The Ministry of Public Security held a ceremony to launch the 2026 Action Month for Occupational Safety and the 2026 Workers’ Month across the Public Security Forces on April 29 in Hanoi.
Member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieutenant General Dang Hong Duc and Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour Huynh Thanh Xuan attended the ceremony.
In her opening remarks, Director of the Department of Health under the Ministry of Public Security Major General Pham Thi Lan Anh emphasized that the Ministry effectively implemented the Action Month for Occupational Safety and Workers’ Month in 2025, through numerous practical activities with significant socio-political impact, achieving positive results.
She noted that 2026 marks the ninth consecutive year the Ministry has organized the initiative. This year’s edition is themed “Innovating management and enhancing the effectiveness of occupational safety in the digital era,” while Workers’ Month carries the theme “Vietnamese workers: Innovation to enhance productivity.”
At the ceremony, representatives of public security units and agencies signed emulation covenants, committing to applying sufficient efficient occupational safety measures and carrying meaningful activities for workers during the 2026 Workers’ Month.
On this occasion, Deputy Minister Dang Hong Duc presented gifts to public security officers, enlistees and workers who had had occupational accidents, contracted occupational diseases or were facing difficult circumstances.
Addressing the ceremony, Deputy Minister Dang Hong Duc called on Party committees, leaders and all workers to fully recognize the importance of occupational safety, proactively identify risks from the planning phase and continuously strengthen preventive measures.
He also urged public security units and agencies to improve workforce qualifications, develop standards and regulations for operational safety and pay greater attention to workers’ welfare.
Public security officers, enlistees and workers were encouraged to actively participate in training programs, enhance their professional capacity, update their knowledge, particularly digital skills, and adapt to new technologies, so as to meet the requirements for the mission of modernizing the Public Security Forces in the new era.
The Deputy Minister wished that the Public Security Trade Union would continue to grow stronger, playing a bigger role in ensuring occupational safety and improving the material and spiritual well-being of public security officers, enlistees and workers.
