A TECHNICAL working group (TWG) has been created to investigate all local canning factories for them to come up with standard safety measures in work places.

Dr. Elmeir Apolinario, City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (CDRRMO) chief, said the TWG will be composed of representatives from his office, the City Engineer’s Office, the City Health Office, and the Bureau of Fire Protection.

Apolinario said the creation of TWG was contained in a resolution approved during the CDRRMC meeting last May 28 following the boiler explosion in a canning factory in the village of Talisayan on the same day.

He said that a thorough investigation will also be conducted into the incident.

Last Tuesday, May 28, a worker was killed while two others were wounded when the industrial steam machine or boiler inside a canning factory in Talisayan village heated up and exploded around 11:30 a.m.

Police said Zacarias Alberyo Rico, 49, assistant boiler operator of the Southwest Asia Canning Corporation, died on the spot.

His other companions, Francisco Caunsag Dumagal, 39, the boiler’s head operator; and Mark Anthony Romano Villaflores, 28, the canning factory’s safety officer, were injured in the explosion. (Bong Garcia/SunStar Philippines)