On June 26, the provincial Department of Home Affairs held a workshop to share experiences in occupational safety and hygiene management measures (OSH) to prevent and reduce occupational accidents (OSH) and diseases in 2025. The workshop was attended by representatives of departments, branches and more than 45 enterprises in the province.
According to the Department of Home Affairs, Dong Nai is one of the localities with a high number of occupational accidents, often in the top 5 in the country. In the first 6 months of 2025 alone, the whole province had 318 cases of work-related accidents (a decrease of 122 cases compared to the same period in 2024) causing 329 injuries, including 9 cases of work-related accidents that killed 11 people.
According to the Department of Home Affairs, the cause of occupational accidents is due to the employer's violation of regulations on occupational safety and hygiene, accounting for 70% such as: Not developing safe working processes and measures or having built safe working processes but not complete, not ensuring working conditions and not identifying dangerous and harmful factors arising during production, machinery and equipment that do not ensure safe working conditions.
Causes of occupational accidents due to employee errors account for 30% such as: Violating regulations on occupational safety and hygiene; Employees violating safe working procedures and measures issued by employers; violating national technical regulations on occupational safety.
Therefore, the workshop recommended that the police investigation agency organize an investigation and strictly handle according to the provisions of criminal law for serious violations of labor safety, especially organizations and enterprises that do not comply with safety measures in the production and business activities that lead to work accidents leading to death; organize publicity on mass media for criminal cases related to work accidents.
Propose that the Provincial Federation of Labor have specific solutions, instructing grassroots trade unions in enterprises to operate effectively in accordance with the prescribed functions and tasks to help the occupational safety and hygiene network fully perform its functions and powers to achieve good results.
