Of the 6,719 workplace accidents last year, 6,306 cases involved injuries without permanent disabilities, 227 suffered permanent disabilities, and 186 involved fatalities. theSun theSundaily news Construction pandemic Accidents
The country is seeing a staggering decrease in occupational accidents in the past two years due to the slowdown in economic activity during the Covid-19 pandemic.
However, the number of occupational accident for the past two years is strikingly low compared with 2017 , 2018 and 2019 . “Section 29A of the law requires employers to provide a safety coordinator when the minimum number of employees reaches five. Previously, a safety coordinator will only be appointed once there are 40 employees.”
Malaysian Employers Federation president Datuk Dr Syed Hussain Syed Husman said despite the significant reduction of occupational accidents in the past two years, employers still have to endure losing employees and bear the extra costs due to workday, income and production losses as a result of occupational accidents.
“Some of the hidden costs that are not recoverable are lost production time, loss of additional wages such as overtime pay and hiring temporary workers, loss of product, time invested for investigations, possible fines and penalties, loss of contracts and damage to reputation, and legal costs.
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