVE has established an Occupational Safety and Health Committee to coordinate and guide occupational health and safety work for all employees. The committee is composed of management and employee representatives, and is responsible for monitoring workplace safety conditions, promoting safety culture, investigating and handling accidents, and regularly reporting safety management progress to management. This ensures that employee safety training needs are met and that safety management policies and measures continue to improve and remain effective. 
　
Among ECOVE and its subsidiaries, ECOVE ESC and ECOVE WMC have established Occupational Safety and Health Committees in accordance with the law because their employee numbers meet the statutory threshold. ECOVE, ECOVE WEC, ECOVE MEC, and ECOVE SRC do not meet the threshold and therefore have not established committees. However, they continue to follow the spirit of the occupational safety and health management system and provide communication channels for employee participation in occupational safety and health issues through regular meeting mechanisms such as weekly or monthly supervisor meetings. 
　
The Occupational Safety and Health Committees of ECOVE ESC and ECOVE WMC meet once every quarter. Meeting resolutions and related information are disclosed through the Company website or bulletin boards, enabling employees and non-employee workers to understand the committees' key operating priorities and safety and health promotion directions.
　

Risk Assessment and Operational Safety Control

ECOVE and its subsidiaries adopt a tiered management strategy and work with the Risk Management Committee to systematically identify, assess, and control occupational safety and health risks. With safety, health, and environmental risk control as the core, the Company conducts comprehensive risk assessments at least twice each year, covering operating processes, chemical management, hand tool use, environmental exposure, and other areas. Risks are classified by severity, and corresponding standards are developed to ensure employee safety. To enhance risk awareness, the Company regularly holds awareness activities to ensure that all requirements are implemented in daily operations.
　

Seven SHE Performance Indicators

To strengthen occupational safety and health communication and employee participation, ECOVE provides multiple feedback mechanisms through its EIP (Enterprise Information Portal), including employee mailboxes, improvement proposals, and reporting channels. These channels enable employees to promptly report potential hazards and submit opinions anonymously, ensuring that their rights and interests are protected and improving the timeliness of risk response.
　
In addition, the Company regularly conducts on-site inspections and reviews the applicability of operating standards. Based on feedback, ECOVE continuously optimizes related operating processes and dynamically adjusts operating standards to strengthen workplace safety management, protect employee health, and reduce operational risks.
　

For high-risk operations and operations with potential hazards, such as rotating equipment maintenance, pipeline maintenance, hot work, confined space work, work at height, lifting operations, and electrical work, ECOVE has established relevant operational safety control standards. These standards ensure that all operations are carried out under controlled conditions, reducing accident risks and moving toward the goal of zero incidents.
　
In addition, ECOVE uses the MMIS (Maintenance Management Information System) developed by ECOVE ESC for daily work assignments. During morning meetings, Job Safety Analysis (JSA) is used to identify potential hazards and communicate safety precautions, ensuring that operators fully understand the relevant risks. Before work begins, operations personnel, maintenance personnel, and safety and health personnel jointly confirm on-site safety conditions in accordance with risk control procedures, including power shutdown, isolation, and Lockout/Tagout measures. Work may begin only after safety is confirmed, thereby ensuring operational safety throughout the process.
　

Strengthening Safety Management and Audits

To strengthen safety management, ECOVE continues to improve through its inspection system and implements safety management and improvement in a step-by-step manner. Through inspection and verification, the Company confirms employees' safety knowledge and skills, identifies areas requiring reinforcement, and incorporates the findings into training plans and revisions to operating standards to ensure continuous optimization of safety management. ECOVE promotes a three-level audit management system to ensure that safety management is implemented. Audit results, including the number of sessions and deficiencies, are reported at committee meetings. Improvements are managed by responsible departments for each Energy-from-Waste plant and project, and audit follow-up mechanisms are used to confirm improvement eectiveness, ensuring continuous enhancement of safety management.
　

Three-Level Audit Management

For audit deficiencies, the Safety and Health Management Department requires subordinate units to conduct root-cause analysis and develop improvement measures. After corrective actions are implemented, results are reported to the relevant departments (Operation Department 1, Operation Department 2, or the ECOVE WMC Project Department) and the Safety and Health Management Department is notified. Improvement results are explained at senior management meetings before case closure. Audits include internal inspections, cross-project audits, and regular or irregular inspections conducted by external competent authorities in accordance with annual policies. Results are immediately communicated to project units for improvement implementation.
　

Machinery and Equipment Management and Contractor Management

ECOVE uses the MMIS equipment maintenance system to deeply optimize machinery and equipment supervision, ensuring high safety and stability in the operation and maintenance of Energy-from-Waste plants. Regular inspections at all plants are strictly incorporated into systematic schedules, and a digital maintenance tracking mechanism is used to prevent management omissions. In addition, ECOVE has established a comprehensive selfinspection program covering pre-operation inspections, in-process checks, and postoperation confirmation, and combines this plan with evaluation mechanisms to ensure process implementation. The Company also uses a digital license management platform to verify operator qualifications in real time, implementing operational safety control at the source.
　　
For outsourced project management, ECOVE establishes a rigorous contractor selection mechanism at the source. Safety and health requirements and hazard factors are detailed in purchase requisition specifications, while annual occupational safety education and self-protection instruction strengthen workers' safety and health awareness. In execution, ECOVE implements lifecycle controls covering pre-operation hazard notification and agreements, toolbox meetings and dynamic audits during operations, and seven performance indicator evaluations after completion. Facial or fingerprint recognition systems are also used to ensure that personnel entering the plant meet qualification requirements. During construction, in addition to using JSA (Job Safety Analysis) for management, ECOVE strictly conducts random blood pressure checks, alcohol tests, and health assessments. Personnel with abnormal results must immediately stop work or have their duties adjusted. Through digital management and real-time corrective mechanisms, the Company builds a comprehensive safety line of defense for contractor operations. In 2025, ECOVE WMC's waste collection and transportation fleet experienced three trac accidents.
　

Occupational Accident Prevention

ECOVE regards occupational safety and employee health as an important foundation for sustainable business operations. The Company has established systematic risk identification and assessment mechanisms, regularly inventories potential hazards that may arise from various operations, and adopts appropriate prevention and control measures according to risk level. Through education and training, standard operating procedures, safety control processes, and regular emergency response drills, ECOVE strengthens employees' ability to identify potential risks and respond to emergencies, thereby reducing the likelihood of accidents.
　
For occupational accidents and abnormal incidents, the Company has established accident reporting, investigation, and improvement tracking mechanisms. Through cause analysis and the implementation of corrective and preventive measures, ECOVE ensures that lessons learned from incidents are translated into concrete actions for system optimization and risk reduction, continuously improving workplace safety performance.
　

For ECOVE and its subsidiaries, providing a safe, healthy, and friendly work environment is a core mission of corporate operations. Safety First is more than a slogan; it is the foundation of daily work for all colleagues, embedded in every operational detail and internalized as a guide for action. ECOVE promotes safety management through a systematic approach, covering general safety and health education and training, special operation hazard education and training, such as confined space work, work at height, hot work, and lifting operations, hazard communication training, and contractor safety and health education and training. These initiatives provide comprehensive and effective safety knowledge and skills guidance for all employees. In 2025, ECOVE held 14 emergency response drills with 491 participants in total, Contractor entry control: facial/fingerprint recognition, blood pressure checks, and alcohol tests and 534 occupational safety and health-related training sessions with 6,774 participants in total.
　
In addition, the Company regularly conducts emergency response drills that simulate various unexpected scenarios, ensuring that employees have sucient response capabilities in actual hazardous situations. Supervisors at all levels also continuously remind employees of the importance of safety in daily work, demonstrating the Company's commitment to safety through concrete action. To strengthen safety awareness, the Company innovatively shares safety slogans instead of relying solely on traditional rule-based instruction. Through concise and powerful messages, ECOVE communicates safety concepts and embeds safety culture in employees' minds.
　

Note1: All seven person-times in 2025 involved male employees.
Note2: In 2025, the number of person-times for each injury category among contractors and subcontractors was zero.
Note3: Ratio of occupational injury cases to total employees: 7 (occupational injury cases) / 985 (total ECOVE employees) = 0.71%
Note4: Source management was adopted for individual accident cases. Safety protective covers were properly repaired for the disabling incident, facility/equipment risks were improved, and education and training were re-implemented.
 

Occupational Health Management

A Robust Health Management System for a Secure Workplace

ECOVE values employee health and creates a safe workplace through a robust health management system.

1. Comprehensive Health Examination System Exceeding Regulatory Requirements

All new employees are required to undergo a physical examination before onboarding, while current employees receive health examinations every two years. Both the examination items and frequency exceed regulatory requirements. For high-risk operations, such as dusty environments, special health examinations are conducted annually. ECOVE continues to optimize employee health and welfare measures and adjusts health examination packages based on the needs of different age groups, enabling employees to receive more comprehensive health care.
　

2. Establishing a Health Care Platform to Integrate Diverse Services

A Health Care Platform is available on the Company homepage, providing healthrelated functions such as health information updates, health examination hospital appointment booking, health questionnaire completion, health promotion activities, and registration for medical and nursing health consultations.
　

3. Introducing an Intelligent Health Management System

Through the Group's intelligent Hygeia Health Management System, health examination data can be collected and analyzed, enabling eective understanding of employee health information and statistical report analysis, thereby supporting health risk management.
　

Professional Medical and Nursing Team On Site to Provide Timely Health Consultation

The Company has one full-time nurse and also engages contracted nurses, contracted physical therapists, and contracted occupational medicine specialists to regularly provide on-site services at ECOVE and its subsidiaries. These services include workplace hazard assessments, explanations of health examination reports, follow-up care for employees with abnormal health examination results, injury and illness follow-up, chronic disease management, and musculoskeletal health care. In 2025, a total of 15 on-site physician service sessions were held, totaling 45 hours and 146 consultations, including two cases subject to maternal health protection. Employees may use this free onsite medical and nursing resource to consult on health concerns for themselves or their family members, receive professional and precise health advice, and enhance their personal health awareness and self-protection capabilities.
　

General Health Examinations:

Through annual health examinations, the Company evaluates items such as blood pressure, blood lipids, blood glucose, liver and kidney function, urine, and chest X-rays. Based on the severity of abnormal test results, employees are classified from Level 1 to Level 4; the higher the level, the higher the health risk requiring priority attention. Through this tiered management mechanism, medical and nursing staff can quickly interpret employees' health status and arrange follow-up and health education guidance, eectively improving the timeliness and precision of health management. In 2025, Level 4 employees accounted for 17.0%, a slight decrease from 17.7% in 2023. All Level 4 employees completed health consultations and ongoing follow-up to reduce potential health risks.
　

Special Health Examinations:

For employees engaged in operations with special health hazards, the Company conducts occupational health examinations annually in accordance with regulations. This year, the examinations mainly covered personnel involved in dust-related operations. Through regular testing and professional assessment, potential health abnormalities caused by the work environment can be identified early, and their correlation with work can be further determined. In 2025, a total of 74 employees underwent special health examinations. The results showed no work-related abnormalities, demonstrating the eectiveness of the working environment and health protection measures.
　

Workplace Health Education to Enhance Self-Protection

Based on employee health needs, health examination results, and common diseases, the Company plans diverse health-related education and training programs. Through health awareness campaigns, health lectures, and health promotion activities, employees learn health knowledge, enhance their health literacy, develop good lifestyle habits, and reduce health risks.
　

• Health awareness campaigns:

In 2025, ECOVE conducted 35 health awareness campaigns through diversified channels such as EIP, email, LINE groups, and posters, reaching 14,888 participants. Topics included low-temperature alerts and heart health changes, lunch choices for people who eat out, oce workers' aches and pains - traditional Chinese medicine relief and acupressure massage, heat illness, selection of pneumococcal vaccines, blood donation tips, understanding thirdhand smoke, whether serving utensils are needed when dining with family, and whether one has white coat syndrome, among other engaging and practical health topics.
　

• Health lectures:

In 2025, 24 health lectures were held, with 533 participants in total. Lecture topics included preventing the "three highs," vision care, traditional Chinese medicine relief for aches and pains and acupressure massage, influenza prevention and vaccination, influenza vaccination, and technology-enabled physical fitness testing, among other topics closely related to healthy living.
　

• Health promotion:

In 2025, four health promotion activities were held, with 312 participants in total. Through walking activities, half-day health tours, blood donation activities, and influenza vaccination, health behaviors were integrated into daily life, motivating employees and increasing their willingness to maintain good lifestyle habits.
　

Through a rigorous health management system, a professional medical and nursing team, ongoing health awareness campaigns, health lectures, and health promotion activities, ECOVE strengthens health care measures, safeguards the physical and mental health of every employee, and creates a safer and healthier workplace.
 

Health Certifications and Dioxin Tracking Tests

Promoting Employee Health Self-Management and Workplace Safety

1. Workplace Health Promotion Self-Assessment:

Each year, the Health Promotion Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare promotes the Workplace Health Promotion Self-Assessment, guiding companies to conduct self-reviews and improvements across six health promotion dimensions, including physical activity, healthy eating, weight management, and cessation of smoking and betel nut use. The assessment aims to enhance employees' health knowledge, strengthen self-health management capabilities, and help workplaces establish safe and friendly working environments, gradually forming a sustainable health promotion culture.
　
The Company actively responds to this policy and is committed to creating a healthy and sustainable workplace. In 2025, eight sites passed the Workplace Health Promotion Self-Assessment certification of the Health Promotion Administration: Tainan Energy-from-Waste Center, Southern Taoyuan Energy-from-Waste Center, Houli Energy-from-Waste Center, Keelung Energy-from-Waste Center, Wurih Energy-from-Waste Center, Gangshan Energy-from-Waste Center, Biomass Energy, and ECOVE WMC.
This achievement demonstrates the Company's commitment and concrete results in promoting employee health.
　

2. AED Safe Place Certification:

The AED Safe Place Certification, organized by county and city health bureaus, requires at least 70% of employees at the applicant unit to complete CPR and AED first-aid training and requires the appointment of qualified AED administrators. The purpose of this certification is to strengthen the accessibility of AEDs and emergency response capabilities in public places, improve the first-aid competence of frontline personnel, and create safe, friendly environments equipped with immediate rescue capabilities.
　
The Company continues to promote first-aid education and the installation of safety equipment, demonstrating its commitment to workplace safety and public responsibility. In 2025, a total of 14 sites passed AED Safe Place Certification, including Keelung Energy-from-Waste Center, Taoyuan Airport Resource Center, Gangshan Energy-from-Waste Center, ECOVE SRC, Houli Energy-from-Waste Center, Wurih Energy-from-Waste Center, Xizhou Energy-from-Waste Center, Miaoli Energy-from-Waste Center, Tainan Science Park Energy-from-Waste Center, Taitung Energy-from-Waste Center, Tainan Energy-from-Waste Center, Southern Taoyuan Energyfrom-Waste Center, ECOVE WMC, and the Biomass Energy Plant. This achievement reflects the Company's active investment and concrete results in strengthening first-aid capabilities and protecting employee health.
　

Dioxin Tracking Tests - Strictly Controlling the Work Environment to Protect Employee Health

Since 2008, ECOVE has commissioned the Environmental Trace Toxic Substances Research Center of National Cheng Kung University every four years to conduct blood dioxin tests on representative employees at incineration plants across Taiwan. The analysis incorporates dietary and occupational exposure assessments. Five rounds of testing had been completed by 2024, and the next round is scheduled for 2028. The 2024 study results showed that employees' blood dioxin concentrations were lower than the average among residents living near incinerators in Taiwan and below the WHO recommended value. This demonstrates that the Company's measures for occupational exposure control and employee health protection are concrete and eective.
　
The test reports include each employee's historical and current-year (2024) test values. Company nurses explain the test data to employees face to face and provide related health guidance, enhancing employees' understanding of dioxins.
　
In addition, the Company submitted its 2024 research results to Industrial Safety and Health Monthly under the title "2024 Dioxin Exposure Assessment Survey of Municipal Waste Incinerator Operators," with publication expected in March 2026. Through this empirical study, ECOVE discloses the current status of dioxin exposure among incinerator operators and provides scientific evidence for Taiwan's occupational safety and health policy. The Company hopes to create positive social value for workers, the public, and policymakers, fulfilling its corporate responsibility to give back to society.
　

Looking ahead, the Company will continue to monitor the latest news and domestic and international academic research results, and will regularly review occupational exposure and health risk issues. These efforts will serve as important references for optimizing protective measures and health management for incinerator operators. We will continue to strengthen occupational safety and health management, update personal protective equipment, refine environmental monitoring technologies, and deepen the health management system to ensure that employees receive the most complete and comprehensive health and safety protection at work sites.
　

Safety, Health, and Environment Series Activities

ECOVE continues to hold Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) series activities every year to strengthen safety awareness and risk management capabilities among all employees. In 2025, the President continued to issue an open safety letter, rearming to all colleagues that safety is the top priority, reminding employees to build consensus on safety, identify potential hazards, and implement all safety measures. This reinforces top-down safety commitment and culture building.
　
At the execution level, supervisors at all levels regularly conduct site inspections and operational guidance to implement safety management requirements and ensure that operating processes comply with relevant regulations and standards. At the same time, the Company conducts emergency response drills using scenario-based, in-person teaching methods, enabling employees to strengthen response capabilities and practical judgment through realistic simulations and improve handling eciency when facing unexpected incidents.
　
In contractor management, the Company continues to review and optimize safety management mechanisms for contracted operations. Through experience feedback and safety review meetings, ECOVE proposes improvement and innovation measures to strengthen risk control and safety implementation in contracted operations.
　

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