A Discussion of Safety Issues and Management in Polarizer Plants

• Main Authors: Yu-Hsuan Lin, 林郁軒
• Other Authors: Jing-Shiou Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zzhg62

碩士 === 嘉南藥理大學 === 職業安全衛生系 === 102 === In the last ten years, Taiwan's main industry has been the LCD display (LCD/LED). The industry started from using generation 3.5 machines to now using generation 8.5 machines. In just seven or eight years, LCD panel plants have built bigger plants, recruited more people, and expanded the scale of the panel plants to accommodate more production lines. Apart from market demand and the need to cut cost, such a rapid development has been driven by the technology that produces the panel. Faced with larger and highly automated machinery, the recruiting and training of human resources is bound to be more challenging as the risk of injury in the workplace increases. The study intends to address the issue of work safety by focusing on a polarizer plant in Southern Taiwan Science Park, using questionnaires as the tool. After the case company established its Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSAS), its disabling injury rate has decreased; however, there are still a few disabling injury cases. It seems that unsafe behavior among workers and unsafe workplace environment are still present in the case company. To develop countermeasures, it is worth examining the safety culture and issues in the case company. The results of the survey show that among the items in the aspect of safety culture, "the use of protective gear," "automatic check," "safety awareness," "outsourcing management," and "employee involvement" are highly recognized and appreciated, by contrast, recognition for "safety leadership" and "reward and punishment" is relatively low. Therefore, in terms of "safety leadership," top management needs to improve its safety demonstration and execution; in terms of "reward and punishment," a comprehensive system is needed in the case company to motivate employees and to strengthen the effectiveness of health and safety management.