A Good Lesson To All about Safety

Blast a lesson on occupational safety, says Lam Thye
 
PETALING JAYA: The gas explosion in a Malacca mall which killed one person and injured 16 others could have been avoided if all safety measures had been adhered to, said National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.
 
Regarding it as yet another lapse in the practice of occupational safety and health at the workplace, Lee said it was sad that such incidents continued to happen.
 
“Lives could have been saved if people did not regard safety at workplaces as a light matter and again, this should be a lesson for all quarters,” he said here yesterday.
 
Lee said a comprehensive occupational safety and health management system implemented at workplaces should include elements of hazard identification and risk assessment and control, especially for those vulnerable to such dangers.
 
“By right, hazard identification and risk assessment should be conducted before work starts at a site,” he pointed out. Lee added that it was time for workplace safety to be taken seriously.
 
The explosion ripped a two-metre wide hole in the wall of the soon-to-open complex and killed Old Town White Coffee supervisor Tiau See Peing, who suffered a neck wound caused by flying debris

The Star Online, Wednesday December 16, 2009
 
* Planters out there shall be alert at all times that the price of safety is nothing until accidents happen.