Online contest on practical occupational safety and health with practical coal industry production

Participating in the online contest "CNVCLD learn about occupational safety and health" since its inception, Mr. Nguyen Van Hoang (a union member of Nui Beo Coal Joint Stock Company) has actively learned the knowledge that the contest requires.

He learned from the Safety and Hygiene Handbook that his production team distributed, documents on safety regulations, fire prevention and fighting in the underground that he had grasped through occupational safety and health training sessions.

After work, I also took the opportunity to research on the Internet, use ChatGPT to quickly find answers, and quickly absorb knowledge. I entered the contest with the mindset: Whether I win or not, it will serve my own work" - Mr. Hoang said.

Mr. Hoang is one of the union members participating in the contest that the Company's Trade Union propagated and mobilized. The story he sent to the Organizing Committee is also a deep memory of reminding each other to ensure safety when working under the mine.

According to the Trade Union of Nui Beo Coal Joint Stock Company, the coal mining industry is a special production sector, always facing the risk of losing occupational safety and health. Therefore, the Company has implemented many solutions on labor safety, ensuring stable production with the goal of "Safe, united, developed, and efficient".

The company currently has more than 3,000 workers working in more than 20 workshops, more than 10 departments and offices, mainly miners.

In the context of increasingly deep exploitation, requiring the work of ensuring occupational safety and health to be increasingly strict, every year, the Company allocates large funds to invest in procurement, applying advanced, modern technology, information technology, and mechanics to improve management efficiency and improve working conditions for workers.

The company always seriously follows the lessons learned from each work incident and accident. Thereby strengthening training and disciplining the psychology of lack of awareness of safety autonomy, violating safe working processes, regulations, and measures, and lack of inspection and supervision.

Every year, the Trade Union - Company - Youth Union has signed a joint resolution on implementing occupational safety and health work to promote the emulation movement to prevent and reduce occupational accidents, protect the labor force, especially young workers of working age and occupational age. Thereby, it is determined not to let work accidents or disastrous incidents happen; reduce work accidents and subjective incidents, especially serious accidents.

Mr. Nguyen Tien Nhuong, Chairman of the Company's Trade Union, shared: "The Trade Union always actively participates in professional coordination in implementing occupational safety and health work well, promoting initiatives, creativity in safety and awareness of law and regulations compliance among workers. Thereby improving labor discipline, awareness of practicing industrial style, safety autonomy, and commitment to strictly implementing regulations on occupational safety and health of workers.

The Trade Union also performs the function of participating, inspecting, supervising the development of plans, and implementing the proposed contents. In particular, special attention should be paid to criteria such as workers in the tunnel not having to walk 500m; transporting materials and equipment by hand no more than 30m; overcoming factors exceeding the permitted standards at workers' workplaces, such as dust, temperature, noise, humidity, electromagnetics, oxygen concentration, etc.

Workers working in positions and jobs with high risks of safety and occupational diseases are regularly propagated by the departmental trade union to ensure occupational safety and health at the production site and are given high-quality personal protective equipment by the trade union in coordination with the profession.

Through the recommendations of the occupational safety and hygiene network, the Trade Union participated in the inspection, guidance on settlement and professional recommendations for timely remedial measures. In 2024, the Trade Union will coordinate professionally to launch an emulation movement to take on occupational safety and health projects, improve working conditions for workers; strive to have at least 1 project and solution; the Trade Union of the manufacturing sector will have 1 project and solution on labor safety.

Therefore, the online contest "CNVCLD learn about occupational safety and health" has contributed to raising awareness of occupational safety and health among staff and workers. This is also a time to foster occupational safety and health knowledge for trade unions at all levels as well as workers to prevent mine incidents.