OHS LIGESLATIVE REQUIREMENTS

AND CODES OF PRACTICE

Unlocking of Difficulties:

Employer: a person, business, or

organization that hires and pays one or
more workers

Legislation: a law or laws passed by an

official body, especially a governmental
assembly
Accident: an unplanned and
unfortunate event that results in
damage, injury, or upset of some kind

Duty: something that somebody is

obliged to do for moral, legal, or
religious reasons

Hazardous: potentially very dangerous

to living beings or the environment
Running a nursery is like managing a
farm crop production. From time to
time, you will probably hire workers to
help run your farm operations. It will
become a business enterprise involving
―employer-worker‖ relationships. As
the employer, you are responsible to
ensure the health and safety of all
people working on your farm.
Just as you need to know crop
management, you also need to
know what is required by
government occupational health
and safety legislation. The
legislation can be used as farm
management tools which can help
you farm more safely and more
profitably.
 Accidents in the nursery
- All farms have dangerous machinery and
work situations.
- People of all ages, who work and live on
farms, are at risk of injury.
- Children are especially vulnerable to
hazards on farms because it is their home,
as well as, a place of work.
- Young, inexperienced workers are at a
higher risk for injuries than older
experienced workers.
- Performance changes which occur
with aging can result in reduced
balance and reaction time, vision
and hearing impairment.
- These and other changes affect
the aging farmer‘s ability to work
safely.
- Working alone and time pressure
also increase the risk of injury.
-When these injuries occur, especially at
critical farming times, they can reduce farm
revenues.
- Losing a limb and the resulting loss of
productive work time can devastate both
the short and the long-term profitability of
a farm operation.
- The Occupational Health and Safety Act
will apply to all workplaces, including
farms.
In our country the agency that is in-charge to
take the lead in the conduct of Occupational
Safety and Health System (OSHS) is the
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
The agency should monitor the following:
 Prevention- Executive Order 301 (OSHC)
 Enforcement- Administrative Code of 1987
 Compensation Rehabilitation-Presidential
Decree 626 (Environmental Certificate
Compliance)
 Updating of Health & Safety Standard and
Other Related OSH Policies- Adm. Code 1987
-The DOLE is the lead agency of the government in
the administration and enforcement of laws, policies,
and programs on occupational safety and health.

-The legal basis of its mandate is the Presidential

Decree No. 442 , Labor Code of the Philippines.

- The OSHS was created in 1978 under these

standards:

- A set of mandatory rules on OSH which codifies all

safety orders and patterned after the standards of
other developing countries.
Objectives:
Protection of workers from occupational risks
and hazards

Coverage: All workplaces, except safety in mines

Objective: To protect every worker against

injury, sickness or death.

Scope: Applies to all places of employment

except mines
Duties of employers:
• Furnish safe healthful working conditions
• Give job safety instruction
• Comply with OSHS
• Use approved safety devices

Duties of workers
• Cooperate with management
• Report unsafe condition
• Use all safe devices
 Hazardous Workplaces

• Exposure to dangerous environmental elements,

contaminants or work conditions

• Construction work, logging, fire-fighting, mining, quarrying,

blasting, stevedoring, dock work, deep sea, fishing and
mechanized farming

• Manufacture or handling of explosives and pyrotechnic

products

• Use or exposure to power=driven or explosive materials

• Exposure to biological agents as bacteria, fungi, viruses,

protozoa, nematodes and other parasites
Eminent danger
A condition or practice that could
reasonably be expected to cause
death or serious physical harm
before abatement under the
enforcement procedure can be
accomplished.
Government Agencies Covered:
• Department of Health
• Local Government Units (provinces, towns, cities and its
barangays)
• Department of Environment and Natural Resources
• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Trade and Industry
• Department of Education
• Department of Social Welfare and Development
• Department of Transportation
• Department of Transportation and Communication
• Department of Energy
• National Economic and Development Authority
• Department of Science and Technology and Department of
Agriculture.
NGOs , Labor and Employer groups:
• Philippine College of Occupational Medicine (PCOM)
• Occupational Health Nurses Association of the
Philippines (OHNAP)
• Employees Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP)
• People Management Association of the
Philippines(PMAP)
• Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP)
• Federation of Free Workers (FFW)
• Association of Safety Practitioner of the Philippines
(ASPPI)
• World Safety Organization (WSO).
Academe:
• University of the Philippines College of Public
Health (UPCPH)
• University of the Philippines School of Labor
and Industrial and Relations (UPSOLAIR)
• De la Salle University (DLSU)
• Pamantasang Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) etc.
Answer the following questions in ¼
sheet of paper.

1. What are the duties and

responsibilities of an employer and
worker?
2. Why it is important that the
employer and worker must follow
its duties at work?