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24th Coordinating Board Meeting of the ASEAN-OSHNET
The 24th Coordinating Board Meeting (CBM-24) of the ASEAN-Occupational Safety and Health Network (ASEAN-OSHNET) was chaired by the Department of Labor and Employment of the Republic of the Philippines, the host of the hybrid meeting on September 13, 2023, in Quezon City, the Philippines. The conference was attended by representatives of ASEAN Member States (AMS), the ASEAN Secretariat, the ASEAN-OSHNET Secretariat, and external partners.
This conference aim to update on progress of implementations of projects and activities under the ASEAN – OSHNET Work Plan 2021-2025, and presented the national, regional, international OSH events in the region. There was open-sessions that allowed ASEAN-OSHNET's external partners shared information on their cooperation with ASEAN-OSHNET, such as International Association of Labour Inspection (IALI), International Labour Organization (ILO), and Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC).
In the ASEAN-OSHNET Secretariat rotation session, Mr. Niyom Songkaew, Director-General of the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare of the Ministry of Labour of Thailand, which had held the ASEAN-OSHNET Secretariat for three years (2020-2023), handed over the ASEAN-OSHNET Secretariat to Vietnam, the new ASEAN-OSHNET Secretariat. The last session was about Singapore that will be ASEAN-OSHNET chair and host country of the CBM-25, and the 11th AOC announced the date and venue of the events in 2024.