Niosh Safety Passport System Ensures Safety In High-risk Industries

KUALA LUMPUR, March 6 (Bernama) -- The new Safety Passport System (NSP) of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Niosh) ensures occupational safety and health in the workplace of industries deemed to have a high risk of industrial accidents.
Niosh Chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said today NSP consisted of training programmes specifically designed for workers of contractors engaged by, for example, chemical and oil and gas plants.
"The NSP certification will serve as the passport to validate a worker's expertise in handling and maintaining occupational safety and health in the workplace and allow access into the plants and factories of the high-risk industries.
"The passport is renewable every two years," he told Bernama.
Lee said the NSP training programmes focused on providing appropriate training and assessment for the workers in order to ensure that they acquired the necessary safety and health knowledge for their jobs and to meet the occupational safety and health guidelines.
He said one of the major modules of the NSP was the Induction for Plant Access (IPA) which provided standard training and assessment for workers in customised modules with the overall objective of changing the mindset of workers towards a "safety-first" attitude and elevating safety and health at the workplace to the same level as other business functions in the industries.
This helped to relieve the companies from the chore of training their staff and workers of contractors on the basic induction for plant access and to ensure that contractors complied with the minimum legal requirements, he added.