TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan (May 19)—A training on Workplace Management Monitoring System (WMMS) was conducted for the members of the Cagayan Valley Regional Task Force (CV-RTF) Task Group to equip them on monitoring and enforcement of minimum health protocols in private workplaces.
Given the complexities in the field, the vast number of business establishments in the region and limited human resource, the Task Group was created by the CV- Regional Inter-Agency Task Force through a resolution to augment the efforts and expand the coverage of the monitoring and enforcement activities being conducted by Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), and Department of Health (DOH).
The task group will also ensure that transmission of the coronavirus in private workplaces will be prevented or mitigated alongside the gradual reopening of the economy.
In his message, DTI-Region 2 assistant regional director Ruben Diciano emphasized the importance of balancing community restrictions and the reopening of the economy.
“The DTI remains resolute in our two-fold mandate of enabling businesses and empowering consumers. This explains our agency’s long-standing call for a balance between quarantine restrictions and the re-opening of the economy. Only with equilibrium can we be able to allow businesses to thrive and consumers to survive. Amid the pressing dilemma between choosing health and economy, why should we choose one if we can balance both,” Dicinao said.
The members of the task group are the Office of the Civil Defense, Department of Interior and Local Government, DTI, DOLE, DOH, uniformed personnel and the Local Government Units. (PR)