Workshop on safely culture al workplaces

In response to the World day for Safety and Health at the work­ places (April 28,h) and incommem­oration of the International La­bour Day (May 1st), on April 28^th 2005, Bureau for Safe Work and the ILO Office in Hanoi organised the workshop "Safety Culture at the Workplace" in Hanoi. Nearly 50 participants from different Ministries, branches, enterprises, and international organisations attended the workshop.

Recent years have shown a poor awareness by both employ­ers and employees of the OSH regulations, resulting in the main cause of occupational acci­dents and diseases. Moreover, the compliance with safety tech­niques processes have not been implemented as many work­ places. The core objectives of the workshop" Safety culture at the workplace" is to help employers, employees and OSH state admin­istration agencies to have a full understanding of the concept and necessity for developing a safety culture at work in order to min­ imize occupational accidents and diseases and improve the work­ing conditions.

What is safety culture at the workplace? How to develop and promote safety culture at work­ places in Vietnam? These ques­tions have been the main content for discussion. National and in­ ternational experts talked about basic points of the theme and exchanged views and experience on developing and maintaining a safety culture at work. Most of the participants believed that the national program on labour pro­tection should create a frame­ work for the tripartite collaboration in OSH activities at all lev­ els. Vietnamese enterprises should attach great importance to safety culture in the context of international integration pro­cess, because OSH compliance is a strategy to increase and sustain competitiveness.

As planned, after the work­ shop an Action Plan for Safety Culture at Work will be devel­oped, in addition to pilot activi­ ties conducted in some enterprises on a voluntary basis.

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