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KUALA LUMPUR: About 1,000 retired or soon-to-be retired firefighters will be given a new lease in their careers through free training to become certified experts in workplace safety, says Nga Kor Ming.
BUTTERWORTH: A 39-year-old worker died after falling from a factory roof while conducting repairs in Perai on Thursday morning, says Penang Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Department director Hairozie Asri.
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 1,000 retired or soon-to-retire firefighters will receive free training to become certified workplace safety experts, giving them new career opportunities, says Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming.
TANGKAK: The Johor Occupational Safety and Health Department (DOSH) has ordered the rubber manufacturing and processing plant here to stop work after an explosion killed two and injured seven on Monday (Feb 24).
KLANG: Factories and plants with gas and chemicals on their premises must verify that all their safety and preventative measures are current to prevent mishaps, such as the recent factory explosion in Klang.
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SHAH ALAM: Guidelines to standardise and simplify the registration process for childcare centres (taska) in Selangor will be introduced in July, says State Women Development and Social Welfare Committee chairman Anfaal Saari.
KUALA LUMPUR: A construction company was fined RM25,000 or eight months in jail by the Sessions Court here today for failing to ensure the safety of a Bangladeshi male worker who died while working at a construction site last year.
KUALA LUMPUR: Cases of occupational injuries and work-related deaths across the country have steeply declined by 24% and 56% respectively over the past decade, says Steven Sim.
IPOH: The Occupational Safety and Health Department will take legal action against parties responsible for the death of a foreign worker who fell at a construction site in Meru Raya on Monday (Jan 28).
KUALA TERENGGANU: Eight companies in Terengganu have been fined so far this year for neglecting worker safety and health standards.
PUTRAJAYA: A recycling factory in Banting, Selangor was fined RM100,000 by the Sepang Sessions Court yesterday for failing to ensure the safety, health and welfare of its workers.
KAJANG: Proactive steps taken by the Social Security Organisation (PERKESO) to reduce workplace accidents resulted in a slight decline of cases last year compared with 2023, says Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Mohamad.
AS PART of its emphasis on workplace safety, a company specialising in boiler design and manufacturing has donated to two non-governmental organisations dedicated to advancing safety and health initiatives.
PETALING JAYA: It was about 5pm on Monday when a massive gas explosion rocked a chemical recycling factory at Sungai Kapar Indah in Klang after a leak occurred during a chemical transfer from a container. A tanker was destroyed.
KLANG: Police have not detected any element of negligence or crime in connection with the explosion of a recycled chemicals processing plant at the Kapar Indah Industrial Park, near here last week (Jan 20).
KLANG: No element of negligence or crime has been detected in connection to the explosion of a chemical recycling plant at the Kapar Indah Industrial Park near here last week, say police.
GEORGE TOWN: A foreign worker died when a zinc roof piece being moved by crane to a building site broke loose from its hook and fell on him in Simpang Ampat near here last Monday (Jan 20).
JOHOR BARU: As the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone is expected to spur on a construction boom and more traffic, sand and granite lorry operators in the state have taken extra steps to boost safety.
SYSTEM failures and vandalism are the reasons behind lift breakdowns in People’s Housing Project (PPR) Pekan Kepong, says Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL).
