In health and safety, a lesson learned is a life saved


Adopt culture of sharing: File picture of a car struck by a collapsed scaffolding at a construction site along the Middle Ring Road 2 in November last year. Similar tragedies repeat because of failure to share the technical lessons learned. — Photo courtesy of Bomba

THE script following a major safety incident in Malaysia is wearisomely familiar. Whether it is a wall caving in during excavation works, a crane collapsing on a highway or a sudden explosion of machinery at a college, the response is almost always a statement that “this must never happen again”.

Yet, for the Malaysian public, these words have become a predictable cycle. Similar tragedies repeat because we are failing at one critical step: sharing the technical lessons learned.

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