Occupational Safety and Health

Occupational Safety and Health is a must to be carried out by the work organizer with one of the objectives of protecting workers so as to increase productivity in the company.

If the health of workers is well maintained, the number of illnesses, absences, disabilities and work accidents can be minimized, so that healthy and productive workers will be realized.

Data from the Central Statistics Agency in 2020 stated the number of working ages in Indonesia there were 193.55 million people where 133.94 million people entered the workforce and the remaining 59.61 million people were not the workforce.

And the number of 133.94 million labor force, 127.07 million people work in the formal and informal sectors and 6.87 million people are unemployed. The large number of the workforce is a valuable asset for the progress of the nation when accompanied by excellent quality and productivity of workers.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Manpower of the Republic of Indonesia noted an upward trend in the number of work accidents in Indonesia that has continued to increase in recent years, during 2020 there have been 157,313 cases of work accidents, or an increase compared to cases of work accidents that occurred in 2020  amounted to 123 thousand cases.

The work accident data above is strengthened by data from the Manpower Social Security Organizing Agency (BPJS), where during 2018, the Employment BPJS has paid work accident claims with a value of up to Rp 1.09 trillion. This figure is an increase compared to 2020 whose claim value was only Rp 971 billion and in 2020 which only amounted to Rp 792 billion.

"We should evaluate the increase in trends, how the implementation of the K3 program that runs in the workplace can be carried out properly and correctly not only in the pages of procedures, work instructions to meet the certification audit process," said Chairman of the Federation of Chemical, Energy Trade Unions, Sunandar Mining, Oil, Natural Gas and General in a short message.

He said when a work accident occurs, the investigation process must proceed properly and not necessarily blame workers who have suffered work accidents. "The root of the real problems related to workplace accidents must be explored and followed up properly so that similar incidents do not recur," he said

Sunndar continued, if the Investigation process in looking for the root causes of an occupational accident was not carried out properly and correctly by management or the employer, then the company must ask about the company's commitment in applying K3, he continued

Some top management tends to find it difficult to understand the importance of investment in safety, the focus tends to be on productivity, if there is no serious accident for a certain period of time. everything seems to work. Then, why should you invest to prevent it?

"A selfish mindset. In fact, if there is a work accident, the loss is not only the worker who has a work accident, but also the company. Does the place where we work, the workers have got a K3 guarantee properly or improvised.