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)
September 18 –
International Equal Pay Day
“Increase wages now,
more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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October –
Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
Daily Observances:
First Monday (Oct 4): Universal Children’s Day i
n the Philippines
Oct 5: National Teachers’ Day
Oct 10: Local Government Day
Third Thursday (Oct 14): Conflict Resolution Day
Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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