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Aiko A. Salorsano
Objectives :
Classification
Permanent Partial Disability (PPD) o Employee loses a body part
and loss of use of that body part
Temporary Total Disability (TTD) o Inability to work for a
continuous period not exceeding 120 days
Permanent Total Disability (PTD) o Inability to work more than 240
days o Loss of vision, limb (2), brain injury or insanity caused by
work
30 disease lists as “occupational disease”
Compensation
o Injury sustained
Due to intoxication
Notorious negligence
Deliberate act
BENEFITS:
In case of death and funeral benefits, the beneficiaries may either be one of the following:
1. Primary
Legitimate spouse until he or she remarries
Dependent children (legitimate, legitimated or adopted, and illegitimate):
Below 18 years old, unmarried, not gainfully employed; or
More than 18 years old but incapacitated and incapable of self-support due to mental or
physical defect acquired prior to age of majority.
2. Secondary
Dependent parents
Legitimate descendants
Eligibilities
Article II, Section 6, of the new law allows any female worker who
will avail of maternity leave to transfer up to 7 of her 105 days of
paid leave to the child’s father, whether they are married or not
SSS Employment Compensation benefit
any source
of potential damage, harm or
adverse health effects on
something or someone.
a potential source of harm to a
worker.
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S): a colourless gas, heavier than air; it has the odour of
rotten eggs. Exposure occurs in oil fields and refineries, tanneries, sewers and in
the manufacture of rayon and artificial rubber.
It can be detected by its smell and causes paralysis of the olfactory nerve after
a short while.
it has an irritant effect on the eyes and upper respiratory centre; it also causes
asphyxia by combining with cytochrome oxidase enzyme and preventing tissue
respiration.
If respiratory paralysis occurs artificial respiration is indicated.
Nitrites (sublingual and intravenous) serve to break the combination between
the gas and cytochrome oxidase enzyme by forming methaemoglobin.
Hydrocyanic acid (HCN)
installing equipment and systems that have been engineered, designed and built to
operate quietly
enclosing or shielding noisy equipment
making certain that equipment is in good repair and is properly maintained with all worn or
unbalanced parts replaced
mounting noisy equipment on special mounts to reduce vibration
installing silencers, mufflers or baffles
substituting quiet work methods for noisy ones, e.g. welding parts rather than riveting them
treating floors, ceilings and walls with acoustic material to reduce reflected or reverberant
noise
erecting sound barriers at adjacent workstations around noisy operations to reduce worker
exposure to noise generated at adjacent workstations
Ionizing radiation can be controlled by:
PHILIPPINES
The program addresses the incidence of occupational diseases and work-related diseases
and injuries among workers through health promotion and protection in all workplaces.
It initially focuses on public health workers and informal sector workers including, but not
limited to those in agriculture, transport,
and small-scale mining.
It aims to improve workers’ access to basic occupational health services at the local level.
Objective/Goal:
By 2022, reduce the number of occupational diseases and injuries by 30% from the 2015
baseline as identified in the Occupational Health and Safety Profile of the Philippines.
Policies and Laws
1961, Administrative Order No. 63 “Industrial Hygiene Code”
1975, Presidential Decree No. 856 Code on Sanitation of the Philippines (Chapter VII
– Industrial Hygiene)
1987, Philippine Constitution of 1987 (Article II, Section 15)
2008, Joint Administrative Order between DTI-DENR-DA-DOF-DOH-DILG-DOLE-DOTC
No. 01 “The Adoption and Implementation of the Globally Harmonized System of
Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)”
2012, DOH Administrative Order No. 2012-0020 “Guidelines Governing the
Occupational Health and Safety of Public Health Workers”
2013, DOH Administrative Order No. 2013-0018 “National Occupational Health Policy
for the Informal Mining, Transport and Agricultural Sectors”
2013, DOH Administrative Order No. 2013-0009 “National Chemical Safety
Management and Toxicology Policy
2013, DOH Department Personnel Order No. 2013-3584 “Designation of
Undersecretaries and Assistant Secretaries as Heads of Technical and Operations
Cluster for Kalusugang Pangkalahatan, the Occupational Health and Safety
Committee for the Department of Health and other Attached Agencies” and its
Reconstitution DPO No. 2014-2282 and 2014-2282-A “Reconstitution of the
Occupational Health and Safety Committee for the Department of Health and other
Attached Agencies”