KUALA LUMPUR: Social activist Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye yesterday called on the government to consider appointing only one authority or agency to enforce prevention programmes on commuting accident, which was on the rise every year.
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Niosh) chairman said the prevention programmes would be easier to conduct and coordinate with only one agency involved.
“Currently, there are so many agencies that are doing programmes on this road safety, but what we need is one single authority that can implement all these programmes under one roof,” he told Bernama here.
According to Lee, among the agencies currently involved in road accident programmes are Niosh, Road Trasport Department, Social Security Organisation and Department of Occupational Safety and Health.
Lee reiterated that commuting accidents were a major occupational safety and health issue in the country as it involved employees who commuted from their home to their work place, and vice-versa.
While the number of industrial accidents were on the decline, commuting accidents had increased by 16 per cent in the past three years, from 22,036 in 2010 to 25,616 last year. — Bernama