Bac Giang is the first province in the country to establish the Provincial Industrial Park Health Center to directly manage and monitor labor safety at enterprises. Accordingly, businesses coordinate with the local authorities to monitor the working environment on an annual basis.

According to statistics from the Provincial Department of Health, Bac Giang has 826 enterprises with harmful factors with a total of 240 thousand employees under management.

According to the provisions of the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene and Circular No. 19/2011/TT-BYT (guiding the management of occupational hygiene, worker health and occupational diseases), every year, enterprises must organize monitor the working environment at least once to assess harmful factors in accordance with the standards allowed by the Ministry of Health.

In addition to complying with legal regulations on occupational safety and hygiene, monitoring the working environment also has the meaning of preventing and minimizing the effects of harmful factors in the working environment on human health. labor.

Based on the results of specific measurement samples (applied to each production field), the monitoring unit will assess the risk factors for occupational diseases. From there, businesses are required to organize health checks for workers working in corresponding positions, promptly detect occupational-related diseases for treatment and appropriate job placement.

That is the regulation, but there are still many businesses that do not really care about implementing it or do it incompletely. Last year, the Health sector organized a general investigation, review, statistics, assessment and decentralization of management for labor establishments with hazardous factors causing occupational diseases in the province. Through inspection, out of 826 enterprises, up to 601 enterprises have not performed environmental monitoring, accounting for 73.2%; 68% of businesses do not have records on labor environment hygiene, 53% of units do not have a medical room.

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