Solutions to promote labor safety culture in the face of new requirements

Current situation of building labor safety culture at Petrovietnam

According to Mr. Nguyen Manh Kha, Petrovietnam currently maintains a network of nearly 1,200 safety and hygiene teams with more than 3,000 safety and hygiene workers operating at units, works and projects throughout the Group. Every year, 100% of safety and hygiene workers are trained and professionally fostered; at the same time, nearly 1,000 occupational safety and hygiene training classes for workers, contractors and direct production forces are regularly organized at units.

Many member units maintain millions of safe working hours continuously, gradually forming a sense of proactive risk prevention, improving labor discipline and building a safe and stable working environment at the unit.

In addition, most of Petrovietnam's units implement a regime of allowances for safety and hygiene workers to encourage and motivate this force to promote its role. This is also one of the contents that Petrovietnam has implemented relatively synchronously and effectively in the past time.

Petrovietnam Trade Unions at all levels have played an active role in propaganda, mobilization and supervision of occupational safety and health work. Every year, Workers' Month and Action Month on Occupational Safety and Health are implemented simultaneously with many activities towards grassroots levels such as: Inspecting production sites; dialogue with businesses and workers; visiting and encouraging direct production forces; launching emulation movements to ensure safety; commending typical collectives and individuals in occupational safety and health work. Many good models and effective practices have been widely implemented throughout the Group such as: "Safe construction site", "Labor safety day", "Safe production shift", inspection "first 5 minutes of shift"... these models not only contribute to reducing the risk of unsafety but also gradually form a sense of proactive risk prevention among workers.

Along with that, many welfare projects, cultural and sports activities, and care for the spiritual life of workers have also been invested, built, repaired and upgraded by Petrovietnam Trade Union, such as: football fields, pickleball courts, cultural and sports facilities,... contributing to improving health, reducing work pressure, creating a positive working environment and strengthening solidarity among workers.

Lessons learned from the practice of Petrovietnam Trade Union

From the practical implementation of Occupational Safety and Health at Petrovietnam, Mr. Nguyen Manh Kha shared some important lessons learned. In which, the Chairman of Petrovietnam Trade Union affirmed: Safe culture is only truly effective when there is synchronous involvement of the entire political system in the enterprise, from Party committees, professional departments, Trade Union organizations to each worker. Sustainable safety work must take prevention as the main thing; shift from the thinking of "handling incidents" to "risk management".

To build a safe culture, it is necessary to put people at the center. Workers only truly comply with the process when they understand that safety is first and foremost to protect themselves, their families and colleagues. Safety work must be associated with emulation, commendation and responsibility of the head. Where the head pays close attention, safety work is maintained well and stably.

Mr. Nguyen Manh Kha emphasized: Digital transformation will be an inevitable trend in occupational safety management. Any business that masters secure data will be more proactive in risk prevention.

To promote the Culture of Occupational Safety, according to Mr. Nguyen Manh Kha, in the face of new requirements, it is necessary to focus on implementing a number of key solutions. First of all, continue to innovate awareness, identifying safety culture not only as a technical requirement but as a core value in sustainable business development. Safety must become a self-awareness, professional habit and self-responsibility of each worker.

Second, improve the quality of safety training in a practical, modern and more practical direction. It is necessary to strengthen situation-based training, simulate incidents, and practice training at the field; promote the application of AI technology in occupational safety training. Workers must be "safe practiced", not just "hear about safety".

Third, continue to strongly promote the role of the Trade Union organization in promoting safety culture. Trade union levels need to proactively organize dialogues on occupational safety and health; supervise the scene; replicate the models "Self-managed safety teams", "Safe production shifts"; build a network of practical and effective occupational safety and health workers.

Fourth, link labor safety work with the emulation movement of creative labor, innovation and labor productivity improvement. Encourage workers to propose initiatives to improve working conditions, solutions to reduce unsafety risks and apply new technologies in risk monitoring and control.

Fifth, pay more attention to the human factor, taking care of the material, spiritual and health of workers. A positive, humane, and stable working environment will contribute to reducing psychological pressure and limiting the risk of unsafety due to stress and labor overload.

Sixth, propose functional agencies to continue to improve mechanisms and policies on occupational safety and health in accordance with the context of digital transformation, energy transition and modern industrial production.

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