Mining and Quarrying

• Labor-intensive, based on improvised low level technologies and methods
• OSH and environmental issues linked
• Long hours, heavy loads, exposure to dust and chemicals (especially mercury), cave-ins

Domestic work

• Separated from their own families
• Work 15 hours a day, with or without wage
• Minimum wage is less than $15/month
• Vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse
• 90% are girls
• Some trafficked for labor/sexual exploitation

Pyrotechnics production

• High risk of injuries or loss of life due to highly flammable and combustible substances
• Complaints of dizziness, asthma, weight loss, sore eyes and backaches
• For 1,000 pieces of baby rockets, a child earns less than $1 a day
• Fixed salaried collect an average of 40 cents to $2 a day

Commercially and sexually exploited

• Young girls are prevalent but boys are increasing
• Many recruited from rural poor to work in urban areas, and abroad

Deep-sea fishing

• Work 12 to 15 hours a day, starting 3am
• Pa-aling fishing trips take children away from families 9 to 10 months. Families receives cash advance in return
• Cuts, wounds, skin diseases, sore eyes and exhaustion
• Decompression symptoms, and harsh weather conditions at sea, high level of noise from mechanical machines
• Drowning and other underwater hazards

Sugarcane plantation

• Child workers in sugar plantations mainly children of sugar workers and peasants, living on and around haciendas
• Children are involve in all aspects of cane growing, harvesting and hauling
• 64% of the children working on sugarcane plantation are studying, but drop out from the school during the year
• off-season peril: vulnerable to recruiters who lure them to metro manila and abroad