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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

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