Workplace Safety

FIVE GOVERNMENT agencies have agreed to step up efforts to prevent accidents in construction sites, following the death of 10 construction workers in Makati City early this year.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) inked an inter-agency memorandum of agreement (MoA) to strengthen coordination and linkages to promote the welfare of the construction workers and the growth of the construction industry.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) reminded all construction companies to strictly implement occupational safety and health standards (OSHS) in their worksites to avoid injuries and death of their workers.

MANILA, Philippines—A construction worker fell to his death while working from the third floor of a townhouse being constructed in Quezon City on Saturday afternoon, a police report said.

MANILA, Philippines — Construction companies were reminded by the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to strictly enforce occupational safety and health standards (OSHS) in their worksites to keep their workers out of harm’s way.

MANILA, Philippines – An estimated 337 million people are injured each year while on the job and some 2 million die from occupational illnesses, the United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO) said yesterday.  

PANTUKAN, COMPOSTELA VALLEY, Philippines—For Jay Celade, the chance to strike big and earn thousands of pesos in just several hours of working underground means more than the constant risk of death.

CEBU, Philippines – Meanwhile, a 62-year-old man was killed when limestone, locally known as “anapog,” fell on him in Sitio Pasamanos, Barangay Dawesur, Carmen, Cebu Wednesday afternoon.

CEBU, Philippines – A 30-year-old carpenter was electrocuted while his companion was injured after an accident while they were constructing a house in Barangay Poblacion, Santa Fe Monday afternoon.

Management system: A tool for continual improvement Each year, governments, employers and workers mark the World Day for Safety and Health. This year’s theme for the day is “Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Management System: A tool for continual improvement”. Improvement is in fact needed: according to ILO data, an estimated 337 million workplace accidents…

General Santos City —Three small-scale miners were confirmed dead while six others remain trapped in several mine tunnels that collapsed on Saturday at the height of heavy rains at a mountain village in Tampakan town in South Cotabato.

MANILA — Officials said a landslide triggered by heavy rains has buried alive three miners who were resting in their bunkhouse in South Cotabato province.

Three workers from a construction firm in South Cotabato were killed Friday in an ambush by “armed natives”, the military said in a belated report on Saturday.

Two miners were killed and five others wounded when the tunnel caved in at Compostela Valley recently, police report said.

CEBU, Philippines – The man held responsible for the death of a construction worker following the explosion of a steel drum at a condominium project in Barangay Sta. Cruz last Thursday was already released from police custody.

DAVAO City, Philippines (Xinhua) – Five miners buried by a landslide in a mining village in the south Philippines yesterday have been rescued, but one is still missing, police and officials said today.

MANILA, Philippines – A worker in a mop-making factory was crushed to death in a carding machine he was operating in Valenzuela City Tuesday afternoon, police said yesterday.

THE Makati city government has ordered all construction work stopped at 35 high and medium-rise buildings in the city that were found to have violated the National Building Code and the Philippine Mechanical Code.

The container shipping market represents about 16 per cent of the world’s goods loaded in tonnes. With its growing market share, the risk of accidents also increases, says a report prepared for an ILO Global Dialogue Forum on Safety in the Supply Chain in Relation to Packing of Containers, to be held in Geneva on…

MANILA, Philippines – The past few years have seen an unprecedented expansion in the property sector, so much so that Congress even passed the REIT law—for Real Estate Investment Trust-—to democratize the ownership of realty and development companies while boosting capital formation in the country.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) ordered the staff and workers of Eton Properties to undergo occupational safety and health training, as well as general labor standards orientation, as she calls on construction companies to comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Standards (OSH) and the guidelines governing occupational safety and health in the…

MANILA, Philippines – The general contractor in the construction of the Eton Residences condominium in Makati City will be held liable for violation of safety regulations which contributed to the deaths of the 10 workers who fell aboard an overloaded gondola.

MANILA, Philippines – Overloading and defects in a gondola of a building under construction in Makati City caused the lift to collapse and led to the deaths of 10 workers, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) ruled yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines –  After the death of 10 workers in a construction site in Makati City, labor group Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) yesterday asked the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to deputize union presidents and officers as labor inspectors to strengthen the enforcement of workplace policies.

The recent death of 10 workers at the Eton Residences construction site in Makati City should prompt the Labor department to review and terminate existing subcontracting chains, particularly in the construction sector, a labor non-government organization (NGO) said yesterday.

A PLATFORM lift at a building construction site on Legaspi and Paseo de Roxas in Makati plunged 25 floors Thursday, killing 10 workers, officials said.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) is investigating allegations that the real estate company that owns a condominium building, where 10 construction workers died in a tragic accident last Thursday in Makati City, violated some provisions of the Labor Code.

MANILA, Philippines – A non-government organization is urging the Labor Department to terminate existing subcontracting chains in the construction sector following the death of 10 workers in an ongoing high-rise residential project in Makati City.

MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 6) At least 10 workers, not 11 as posted, were killed at a construction site in Makati City when an electric gondola carrying them broke and sent them plummeting from the 28th floor to the 7th floor, according to a report on Radyo Inquirer.

MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE) Eton Properties Philippines, Inc. of tycoon Lucio Tan expressed its condolences to the families of 10 workers killed in Thursday’s accident at one of its property development projects in Makati City.