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(ILO
BANGKOK): A three-year
programme to improve occupational safety and health in
Viet Nam
’s agriculture has resulted in about 28,000 individual improvements
in working and living conditions for the farmers involved.
In
addition more than 7,900 Vietnamese farmers from 14 provinces were
trained in occupational safety and health (
OSH
) techniques. 70 officials have become resource trainers.
The
best
OSH
improvements from each province will be presented at two Final
Achievement Workshops. Each province will present their best ideas in
three categories – simple, low cost, and clever – to international
experts from the International Labour Organization (ILO), senior
officials from the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA,
other government officials, and farmers from across
Viet Nam
.
The
workshops will be held in
Hanoi
and My Tho City,
Tien
Giang
Province
on 25 and 28 May respectively. Vice Minister of MOLISA Le Bach Hong
will open the workshop. Ms. Doan Minh Hoa, Head of the Project
Advisory Committee and Director-General of the Bureau of Safe Work,
MOLISA will make keynote presentation. Dr. Toru Itani, Director of
Protection Department, ILO Geneva will also speak.
The
project, ILO/Japan regional programme on capacity building of
occupational safety and health (
OSH
) in Agriculture, began in 2004 and covered 14 provinces. As part of
the project 70 officials were trained to become resource trainers.
They ran training for 480 farmer volunteers using the ILO’s
established programme for agricultural
OSH
, Work Improvement for Neighborhood Development (WIND), which focuses
on simple, low-cost, easy-to-implement techniques and local materials.
In turn, these farmers spread the information at local level by
organizing mini-WIND workshops for 7,900 local farmers who together
implemented about 28,000 improvements.
“After
three years all the objectives of the project were completed,” said
Mr. Tsuyoshi Kawakami, ILO Senior Specialist on Occupational Safety
and Health. “This is a great achievement for
Viet Nam
’s farmers and a real step forward in making their work safer and
healthier. These final achievement workshops are very important, to
ensure that the knowledge gained is shared, and that the WIND
volunteer systems continue and expand, even though the project itself
is ending”.
More
than 100 participants are expected to take part in each workshop.
The media is also invited to attend. The first workshop will be
held at La Thanh Hotel,
Hanoi
on 25th May. It will be attended by farmers from seven provinces;
Bac
Kan
, Ha
Nam
, Hung Yen, Nam Dinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa and Yen Bai.
On 28th May a second workshop will take place at the Song Tien
Hotel, My Tho City, Tien Giang province, for farmers from Hau Giang,
Can Tho, Tra Vinh, Tien Giang, Dong Thap, Long An and Dac Lac
Provinces.
The
project is implemented by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social
Affairs (MOLISA) with technical advice from the ILO. It is funded by
the Government of Japan.
For further information please contact:
Mr. Nguyen Van Theu
National Project Coordinator, ILO Office in
Hanoi
Mobile 849
1261 0875
Mr. Tsuyoshi
Kawakami
Senior Specialist on Occupational Safety and Health
ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific,
Bangkok
Mobile 66 89 939 6891
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