DOLE-OSHC hosts ASEAN OSHNET workshop on risk assessment control and management
“We are very much honored to host this Training of Trainers Workshop on Risk Assessment, Control and Management: Key Components of an Occupational Safety and Health Management System. This event is very timely as it will address the need to intensify the OSH advocacy in the whole ASEAN Region. We are also pleased to have with us our Island Pacific neighbours – Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea who will be working with us n strengthening OSH programs in the ASEAN Region including Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea,” said Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, at the opening of the ASEAN OSHNET workshop today, February 10, 2015.
A total of 40 delegates from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines, including Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea will be participating in the three-day workshop. Ms. Ingrid Christensen of the International Labour Organization (ILO)-Bangkok, Ms. Consuelo Manchon and Mr. Nguyen Thai Hoa of ILO-Hanoi, will be discussing the OSH challenges in Asia and the important concepts of risk assessment and control and OSH Management. Meanwhile, Mr. Kang Dong Lee and Mr. Kyung-Hun Kim of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) and Mr. Siong Hin Ho of the Singapore will be sharing the OSH best practices implemented in their countries as well as their experiences on the subject matter
The Training of Trainers is designed to strengthen the capacity of ASEAN member states on hazard identification and risk management and control. After the lectures and discussions, the participants will have a chance to experience first-hand the conduct of a safety and health audit in an industrial setting particularly in a shipbuilding company.
“We are very fortunate to have with us our esteemed resource speakers, as what they will be sharing is crucial to cementing the OSH programs on risk assessment in the ASEAN Region. We stand to gain a lot from the exchange of information from our fellow ASEAN member states and we are also given an opportunity to help our brothers from Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea who are just starting out their OSH programs,” said OSHC Executive Director Ma. Teresita S. Cucueco, MD, CESO III.
Though they are not part of the ASEAN member states, Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea have been invited to send their representatives to enrich the knowledge and skills of their authorities, especially since they have geographical and economic similarities with most of the ASEAN nations.
Beginning in 2012, the Philippines has been able to establish occupational safety and health networks in all the 16 regions of the country. All of these are now robustly pouring in their efforts to prevent accidents in illnesses in the industries in their respective areas through conducting the mandatory OSH trainings – the Basic Occupational Safety and Health Training and the Construction Safety Training – as well as safety and health audits and holding OSH forums and summits.
END/DJ Romero
Any question on this release? Please contact Ma. Teresita S. Cucueco, MD, CESO III, executive director, Occupational Safety and Health Center, North Avenue corner Agham Road, Diliman, Quezon City with telephone numbers 929-6036 to 39 and e-mail address:oshc_dole@yahoo.com, oshcenter@dole.gov.ph
