Situation of working environment in manufacturing facilities in Vietnam for 3 years (2016-2018)

Abstract

Monitoring of the working environment (MWE) is the activity of collecting, analyzing and evaluating data to measure factors in the working environment at the workplace to take measures to minimize harm to health, prevention and control of occupational diseases. In accordance with current law, labor facility must perform the MWE at least once a year. In order to describe the current working environment of labor facilities in Vietnam for 3 years (2016-2018), the research team collected and analyzed monitoring data at labor facilities in 63 provinces /cities from the annual occupational health reporting data. The research results showed that in 3 years (2016- 2018), an average of 20% of organizations make records of occupational sanitation every year to identify and assess risk factors in the workplace. Meanwhile, 5,867 workplaces conducted labor environment monitoring with a total of 839,808 samples monitored. The number of samples not meeting the permissible standards was 62,796, accounting for 7.5%. The sample rate did not reach the highest level in 2016 (8.3%) and decreased in the following 2 years (6.4% and 7.9%). The percentage of samples observed for light elements that don’t meet standard quality which are highest compared to other harmful factors assessed.