Every Tet holiday, Spring comes, the biggest wish of each worker's family is complete reunion. But to have a Tet full of joy and complete reunion, the prerequisite is that workers can return home safely after each working day.
In the production cycle of the last months of the year, when progress, orders and pressure increase, labor safety must be put first. Because, no genuine production achievement can be exchanged for the health and lives of workers.
Labor safety - the foundation of happiness and development
Reality shows that occupational accidents and diseases not only cause damage to workers themselves but also leave serious consequences for families, businesses and the whole society. Each accident is a profound reminder that: safety is not luck, but the result of awareness, discipline and responsibility.
A peaceful Tet is symbolized by a reunion meal, but its starting point must be a safe and humane working environment - where workers are assured to contribute, businesses develop sustainably and society is guaranteed stability.
Trade unions - the core force promoting labor safety culture
With the role of a representative organization, caring for and protecting the legitimate and lawful rights and interests of workers, the Vietnam Trade Union always identifies labor safety and hygiene as a central and consistent task.
In November 2025, the Presidium of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor approved and issued the "Trade Union Project to promote the building of occupational safety culture in the workplace in the period 2025-2030". The project does not stop at propaganda and mobilization, but aims to substantially change behavior, making safety a cultural value in each enterprise, each workshop, and each production team. Accordingly, Trade Unions at all levels commit to continue:
(1) Accompanying businesses in building a safe working environment;
(2) Bringing occupational safety and health content into dialogue and collective negotiation;
(3) Promoting the role of the safety and hygiene network;
(4) Honor and replicate models and businesses that do well in occupational safety and health, and care for and protect the health of workers.
Where trade unions operate substantively, safety and labor hygiene are better ensured.
Workers - subjects of labor safety culture
Occupational safety is not just regulations or inspection and supervision. Occupational safety is only truly sustainable when it originates from the self-awareness and discipline of each worker. Each worker and employee needs to clearly understand:
(1) Keeping yourself safe is keeping family happy.
(2) Complying with safety procedures is not because of fear of being reminded, but because of responsibility to oneself and colleagues.
From wearing helmets properly, wearing masks, complying with machinery operating procedures, to boldly speaking out when detecting unsafe risks - all are small actions but create a big shield to protect the health and lives of themselves and colleagues.
A worker with safety discipline is a worker with culture. And from each worker, labor safety culture will be spread.
Business - social responsibility starts from labor safety
The social responsibility of businesses must first of all be shown right at the workplace, by ensuring safety and health for employees. Considering employees as the most valuable capital of the business, businesses must consider safety measures as the first responsibility they must do, must value them.
Businesses that underestimate labor safety may pay a heavy price - not only by the cost of repairing accidents, but also by the reputation, brand and attachment of workers. Conversely, businesses investing in labor safety and hygiene are investing in sustainable development. Brands and social acceptance are only for businesses that value labor safety.
The Trade Union is ready to accompany businesses in building a safe management system, improving working conditions, building harmonious, stable, and progressive labor relations - where the interests of businesses are closely linked to the safety and happiness of workers.
Sowing seeds of safe culture - welcoming a peaceful Spring
Spring is the time of beginning, of belief and hope. To make each Spring truly complete, we need to start with the most practical things: building a culture of occupational safety in the workplace.
When safety becomes a habit, when discipline is implemented by self-awareness, when the social responsibility of the enterprise is linked to the responsibility of the Trade Union and employees, then "safe to go home" will not only be a slogan, but a reality every day.
That is also the message that the Trade Union organization wants to spread this Spring - For workers, for businesses and for the sustainable development of the country.
