Resolution 19: How many additional percent of workers shall be examined for occupational diseases according to the objectives of the Vietnam's National program for occupational safety and health?
- Resolution 19: How many additional percent of workers shall be examined for occupational diseases according to the objectives of the Vietnam's National program for occupational safety and health?
- What are the solutions for promoting research, counseling and support for improving working conditions and prevention of occupational accidents and diseases in Vietnam?
- How long do employees need to pay occupational accident and disease insurance in order to be eligible for receipt of financial assistance in occupational disease examination in Vietnam?
Resolution 19: How many additional percent of workers shall be examined for occupational diseases according to the objectives of the Vietnam's National program for occupational safety and health?
Pursuant to subsection 2, Section I of Resolution 19/NQ-CP of 2022, specific goals until 2025 are set as follows:
OBJECTIVES
1. General objectives
Improve working conditions; prevent occupational accidents and diseases, tend to workers’ health; safeguard workers’ life, Government’s properties and organizations’ assets towards sustainable development of the country.
2. Specific objectives by 2025
a) Objective 1: Reduce the frequency of fatal occupational accidents by 4% averagely on annual basis.
b) Objective 2: Increase the number of workers to be examined for occupational diseases by 5% averagely on annual basis; increase the number of enterprises undergoing workplace environmental monitoring by 5% averagely on annual basis.
c) Objective 3: Provide training in occupational safety and health to over 90% of managerial individuals in charge of occupational safety and health tasks working in district-level authorities and in management boards of economic zones, industrial parks, export processing zones and hi-tech parks.
d) Objective 4: Provide training in occupational safety and health to over 80% of workers performing tasks or jobs bound by strict requirements for occupational safety and health, and to 80% of individuals in charge occupational safety and health tasks.
dd) Objective 5: Provide training in occupational safety and health to over 80% of individuals in charge of grassroots healthcare tasks.
e) Objective 6: Provide proper information on occupational safety and health to over 80% of craft villages and cooperatives at high risk of occupational accidents and diseases.
g) Objective 7: Pay compensations and benefits to over 80% of victims of occupational accidents or diseases in accordance with regulations of law.
h) Objective 8: Report, investigate and settle 100% of fatal occupational accidents in accordance with regulations of law.
Therefore. the National program for occupational safety and health in the 2021 - 2025 period (hereinafter referred to as the “Program”) enclosed with the Government’s Resolution 19/NQ-CP dated February 16, 2022 sets a specific objective that by 2025, the number of workers to be examined for occupational diseases shall increase by 5% averagely on annual basis.
Resolution 19: How many additional percent of workers shall be examined for occupational diseases according to the objectives of the Vietnam's National program for occupational safety and health?
What are the solutions for promoting research, counseling and support for improving working conditions and prevention of occupational accidents and diseases in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Section 3 of the National program enclosed with the Government’s Resolution 19/NQ-CP of 2022, the solutions for promoting research, counseling and support for improving working conditions and prevention of occupational accidents and diseases are as follows:
- Promote research and application of science and technology in occupational safety and health; assist in developing the models of technical solutions for preventing hazardous and dangerous elements in sectors and industries at high risk of occupational accidents and diseases (e.g. mineral extraction and processing, metallurgy, chemicals, constructions and some other sectors and industries).
- Gradually do research and make proposal for construction of testing labouratories for personal protective equipment, and occupational safety machinery, equipment, tools and devices meeting national standards.
- Intensify provision of advice about measures and models for improving working conditions for small and medium-sized enterprises, craft villages, cooperatives and farmer households engaged in occupations or jobs at high risk of occupational accidents and diseases.
- Assist in inspection and implementation of measures to prevent occupational accidents when using machinery and equipment bound by strict requirements for occupational safety in small enterprises and individual businesses.
- Apply occupational safety and health management systems in enterprises, business and manufacturing establishments and craft villages at high risk of occupational accidents and diseases, gradually establish a culture of occupational safety, and meet international standards for occupational safety and health management systems (ISO 45001 - 2018).
How long do employees need to pay occupational accident and disease insurance in order to be eligible for receipt of financial assistance in occupational disease examination in Vietnam?
Conditions for receipt of financial assistance in occupational disease examination for employees are specified in Clause 1, Article 16 of Decree 88/2020/ND-CP as follows:
Conditions for receipt of financial assistance in occupational disease examination for employees
An employer shall be provided with financial assistance in occupational disease examination for an employee as prescribed in Article 55 of the Law on Occupational Safety and Health if the employee satisfies the following conditions:
1. The employee has paid occupational accident and disease insurance premiums for at least 12 months and is still participating in such insurance up to the month immediately preceding the month of request for financial assistance.
2. The employee is diagnosed with an occupational disease by an occupational health facility.
Thus, to receive financial assistance in occupational disease examination for employees, the employee has paid occupational accident and disease insurance premiums for at least 12 months and is still participating in such insurance up to the month immediately preceding the month of request for financial assistance.
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