Recently, the fire at a blanket and gas factory in Thanh Oai district (Hanoi) that killed 3 people continues to be a warning about the problem of unsafe fire prevention and fighting in enterprises and textile units. Experts warn that 2022 is the time when textile enterprises accelerate production to recover from the heavy impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. This causes many workers to work overtime more, businesses have to boost production… If not careful, it can easily lead to the risk of overload, electric shock, fire and explosion.
Escape drill at Garment Corporation 10
Hanoi is one of the areas with many businesses, textile units and garment establishments of craft villages. Recently, most enterprises in the textile and garment industry have focused on ensuring occupational safety and health and preventing and fighting fire and explosion. Trade unions at all levels also propagated to raise awareness for workers in the industry about this work. Typically, every year, the trade union of Hanoi Textile and Garment Corporation cooperates with leaders of companies and factories to organize occupational safety and health training for officials and employees and provide adequate clothing. , personal protective equipment according to work requirements. Particularly for employees doing jobs with strict safety requirements such as boilers, air compressors, ventilation, air conditioners, etc., they are facilitated to participate in occupational safety and health training courses...
The Office of the Vietnam Textile and Garment Trade Union in Hanoi also organizes training and exercises on fire prevention, fighting and rescue plans in 2022 for all officers and employees. Training contents include: Knowledge of fire prevention, fire fighting and rescue operations; practice fire prevention, fire fighting and rescue plans. This contributes to raising awareness for employees; Build a safe working environment. However, in some units and enterprises, the work of ensuring fire prevention and fighting safety has not been focused or implemented ineffectively.
In order to better implement occupational safety, fire prevention and control in enterprises and textile and garment units, experts say that trade unions and owners of production facilities need to propagate to raise awareness and responsibility. responsibility for employees; focus on consolidating and consolidating the organization, promoting the operation of the student safety and sanitation network at the campus, paying attention to allowances for student safety and hygiene as well as propagating and training on occupational safety and health. motivate the grassroots trade union staff and student safety net...
In particular, improve knowledge of fire prevention, fire fighting and rescue operations for workers. Because in the context of many fires and explosions as in the past time, without knowledge and skills, workers will not handle the situation as well as escape skills.
Thanh Tam
