AILEEN A. BENITEZ-TIMBANG, MD, DFM Part-time Lecturer and Former Asst. Professor Department of Environmental and Occupational Health College of Public Health UP Manila SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY OF INFORMAL MINERS IN THE PHILIPPINES
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AILEEN A. BENITEZ-TIMBANG, MD, DFM
Part-time Lecturer and Former Asst. Professor Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
College of Public Health UP Manila
SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
OF THE OCCUPATIONAL
HEALTH AND SAFETY OF
INFORMAL MINERS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
“INFORMAL SECTOR”
Household unincorporated enterprises which consists
of both informal own-account enterprises and
enterprises of informal employers either alone or in
partnership with members of the same or other
households which may employ unpaid family
workers as well as occasionally or seasonally hired
workers but do not employ these on a continuous
basis
-PHILIPPINE STATISTICS AUTHORITY
SITUATIONAL
ANALYSIS OF THE
OCCUPATIONAL
HEALTH AND SAFETY
OF INFORMAL
MINERS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
EXAMPLE: small-scale miners in unregistered or illegal sites
“Informal Mining”
Reliance on physical labor for all types of operations (minimal technology use)
Lack of legal mining licenses, titles, leases and claims to mineral areas for exploratory and extractive activities
Low levels of productivity per mining operation resulting from a relatively small geographical area
Absence of economic, health and environmental security for miners and local communities
Transient character
SITUATIONAL
ANALYSIS OF THE
OCCUPATIONAL
HEALTH AND SAFETY
OF INFORMAL
MINERS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
Camba, AA. Informal Mining. Global Informality Project. [Online]. 2017 Available from: URL: http://in-
Rey, EM, Saturay, RM Jr. Small Scale Mining in the Philippines: Towards Genuine National Development. [Online]. 2005 [cited 2015 February 17]; Available fromhttps://www.slideshare.net/AGHAM/small-scale-mining-in-the-philippines-towards-genuine-national-development
500,000 small-scale miners operating in 30 provinces as
of 2015
MGB data: 2005-2014 Gold Production in the
Philippines
30,733kg annually
SITUATIONAL
ANALYSIS OF THE
OCCUPATIONAL
HEALTH AND SAFETY
OF INFORMAL
MINERS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION
OF INFORMAL MINING
small-
scale
63%
19,908kg
large-
scale
37%
10,825kg Jurado, FJ. Philippine Small-Scale
Mining, Tax Issues and Concerns. 2015; vol XXVII.6:14-26 NTRC Tax Research
Journal
28 tons of gold in the past decade by
small-scale miners
SITUATIONAL
ANALYSIS OF THE
OCCUPATIONAL
HEALTH AND SAFETY
OF INFORMAL
MINERS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION
OF INFORMAL MINING
Gamboa, R. A Reader’s View of Small-Scale Mining. The Philippine Star BIZLINKS. [Online]. 2017.Available from https://www.philstar.com/business/2017/03/21/168