On 19 May 2021, the training on Workplace Management Monitoring System was conducted to the members of the Cagayan Valley Regional Task Force (CV-RTF) – Task Group on Workplace Management to equip them on the know-hows of 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 has been created by the CV-Regional Inter-Agency Task Force (CV-RIATF) 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 virus 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 B. Diciano emphasized the importance of balancing community restrictions and the reopening of the economy: “We, in DTI, remain 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?”

The members of the task group are the Office of the Civil Defence (OCD), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), DTI, DOLE, DOH, uniformed personnel, and the Local Government Units (LGUs).♦

Date of Release: 24 May 2021