2.56 set for that year. The MOL will continue to promote relevant injury preventive measures in light of achieving the target of 2.24 set for 2020. However, the occupational injuries ratio per thousand for migrant workers in the manufacturing industry is nearly twice as high as that of Taiwanese workers. The MOL has not been able to propose effective measures for reducing occupational injuries of migrant workers. From August 2019 to April 2020, there was more than one migrant worker occupational injury case each month. In addition, the migrant worker disability incidence rate in the last decade has not been reduced effectively. 186. The current Occupational Safety and Health Act only specifies the occupational injury accidents that the employers are required to report to the labor inspection institutions as those in several categories, for one death, three kinds of injuries, and one hospitalization condition; consequently, the MOL has not been able to comprehensively obtain complete statistical data on the number of workers having disabilities due to occupational accidents. Although verification may be assessed with the labor insurance data on occupational injuries by industry, these cases are limited to occupational accidents resulting in death. For factories known to have hazardous conditions and a record of workers disabled due to occupational accidents, no labor inspection has been performed to clarify the cause of the disaster and supervise and assist the businesses in improving quickly. Moreover, merely expecting the migrant workers to file complaints to seek remedies or compensation is a passive and ineffective approach for a government agency. 187. The Control Yuan has surveyed the several factories with records of migrant worker occupational accidents in the past, and it has been found that numerous businesses, even after receiving inspection orders issued by the labor inspection agency requesting improvement within a time-limit or being listed for project guidance, still have major potential hazards, indicating that the subsequent follow-up and improvement controls still need to be improved. Furthermore, many warning signs in factories are not written in a language familiar to migrant workers, and migrant workers lack complete labor safety education and training. The situation of insufficient appropriate teaching materials and translation and mere reliance on senior migrant workers to guide junior migrant workers is common in practice. All of the above are the key factors causing the continuous occurrence of occupational accidents for migrant workers. 188. When migrant workers traveling abroad to work in Taiwan are injured due to occupational accidents, they tend to worry about being sent back to their home country such that they are reluctant to seek medical attention. During the medical treatment and compensation dispute period, some unscrupulous human resources agents and employers even force injured migrant workers to return to their home countries. For such incidents, the MOL has no relevant statistical data on which to base further study; therefore, it is necessary to 82

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