ABSTRACT

An NGO representative affirmed that Indonesia needed an association for workplace accident victims because right-to-know is more comprehensive than just information on chemicals. More striking than the absence of water-based adhesives was the absence of proper labels and material safety datasheets although they are regarded as fundamental principles of chemical safety practice. In the Philippines, the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) provides training for the pollution control officers and workers. The EMB would look at the effects of chemicals to the environment. Shoe manufacturing is not only a hazardous undertaking itself but the life-cycle of a shoe goes back to extremely polluting and treacherous industries. The global shoe industry has not internalized the primary prevention design concept from cradle to grave. Right-to-know was viewed as embedded in Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) standards, management systems, union activities, and safety officers' functions. It was said that right-to-know should extend beyond controlling chemical exposures.