Attending the event were union officials from the Northern Provincial and Municipal Labor Federations; Central Industry Unions; General Corporation Unions under the General Confederation; direct superior grassroots unions and grassroots unions.
Speaking at the conference, Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Ha - Member of the Presidium, Head of the Labor Relations Department of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor - said that the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor always identifies the work of ensuring safety and health for workers as the core and top priority task of the trade union organization. Promoting dialogue and collective bargaining on labor safety and hygiene is one of the breakthroughs of the Resolution of the 13th Congress of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor.
According to Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Ha, after nearly 1 year of implementing the Resolution of the 13th Congress of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and the first year of implementing Directive 31-CT/TW dated March 19, 2024 of the Central Party Secretariat, the trade union has focused on implementing tasks such as: Making the contents of ensuring safety and health one of the contents for dialogue and negotiation, scoring collective labor agreements and classifying grassroots trade unions.
Besides, forms and applications of technology in occupational safety and hygiene have been put into practice...
Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Ha assessed that movements such as “Green, clean, beautiful, ensuring occupational safety and hygiene” have been consistent with reality, increasingly innovated and diversified; good models have been replicated. The trade union has proactively increased coordination with state management agencies to promote inspection, supervision, and settlement of occupational accidents...
In addition, the union has taken measures and solutions to improve the capacity of its staff; increased resources, especially finance, for propaganda work and training and fostering of union staff on occupational safety and hygiene...
The training conference aims to provide information, share knowledge and skills on occupational safety and hygiene, build a culture of occupational safety at the workplace; dialogue and negotiation on occupational safety and hygiene; apply updates, look up information and data on occupational safety and hygiene, occupational accidents and training on digital platforms; occupational safety when working in confined spaces...