Healthway’s Corporate Clinic Services (CCS) announced recently that it has partnered with two leading Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Consultants to better understand Healthway’s role in developing wellness programs for its clients and design health and wellness packages unique to industries with a view to enhance workforce productivity.

OSH is a cross-disciplinary specialty that seeks to protect the safety, health, and welfare of the workforce. Its objective is to protect every worker against the dangers of injury, sickness, or death through safe and healthful working conditions. This conserves valuable manpower resources and prevents loss or damage to lives and properties, consistent with Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) development goals and Bureau of Working Conditions’ (BWC) commitment to the total development of every worker as a complete human being.

Occupational Health / Medicine Consultant Dr. Marilou D. Renales, MSc, FPCOM is a diplomate and fellow of the Philippine College of Occupational Medicine (PCOM) and an accredited DOLE – BWC OSH Consultant. Dr. Anthony R. Busque is an occupational medicine practitioner experienced in policymaking and program development in OSH and quality improvement, as well as in the clinical management of work-related illnesses.

Ms. Emily M. Terso, Healthway CCS/MEDI-access Business and Operations Manager, says it is imperative to establish good occupational safety and health standards. “Moral, economic, and legal reasons all come into play,” says Terso. “An employee should not have to risk injury or death at work, nor should others associated with the work environment. Also, government realizes that poor occupational safety and health performance results in expense to the State, for example, through social security payments to the incapacitated, costs for medical treatment, and the loss of the worker’s ‘employability’.”

Terso adds that legally, occupational safety and health requirements may be reinforced in civil or criminal law. “It is accepted that without the extra ‘encouragement’ of potential regulatory action or litigation, many organizations would not act upon their implied moral obligations.”

For more information, call 7514957 or 7502027. You may also check out websites, www.healthway.com.ph, www.healthwayatwork.com and www.medi-access.com.