Pampanga, June 8 (PIA) — “Health and safety will not come about by waving a magic wand, it requires workers to be equipped with the necessary know-how and expertise so as to change the way things are done at the workplace.”
This was bared by Department of Labor and Employment Region 3 (DOLE 3) Regional Director Raymundo Agravante during the 2nd North and Central Luzon Joint Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Summit 2012 held here with the theme “Strengthening Linkages for the Best Practices in OSH.”
Agravante explained that “management should be a willing partner to this endeavor” and says that “everyone has a role to play in making workplaces as safe and healthy as possible.”
“This summit will further strengthen the partnership between our agency and stakeholders involved here to combat and propagate safety and health in every workplace wherein through this we are addressing the need of every employee in their security and protection,” he added.
More than 350 safety practitioners and officers, OSH nurses, OSH physicians, and other stakeholders concerned with OSH from different industries participated in this event coming from Regions I, II, III, and the Cordillera Administrative Region.
The summit featured lectures on Best OSH Practices in the Manufacturing, Business Processing Outsourcing Agriculture, Mining, Construction, and Ship-building Industries; Tuberculosis Prevention and Control; DOLE Policies on OSH Legislations and Safety Practitioner Accreditation; role of Department of Health on OSH; Employees Compensation Program; Disaster Management; and Behavioral Safety.
Aside from the plenary sessions, nine companies that specializes in OSH services exhibited their products and equipments from head to toe protection and gears. These are GLJM Diversified Sales and Services Corporation; Asiong’s Industrial Products; Basic Occupational Safety Supplies; Top-Rigid Industrial Safety Supply Incorporated; FORNAX: Fire, Safety, Security; Benedict’s Safety Shoes; SANOFI Pasteur; and Windshear International Philippines Incorporated. (CLJD/JGB-PIA3)
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
