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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
#SikatAngMaingat
Reporting System
Social media
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
