THE PRIME MINISTER ------------------ No. 659/QD-TTg | THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ------------------ Hanoi, May 20, 2020 |
DECISION
On approving the Program on care and improvement of employees’ health and occupational disease prevention in the 2020 - 2030 period
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THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government dated June 19, 2015;
Pursuant to the Labor Code dated November 20, 2019;
Pursuant to the Law on Occupational Safety and Health dated June 25, 2015;
Pursuant to the Directive No. 29-CT/TW dated September 18, 2013 of the Central Executive Committee on promoting occupational safety and hygiene in the period of industrialization, modernization and international integration;
Pursuant to the Government’s Resolution No. 139/NQ-CP dated December 31, 2017 on the implementation of the Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW dated October 25, 2017 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam on the enhancement of people's health protection, care and improvement in new circumstances;
At the proposal of the Minister of Health,
DECIDES:
Article 1. To approve the Program on “care and improvement of employees’ health and occupational disease prevention in the 2020 - 2030 period” (hereinafter referred to as the Program) with the following contents:
I. VIEWPOINTS
1. Protecting, providing health care and health improvement for workers is an investment in national development. It also is the duty and responsibility of every employee, employer, the political system and the whole society, requiring the active participation of the committees, authorities, Fatherland Front, unions and sectors, of which the health sector plays a role as the core factor.
2. The State shall play a role of managing, formulating and perfecting policies; create a favorable environment; mobilize and use effectively financial resources, encourage public-private cooperation and private investment.
3. Employers shall be responsible for fully comply with regulations on occupational safety and hygiene in accordance with law provisions.
4. Towards the implementation of protection, care and improvement of employees' health regularly, continuously and comprehensively, especially female employees, elderly employees and employees without labor contracts in the fields of agriculture, forestry, fishery, trade villages, etc.; integrating with primary health management and care activities at the grassroots level.
5. To comprehensively invest in prevention and treatment according to the motto of active prevention and control of workplace illnesses by controlling and eliminating harmful factors in the working environment, changing perceptions and behaviors of employees and employers in protecting and improving health, developing and maintaining daily habits, healthy nutrition and clean hygiene; early detection, timely treatment of occupational diseases and other diseases related to occupational disease.
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