OSH systems to improve safety at NS camps

Star: BANGI: All 80 National Service (NS) camps will be equipped with occupational safety and health management systems aimed at enhancing a safe and healthy environment.
The move spearheaded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Niosh), should serve to assure parents whose children were in national service.
“It doesn't mean that the current safety level is not good, it's just that we feel the responsibility to further enhance it by providing better infrastructure and consultation,” Niosh chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said yesterday.
He said Niosh officers had already visited some camps to make risk assessments for all equipment and infrastructure and were expected to complete the task in all NS camps within the next six months.
Lee said the Health Ministry would also be involved in this programme to ensure that the trainees' health was not compromised when at camp.