Workplace Safety

MANILA, Philippines – Call center agents employed in Metro Manila can look forward to much safer and healthy workplaces.

A suspected chemical leak from a construction site downed a teacher and 14 students of a high school in Iloilo City Monday afternoon.

SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.

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City of malolos—the fireworks industry in Bulacan is now revving up for the big demand of its products for the coming New Year’s Day celebration and most of its manufacturers and dealers have started their daily operations.

ROSARIO, Cavite—Alex Secoya’s two-month stint at the factory left him with a fractured nose bridge, a swollen face, six stitches on his left arm and a fractured rib bone. He said he would have wanted to return to work if the company had not fired him after the accident.

A construction worker was killed while four others were injured when an elevator shaft of a shopping mall building which is under construction has collapsed in Davao City yesterday morning.

MANILA, Philippines – Police believe drunkenness led to the death of a laborer who fell from the sixth floor of a building under construction in Ermita, Manila yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The mother of a call center agent who passed out and died while at work has filed charges against his employer for allegedly not giving her son first aid treatment.

MANILA, Philippines – An electrician died after getting electrocuted while fixing power lines in the house of his employer in Quezon City yesterday.

CEBU, Philippines – A worker almost lost his life after accidentally touching a high-tension wire of the Visayan Electric Company (VECO) the force of which sent him falling down to the ground from the rooftop of a mini-gym where he was working at that time.

LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines – Seven people died and another sustained injuries when they were electrocuted while digging a septic tank in Sorsogon City on Monday, authorities said.

THE Safety Organization of the Philippines (SOP) over the weekend expressed opposition and concern over a recent memorandum issued by Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo on the “rushed” submission of fire and safety assessment of newly constructed buildings in the country. The group said that the policy change initiated by Robredo goes against…

Today, more than 85 percent of corporations are engaging in some type of wellness programming. Can work be good for you? An increasing number of employers recognize that promoting their employees’ health has great benefits for them, including decreased absenteeism and lower employee health care costs.

MANILA, Philippines – A helper died and a cook suffered severe burns on his face and both arms in a 30-minute fire that broke out at a canteen in Malabon City Thursday afternoon.

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines – Two men died in an acetylene tank explosion on a fishing boat off a coastal village on Jolo island, police reported Friday.

BATANGAS , Philippines  – Two laborers were killed while seven others were injured when a steel scaffolding collapsed at a construction site in San Pablo City, Laguna yesterday morning, police said.

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines – The 30-minute blackout that hit the islands of Negros and Panay on Friday morning was triggered by the electrocution of an engineer employed by a subcontractor of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines.

CEBU, Philippines – Another miner died after he was buried alive while working in the coal mine in the mountainous part of Danao City last Monday evening.

MANILA, Philippines – An elevator technician instantly died after falling from the 36th floor of a condominium building in Binondo, Manila during a power outage brought by typhoon Basyang yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Six workers were killed after a wall fell on them in Laguna at early dawn today during the onslaught of tropical storm “Basyang.”

Newly installed Northern Police District (NPD) director Chief Supt. Rodolfo Magtibay ordered a full-blown investigation into an explosion inside a paper factory at dawn yesterday in Malabon City.

MANILA, Philippines – Six people were hurt in a predawn blast that shattered a 5-story building inside a paper mill compound in Malabon City, Saturday.

A one-year-old girl died in Manila Sunday after drinking a glass of toxic silver cleanser. The parents, claiming it was an accident, refused to let the cops investigate. And you know what? The police let them be, after the father signified in writing disinterest in the child’s demise.

BOCAUE, Bulacan – Two workers were injured and rushed to a hospital in Quezon City when a fireworks factory exploded in Barangay Biniang 1st, this town, last Friday afternoon. Supt. Ronald F. De Jesus, town police chief, in his report to Senior Supt. Fernando S. Villanueva, Bulacan police director, identified the victims as Romulo Caballero…

THE death of an Argao tourism officer in an ambulance on the way to a hospital should be a wakeup call for the full implementation of the Magna Carta for Health Workers, a former top local health official said.

CEBU, Philippines – An official of a plastic recycling factory in barangay Cotcot, Liloan town said neighbors who are demanding for the shutdown of the factory should also consider the interests of the more than 90 workers who would lose their jobs once it closes down.

Islamist militants in the island province of Basilan in Mindanao beheaded two loggers they abducted just hours earlier, police yesterday said.

BANGUED, Abra – Three miners were killed Friday afternoon after a blast inside a mine tunnel in remote Lacub town. Abra police director Senior Superintendent Joseph Adnol identified the fatalities as Felix Rosario, Junie Lingbaoan, both from Lacub town, and a miner from Mountain Province identified only as Federico. According to reports, the three died…

PORT of SPAIN, Trinidad – Ten overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Trinidad, West Indies were robbed and attacked by a group of thieves inside their house on Wednesday night.