Response to UN SDGs

STEP 1 Assess method

GRI, UN Global Compact and WBCSD have jointly created a SDG Compass in an attempt to rally efforts from the corporate world towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). YOKE has adopted the spirit and practices stated in the SDG Compass and followed the 5 main steps from “Understanding the SDGs,” “Defining priorities,” “Setting goals,” “Integrating” to “Reporting and communicating” to incorporate SDGs into the Company’s operational goals. By following the above guidelines, YOKE hopes to adjust its practices and contribute towards sustainability over the long term.

STEP 2 Confirmation of goals

From a series of sustainability issues analysis, YOKE has identified issues that it considers to be material, and conducted a full-scale review to associate SDGs with YOKE’s value chain. Through internal communication and discussion, YOKE has identified SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being),

SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 5 (Gender Equality), SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), SDG 16 (Peace and Justice Strong Institutions) the primary aspects for its sustainability efforts.

STEP 3 Practices

While promoting sustainable practices, YOKE came to realize the implications of this issue and how it concerns stakeholders. This realization is also gradually reflected in the performance indicators of internal departments through trial and learning; ultimately, we hope to fully incorporate sustainable values into our corporate culture and business operations. By prioritizing SDGs, YOKE aims to associate the corporate value chain with stakeholders’ concerns and introduce feasible solutions to fulfill SDGs through action.

Good Health and Well-being

01

Received ISO/IEC 17025 certification for new test verification. Ensure our product design and manufacturing are in line with pertinent international product specifications.

02

Maintained the validity of our ISO 45001 occupational safety and health management system certification.

03

For 9 consecutive years, we have encouraged our employees to perform volunteer services at Taichung Veterans General Hospital to help the patients within their capacity. Thus far, more than 1200 employees have volunteered.

Quality Education

01

The total duration of employee training for 2021 was 7,527, and the average number of hours trained by all colleagues was 18.49 hours.

02

Continue to promote our Experts Academy while implementing factory skill assessment. In 2021, a total of 200 employees passed their Level A test and they constituted 85.11% of our direct employee pool).

03

YOKE offers an NTD 300,000 scholarship each year for students at 2 departments across 2 universities including NCKU and that have been working closely with the Company in relevant product technologies as our way to encourage and assist students of outstanding academic performance to pursue further education.

Gender Equality

01

To exclude the direct personnel, female employees (59.41%) at YOKE are actually higher than male employees.

Affordable and Clean Energy

01

We keep working on energy conservation and carbon reduction; with the 3 projects we launched in 2021, YOKE reduced the power consumption of approximately 209,000 kWh per year.

Decent Work and Economic Growth

01

Our revenue came to 2.823 billion in 2021.

02

Implement local procurement;the average domestic procurement for the past five years has come to 98.21%. For 2021, the percentage was 97.9%.

Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

01

YOKE became the first company of developing the technology to access RFID chips through NFC functionalities with smartphones to help customers manage and perform relevant inspections for their safety hooks.

02

YOKE successfully completed the completion of grade 120 high-strength alloy steel material development, with relevant manufacturing parameters and quality inspection related technologies to boost the durability of our products.

03

We have been working with NTU, Feng Chia University and National Chinyi University in academia-sector collaborations in an effort to accelerate our technological development by leveraging the R&D capabilities of the academia.

Responsible Consumption and Production

01

Through a high-specification quality management system and factory manufacturing verification, our 8 series products have been submitted for relevant verifications. The revenue from the 8 series products has already accounted for 85.54% of the entire 8 series.

02

YOKE continued to invest in human resources for improving the operational process. In 2021, the Company completed 12 process improvement projects, and 3 energy-saving projects.

02

Passed third-party verification for ISO 14051 material flow cost accounting in 2020.

Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

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With the sole exception of one occupational injury that resulted in a fine, YOKE had no other record of violations.

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