LAMBUNAO, ILOILO - The OSHC-REU6 intensified the "Vision 1 Million" though the conduct of a free 1-day safety and health awareness with topics on basic safety and health measures, and innovations at work for the 35-garment workers composing of housewives, senior citizens, LGU job hires, among others.
Melveen Melocoton, OSHC-REU6 focal, facilitated the safety and health topics with discussions, games and workshops. He discussed the topics on accident causation, good housekeeping and innovations on occupational safety and health.
"With a sound policy on safety and health, an active committee, a trained safety officer and occupational health personnel, you'll be able to develop better programs and innovations to prevent losses and thus result to good sales performance towards productivity," he said.
On the other hand, Lambunao Acting Municipal Administrator Sofia G. Halago said that we need to embrace the learning and apply it in our workplace. Doing so implies that we gave value to the efforts of our social partners to equip us with the learning for our own good and thus we need to do our share.
"Let's help one another for the sustainability of the project," she added.
The activity was in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) via its Shared Facilities Project that is geared towards accelerating competitiveness of micro,small, and medium enterprises (MSME) through provision of state-of-the-art machinery and equipment, and safety and health interventions and innovations.
In Iloilo, garments making became a shared service facility project of the DTI in partnership with the local government of Lambunao, Iloilo. The project started in 2015 which provided the locality with sewing, edging and piping machines, rotary printers, embroidery machine and generator set. // MM
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