Industrial Health
Online ISSN : 1880-8026
Print ISSN : 0019-8366
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Achievement of the POSITIVE (Participation-Oriented Safety Improvement by Trade Union InitiatiVE) Activities in the Philippines
Norihide TACHIToru ITANIHidemaro TAKEYAMAToru YOSHIKAWAKoji SUZUKIAriel B. CASTRO
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Volume 44 (2006) Issue 1 Pages 87-92

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Abstract

The POSITIVE (Participation-oriented safety improvement by trade union initiative) programme was introduced into the Philippines in 1995. The monitoring of activities was carried out in 2004 among core trainers who had been trained before. The results of the questionnaire survey showed that the core trainers evaluated their activities satisfactory in general, and particularly the training activities were considered excellent. Also, the union workers who had been trained by the POSITIVE programme implemented improvements at the rate of around 5 examples a year on average. It was of note that the installation ratio (the number of installations/that of plans) was higher in small- and medium-sized enterprises than in larger companies, although the numbers of plans and installations of improvements were greater in large enterprises. Together with the previous findings, the present results suggest that the POSITIVE-style participatory training program is effective and efficient for workers to take actions for the OSH in not only larger enterprises but also small enterprises.

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© 2006 National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
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