ASEAN honours enterprises with high safety, health standards at workplace

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) awards 15 enterprises for their achievements in creating a safe, healthy, inclusive and supportive work environment at the Fourth ASEAN – Occupational Safety and Health Network (ASEAN-OSHNET) Awards ceremony. (Photo: ASEAN Secretariat)

Jakarta (VNA) – The Association of Southeast AsianNations (ASEAN) has awarded 15 enterprises for their achievements increating a safe, healthy, inclusive and supportive work environment at theFourth ASEAN – Occupational Safety and Health Network (ASEAN-OSHNET) Awardsceremony.

In his remarks, Secretary-General of ASEAN Dato Lim Jock Hoicongratulated the awardees for their commitments to the promotion of workers’resilience by adopting high standards of safety and health in the workplace,which is critical to sustaining ASEAN’s post-pandemic recovery.

The ASEAN-OSHNET Excellence Awards were presented to sevenenterprises which performed good Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) managementsystems. They are from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar,Singapore and Thailand.

In addition, the ASEAN-OSHNET Best Practice Awards were givento eight small and medium enterprises with good OSH practices, which are fromBrunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand.

Since its inception in 2016, the ASEAN-OSHNET Awards haverecognised private companies for their compliance with labour and OSH laws,their genuine and effective leadership and workers’ participation, as well astheir sustainable and transferable OSH good practices. The Awards alsostrengthen public-private partnerships in improving OSH in the region./.

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