Working Environment Monitoring (WES)

Working environment and working environment monitoring

The working environment is the setting that includes the social features and physical conditions in which workers perform their jobs. These factors can affect the labor’s mental & physical state, health, cooperation, and work performance. Having a healthy and safe working environment shall help employees maintain their physical and psychotic health, prevent occupational diseases, and maximize the capacity and efficiency of each employee in particular, and the business in general.

Working environment monitoring is activities of measuring, checking, and monitoring the specific factors including microclimate, physical, dust, chemical, biological, psychophysiological, and ergonomics. The locations and times of the survey are determined in the program defined in the enterprise’s occupational hygiene record. Monitoring results will help businesses know the current status of their workplace, detect factors that fail or are likely to fail to get solutions, and take timely corrective and preventive actions.

The working environment can strongly affect the employees’ health, quality, and efficiency. Working environment monitoring is not only an obligatory task but also an activity that brings businesses much practical benefit.

• Implementing working environment monitoring helps businesses establish and maintain a healthy & safe workplace, reduce risks of affecting health and prevent occupational diseases for employees; thereby, helps employees are more satisfied, engaged, and devoted to the business, as well as increasing efficiency and productivity.
• Through monitoring of the working environment, elements of the environment are examined and evaluated scientifically and objectively; thereby the businesses can determine existing or potential harmful factors to provide solutions and take timely corrective and preventive actions.
• Besides, carrying out monitoring of the working environment can help businesses comply with the law. The results of the monitoring are necessary data sources to conduct statistics, evaluate environmental indicators at enterprises and report following regulations of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and relevant state management agencies such as the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, etc.

• Article 18 of the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene No. 84/2015/QH13 Regulations on the control of dangerous and harmful factors at the workplace.
• Decree 39/2016/ND-CP dated May 15, 2016, of the Government detailing the implementation of several articles of the Law on occupational safety and health.
• Decree 44/2016/ND-CP dated May 15, 2016, of the Government detailing several articles of the Law on Occupational Safety and Health regarding the technical inspection of occupational safety, training of occupational safety and health, occupational safety and hygiene, and monitoring of the working environment.
• Circular 19/2016/TT-BYT dated June 30, 2016, of the Ministry of Health guiding the management of occupational hygiene and workers’ health.

• Who is required to carry out Working environment monitoring: Working environment monitoring is a mandatory requirement for enterprises throughout the production and business process that employs employees working directly at the enterprise’s premises.
• Monitoring parameters: The parameters to be monitored are determined in the Occupational Hygiene Profile of the enterprise. Depending on the specificity of the industry, production, and business activities, the monitored parameters at each location are determined to perform tests to ensure that all specific hazardous factors are well controlled. It is necessary to ensure that at least 70% of the following factors are satisfied:
• • Microclimate factors: temperature, humidity, wind speed, and thermal radiation;
  • Physical factors: light, noise, vibration in the frequency band, radiation, electromagnetic field, ultraviolet radiation;
  • Occupational exposure factors, including microbiological factors, allergens, sensitization, solvents;
  • Psychophysiological factors of labor and Ergonomics: Assessment of physical labor burden; neuropsychological stress assessment; assessment of the ergonomics of labor positions;
  • Elements of particulate dust, the silica content in dust, metal dust, coal dust, talc dust, cotton dust, and asbestos dust;
  • Minimum chemical elements include NO_x, SO_x, CO, CO₂, organic solvents (benzene and homologs – toluene, xylene), mercury, arsenic, TNT, nicotine, pesticides.
• Frequency and time of monitoring: at least once a year.

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