Best Practices in Promoting Occupational Safety and Health in...

Best Practices in Promoting Occupational Safety and Health

in the Philippines

Philippine International Convention Center November 21, 2018

Background

● General Labor Standards and

Occupational Safety and Health

Standards (OSHS)

● OSHC provides two mandatory

traning courses, BOSH and COSH

● Follow up study of the GKK

program

Background

To identify the exemplary programs and

strategies of companies in promoting

safety and health in the workplace

Objective Objective

How the research was done

● Invitation letters and informed consent

forms were sent to 26 companies that

joined the GKK program from 2010 to

2016

● 8 companies agreed to participate

● Face-to-face interviews with the company

safety officer and/or occupational health

personnel

Methodology

What makes an OSH program exemplary?

Unique and innovative

workplace safety and

health promotion

strategies

Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment and Control

Performed by their Safety and Health

Committee composed of trained

managers, supervisors, and employees

Behavior-based

Approach

Information Dissemination

Reporting System Rewards

Contractual

Third party assessment

Areas that made their

OSH program exemplary

Information Dissemination

Company orientation

for new hires

Meetings

Staff Development

Intranet

Behavior-based System

GOALS:

Change in perspective

Change in appreciation

Change in action

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Reporting System

Social media

Email

Intranet

App

Two-way radio

Rewards System

Ensuring employees are heard

Positive reinforcement through

contests and prizes

Validation of training through olympics

Third Party Assessment

Contractual workers

Ensures OSHS is followed

Permit to work

Orientation

Opportunity to teach

Company 1

Capitalized on the consequences of their

work site location

Recognizes importance of primacy of

family

Encourages positive change in behavior

Company 2

Hazards and risk assessment for every

process

All encompassing document which

serves as a guide for their workers

Company 3

Conduct of contests which tries to

simulate possible real-life scenarios

Sharing of best practices with

international counterpart

Willingness to improve

Company 4

Third-party assessment helps them

maintain the quality and standard of their

program

Identified at least 100 hazards

Conducts contests among their workplaces

in order to ensure that every worksite are

proactive

Company 5

Mandate from corporate level

Strengthening reporting system which

became the benchmark among the

other workplaces of the company

Task-risk analysis in order to hold

workers more accountable to the work

scope

Company 6

Stringent requirement for contractors

and sub-contractors

Development of application-based

reporting system

Company 7

Primacy of hazards and risks

identification

Reporting is highly encourage

Work-stoppage authority

Contest to encourage reporting, top

management also participates in the

contest

Company 8

Their safety and health programs are

the standard among their company

Committee members are trained with

the mandatory basic training

Has their own teachers and lesson plan

Conclusions and recommendations

Capitalizing on information technology

Identifying indicators to monitor the

effectiveness of their program

Importance of creating a peculiar safety

and health program

Serious undertaking in the top

management level