National Survey on Working Children

Recommended List of Hazardous Activities/Occupations to Young Workers  1. All activities in the following industries are recommended to be totally banned for young workers:  Mining Quarrying Pyrotechnics Logging Construction  2. Work that may prejudice the morals of young workers such as but not limited to the following:  Work in lewd shows (stripteasers, burlesque dancers, and the like) cabarets bars sexshops / sexwork dancehalls discotheques carnivals bath houses and massage clinics escort service gambling halls and places brewery and distillery of alcoholic beverages  3. Work involving exposures to various substances or composites (including dusts and fibers) which are toxic, corrosive, poisonous, noxious, explosive and flammable liquids and other dangerous chemicals including pharmaceuticals. The list of activities/occupations include but is not limited to the following:  tanning pesticide spraying blacksmithing, hammersmiths, forging extracting lard and oil tiling and greasing of heavy machinery fiber and plastic preparing bleaching, dying, and finishing of textiles using chemicals embalming and as undertakers painting or as finishers in metal craft industries applying of adhesive/solvent in footwear industries  4. Work on roofs or exposed heights such as but not limited to:  installing and repairing of telephone,telegraph and electrical lines; cable fitters painting the exterior of tall buildings window cleaning fruit picking (climbing and plucking the fruit) e.g. coconut  5. Work involving operation of transport vehicles or other power or explosion driven machineries /gadgets such as but not limited to the following: operating agricultural machineries in mechanized farming tool making, machinists, welding driving or operating bulldozers, cranes, pile driving equipments, trailers, road rollers, tractor lifting appliances, scaffold winches, hoists, excavators, loading machines driving or operating trucks, buses, jeepneys, taxis, tricycles, and ferry boats sawing and woodworking machine setting and operating; operating power-driven tools such as drills, jack hammers, etc. using guns in hunting and recreation activities  6. Work involving exposure to ionizing radiation such as but not limited to:  x-ray technicians assisting in labouratories welding  7. Work involving particular physical strain and transport of heavy loads such as but not limited to:  stevedoring working in docks domestic helpers  8. Work involving exposures to extreme levels of noise, vibration, heat, cold, high or low pressures such as but not limited to:  deep sea fishing/diving working underground working in furnaces or kilns firefighting (as firemen) working in discotheques  9. Work involving exposures to harmful biological agents (bacteria, virus,parasites, etc.) such as but not limited to:  working in abattoirs or slaughterhouses garbage collecting handling of animal manure in poultry houses or as fertilizer (compost and other decaying matter included) in farming working in docks working in hospitals or other health care facilities  10 . All activities or occupations which are conducted at night to early morning or undertakings which requires the young worker to be called on anytime (day or night) to perform services or requires one to be away or isolated from family and loved ones for long periods of time such as but not limited to the following:  working in restaurants at night working in households as domestic helpers vending in the streets security guards working on ships as crew members or seamen  11. Activities, occupations or situations that have been found to be highly stressful psychologically, and where the young worker is prone to physical, sexual, or verbal abuse such as but not limited to the following:  domestic helpers bonded labour - in factories, slaughterhouses, plantations, etc.  12. All other activities or occupations found to be hazardous by the Hazard Rating Matrix are banned for young workers. Back to the Recomendations or to the Index