Workplace Safety

SEMIRARA INVESTIGATING CAUSE OF ACCIDENT SEMIRARA Mining and Power Corp. is investigating an accident that led to the collapse of its open-pit coal mine Panian in Semirara Island, Antique early Friday.

Construction worker na naguhuan ng lupa sa Brgy Concepcion, Marikina, naiahon na; dinala na sa pagamutan | Joey Rebate, DZMM Correspondent

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — Two workers, who were cleaning up the Baguio City Camp Lagoon, were swept away by rampaging floodwaters on Thursday, when monsoon heightened by storms Egay and Falcon dropped moderate to heavy rains in the Cordillera region.

Two people died while six others were hospitalized due to gas poisoning in a mining tunnel in Mankayan town of Benguet, a police official said yesterday.

CAMP PRESIDENT QUIRINO, Ilocos Sur – Two persons died of electrocution Wednesday in the towns of Bantay and Caoayan, both in Ilocos Sur.

MANILA, Philippines – Calling the Kentex factory fire “a tragedy waiting to happen,” President Aquino said local officials of Valenzuela City and other individuals should be held accountable for the disaster that claimed the lives of 72 workers last May 13.

From the Department of Labor and Employment Workers and concerned citizens are urged to report risky and unsafe conditions and practices in establishments. Read more to find out who you can call in your respective region.

MANILA, Philippines – The 72 dead workers of Kentex Manufacturing Corp. could have survived the fire that hit the slipper factory on May 13 if fire alarm systems were installed, a task force looking into the tragedy said yesterday.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has discovered several violations committed by the owner of the slipper factory in Valenzuela City which caught fire last week, leaving 72 workers dead.

WE in the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines condemn government’s failure to enforce occupational safety and health standards that resulted in the death of 72 workers in a devastating fire at the factory of footwear maker Kentex Manufacturing Corporation.

Firefighters retrieve remains of fire victim in the Valenzuela factory fire. Photographed by Gel Francisco MANILA – The head of the International Labor Organization (ILO) on Friday weighed in on the widespread concern over industrial safety in the Philippines, calling for tougher measures after the deadly factory fire that killed at least 72 trapped workers,…

MANILA – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is urging Congress to hasten the passage of bills criminalizing non-compliance of safety standards in the workplace amid the tragedy that has befallen 72 workers in a Valenzuela footwear factory last week.

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Contractual situation of Kentex rubber slipper plant reflects that of 70 per cent of Philippine firms Manila: The disastrous May 13 fire that killed 72 people and destroyed a rubber slipper factory in northern Metro Manila is a wake-up call for the country to update its workplace safety and labour regulatory laws, say officials.

Kentex complied with labor standards and has the certificate to show for it, the lawyer of the slipper company hit by a fire that claimed 72 lives on Wednesday said, in response to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz’s statement describing the company’s owners as “illegal” and “immoral” for violating the Labor Code.

(Updated 11:03 p.m.) The deaths of 72 people in a fire that gutted a footwear factory in the Philippine capital has exposed abusive conditions for millions of poor and desperate workers across the nation.

Not only illegal but also immoral. This is how Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz described the owners of the Valenzuela City slipper factory gutted by a fire that claimed 72 lives Wednesday, saying they violated labor laws and standards, and illegally exploited their workers.

MANILA – It will take not only days but weeks, months — or even years — to identify all the bodies retrieved from the slippers factory razed by a massive fire Wednesday, a forensic expert said.

15 May 2015 – The International Labour Organization (ILO), in a statement issued in the wake of this week’s deadly shoe factory fire in the Philippine capital, noted “often such accidents are preventable” and offered its assistance to improve safety and health conditions in the workplace.

As the death toll rose to more than 70 in the May 13 fire that razed a footwear factory in Valenzuela City, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said the families of the dead and the injured workers should receive all the benefits their company owes them, on top of the financial aid coming…

The Department of Labor and Employment has ordered work at a hydropower construction site in Mindoro Oriental stopped after a rockfall incident that killed two workers and injured five others.

The government will step up efforts to ensure that business establishments observe safety standards following the fire at a slipper warehouse in Valenzuela City that killed over 70 people, Malacañang said Thursday.

A 42-year-old helper was killed while his co-worker was injured in an industrial accident in Quezon City Tuesday. Reports reaching the Quezon City Police District-Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit identified the fatality as Bernardo Maraya of South Daang Hari, Taguig City.

An ITUC Briefing explaining why trade unions must globally mobilise to protect workers from hazardous substances, with key facts and figures.

CALAUAG, Quezon – An ice plant worker died after he accidentally slipped his left leg into an ice crusher machine in Barangay Biyan, this town, police reported yesterday. The victim, Ariel F. Pondevida, 51, was assisting his co-workers in pushing ice blocks into the crusher when his left foot slipped into the machine, mangling his…

MANILA, Philippines – A cement mixer operator died when he fell into the mixer he was cleaning in Novaliches, Quezon City Friday morning.

BAUAN, Batangas – A 29-year-old construction worker died after he was buried alive by sacks of salt in Barangay Balayong here Friday.

SCIENCE CITY OF MUÑOZ, Nueva Ecija, Philippines – A construction worker died when the wall of a Catholic church collapsed here on Monday, police said yesterday.

A 27-year-old construction worker died after he was electrocuted while working in a building in Quezon City Thursday, police said yesterday.