Training clinic to identify hazard
KOTA KINABALU: Japan International Cooperation Agency Alumni Society of Malaysia (myJICA) is organising the Kiken Yochi Training (KYT) Clinic at Monfort Youth Training Centre, Penampang this Saturday.
More than 70 students and officers from Monfort Youth Training Centre (MYTC), MYJICA Exco and MYJICA Sabah Chapter members will attend the programme.
Norazizul bin Abdul Aziz, president of MYJICA informed that this program has received tremendous support from the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), Sabah and MYTC management.
It is an annual program implemented and coordinated by myJICA Sabah Chapter.
It was first held in Sarawak in November 2017.
KYT is a Japanese nickname meaning 'training to identify hazard'. It was one of the subject training modules implemented for ‘Training on Occupational Safety & Health Management for Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam' under the Third Country Training Program in collaboration between DOSH and JICA since 2013.
Participants are exposed to the simple, cheap and practical method option for safety risk and health management. This application can be used at the workplace as well as nonworkplace and it has been modified from the original concept and currently become ‘clinic' concept.
Norazizul added MYJICA was established and registered under the Registrar of Societies in 1988 and acted as a bridge in the promotion of friendship between participant countries and Japan as well as between ex-participants themselves. This was made possible in part due to the close cooperation of the alumni with their counterpart JICA overseas offices and the Japan Embassy.
Most of myJICA members consist of government officials who attended courses and technical program organised by JICA. Out of more than 8,000 Malaysians who have undergone various technical training programmes in Japan sponsored under JICA, about 4,000 have joined myJICA.