Legal basis and referenced administrative order
- The resolution is anchored on Joint Administrative Order (JAO) No. 01, series of 2011, dated April 29, 2011 involving DOLE, DPWH, DTI, DILG, and the PRC, with PCAB tasked to enhance contractors’ safety culture.
- The resolution operates in line with the requirement that construction firms’ key personnel complete the forty (40)-hour Construction Safety and Health (CoSH) course as a licensing prerequisite.
- The resolution identifies the need to add field oversight through a DOLE-accredited safety practitioner during simultaneous project execution.
Policy purpose and safety culture objective
- The resolution is intended to enhance the culture of safety in construction through continuous project-execution oversight by a qualified professional.
- The resolution establishes a phased approach, beginning with the highest contractor category, to require DOLE-accredited safety practitioner employment.
Coverage: contractors and phased timing
- The resolution requires all category “AAA” contractors to have a DOLE-accredited safety practitioner under their employ.
- The requirement applies starting contracting fiscal year 2015-2016.
- The resolution’s mandatory application begins with the current highest category, implemented through category “AAA.”
Staffing requirement and pre-requisites
- Category “AAA” contractors must employ under their payroll a DOLE-accredited safety practitioner.
- Employment of a DOLE-accredited safety practitioner is required as a pre-requisite to filing specific PCAB-related contractor applications.
- The pre-requisite applies to the new contractor’s license application when the applied category is “AAA.”
- The pre-requisite applies to the renewal of a category “AAA” license.
Licensing consequences: what filings require
- The pre-requisite also applies to upgrading from a lower category to “AAA.”
- The pre-requisite applies to an application for any additional classification of a category “AAA” contractor.
- Compliance is required because the resolution conditions the filing of these applications on employment of a DOLE-accredited safety practitioner.
Final ordering clause
- The resolution is ordered as binding instruction: “So ORDERED.”
- The resolution takes effect through its operational requirement for contracting fiscal year 2015-2016 and its filing pre-requisites for covered licensing actions.