As this June marks National Safety Production Month in China, we are reaffirming our long-standing commitment to making safety an integral part of daily manufacturing management.
At Homa, safety is not a one-off campaign. It is built through regular audits, daily training, timely correction and continuous improvement.
Today, our manufacturing network comprises 9 refrigerator plants and 2 freezer plants, with our Thailand Production Hub progressively coming into operation this year. As our capacity grows and our manufacturing footprint continues to expand, we believe safety needs to be managed with the same consistency as quality and delivery.
For more than ten years, we have carried out quarterly cross-factory EHS audits across our manufacturing sites. These audits cover five key areas: basic management, workplace safety, fire safety, occupational health and environmental protection. Supported by ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 management systems, each audit is followed by scoring, ranking and corrective action planning, helping our factories identify risks, review gaps and follow up on improvement measures.
Homa’s EHS team reviews EHS audit documentation
In 2025, we have carried out 370+ safety inspections across our manufacturing sites. Behind these inspections is a closed-loop approach: risks identified at one site can become a reference for others, helping us turn individual corrective actions into shared operating standards across our manufacturing network.
Digitalisation is also changing how we recognise and manage risks. As part of our digital manufacturing roadmap, we have introduced AI-enabled recognition technologies in selected production areas to support earlier risk detection.
These applications support the identification of safety risks such as missing safety helmets, open flames, restricted-area intrusions, and smoking in non-designated areas. When an abnormal situation is recognised, alerts are sent to on-site safety personnel through our internal communication platform.
AI detects safety helmet use on the production line
By combining human judgement with real-time digital alerts, we are moving part of our safety management from after-the-event correction towards active prevention.
Beyond digital alerts, daily safety awareness remains essential to effective risk prevention. That is why training remains central to our safety management. In addition to safety training for all new employees, covering safety awareness, emergency response and practical fire-fighting skills, we also provide continuous occupational health and safety courses as part of daily safety management. Each year, more than 500 occupational health and safety training sessions are delivered, with over 146,000 employee participations recorded across our manufacturing sites. These courses help employees better recognise workplace risks, respond to emergencies and make safer behaviour part of everyday work.
Management trainees take part in safety training course and a practical fire safety drill
This daily discipline also extends to equipment safety. While efficiency is essential in manufacturing, we believe that responsible production sometimes requires us to pause, review and improve. Each year, we arrange a planned maintenance period to inspect equipment, address potential risks and strengthen preventive maintenance. By taking the time to ensure our equipment is safe, stable and ready, we are better able to protect our people, strengthen production reliability and deliver safer, more consistent and higher-quality products to our global partners.
Together, systematic EHS audits, AI-enabled alerts, employee training and equipment management form a more integrated approach to safety. They make safety visible not only in systems and procedures, but also in the way people work, machines operate and production lines run every day.
For Homa, a safer factory is also a more reliable factory. By continuing to build safety into the way we manufacture, we are protecting people, reducing operational risk and strengthening the manufacturing trust that global partners depend on.
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