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Senate body to inspect Hanjin Subic site Thursday


MANILA, Philippines - The Senate will conduct an onsite inspection of the sprawling workplace of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction in Subic, Zambales on Thursday. Senate Pro Tempore Jose Estrada, chairman of the Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resource Development, said he would like to see the safety devices provided by the Korean firm to its workers. "Yung safety devices ng Hanjin para sa ating workers, 'yun naman talaga ang foremost concern ko [I want to see the safety devices in Hanjin for our workers. That is my main concern)," Estrada said. A total of 19 deaths at the Hanjin shipbuilding facility have been reported, the latest of which happened last January 25. A labor-support group in Subic, however, had placed a bigger death toll at 24. The figure included stay-in workers who reportedly died from malaria. During Tuesday's hearing on the rising number of reported deaths at the Hanjin Shipyard in Subic Bay Freeport, lawyer Ramon Ogregado of the Subic Bay Support Service Group said the unsafe acts of the workers caused their deaths and injuries. Ogregado noted that there was a dramatic increase in the number of deaths in 2008 due to the simultaneous shipbuilding and construction activities. - GMANews.TV
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