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WITH
fatal accidents rising among workers at the Subic Bay
work site of Hanjin Heavy Industries Corp. Philippines (HHIC-Phil.),
the Department of Labor and Employment has developed an
occupational safety and health (OSH) action program for
the shipbuilding facility to ensure safety among
workers.
Since
2007, a series of accidents has killed 17 workers at the
work site.
“The
program would assist HHIC-Phil. in developing an OSH
system geared toward the implementation of a plant-level
zero accident program [ZAP] at its work site within the
shortest possible time,” Labor Secretary Marianito Roque
said.
Roque
said the team conducted a workplace safety and health
assessment at Hanjin and subsequently devised the OSH
action program in a proposal to correct hazardous
practices, ensure compliance with OSH standards and put
a stop to fatal accidents at the shipbuilding facility.
The
program recommended the behavior of obligatory safety
training courses about construction safety and
occupational safety and health training among the
workers of Hanjin.
“We aim
for zero accidents at Hanjin,” Roque said as he urged
Hanjin management and workers to build a workplace
culture that gives importance to full adherence to safe
practices and regulations. (S. Fabunan) |
