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User, October 2026: option to enter base salaries; the company should provide proper extra health care with check-ups for all staff. - worker-safety.md: new "Health care for all staff" policy (decided October 2026): group health insurance (inpatient and outpatient) and a yearly check-up for everyone, office included, on top of social security; the occupational checks Thai law requires for risk-factor work (Ministerial Regulation B.E. 2547: within 30 days, then yearly, by an occupational physician, records kept 2 years after the job ends) for the press floor, galvanics and maintenance; planning costs with sources checked October 2026 (group insurance ~8,000 to 18,006 THB a head a year, plan ~15,000; Rajavej Chiang Mai check-ups 1,290 to 5,990 THB, plan ~2,500 plus ~1,500 risk-factor tests, estimates); social security 5 % up to the 17,500 THB ceiling since 1 January 2026. - revenue-model.md: cutting engineer 50,000 THB is base salary; health care on top of the x1.3 (~0.35M THB a year at the start fleet); what the x1.3 is made of. - Fleet calculator: base salaries per role (the revenue model loaded rates / 1.3; cutting engineer 50,000), employer social security 5 % capped at 17,500, 25 % overtime, bonus and PPE, health insurance and check-ups for all staff incl. 4 office staff (scale.md 3 to 5), risk- factor tests for the press floor, galvanics and maintenance; all as editable assumptions; people table gains office and all-staff rows. Defaults: labour 5.25M THB (was 4.67M loaded), direct cost 1.90 USD a record, EBITDA 2.19M USD.
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Worker Safety
Worker safety is a founding priority, on equal footing with the environmental commitments:
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Safety training: proper, structured training for all operators and maintenance staff, starting with the vendor-led commissioning training and extending into an ongoing in-house program. The pressing line combines hydraulics (~180 bar), saturated steam (10 bar / 180 °C), and hot PVC, and every one of these demands trained, deliberate handling.
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Clean rooms for galvanics: silvering and stamper electroforming will run in dedicated clean rooms with controlled access, proper ventilation and exhaust, and decontamination procedures for people and equipment leaving the area. Plating chemistry stays inside its containment.
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Personal protective equipment: appropriate PPE (overalls, gloves, goggles, and process-specific protection) is mandatory per work area, in line with the equipment vendor's site requirements (exhaust work benches, fire protection) and local regulations.
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Lifting and machine service: the overhead crane needs trained operators and slingers, a lift plan for every machine move, and the periodic engineer inspections Thai law sets for cranes. A machine is only disconnected and lifted after lockout: electrical isolation, steam vented, hydraulics depressurised including the accumulator. Welding and grinding stay in the workshop's hot-work corner under a permit. Detail in crane, workshop and tours.
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Visitors never share the floor's hazards: tours run in a glazed corridor with its own air and no PPE requirement.
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Health care for all staff (decided October 2026). On top of the statutory social security, the company provides every member of staff, office included, with group health insurance (inpatient and outpatient) and a yearly health check-up. Staff in risk-factor work also get the occupational checks Thai law requires, which the general check-up does not replace:
- The legal minimum. The Ministerial Regulation on health check-ups of employees (B.E. 2547, 2004) covers work with hazardous chemicals, heat, noise and similar risk factors: a check within 30 days of starting such work, then at least once a year, by a physician trained in occupational medicine, physical and mental, with the records kept until two years after the job ends (summary, text). Here that is the press floor (steam heat, noise), galvanics (nickel salts, silver nitrate, acids) and maintenance; hearing, lung function and metal tests are the likely panel, for the occupational physician to set.
- Planning costs (checked October 2026, no quote yet): group health insurance about 8,000 to 12,000 THB a head a year for local plans (Thailand Starter Kit), AXA's SME plans 9,394, 14,925 and 18,006 THB at 25 staff (CheckDi); the plan uses ~15,000. Check-ups at Rajavej Chiang Mai cost 1,290 THB (age 18 to 30), 1,790 (31 to 40) and 3,290 to 5,990 (over 40) in 2026 (programmes); the plan uses ~2,500 a head plus ~1,500 for the risk-factor tests (estimates).
- Social security, for reference: the employer pays 5 % of salary up to a ceiling raised from 15,000 to 17,500 THB a month on 1 January 2026, so at most 875 THB a month a head (Sprout).
The press fleet calculator costs all of this per head with the fleet's staffing.
Safety infrastructure (training program, clean-room specification, decontamination workflow) will be planned alongside the equipment, not after it.