Give focus to rise in occupational diseases


Lee signing a poster to launch the seminar on Health Hazard Control at Niosh headquarters. Looking on are DOSH deputy director Saiful Azhar Mohd Said (left) and Niosh consultancy, research and development department general manager Khairunnizam Mustapa.

INTERVENTION through engineering control can help organisations and companies reduce occupational diseases that had significantly increased in Malaysia.

National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Niosh) chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said engineering control was more effective and efficient in reducing occupational diseases than administrative control and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).

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