Attending the seminar is Dr. Do Tran Hai, NILP director and seminar chairper, Dr.Prof Nguyen An Luong, VOSHA president and many experts and scientists of the OSH field.
The topic of seminar is focusing on main content of the project at VGCL level: “Theoretical and practical basis for safety culture and suggesting model of safety culture for enterprises in Vietnam”. The project is implemented by NILP. On behalf of implementers, Dr.Prof Nguyen An Luong, VOSHA president had presentation which explains the main concept of theory and practice of safety culture. The presentation shows the view point, principle and principal content on which the project used for setting up safety culture in Vietnam. The first in Vietnam, the authors give the definition of safety culture that employers, managers and employees should have awareness, attitude, perception and behaviour on OSH; understanding and complying with policy, regulation and law on OSH; also keeping and respecting good traditional value of the nation; self-conscious co-operation in OSH implementation through planning and implementing the program or OSH action plan.
In part two, the authors presented the criterion and content of the model and indicators used to assess the result of application of the model. There are 12 criterions and 23 indicators with mark scale from 10-20 for low level and 40-50 for high level.
The participants very actively discussed and agreed that the definition on safety culture should be shortened while keeping the main meanings. Criterion and indicators are good to help qualifying the level of safety culture of enterprises. However, consideration should be made to add more criterion to reflect whole picture of situation such as: criterion on occupational diseases and workers’ health, OSH and environmental protection. Also, mark scale should be adjusted to tailor the weightiness of the criterion.
In conclusion, Dr Do Tran Hai, seminar chairman said that the authors have achieved the target of two very important points that suggesting the definition of safety culture in Vietnam, the concept on safety culture, the model of safety culture and its criterions and indicators for assessment. He suggested the participants continuing to commend so that the definition on safety culture is to be shorter and more compact; adjusting mark scale to reflect weightiness of the different criterion; then making application to the enterprises to verify suggested model of safety culture in Vietnam.
Dr.Do Tran Hai, NILP Director and Seminar Chairperson
Dr.Prof. Nguyen An Luong, VOSHA President and Presentater at the Seminar
