Activities of the Occupational Safety and Health Action Month organized by business and production establishments in Vietnam

 Activities of the Occupational Safety and Health Action Month organized by business and production establishments in Vietnam (Internet image) 

Regarding this matter, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. Regulations on the topic of the Occupational Safety and Health Action Month in Vietnam

According to Article 3 of Circular 02/2017/TT-BLDTBXH, the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs shall annually base on existing conditions and the reality of occupational accidents and occupational diseases to develop the general topic of the Occupational Safety and Health Action Month. Ministries, regulatory bodies, local governments, and business and production establishments may select specific topics for the action month in conformity with social – economic conditions and the reality of occupational safety and health of each ministry/ regulatory body/ local government.

The topic of the Occupational Safety and Health Action Month must be expressed in a succinct and unambiguous way with specific objectives and the message to encourage action and improve awareness and adherence to the law on occupational safety and health, paying special attention to key and important issues concerning occupational safety and health affected businesses, society and public psychologically.

2. Activities of the Occupational Safety and Health Action Month organized by business and production establishments in Vietnam

Clause 2, Article 4 of Circular 02/2017/TT-BLDTBXH stipulating that business and production establishments shall maintain regular activities relating to occupational safety and health in accordance with regulations of law, paying attention to the following basic contents:

- Design and organize specific action programs on occupational safety and health at business and production establishments;

- Formulate, review and supplement rules and procedures for safe work; inspect and evaluate risks of occupational safety and health to each machinery, equipment, workshop, and working group/team to work out measures to efficiently prevent and cope with emergencies/risks of occupational accidents or occupational diseases.

- Review and organize drilling and training activities in occupational safety and health in conformity with each group of subjects as regulated by law; provide information and advice, instructions to workers to evaluate risks of occupational safety and health; examine and verify machinery, equipment and materials bound by strict requirements for occupational safety and health.

- Organize examination of health and occupational diseases for the workers; carry out the monitoring of working environment.

- Organize practice or maneuvers of skills for coping with technical errors relating to labour safety, practice of first-aid skills; organize contests for improving working conditions, preventing occupational accidents and occupational diseases; sign manual agreement to ensure the occupational safety and health at workshops, groups or teams in conformity with specific conditions of each business and production establishment/ unit.

- Groups, corporations, and business and production establishments are encouraged to organize launching ceremonies to respond to the Occupational Safety and Health Action Month; commend and reward teams/individuals having excellent performance in occupational safety and health activities; visit and support victims of occupational accidents or occupational diseases and their families; organize arts/cultural exchanges whose contents include occupational safety and health contents in conformity with existing conditions of each unit.

To Quoc Trinh

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