Tackle safety and health hazards in schools

There is an urgency to foster safety and health consciousness among teachers and educational support staff as well as students, said National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.
“Through health training, education, safety and health promotion, every school will be more aware of potential safety and health hazards in all parts of the school, such as school laboratories, and be more capable of dealing with them,” he said in a press release yesterday.
Lee was commenting on the death of a schoolteacher from SJK (C) Keat Hwa in Alor Star who fell to his death on Sunday when a decayed wooden floor of the school building gave way.
NIOSH, he noted, was of the view that there was now a greater need to adopt and implement a safety and health policy for all schools and make them safe.
“Ensuring that all schools and educational institutions take an active interest in safety and health will also benefit students who can learn more and be safety conscious from an early and receptive age.”
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