Workplace Safety

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) sent on Thursday an inspector to the Eton construction site in Makati City to investigate the company’s compliance with occupational safety standards in the building.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) will prioritize the prevention of work hazards and promote workers’ safety and health in seven industries which are seen to drive economic and employment growth in the country in 2011.

Unidentified armed men shot dead a member of the government’s anti-illegal logging task force while he was guarding confiscated timber in Surigao del Sur province in southern Philippines.

CEBU CITY, Cebu, Philippines – A father and his two sons died at dawn Sunday due to suffocation while manually extracting waste from a septic tank of a lodging house in Carcar City, 40 kilometers south of here.

MANILA, Philippines – Two fast-food restaurant employees died after their motorcycle was allegedly hit by a 10-wheeler truck in San Mateo, Rizal, before dawn Friday.

To prevent the spread of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) in the workplace without discriminating against infected workers, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has issued a seven-point guideline on dealing with the situation.

MANILA, Philippines—Following a string of road accidents over the holidays, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) has offered to provide technical training and safety reorientation to some 50,000 public utility vehicle drivers nationwide in the next two years.

CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga, Philippines – A worker was seriously injured in a blast that ripped through a makeshift firecracker factory in Baliuag, Bulacan Wednesday afternoon, police said.

MANILA, Philippines —Two people, including a hospital official, were hurt when an oxygen tank inside an ambulance exploded in Rosario, Batangas Wednesday morning, police said.

CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga ,  – A firecracker worker died and three others were seriously injured when a Roman Candle accidentally sparked and an explosion occurred at Purok 6, Barangay Sto. Niño, Baliuag, Bulacan, Saturday.

MANILA, Philippines—A 45-year-old machine operator died allegedly when he rolled in his sleep and fell from a makeshift bunk in a warehouse in Manila early Friday.

ILOILO CITY — A carpenter was electrocuted, while five of his fellow carpenters sustained severe burns in their bodies after a steel pipe they were installing at the Iglesia ni Kristo Church snapped into a high tension wire in Oton, Iloilo.

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Philippines –Two men were electrocuted while pruning trees inside a subdivision in Angeles City on Monday, police said.

MANILA, Philippines—Claiming that working the night shift could cause cancer, an occupational health and safety NGO on Saturday scored the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) over its decision to allow pregnant women to work the late hours.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) reported the adoption of an 18-point agenda on health and safety for Mindanao workers during the the two-day 3rd Mindanao Occupational Safety and Health Summit held in Zamboanga del Norte through a joint resolution recently.

MANILA, Philippines—After challenging India for the top position for several years, the Philippines is now the world leader in business support functions like shares services and business process outsourcing, according to the latest reports and trends analyses.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has issued new guidelines exempting women workers from the Labor Codes’ night work ban.

MANILA, Philippines –  A laborer died after falling from the 16th floor of a building that is still under construction in Quezon City Friday night.

MANILA, Philippines—A laborer at a building under construction died Friday night after he fell from the 16th floor of the structure in Libis, Quezon City.

NEW YORK — Women with stressful jobs that offer little room for decision making or creativity have an increased risk of suffering a heart attack — and this is even worse than stressing over losing a job, according to a study.

MALOLOS CITY, Philippines – Another firecracker warehouse, this time in the Bulacan town of Baliuag, exploded yesterday, less than 48 hours after a massive blast flattened a similar bodega in Angat town Monday night.

MALOLOS CITY , Philippines – A 54-year-old woman was killed while eight others suffered injuries during an explosion in a firecracker warehouse in Angat, Bulacan last Monday night.

Itogon, Benguet, Philippines  – Two miners cheated death here Friday after they were rescued alive in a harrowing five-hour ordeal inside a small scale mine tunnel at Sitio Garrizon, Barangay Ucab here. 

Two miners in Benguet province were rescued unhurt five hours after they were trapped in a tunnel, police said Saturday.

LEGAZPI CITY—(UPDATE) Masbate police clarified that two people died and one was seriously wounded (not three fatalities as earlier reported by the Bicol police) when an explosive device they were making blew up Sunday in Barangay (village) Panique, Aroroy, a mining town in Masbate.

MANILA, Philippines – Eight of the 13 stay-in grocery workers perished in an early morning fire that hit a two-story commercial establishment in Cagayan de Oro City yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines — Eight people got burned to death while five others were injured in a two-hour blaze that destroyed a two-story commercial building at the public market of Cagayan de Oro City early Saturday morning, the local fire marshal said.

I’m on my way home from Indonesia, where I spent part of the past week attending the annual meeting of the Asian Network for Occupational Accident Victims (ANROAV), an organization that brings together NGOs working on occupational health, safety, and labor issues all across Asia. The meeting was held in Bandung, in West Java —…

Tabuk City, Kalinga – Two pocket miners have died due to alleged gas poisoning and suffocation after they were trapped inside a small-scale mine tunnel in section Umbog, Bagtayan, Pasil town over the past several days.

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