The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) is a government agency mandated by law to provide meaningful and appropriate compensation package for public and private sector employees and their dependents in the event of work-related contingencies through the Employees’ Compensation Program (ECP).   It also initiates policies and programs toward adequate occupational health and safety, and accident prevention in the working environment.

For the year 2001 an onwards, ECC focused its efforts to develop and implement programs that will minimize the incidence of work-related contingencies among workers, and to provide them and their dependents with ample benefits and other compensatory  benefits and curative services in case of work-related contingencies.  ECC realizes that a good program is ineffective if its target beneficiaries are not even aware of its existence.  In this case, an effective communication and information dissemination is necessary.

Thus, a survey was conducted to get baseline information on the level of public awareness on ECC/ECP and to determine the socio-demographic profile of the people who have been made aware of the program.  The results were used as basis for the development of an effective information campaign implemented by ECC.