KUALA LUMPUR: The Road Transport Department (JPJ) has urged the organisers of the RXZ Members programme to tighten their participant registration process as part of efforts to improve safety at future events.
JPJ director-general Datuk Aedy Fadly Ramli said the department had held an engagement session with the RXZ Members organisers on Wednesday (Aug 12) to provide feedback and recommendations following issues arising from the programme.
“We gave our views on the programme and made several recommendations for the organisers to implement improvements at future programmes,” he told reporters after an engagement session with media practitioners on Thursday (Aug 13).
He said the department had previously warned that it would not support the programme if serious issues, particularly accidents resulting in deaths, continued to occur.
He said JPJ’s Enforcement Division had also advised the organisers to ensure participants provide complete information during registration, including details of their driving licences and motor vehicle licences (LKM).
“This is important so that the organisers can also be responsible for the participants attending future programmes,” he said.
Aedy Fadly said the organisers had no objection to JPJ’s recommendations and had agreed to implement them.
He said the latest measures were not too late, as the organisers had already taken several steps to ensure participants complied with traffic laws and regulations.
“However, there are still some participants who do not comply with the rules, and this has tarnished the image of the programme,” he said.
He said the organisers had previously met with both JPJ and the police before the programme was held in Terengganu, with both departments in the state also advising them to take appropriate measures to ensure participants complied with the law.
“We saw several issues involving a small number of participants who did not comply. So, we are trying another approach by recommending that the organisers implement a more comprehensive registration process, and we will see how it goes,” he said.
He said the organisers already had a registration system, but it was mainly for administrative purposes such as collecting goodies, T-shirts and lucky draw entries.
“The registration was not comprehensive enough. It did not include the other information that we are asking for,” he said.
He added that a more detailed registration process would enable organisers to better monitor participants and ensure greater accountability and compliance with the law at future RXZ Members programmes.
