Raising awareness and skills for workers

Training, education, and equipping knowledge and skills were identified as the highlights in OSH assurance work in 2025. Based on the regulations of the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene and the direction of the Central Government, the Department of Home Affairs organized training classes to improve capacity for the force directly participating in managing and organizing the implementation of OSH work at the commune and ward levels and enterprise representatives.

Along with that, enterprises in the province proactively coordinated to organize over 10 training classes, updating OSH knowledge for over 5,600 workers, employers, officers in charge of safety work, and the network of safety and hygiene officers. The content focused on risk identification skills, measures to prevent occupational accidents and occupational diseases, and instructions on the safe use of machinery and equipment.

Through training classes, the awareness and responsibility of employers, especially at small and medium enterprises, have been step-by-step raised. Many enterprises proactively assigned personnel in charge of OSH work, invested in labor protection equipment, and organized periodic training for workers. Training and education activities gradually went into orderliness, in accordance with legal regulations, contributing to preventing occupational accidents and occupational diseases right from the grassroots level.

Widespread dissemination, focused inspection

In 2025, sectors and many enterprises and production facilities in the province deployed diverse forms of dissemination on OSH, suitable to the characteristics of mountainous, deep-lying, and remote areas. Dissemination content was disseminated through training conferences, thematic activities, mass media, electronic information portals, and integrated into professional meetings at the grassroots level.

In particular, the thorough grasp and implementation of Directive No.31-CT/TW of the Secretariat on strengthening the Party’s leadership over OSH work in the new situation and Resolution No.209/NQ-CP of the Government contributed to raising the awareness and responsibility of the contingent of managers, employers, and workers regarding the position and role of OSH work in socio-economic development.

Besides, OSH inspection and supervision work was deployed with a focus and key points, concentrating on enterprises and production facilities with a high risk of occupational accidents and occupational diseases. The inspection focus was on enterprises and facilities using machinery and equipment with strict OSH requirements; production and business facilities with dangerous, toxic, or flammable elements; enterprises in the manufacturing and construction sectors with accident risks; and facilities using many seasonal and unskilled laborers.

Through inspections, functional agencies timely detected, rectified, and handled shortcomings and violations; while guiding and supporting enterprises to overcome limitations and perfect the OSH management system. Requiring enterprises to strictly implement the regime of reporting occupational accidents and inspecting machinery and equipment with strict OSH requirements helped state management agencies timely grasp the situation and proactively propose suitable preventive measures.

Proactive in management work

Right from the beginning of the year, the Department of Home Affairs proactively advised the provincial People’s Committee to issue full plans and documents directing the implementation of the OSH Law and guiding decrees and circulars of the Central Government. The directing documents were built close to the local practical conditions, clearly assigning responsibilities to each department, sector, and locality, ensuring synchronous implementation from the province to the grassroots level.

OSH work is integrated into the regular work programs of levels and sectors, linked with the tasks of socio-economic development, job creation, vocational training, and sustainable poverty reduction. This is an important step in management thinking, when labor safety is no longer an isolated task but has become a cross-cutting content in the development process.

Besides the achieved results, OSH work in the province still faces many difficulties and challenges. Điện Biên is a mountainous province with a large area and scattered population; enterprises are mainly small-scale with limited resources; agricultural labor and freelance labor account for a large proportion, and awareness of OSH is uneven. The staff doing OSH work at the grassroots level are mostly part-time and have not been trained in depth...

These difficulties require the even more drastic involvement of levels and sectors, the companionship of enterprises and workers, along with support from the Central Government regarding mechanisms, policies, and resources. This is to ensure that OSH work in Điện Biên step-by-step shifts from incident handling to proactive prevention, creating a solid foundation for effective and sustainable socio-economic development.