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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
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Worker safety is a founding priority, on equal footing with the environmental
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commitments:
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- **Safety training**: proper, structured training for all operators and
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maintenance staff, starting with the vendor-led commissioning training and
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extending into an ongoing in-house program. The pressing line combines
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hydraulics (~180 bar), saturated steam (10 bar / 180 °C), and hot PVC, and
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every one of these demands trained, deliberate handling.
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- **Clean rooms for galvanics**: silvering and stamper electroforming will
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run in dedicated clean rooms with controlled access, proper ventilation and
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exhaust, and decontamination procedures for people and equipment leaving
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the area. Plating chemistry stays inside its containment.
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- **Personal protective equipment**: appropriate PPE (overalls, gloves,
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goggles, and process-specific protection) is mandatory per work area, in
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line with the equipment vendor's site requirements (exhaust work benches,
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fire protection) and local regulations.
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- **Lifting and machine service**: the overhead crane needs trained
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operators and slingers, a lift plan for every machine move, and the
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periodic engineer inspections Thai law sets for cranes. A machine is
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only disconnected and lifted after lockout: electrical isolation, steam
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vented, hydraulics depressurised including the accumulator. Welding and
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grinding stay in the workshop's hot-work corner under a permit. Detail
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in [crane, workshop and tours](crane-workshop-tours.md).
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- **Visitors** never share the floor's hazards: tours run in a glazed
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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
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statutory social security, the company provides every member of staff,
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office included, with group health insurance (inpatient and outpatient)
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and a yearly health check-up. Staff in risk-factor work also get the
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occupational checks Thai law requires, which the general check-up does
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not replace:
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- **The legal minimum.** The Ministerial Regulation on health check-ups
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of employees (B.E. 2547, 2004) covers work with hazardous chemicals,
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heat, noise and similar risk factors: a check within 30 days of
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starting such work, then at least once a year, by a physician trained
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in occupational medicine, physical and mental, with the records kept
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until two years after the job ends
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([summary](https://www.thailandlawoffice.com/legal-articles/266),
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[text](https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/96400/THA96400%20Eng.pdf)).
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Here that is the press floor (steam heat, noise), galvanics (nickel
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salts, silver nitrate, acids) and maintenance; hearing, lung function
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and metal tests are the likely panel, for the occupational physician
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to set.
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- **Planning costs** (checked October 2026, no quote yet): group health
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insurance about 8,000 to 12,000 THB a head a year for local plans
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([Thailand Starter Kit](https://thailandstarterkit.com/business/group-health-insurance)),
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AXA's SME plans 9,394, 14,925 and 18,006 THB at 25 staff
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([CheckDi](https://checkdi.com/th/business-insurance/group-health?lg=th));
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the plan uses ~15,000. Check-ups at Rajavej Chiang Mai cost 1,290 THB
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(age 18 to 30), 1,790 (31 to 40) and 3,290 to 5,990 (over 40) in 2026
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([programmes](https://rajavejchiangmai.com/en/pagekage/health-checkup-program-2026));
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the plan uses ~2,500 a head plus ~1,500 for the risk-factor tests
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(estimates).
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- **Social security**, for reference: the employer pays 5 % of salary
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up to a ceiling raised from 15,000 to 17,500 THB a month on 1 January
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2026, so at most 875 THB a month a head
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([Sprout](https://sprout.co.th/en/blogs/thailand-social-security-contribution-2026-section-33)).
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The [press fleet calculator](fleet-calculator.html) costs all of this per
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head with the fleet's staffing.
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Safety infrastructure (training program, clean-room specification,
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decontamination workflow) will be planned alongside the equipment, not after
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it.
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