PERKESO DEVELOPS GIG WORK SAFETY GUIDELINE

Sivakumar (centre) at the closing ceremony of the two-day Vision Zero Seminar 2023 held at the World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur. — SS Kanesan/The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: The Social Security Organisation (Perkeso) has developed a guideline to assist ehailing and p-hailing companies to improve road safety and lower the high number of traffic accidents involving gig workers and the self-employed.

Formulated with the Department of Standards Malaysia, the guideline is called The Malaysian Standard (MS) 2756 : 2023 “Good Practices for Platform Providers in Implementing Work-Related Road Traffic Safety Management” or MS 2756.