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Labor safety and hygiene promotion The annual action month is designed to raise awareness and compliance with occupational safety and hygiene (OSH), improve working conditions, reduce the pollution of working environments, limit occupational accidents and diseases and ensure worker health. The launch of the Action Month for Occupational Safety and Hygiene The Lao Cai Copper Smelting Company established a steering committee ahead of the month-long event, which assigned specific tasks, including working environment surveillance and periodic employee health checks in 2022, preparation of documents and guidelines for occupational safety and hygiene training, as well as occupational safety guidelines for employees, and replacement of old and damaged safety signs. The company disseminated and promoted the Action Month for Occupational Safety and Hygiene through bulletin boards, meetings and leaflets. It reviewed and supplemented occupational safety and fire prevention … [Read more...] about Copper plant scores top marks for occupational safety campaign

In 2021, the cigar and cigarette manufacturer and importer treated about 6,400cu.m of wastewater in the six septic tanks it built to handle domestic wastewater by biological methods. However, due to its location in a residential area, the wastewater from restaurants and households is also discharged into the company's sewage system, putting further pressure on it. Emissions and dust generated during production undergoes filtration and is then retained and collected in sacks. The company’s central vacuum cleaner system has been certified by the Environment Department of Bac Ninh Province. Leaders of Bac Son Tobacco visit a production line As for the ordinary solid waste, about 542cu.m per year, Bac Son Tobacco has signed a contract for its transportation and treatment with Bac Ninh Urban Environment and Public Works Joint Stock Company. In 2021, the company generated 0.13 tonnes of hazardous solid wastes, which was handled by the Viet Tien Environment Company Limited … [Read more...] about Bac Son Tobacco develops business, ensures safe work environment

The Vinacomin-Mao Khe Coal Company complies strictly with environmental protection regulations Response to occupational health, safety The Vinacomin-Mao Khe Coal Company has established a steering committee for the Action Month on Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and Workers Month 2022. The committee has strengthened information dissemination, reviewed regulations and added technical measures to ensure labor safety, and evaluated risks in using machinery, equipment and tools. In addition, the committee has launched role-model campaigns in each unit, carried out OHS training and organized inspection teams to cross-check on OHS, while visiting and encouraging victims of work accidents and serious disease. Improving environmental health The Vinacomin-Mao Khe Coal Company has established a steering committee for environmental sanitation, directing production units to regularly inspect and sanitize the environment. The company has also ensured strict … [Read more...] about Vinacomin-Mao Khe Coal Company interested in environmental protection

Tightly controlling waste sources Company director Le Van Xuan said the company discharges three types of waste: solid, industrial and hazardous waste. Solid waste comprises waste paper, used office utensils, canteen waste, domestic waste and non-hazardous industrial waste. The company has signed a contract with the People’s Committee of Na Duong Town for waste collection, classification, transportation and treatment. Normal industrial solid waste (ashes and cinders) is transported by specialized vehicles to the 9.6ha Na Duoi dumping ground, about 2.5-3km away from residential areas and the company’s factory. In 2019, the Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology (IBST) certified that the company’s ashes and cinders were eligible for use as ground filling materials. On February 10, 2022, the institute granted another standard conformity certificate allowing the company to use its ashes and cinders as mineral additive for cement production. Hazardous waste is sorted … [Read more...] about Taking waste treatment very seriously

The Vinacomin-Nam Mau Coal Company’s Youth Union responds to the Action Month on Occupational Health and Safety and Workers Month 2022 Towards green economy The Vinacomin-Nam Mau Coal Company, which operates an underground coal mine in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh, is paying greater attention to environmental protection in accordance with the Vinacomin Party Committee’s resolution on strengthening environmental protection by 2025, with a vision to 2030. The company has achieved some positive results in this regard. These include planting trees to restore the environment and renovate the landscape of production areas on 2.5ha, building a new domestic wastewater treatment station, constructing dams to prevent soil and rock slides and handle flooding, repairing embankments, spillways and drainage ditches and improving environmental health in production and surrounding areas. The company has developed action plans to raise awareness of collectives … [Read more...] about Vinacomin-Nam Mau Coal Company targets green growth

Inadequacies in salary are causing a shift of workers among foreign-invested enterprises. Taiwanese-backed Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone contract manufacturer, is complaining about a battle to attract more affordable labour with its Chinese rivals in Vietnam. Young Liu, CEO and chairman of Foxconn, this month accused the company’s Chinese competitors of setting up campuses near its base in Vietnam to get closer to its workers. Foxconn’s campus, located in the northern province of Bac Ninh, currently employs around 60,000 workers, and the company has plans to increase that number over the next two years. Once the battle for workers becomes more serious, the company may face the risk of employee shortages. While the Foxconn CEO would not disclose the names of the competitors involved, the current crop of 31 companies – employing around 160,000 workers – that produce Apple products in Vietnam include major names such as Luxshare ICT, Pegatron Vietnam, and BYD Electronics … [Read more...] about Foreign groups battle to retain their workers