section C national
filipino globe
news & views from home
June 2008
9
COA blasts
Government
expands
failure to shut
safety code
to all firms
substandard
The Department of Labor and
Employment has expanded
coverage of occupational safety
standards to all establishments
engaged in land, sea and air
nurse schools
transport.
Labor Secretary Marianito Roque
said all work sites must observe the
new safety code for workers.
Previously, the code did not
extend to garages, dry docks, port
Damning report says CHED lacks powers
hangars, and maintenance and
repair shops.
to ensure compliance with regulations
Roque said employers are
responsible for ensuring workers
against occupational hazards,
Underperforming nursing schools to have at least 50 per cent of their
including injury, sickness and
continue to operate because of the graduates pass the licensure examina-
death.
failure of education authorities to reg- tion, COA said.
This is part of efforts to maintain
ulate them, the Commision on Audit Of these, 108 schools had a passing a productive worforce.
said. percentage of less than 50 per cent but Among places considered
In a damning report on the Com- greater than 25 per cent; 25 schools hazardous are chemical factories,
mission of Higher Education, COA had a zero to less than 25 passing rate
Less than half of the country’s 263 nursing schools managed to have at
mines, constructions sites, ports,
blamed the agency’s lack of enforce- while 19 higher education institutions
least 50 per cent of their graduates pass the board exam.
explosives depots and research
ment powers for its failure to phase had zero passing percentage.
But none of these poorly perform- to poor passing performance in ac-
laboratories.
out schools with substandard results Schools without passers include
Any worker, employer or
ing schools have been ordered to dis- countancy, chemistry, customs ad-
in the nursing board examinations. newly opened nursing programs and
concerned person may request the
continue their programs. ministration, civil, chemical, electri-
Less than half of the country’s 263 with less than five years of curriculum
DOLE to inspect any establishment
Higher education authorities only cal and agricultural engineering, the
nursing schools nationwide managed offering.
suspected of violating the safety
managed to phase out programs due COA report said.
code.
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