Keeping track of safety standards

The MRT Corp-funded training centre produced its first batch of master trainers in January after immersing them in a two week intensive OSH programme.

IT is undeniable that the construction sector in Malaysia is fraught with a less than stellar safety record.

Based on Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) report in 2015, the fatality rate in the construction industry in Malaysia was more than three times compared to other kinds of workplaces, even though the manufacturing, agriculture, forestry, logging and fishery sectors lead the overall occupational accidents that result in non-permanent disability, permanent disability or death.