The families in the BCHPC manufacture bronze-made handicrafts such as spoons and forks. A team consisting of MOLSW, MOPH, HomeNet and ILO, had conducted a pilot WISE training course in November 2000 in BCHPC. The purpose of the visit was to see the real working conditions of home-based workers and find out whether the WISE/WIND methodology had been successful in improving the situation of these home-based workers.

The participants walked through the work places of the bronze workers. Many workers' families brought production processes including furnaces, pressing machines and grinders into their houses. Participants noted that there are many types of OSH risks in those workplaces. These included: use of hazardous substances, dangerous production machines, fire and burning, dusts, noise, poor lighting conditions, monotonous and repetitive job contents, and excessive heat. Family members as well as workers themselves were exposed to such risks since the workplaces are located inside their houses.

Many workers had taken corrective actions in safety and health since participating in the pilot WISE training course. They had carried these out by themselves using locally available resources. The improvements were: adjusted height of the workstations, introduction of multi-level shelves, covering the furnaces, partition between the workplace and the eating place, and use of more lighting bulbs. The people in BCHPC had identified these actions by themselves, based on the WISE training. It was apparent that many home-based workers in BCHPC knew how to improve safety and health step-by-step through their own initiatives. To support this action, participants from the MOPH promised to send their health and medical staff to the community to provide the people with information on the results of the earlier organized health examination.