Concerned: Lee stressing on the importance for shopping malls to adopt higher safety standards.
PETALING JAYA: Shopping malls must adopt higher safety standards to avoid a repeat of tragedies like the recent escalator-related death of a six-year-old, says the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
NIOSH chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said in addition to being a public place, malls were also a workplace and should therefore adopt standards like those laid out by the Department of Occupational Safety and Health for factories and offices.
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