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
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