NIOSH lauded for networking, upgrading skills
BANGI: The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is on the right track to becoming a well-known and respectable agency locally and abroad, said Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Richard Riot Jaem.
He said that apart from the excellent leadership of its chairman, Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye, NIOSH had also forged close cooperation with similar agencies in other countries, including the recent exchange of information and knowledge with the Finland Institute of Occupational Health, to improve its skills, knowledge and information related to occupational safety and health.
“I’m very proud of NIOSH’s achievements so far, and of how the management keeps on striving to find the best methods to improve the quality of its service delivery,” he said at NIOSH’s Hari Raya Aidilfitri open house here yesterday. Present were Lee and NIOSH executive director Zahrim Osman.
Lee said the institute’s most meaningful achievement was its role in the implementation of the Mass Rail Transit (MRT) project for the Sungai Buloh-Kajang line, which will become fully operational on July 17.
Lee said under the agreement signed between MRT Corporation Sdn Bhd, MMC-Gamuda KVMRT and CIDB Holding in September 2015, NIOSH was given the role of overseeing the safety aspects and the health of the workers involved.
“The opportunity to contribute towards the safe and smooth running of the MRT development project was something every NIOSH personnel should be proud of, because it was an iconic transportation project,” he said.
Implemented in 2010, the MRT project is a modern transportation system with its trains having a high frequency rate of 3.3 minutes for every train at peak hours. Each train has a capacity of 1,200 people. Bernama