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Avalue follows the Occupational Safety and Health Law to establish and promote an Occupational Health and Safety Management System, adopting the international standard ISO 45001:2018, and obtaining third-party validation to systematically manage workplace safety and health risks.

According to Article 11 of the 'Occupational Safety and Health Management Measures', a 'Occupational Safety and Health Committee' is set up, with meetings held every three months, totaling four meetings annually, reviewing the following content:

As of 2025, the occupational health and safety committee has 16 members (13 male/3 female), composed of occupational health and safety personnel, medical and nursing personnel engaged in labor health services, departmental supervisors, and labor representatives. There are a total of 8 labor representatives, accounting for more than one-third of the total number of committee members. Additionally, Avalue, according to the 'Occupational Health and Safety Education and Training Rules', requires that committee members must undergo occupational safety and health in-service education and training every three years, with the next training scheduled for 2026.

Avalue will continue to ensure that employees can fully participate in discussions and improvements related to workplace safety and health through mechanisms such as the Occupational Health and Safety Committee, hazard identification and risk assessment operations, accident investigations, and internal audits, in order to continuously improve overall workplace safety and health management performance.

The occupational health and safety management system currently covers Avalue's Liancheng Headquarters and Lide factory, and applies to all full-time, part-time, subcontracted, and outsourced personnel, as well as all activities performed in the workplace; the Taichung Office, being a non-manufacturing office, is not included in the ISO 45001 validation scope. As of 2025, the total number of employees and workers managed by Avalue's workplace system is 342. If calculated based on the total number of employees of 361 in 2025, the coverage rate is 94.7%.

Avalue's Occupational Health and Safety Policy are signed by the CEO and publicly announced and implemented to ensure that all employees fully understand and implement the requirements for occupational health and safety management. Avalue's occupational health and safety management system adopts a P-D-C-A (Plan, Do, Check, Improve) management framework, combined with program file management, risk assessment, and periodic tracking mechanisms, to continuously reduce operational risks, prevent occupational disasters, and improve workplace safety. Additionally, Avalue conducts internal audits of its occupational health and safety management system every February to March to confirm the effective operation of the management system and compliance with relevant laws and regulations and international standards.

To prevent occupational disasters, Avalue has formulated a program for hazard identification and risk assessment, systematically identifying and evaluating occupational safety and health risks associated with the company's operational activities, work processes, workplace, equipment, and relevant personnel. The evaluation covers employees, subcontractors, and work environments, and is divided into routine and non-routine operations based on the nature of the work to ensure that all types of occupational hazards are included in the management scope.

In the hazard identification process, Avalue identifies potential hazard sources based on their operational content from each unit and conducts a safety and health impact analysis using the identification parameters to evaluate the likelihood, severity, and effectiveness of existing control measures for hazards that may occur. This allows for risk ranking, identifying risks that should be prioritized for control and opportunities for improvement. For risks identified in the hazard evaluation, Avalue follows control levels including elimination, substitution, engineering controls, work practices, and personal protective equipment to determine feasible and appropriate control measures. These measures are tracked, improved, and reviewed to ensure the effective implementation of risk control measures.

The routine occupational hazards identified by Avalue include operations involving equipment handling, equipment operation and rotation, warehouse moving, material stacking, business travel, and general daily office work. These operations may cause actual hazards such as musculoskeletal injuries from moving or handling materials, crushing injuries from improperly stacked or placed items, risks from entanglement, cuts, burns, or collisions during equipment operation or rotation, and risks from traffic accidents and falls during business travel. To address these risks, Avalue conducts occupational safety promotion, training, reminders for safe handling of materials, environmental tidying, and necessary personal protective measures to minimize the impact of routine operations on personnel safety and health.

Non-routine occupational hazards include equipment maintenance, emergency repairs, abnormal handling, emergency response, temporary relocation or adjustment of operations, and other non-standard operations. Due to the inherent uncertainty and immediate handling requirements of these operations, they may generate electric shock, entanglement, cuts, falls, abnormal equipment activation, chemical or dust exposure, and injuries due to emergency response. For non-routine operations, Avalue requires relevant personnel to confirm the risk status and necessary protective measures before the operation and to communicate, warn, isolate, or control based on the operational needs to avoid increasing the risk of occupational disasters due to temporary or abnormal operations.

For high-risk tasks, such as business trips, warehouse moving, and handling equipment abnormalities, Avalue provides necessary safety promotion and training, and continuously tracks related improvement measures and the health status of the workers to ensure that the workers can perform their duties in a safe and controlled environment. If employees discover during work that there is an immediate danger in the work environment, Avalue follows Article 18 of the Occupational Safety and Health Law and Article 25 of the Implementation Rules of the Occupational Safety and Health Law, informing and educating employees to immediately report and, if necessary, evacuate to a safe area. The company will not take adverse actions against employees for this reason, to ensure the safety and health of employees.

Avalue follows the Occupational Safety and Health Training Rules and incorporates safety and health training into employee training courses. Through a combination of statutory training and internal management needs, it continuously strengthens employees' safety awareness, hazard identification capabilities, and self-protection abilities to reduce the risk of occupational accidents.

• For new employees, Avalue arranges general safety and health training for new employees upon their arrival, so that they can understand the company's occupational safety and health management requirements, the hazards present in the workplace, emergency reporting and response methods, personal protection matters, fire safety, accident prevention, and the right to evacuate in case of immediate danger when employees encounter immediate danger. Since new employees have not yet familiarized themselves with the company's operational environment, equipment configuration, and internal safety regulations, through initial training, it can assist them in establishing basic occupational safety concepts, reducing risks caused by unfamiliar environments or insufficient work understanding.
• For current employees, Avalue requires all employees to undergo general safety and health in-service training every three years, with the next training scheduled for 2027. The training content includes promoting occupational safety and health laws and regulations, identifying workplace hazards, routine and non-routine operational safety matters, accident case explanations, health promotion, emergency response, and disaster prevention. Depending on the type of work and environment of different departments, necessary knowledge and skill training is arranged. For example, for warehouse moving, equipment operation, business trips, or other high-risk tasks, it strengthens training on posture, operational lines, equipment safety, traffic safety, and abnormal situation reporting to ensure that employees can continuously update their safety knowledge and implement them in daily operations.

In addition to general safety and health training, Avalue also implements self-defense fire brigade drills every six months according to the company's fire prevention plan. The drill content includes fire reporting, initial fire suppression, evacuation guidance, personnel evacuation, emergency response division, and procedures for handling disasters. By regularly conducting drills, Avalue aims to reduce the impact of fires, earthquakes, or other sudden events on employee safety, work environment, and operational activities, thereby further strengthening the overall occupational health and safety management resilience.

Avalue appoints and hires professional medical personnel in accordance with Article 22 of the Occupational Safety and Health Law and Article 3 and 5 of the Labor Health Protection Rules to provide labor health services, including health management, occupational disease prevention, health promotion, on-site health services, and medical consultations, among other matters.

The company legally configures one nursing staff member responsible for promoting labor health management and health promotion, and hires one specialist physician in occupational medicine to provide on-site health services. The physician conducts on-site services according to the annual plan and actual needs and provides health assessments, workability evaluations, health guidance, and medical consultations for high-risk laborers. This ensures the implementation of labor health protection systems. Additionally, the company provides group insurance to strengthen employee protection mechanisms; and hires a blind massage therapist to provide three sessions of regular massage services weekly at the Liancheng and Lide plant areas, assisting employees in relieving work stress and promoting physical and mental health.

Avalue continues to provide diverse health protection and health promotion measures to maintain employees' physical and mental health and work well-being, including organizing health activities, occupational disease prevention, first aid assistance, and referral arrangements, to ensure that employees receive timely and appropriate health care during work.

In the protection of health data, Avalue adheres to the Personal Data Protection-related laws and internal management systems, properly managing the health information of its employees. Health data generated by employees during health check-ups, health consultations, and health promotion activities are considered sensitive personal data. These data are managed and preserved by labor health service nursing personnel. Paper health data are uniformly stored in locked filing cabinets, managed by dedicated personnel; electronic health data are stored in exclusive folders with access controls, accessible only to labor health service nursing personnel. Access, use, or leakage are prevented through account and permission management measures. Personal health information is not disclosed outside of the law or with the consent of the parties involved to ensure employee privacy and data security.

Health-related data are primarily used for health management, health risk analysis, and health promotion planning, not as criteria for employment, promotion, transfer, performance evaluation, compensation, benefits, or other treatments. They follow the principles of fairness, non-discrimination, and voluntary participation, ensuring the rights of all workers.

Avalue views subcontractors as important partners. To ensure the safety of subcontracted operations, in addition to complying with relevant occupational safety and health regulations, Avalue also establishes a subcontractor management procedure. Subcontractors fill out the 'Subcontract Safety and Health Management Agreement' and the 'Workplace Hazard Notification', serving as the basis for subcontractor management and safety and health requirements.