Mother Jintana Thanalongkorn Foundation

The company places great importance on education for the underprivileged, providing equal educational opportunities by granting scholarships from primary to tertiary education levels, including those who are physically or mentally disabled. This promotes youths and those individuals to have opportunities to study and bring knowledge to develop society and the nation, to become the country’s important driving force in the future. It starts from promoting education of employees’ children within the organization through the “Jintana Thanalongkorn Scholarship Fund,” and expanded the educational support by establishing the “Jintana Thanalongkorn Foundation” on July 27, 2009, with the following objectives:

Promote and support educational activities.
Provide grants to help underprivileged students and/or those with academic excellence but lack financial support
Do not seek any benefits or profits from the Foundation.
Collaborate with other charities for public benefit.
Do not engage in any forms of political activities

Goals For 2023

Provide 88 general scholarships for students from primary totertiaryeducation levels.
Provide 1 scholarship to an educational institution for the disabled.
Provide 30 continuous education scholarships from Mathayom 4 (grade 10) to bachelor’s degree level.

Performance In 2023

The company’s support enabled the foundation to achieve the following goals

Provide
general scholarships
from primary to tertiary education levels totaling 792,000 baht.
scholarship
to an educational institution for the disabled amounting to 200,000 baht.
continuous education scholarships
from Mathayom 4 (grade 10) to bachelor’s degree level.
A total of
scholarships
totaling 1,546,000 baht were awarded.

Sewing Cup, Sewing Heart

Sabina Public Company Limited, as a leader of the women’s underwear business who has knowledge of women’s bodies, realizes the danger of “breast cancer,” which is commonly found in Thai women and tends to have more patients continually, and realizes the effects to the quality of life and mentality of women who need to remove the breast as treatment. Sabina intends to be a part of helping women after mastectomy, show our concerns, and give them moral support to fulfill their quality of life so they could adapt and recover their confidence and courage after the surgery.

Goals For 2023

Produce 35,000 artificial breasts to support the needs of patients around the country.
Campaign volunteers around the country, organization/company, group of people, students, and normal citizens to join the artificial breasts sewing activity. The goal is 20,000 participants.
Act as a medium to deliver the finished artificial breasts to the hospitals in need, so they could be handed over to not less than 15,000 patients, or 35,000 breasts.

Performance In 2023

Production of artificial breasts Supporting the needs of patients who lack breast implants Nationwide, 35,000 breasts by 2023.

Production of artificial breasts Supporting the needs of patients
breasts by 2023

Campaigning for volunteers across the country Agencies/companies, groups of individuals, students, and the public allowed 20,000 people to participate in breast implant sewing activities.

Allowed
people
to participate in breast implant sewing activities.

To be an intermediary in providing breast implant sewing services to hospitals that 3 wish to deliver at least 15,000 patients per year or 35,000 breasts.

Providing breast implant sewing services to hospitals
patients per year
or 35,000 breasts.

“Aunjai Fund” Project

From the overall economic situation during the past several years, most employees of the company have been affected both directly and indirectly in terms of living factors and responsibilities to their family, as well as problems about working and personal matters, which can affect their work in several aspects. This leads to the foundation of the heartwarming fund project to help lighten their loads of debts, which include credit card debt, cash card debt, and/or informal debt from necessity to use money during the pandemic to live their lives. The objectives of the project are as follows.

Partially/fully relieve employees’ debt burdens
Instill financial discipline on saving for employees participating in the project
Follow up on the finances and liquidity issues of employees participating in the project

Goals For 2023

Inspect the finances of no less than 75% of all employees
Accept members/provide assistance to no less than 75% of employees applying to join the project
Monitor debt status of employees in the organization

Performance In 2023

From the results of the survey of 2,623 employees, it was found that 77.35 percent of employees were interested in answering the questionnaire and evaluating their own financial status into 3 groups as follows.

Financial status of employees who responded to the questionnaire

The results obtained from the number that was selected accounted for
%
of all employees who applied to join the project.

43 employees assisted by the Fund from 2019-2022 were followed up on. Originally, there were 17 people who had informal debts.
After receiving assistance, the number decreased by 11, leaving only 6 people. As for credit card cash advance debts, initially there were 14 people who had this type of debt. After receiving assistance, the number increased by 9 to 23 people. Meanwhile, there were 12 people who have both debt types, after receiving the assistance, the number dropped to 9 people, with only 3 remaining.

There were 17 people who had informal debts. After receiving assistance, the number decreased by
people
leaving only 6 people.

Learning Organization

As the Company has adapted the tools for developing the operational process, management and production, quality control, and developing potential of employees, who are significant resources, by training, practicing, letting employees to join in management and improvement of their work, and adapting the tools continually, together with creating the conscious mind for developing the organization for normal interested individuals, so they could exchange their attitudes and open opportunities for students from several universities to be trained in the organization based on their course.

Goals For 2023

Develop personnel potential
  • At the operational level SGA > 200 people/year
  • At the supervisor level > 250 people/year
Be an organization of learning
  • Not less than 40 interns from universities.
  • Joining 4 universities as a special guest speaker
  • Being a supervisor for 1 SME industrial factory

Performance In 2023

Develop Personal Potential
At the operational level SGA
people
At the supervisor level
people
Operational Result Of Being An Organization Of Learning
Interns
interns
Being the guest speaker for
universities
Being a supervisor for
industrial factory per year

Safety, Industrial Hygiene, and Working Environment

The company places importance on caring for safety, occupational health, and working conditions since all employees are valuable resources. Therefore, we have established policies and practices regarding workplace safety and hygiene, with a focus on safety to assure employees can work at the highest level of security. We also place importance on proper management of the working environment for safety, good occupational health, as well as caring for employees’ well-being and reducing illness. This supports SDG 3 on Good Health and Well-Being.

Goals For 2023

Safety in Working Place
Number of accumulated hours without serious accidents which cause absence of all factories was 5,600,000 hours
Working Environment
Maintain a suitable and safe environment for working. Must pass inspection Annual environmental conditions regarding light, sound, heat, dust, chemicals as required by law for every factory.
Employees’ Health
  • The goal is having employees who check up their health based on risk factor of not less than 93%
  • The goal is having employees with normal weight – a little over the standard of not less than 60% of all checked-up employees.
  • Target group of employees who are overweight from 30.0 (dangerously obese) or above, reduced by 20%

Performance In 2023

Work Safety Performance Results

From various safety operations, in 2023 there will be 4,903,032 hours of accumulated hours without accidents leading to lost time in every factory, accounting for 88% from the target of 5,600,000 hours.

Accumulated hours without accidents leading to lost time in every factory
hours
Performance In The Working Environment

In 2023, there will be results of inspection of the working environment. Concerning risk factors - heat, light, noise, dust, and chemicals. Details are as follows:

In addition, the company has examined air pollution from the foam molding process. in order not to create an impact on the community by a company that has received a license and registered legally Dust and chemical values were measured for the year 2023. It was found that dust and chemical values (xylene) passed the standard criteria.

Factory Sai 5 Tha phra Chainat Buriram Yasothorn
Date of inspection 7-8/06/23 19/06/23 04/07/23 17/03/23 02/06/23
Test results Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass
Employee Health Performance
Employees received health examinations according to risk factors
%
which is better than the set target of 93 percent.
Employees with an average bmi (23.0-24.9)
employees
from a total of 2,467 people, accounting for 62%, which is better than the set target of not less than 60%.
In 2023, the group of employees who were overweight from 30.0 or more (dangerously obese) in 2022 which numbered 315 people
people
There were employees who resigned during the year. This leaves 289 employees remaining. The proportion of employees whose BMI can be reduced is 33.21%, which is better than the target of reducing 20%.

Human Rights

The company is aware of the importance of human values, fundamental rights and freedoms, which encompass dignity, justice, equality, mutual respect, and independence, regardless of race, gender, religion, skin color, age, education, language, and differing opinions. Therefore, it focuses on implementing non-discrimination and equal opportunity practices, supporting and promoting freedom of thought, and allowing employees to express their opinions within the organization through various channels. It also aims to provide a safe and healthy working environment with basic security measures, as well as avoid violating human rights in various dimensions of stakeholders, including employees, vulnerable groups, business partners, customers, and communities.

Goals For 2023

There were no complaints of human rights violations within the company involving employees, vulnerable groups, business partners, customers, and communities.
No discrimination is practiced, and opportunities are provided for employment and fair performance evaluations.
Freedom is given and support is provided for expressing opinions through committees and other channels.
Initiatives regarding the working environment and basic safety measures are implemented to achieve a 70% satisfaction rate in the basic rights assessment
Personal data protection is provided, and there is no violation of personal information in accordance with the PDPA requirements, for both employees and other related parties.

Summary Of Operating Results In 2023

In 2023, there were no complaints of human rights violations within the company against employees, vulnerable groups, business partners, customers, and communities from Sabina’s operations

No Complaints
of human rights violations

There is no discrimination by providing opportunities for employment, welfare, and fair performance evaluations. Employees are evaluated based on their performance without discrimination based on gender, age, status, ethnicity, religion, including vulnerable groups consisting of employees with disabilities, pregnant employees, and employees with health issues.

Freedom and support for expressing opinions is provided through committees and other channels. In 2023, the company organized elections for the welfare committee and the safety committee as follows:

Factory Welfare Committee Safety Board
Election Date Number of authorized useres Election Date Number of authorized useres
Headquarters Office Date of appointment: 2 Dec. 2022 The number of applicants is complete Date of appointment: 2 Dec. 2022 The number of applicants is complete
Sai 5 28 Dec. 2022 89.00% 21 July 2023 98.18%
Tha phra 21 Feb. 2023 94.49% Date of appointment: 4 Oct. 2022 The number of applicants is complete
Chainat 20 May 2022 99.10% Date of appointment: 1 Oct. 2022 The number of applicants is complete
Yasothorn 20 July 2023 95.20 % Date of appointment: 1 Dec. 2022 The number of applicants is complete
Buriram Appointment date: 26 Nov 2021 The number of applicants is complete Appointment date: 10 August 2022 The number of applicants is complete

In 2023, a satisfaction assessment on the work environment and safety within the factory was conducted, with an average rating exceeding 70 % for most areas

Average Rating Exceeding
%
for most areas
No personal data violations
were found according to PDPA regulations both on the part of employees and other related parties.
From comprehensive human rights operations Earn various awards Human rights as follows:
Certified with Thai Labour Standard
Certified with WRAP Standard
Certified with SEDEX Standard
Awarded as a Model Organization for Sustainability in the Thai Capital Market for Supporting People with Disabilities
Awarded as an Outstanding Establishment in Labor Relations and Welfare