ensuring occupational health & safety for overseas filipino seafarers
ensuring occupational health & safety for overseas filipino seafarers
ensuring occupational health & safety for overseas filipino seafarers
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Two main factors why the assurance of<br />
<strong>occupational</strong> <strong>health</strong> and <strong>safety</strong> remains elusive<br />
Filipino <strong>seafarers</strong>.<br />
- the lack of interest on the part of the<br />
employers/ ship owners to fully en<strong>for</strong>ce<br />
<strong>occupational</strong> <strong>health</strong> and <strong>safety</strong> measures <strong>for</strong><br />
<strong>seafarers</strong> especially that an effective <strong>health</strong> and<br />
<strong>safety</strong> management entails a considerable<br />
economic costs to ship owners.<br />
Virgel C. Binghay,Ph.D. 30