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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 855 -
CREATING AN INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY IN THE MINISTRY
OF LABOR AND PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR |
Ministry of Health
Ministry of Industry
Employees' Compensation Commission
The Social Security System
The Government Service Insurance System
WHEREAS, there is a need to establish an expert industrial disease and occupational safety intelligence center that will help identify potential sources of dangerous chemical substances, noise pollution, and other hazards to workers in their working environment and organize a data bank and clearing house for sustained research on industrial accidents and occupational diseases in the country;
WHEREAS, the Ministry of Labor has been assigned under the Labor Code of the Philippines, expanded tasks and responsibilities to promulgate and enforce occupational health and safety standards to reduce or minimize occupational hazards in all workplaces;
WHEREAS, the responsibility of the Ministry of Labor on occupational health and safety extends to the continuing system of research and study in dealing with occupational health and safety problems in all places of employment, including and development and implementation of training programs in such fields;
WHEREAS, the Employees' Compensation Commission of which the Minister of Labor is ex-officio Chairman, is empowered to initiate policies and programs towards adequate occupational health and safety and accident prevention in the working environment;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct as follows:
1.
There is hereby created in the Ministry of Labor an Institute of
Occupational Health and Safety, hereinafter referred to as the
Institute, which shall be headed by an Executive Director, under the
immediate supervision of the Minister of Labor.
2. The
Institute shall have the following powers and functions:
(a)
To undertake continuing studies and research on occupational health and
safety of employees in their working environment;
(b) To lay the
groundwork for establishing causal connection between diseases and
occupations in environmental conditions;
(c) To develop
medical criteria in determining the nature and extent of impairment of
diminution in health, functional capacity, or life expectancy of
employees as a result of their work and working conditions;
(d) To assist
in the formulation of rules and regulations on occupational health and
safety, rehabilitation of disabled workers in industry and other
matters related thereto;
(e) To serve
as clearing house of information on innovative methods, techniques and
approaches in dealing with occupational health and safety
problems;
(f) To
undertake or authorize the undertaking and funding of operations for
the purpose of gathering information in aid of the foregoing functions
through the utilization of funds from the Ministry of Labor, from the
twelve percent loading fund of the State Insurance Fund administered by
the Social Security System and the Government Service Insurance System
under PD 626, as amended, or through assistance from international or
bilateral agencies;
(g) To extend
the scope of its research studies and information data gathering
functions to the countries of Southeast Asia, particularly the Asean
Sub-region; and
(h) To
undertake, develop and implement training programs in close,
consultation and collaboration with the Employees' Compensation
Commission, in the fields of occupational safety and industrial health,
rehabilitation and related interests.
4. The Minister of Labor, in close consultation with such professional and specialty groups and organizations that the Minister of Labor may invite, shall issue rules and regulations to implement this Letter of Instructions.
5. For the initial funding of the Institute, there is hereby appropriated the amount of TWO MILLION PESOS out of the loading fund of twelve percent of the State Insurance Fund administered by the Social Security System and the Government Service Insurance System on a sharing basis of 5/8 for the Social Security System and 3/8 for the Government Service Insurance System, which shall constitute as the operational expenses of the Institute for Calendar Year 1979.
Thereafter, the Minister of Labor shall include in the yearly appropriations of the Ministry of Labor, such amounts as may be necessary and adequate to meaningfully administer the Institute, to constitute its annual operational budget.
Done in Metro Manila, Philippines, this 1st day of May, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Nine.
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