A former manager of Environmental Health and Safety at Samsung Vietnam has stepped forward as a whistleblower to reveal widespread use of toxic chemicals and environmental violations. South Korean investigative news media, Newstapa, has released five short video reports with English subtitles.1 Because Samsung is notoriously secretive, the Newstapa reports offer a rare glimpse into how the company’s mobile phone factories actually operate.
In 2017, the Hanoi-based Research Center for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (CGFED) and IPENreleased an unprecedented study on the experiences of women working at two Samsung factories in Vietnam, which documented health and workplace violations by the electronics industry giant. Workers reported experiences of frequent fainting, dizziness, miscarriages, standing for eight-to-twelve hours, and alternating day/night shift work. The Samsung whistleblower’s revelations are consistent with some of the health effects reported by workers. Samsung attacked the CGFED – IPEN report and denied its findings, but the company’s internal documents reveal a pattern of unsound chemicals management documented by a 40-year veteran of the company who became a whistleblower.
https://ipen.org/documents/samsung-whistleblower-reveals-toxic-chemical-use-and-violations-samsung-vietnam
A former manager of Environmental Health and Safety at Samsung Vietnam has stepped forward as a whistleblower to reveal widespread use of toxic chemicals and environmental violations. South Korean investigative news media, Newstapa, has released five short video reports with English subtitles.1 Because Samsung is notoriously secretive, the Newstapa reports offer a rare glimpse into how the company’s mobile phone factories actually operate.
In 2017, the Hanoi-based Research Center for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (CGFED) and IPENreleased an unprecedented study on the experiences of women working at two Samsung factories in Vietnam, which documented health and workplace violations by the electronics industry giant. Workers reported experiences of frequent fainting, dizziness, miscarriages, standing for eight-to-twelve hours, and alternating day/night shift work. The Samsung whistleblower’s revelations are consistent with some of the health effects reported by workers. Samsung attacked the CGFED – IPEN report and denied its findings, but the company’s internal documents reveal a pattern of unsound chemicals management documented by a 40-year veteran of the company who became a whistleblower.
https://ipen.org/documents/samsung-whistleblower-reveals-toxic-chemical-use-and-violations-samsung-vietnam