Safety and health at work in Viet Nam

Occupational safety and health is important to human resource preservation and makes business sense.

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Every 15 seconds, a worker dies from a work-related accident or disease worldwide.

Every 15 seconds, 153 workers have a work-related accident.

Occupational safety and health carries enormous significances to human resource preservation and makes business sense.

Viet Nam’s ratification of the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) in 1994 and recently the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187) in 2014 has made a firm commitment to establish national policies on occupational safety and health aiming at preventing occupational accidents and diseases in the workplace.

In 2006, Viet Nam developed the National Programme on Labour Protection, Occupational Safety and Occupational Health up to 2010, marking a significant milestone for the country in the area of safety and health at work.

The second phase of the Programme for the period 2011-15 covers a number of areas including:
  • Special support to improve working conditions in small enterprises, agriculture and handicraft commune;
  • reducing occupational accidents in sectors of construction using electricity and mining;
  • capacity building of management systems on occupational safety and health;
  • training in occupational safety and health and information dissemination; and
  • reducing new cases of occupational diseases.