Labour Minister Mr. Suchart Chomklin commenced activities to use lessons from operations to improve workers’ quality of life in the workplace. The event had a special lecture on “the government’s role and cooperation in improving the quality of life by reducing health risk factors, with workplace safety, reducing gaps and disparities in access to health services and social inequality.”
On March 20, 2021, at the Novotel Marina Sriracha and Koh Si Chang, Sriracha District, Chonburi Province, Labour Minister Mr. Suchart Chomklin gave an opening speech at the commencement of activities to use lessons from operations to improve the quality of life of workers in the workplace. The event had a special lecture on “the government’s role and cooperation in improving the quality of life by reducing health risk factors, with workplace safety, reducing gaps and disparities in access to health services and social inequality.” Permanent Secretary of Labour Mr. Suthi Sukosol and the Ministry of Labour’s executives also joined the occasion. Chairman of the Labour Development Organization of Thailand and Chairman of the Social Security Network Mr. Manas Kosol, said that the Labour Minister said the government under the leadership of Prime Minister and Minister of Defense General Prayuth Chan-ocha and the Ministry of Labour under the supervision of Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan, emphasize the quality of life of the workforce their families. Having a good quality of life, good physical and mental health means that workers do not suffer from various diseases and can spend their daily life and work happily, leading to a happy family. Furthermore, the society and country will be equipped with readily available workers and have the potential to work, an important force to promote productivity and add economic value to the country. The Ministry of Labour has announced the “Safety and Healthy Thailand” policy as one of the Ministry of Labour’s important policies, aiming to create a drive on the workforces’ safety and health. The goal is for the workforce to have a good quality of life. The Ministry of Labour has assigned the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare and the Social Security Office to operate such efforts in all dimensions, including promoting, supporting, protecting, and supervising, to continuously improve the workforce’s quality of life.
Mr. Suchart continued that the Ministry of Labour has issued Ministerial Regulations to establish health examination standards for employees working with risk factors B.E. 2563 so that employees working with such risk factors have good health, do not get sick, or have an occupational disease. It has set benefits for employees in the social security system to get health checks and disease screening and health promotion by promoting health and disease prevention for workers and insured persons to have good health. The Ministry of Labour has a policy following the principle of “prevention is better than correction,” including improvements and developments of medical services to provide insured persons with a good standard of service so that workers have good collateral that is suitable for life. The efforts provide health promotion and disease prevention, such as the influenza vaccination program to insured persons under Section 33 and Section 39, aged 50 years or more, including a policy to arrange a special zone for workers in hospitals under the Social Security Office network. The initiative allows insured persons to receive services in that sanatorium, promoting a positive experience and service quality comparable to that of private hospitals, developing the workforce’s quality of life. In such efforts, it is necessary to obtain cooperation from all sectors, including the government, employers, employees, and related network partners. It is very admirable that today, there was an open forum for the exchange of ideas and integration to drive activities with all sectors involved to improve the workforce’s quality of life.
The forum was hosted by the project to improve the quality of life of the workforce and the development of establishments, the Council of the Labour Development Organization of Thailand and the Social Security Network of workers, under the support of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation during March 20 to 21, 2021. Several issues are considered, including reducing health risk factors, safety at work, reducing the gap and inequality in access to health services, and social inequality, leading to the policy on “improving the quality of life of workers suitable for workers in the workplace.”
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Division of Public Relations
20 March 2021
