Workplace Safety

VANCOUVER — Women taking some occupations with potentially high exposures to carcinogens and endocrine disruptors have higher risks of developing breast cancer, showed a new study by Canadian scientists.

TAGUM CITY, Philippines–Two small-scale miners were killed after a gold mining tunnel collapsed in San Francisco, Agusan del Sur on Saturday, police on Monday said.

More needs to be done to protect workers’ safety and health, the ILO says, as Pakistan mourns the deaths of hundreds of workers in a garment factory fire in Karachi. ‘Decent Work must be safe work for all,’ said Seiji Machida, Head of ILO’s SafeWork Programme GENEVA (ILO News) – The International Labour Organization (ILO)…

VIRAC, Catanduanes, Sept 6 (PIA) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Bicol regional and provincial offices, and the Bureau of Working Conditions will spearhead a Live-Out Construction Safety Training on September 17-21 at Rackdell Inn, Virac, Catanduanes.

MANILA, Philippines—Quezon City building officials have cleared a major shopping mall of liability in last week’s death of four septic tank cleaners, who drowned in wastewater, after finding no violation committed by the management.

MANILA, Philippines—A workplace safety group has called on the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to investigate the death of four plumbers in a grease trap in Ali Mall.

MANILA, Philippines – The labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) yesterday sought a deeper investigation into the death of four workers who reportedly drowned in a Quezon City mall’s septic tank.

The Philippine Labor department and the South Korean government signed an agreement that would expand the technical cooperation between them.

The Philippines and South Korea will exchange notes on workers’ occupational safety and health (OSH) as part of efforts to enhance safety in the workplace, the Department of Labor and Employment said Thursday. The DOLE said the agreement between the two countries was formalized in a pact signed in the last week of July. The…

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – The bodies of two small-scale miners were dug up from a landslide that struck a gold-rush site at the boundary of this city and Tuba town in Benguet yesterday morning. The bodies of Elmer Domines, 42, and Jonafe Pandosen, 61, were retrieved at around noontime yesterday.

BOKOD, Benguet, Philippines – Incessant prayers and offerings worked yesterday when rescuers dug out a 33-year-old small-scale miner trapped in a tunnel here for a week, authorities said.

The last two years have been deadly for government forestry workers and environmental advocates. According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), 20 of its employees, contractual workers and civil society partners have been killed since 2010. The latest figures added to the death toll were recorded on Friday in Surigao del Sur…

DAVAO CITY, July 9 (PIA) — A proposed safety and health policy to be imposed in all renewable energy (RE) facilities would ensure protection program for the workers.

A wave of suicides at France Telecom that shocked France four years ago is back in the headlines. The ILO warns of a rise in mental ill-health due to stress at the workplace.

MANILA, Philippines – A 35-year old electrician died yesterday afternoon after he accidentally touched a live wire while trying to install a power line in Quiapo, Manila.

MANILA, Philippines – A water station employee was killed after a concrete slab fell on him from the fourth floor of a condominium building in Sampaloc, Manila Friday.

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO , Pampanga, June 10 (PIA) — Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Regional Office 3 recently led the forging of a Memorandum of Agreement and Joint Administrative Order (MOA-JAO) on Construction Safety held at the DOLE Regional Office 3 Conference Room, Regional Government Center, here in a bid to ensure safety…

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.”

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TAGUM CITY—Seven miners died while working inside a shaft in a small-scale mining area in Barangay Mat-i in Surigao City on Thursday,  police said.

Seventeen workers died in a fire that destroyed Novo Jeans and Shirts, the retail store where they both worked and lived in Butuan City, Mindanao in the Philippines. The workers were trapped, locked in the building by management, when the fire began in the early morning of May 9.

Nine workers of a furniture shop in Taytay, Rizal, scrambled to escape the fire raging in their sleeping quarters Wednesday morning, unaware that one of their colleagues was trapped. After the blaze was put out in an hour, firemen found the charred body of Alvin Lorenzano, 27, under a still smoldering heap of debris. The…

MANILA, Philippines- About 126 Filipino workers died in their workplace in 2011 or 3 workers per week due to occupational accidents arising from poor working and unsafe working place and labor conditions.

MANILA, Philippines – The local business process outsour-cing industry (BPO) is promoting a well-rounded lifestyle for employees to sustain its growth momentum and deliver client expectations.

Despite aggressive health and wellness campaigns by their employers, two out of three workers in business process outsourcing (BPO) companies continue to live unhealthy lifestyles, with chain smoking and heavy drinking listed as the major vices among the more than 600,000 workers in the industry.

LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines—The Department of Labor and Employment in Bicol has warned it would shut down hazardous workplaces following the deaths of two male workers in separate incidents this month.

IT seems there is another more potent threat to the country’s robust business-process outsourcing (BPO) industry other than the passage of a bill in the United States Congress that would require call-center operators to identify their location while giving US callers the option of choosing a local operator.

MANILA, Philippines – Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz called yesterday on the business-process outsourcing (BPO) industry to strictly adhere to Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) programs.

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga, Philippines – The Clark Development Corp. (CDC) is investigating the collapse of a warehouse that killed at least four workers and left five others injured when it was hit by a tornado last Friday.

Four people died while four others were in critical condition when a nine-meter high wall collapsed in an ongoing construction building in Clark, Pampanga on Friday afternoon.