Tag: OSH

Over 900 workplace inspections conducted in 2023

Over 900 workplace inspections conducted in 2023

- January 5, 2024

Over 900 workplace inspections were conducted by the Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Department in 2023. This ... Read More

Over 30 Region Nine business representatives benefit from labour ministry’s seminar

Over 30 Region Nine business representatives benefit from labour ministry’s seminar

- November 28, 2023

In excess of 30 business representatives from Region Nine actively participated in the Ministry of Labour’s seminar on working conditions, ... Read More

Strategies to fortify areas in region’s labour sector being developed

Strategies to fortify areas in region’s labour sector being developed

- May 25, 2023

ILO labour ministers’ meeting wraps up Following the culmination of the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) 12th Meeting of Caribbean Ministers ... Read More

MACORP benefits from labour ministry’s safety, health training

MACORP benefits from labour ministry’s safety, health training

- May 18, 2023

Several officers from the Machinery Corporation of Guyana (MACORP) are now better informed on the requirements to maintain a safe ... Read More

Training launched to improve recording of OSH incidents

Training launched to improve recording of OSH incidents

- March 30, 2022

The Ministry of Labour has partnered with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to train a number of occupational safety and ... Read More

Bartica logging company commended for addressing OSH infractions

Bartica logging company commended for addressing OSH infractions

- July 7, 2021

Three months after being flagged for Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and Labour infractions, the Vaitarna Holdings Private Incorporated in ... Read More

Labour Ministry launching comprehensive workplace safety and health programme -Minister Hamilton

Labour Ministry launching comprehensive workplace safety and health programme -Minister Hamilton

- April 1, 2021

Minister of Labour, Hon. Joseph Hamilton says his Ministry would soon embark on a comprehensive programme focusing on safety and ... Read More

Gov’t keen on maintaining workplace health, safety

Gov’t keen on maintaining workplace health, safety

- January 19, 2021

- revising OSH Act The Ministry of Labour will be pursuing a legislative agenda this year to continue the revision ... Read More

Labour Ministry crafting OSH regulations for petroleum sector

Labour Ministry crafting OSH regulations for petroleum sector

- November 30, 2020

The Ministry of Labour is crafting regulations governing workers’ health and safety in the petroleum sector, in keeping with local ... Read More