Do a good job of prevention
Recently, trade unions at all levels in Ho Chi Minh City have organized many working sessions with enterprises in the area to supervise the implementation and ensure occupational safety and hygiene at production facilities.
According to the City Labor Federation, sectors, functional units, localities and establishments in the area have been required to proactively build a personnel apparatus for occupational safety and health, develop scenarios and solutions for incident handling and emergency response. The important thing is to increase investment, improve technology, improve working conditions and the working environment.
In addition, focus on organizing propaganda and dissemination to raise awareness and consciousness about occupational safety and health for businesses, establishments, and workers; organize occupational safety training in communes and wards...
"Through increased supervision, shortcomings will be discovered, reminding establishments to seriously implement, supplement and improve occupational safety and hygiene work, contributing to preventing and limiting incidents occurring during the production process" - Mr. Nguyen Ba Hung - Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Federation - commented.
Investing in equipment
Enterprises also implemented many activities to ensure occupational safety and health in production. For example, Ba Ria - Vung Tau Petroleum Company Limited has implemented many activities such as: Equipping protective equipment; reviewing, supplementing, inspecting and maintaining machinery and equipment, working procedures; requesting units to strengthen occupational safety and health at the facility...
The company has tried to invest in and equip all equipment for employees to create the best working environment, to ensure health to create conditions for employees to promote, contribute, and stay with the company for a long time... - Mr. La Viet Hung - Deputy Director of Ba Ria - Vung Tau Petroleum Company Limited - said.
Operating in the field of shipping, AUSTAL Vietnam Co., Ltd. has not had any accidents affecting the health of workers in the past time, thanks to strict compliance with occupational safety and health and synchronization in production stages... These enterprises have been commended by local authorities for their occupational safety and health assurance work.
"The company has developed internal regulations on labor safety, along with investing in equipment, machinery and a good working environment, and training on safety work... Thanks to that, we just need to comply and feel more secure in the production process" - Mr. Khanh (AUSTAL Vietnam worker) said.
According to Mr. Nguyen Ba Hung, the process of inspection and assessment at enterprises shows that the awareness and responsibility of heads of agencies, enterprises and employees have been improved. Thereby, there are positive changes in preventing occupational accidents; minimizing the number of accidents and human losses, contributing significantly to stabilizing the security situation, social order and safety...
