Updated DOLE Computerized Labor Law Compliance System.
SEC. 29. Updated DOLE Computerized Labor Law Compliance System. - The Secretary of Labor and Employment shall maintain an updated labor inspection system of computerized gathering and generation of real time data on compliance monitoring of enforcement, and a system of notification on workplace accidents and injuries.
Applicability of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs).
SEC. 30. Applicability of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs). - Specific to MSEs, the DOLE shall develop OSH core compliance standards to ensure safe and healthy workplaces. All MSEs shall be required to implement the prescribed standards for house keeping, materials handling and storage, electrical and mechanical safety, chemical safety, emergency preparedness, fire safety and PPE, and to monitor hazards regularity.
Inter-Governmental Coordination and Cooperation.
SEC. 31. Inter-Governmental Coordination and Cooperation. - The DOLE shall institute a mechanism for coordination with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, Department of Agriculture, Department of Public Works and Highways, Department of Trade and Industry, Department of the Interior and Local Government, Department of Health, Department of Information and Communications Technology, PEZA and all other government agencies, including local government units, within sixty (60) days from the issuance of the implementing rules and regulations of this Act. They shall regularly convene to monitor the effective implementation of this Act as well as related programs and projects that are established to prevent and eliminate the incidence of injury, sickness or death in all workplaces.
Implementing Rules and Regulations.
SEC. 32. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The Secretary of Labor and Employment, in coordination with agencies concerned, shall formulate the rules and regulations within the ninety (90) days after the effectivity of this Act.
Separability Clause.
SEC. 33. Separability Clause. - If any part, section or provision of this Act shall be held invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected by such declaration shall remain in full force and effect.
Repealing Clause.
SEC. 34. Repealing Clause. - All laws, acts, decrees, executive orders, rules and regulations or other issuances or parts thereof which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby modified or repealed.
Efffectivity.
SEC. 35. Efffectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
Approved,
(SGD.) VICENTE C. SOTTO III
President of the Senate
(SGD.) PANTALEON D. ALVAREZ
Speaker of the House
of Representatives
This Act which is consolidation of House Bill No. 64 and Senate Bill No. 1317 was passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on May 22, 2018.
(SGD.) MYRA MARIE D. VILLARICA
Secretary of the Senate
(SGD.) CESAR STRAIT PAREJA
Secretary General
House of Representatives
Approved: AUG 17 2018
(SGD.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
President of the Senate
Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).