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PROGRAMME

MONDAY, 3 JULY 2000

14:00 - 17.00 hrs

Departure from Bangkok to Rayong province

TUESDAY, 4 JULY 2000

0830 - 0900 hrs

Opening addresses

  • Mr Pornchai Yooprayong, Deputy Director-General
    Department of Labour Protection and Welfare, MOLSW
  • Dr Jukka Takala, Director of SafeWork

0900 - 0930 hrs

Introduction to the workshop programme. Goals and objectives. OSH developments since the Pattaya and Chiang Mai meeting.

  • Dr Chaiyuth Chavalitnitikul, Senior Expert on OSH
  • Dr Tsuyoshi Kawakami, Specialist on OSH

0930 - 0945 hrs

Break

0945 - 1200 hrs

Keynote addresses

  • Chairperson :
    Dr Chaiyuth Chavalitnitikul, Senior Expert on OSH

0945 - 1045 hrs

ILO session : OSH strategies and programmes
ILO Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No.155)

  • Dr Jukka Takala, Director of SafeWork,
    InFocus Programme, ILO

1045 - 1115 hrs

National presentation : Progress on OSH Act for Thailand

  • Dr Chalermchai Chaikittiporn

1115 - 1200 hrs

Plenary discussion. Questions and answers

1200 - 1300 hrs

Lunch

1300 - 1530 hrs

Tripartite panel discussion on the current OSH situation in Thailand : Need for an OSH Act. Plenary discussion. Questions and answers

  • Mr Pornchai Yooprayong
    Deputy Director-General, MOLSW
  • Asso. Prof. Dr Chalermchai Chakittiporn,
    Mahidol University
  • Mr Praphad Phodivorakhun, Chairman
    Employers' Confederation of Thai Trade and Industry
  • Mr Panus Thailuan, President
    National Congress of Thai Labour
  • Moderator :
    Dr Chaiyuth Chavalitnitikul
    Senior Expert on OSH

1530 - 1600 hrs

Break

1600 - 1700 hrs

Phosgene leak in a Thai Polycarbonate factory

  • Ms Kasemsri Homchean
    Director of the Mab Ta Put Industrial Estate

1700 - 1800 hrs

Introduction to the plant visit by

  • Pia Markkanen, Expert OSH

WEDNESDAY, 5 JULY 2000

0800 - 1200 hrs

Visit Thai Polycarbonate factory

1200 - 1300 hrs

Lunch

1300 - 1600 hrs

Panel discussion: Strengthening a national programme on major accident prevention

  • Asso. Prof. Saravudh Sutummasa, Moderator
  • Dr Voravidh Charoenloet, Chulalongkorn University
  • Mr Nuttawat Montewan, Department of Labour Protection and Welfare
  • Ms Helen Arromdee, Department of Industrial Works
  • Dr Wilawan Cheungprasert, Department of Health
  • Mr Sumetha Vichienpet, Pollution Control Deparment

1600 - 1730 hrs

Group discussion: Establishment of a national tripartite subcommittee on major hazard control for Thailand

THURSDAY, 6 JULY 2000

0830 - 0915 hrs

ILO session: Role of OSH information

  • Dr Jukka Takala, ILO

0915 - 1030 hrs

Plenary session: Review of the workshop

1030 - 1100 hrs

Break

1100 - 1200 hrs

Closing session

  • Dr Chaiyuth Chavalitnitikul
  • Dr Jukka Takala
  • Mr Siwu Liu

1300 hrs

Departure for Bangkok

Updated by SUT/TRS. Approved by BKL. Last update: 4 July 2001.