{"id":28460,"date":"2019-10-04T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T08:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/?p=28460"},"modified":"2019-10-31T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T08:08:11","slug":"courtesy-call-to-department-of-occupational-safety-and-health-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/2019\/courtesy-call-to-department-of-occupational-safety-and-health-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtesy call to Department of Occupational Safety And Health Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″ custom_padding=”20px|0px|20px|0px” fb_built=”1″ bb_built=”1″ _i=”0″ _address=”0″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”0px|0px|0px|0px” _i=”0″ _address=”0.0″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” _i=”0″ _address=”0.0.0″ custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.29.3″ _i=”0″ _address=”0.0.0.0″]On 4 October, MJIIT\/UTM Disaster Program, represented by Dr Khamarul Azahari Razak and Dr. Shohei Matsuura made a courtesy call to the Director General, YBhg. Dato\u2019 Ir. Mohtar Bin Musri and the management of DOSH to discuss on future collaborations to integrate occupational safety and health (OSH) issues, particularly on industrial hazards, with disaster risk reduction measures. While OSH has previously not been clearly linked with DRR in Malaysia, the recent Kim Kim River pollution incident triggered interests on industrial and technological disasters as a human-induced disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the challenges seen in taking effective measures to industrial and technological disasters is its cross-sectoral nature. Although Fire and Rescue Department and its HAZMAT team or the emergency medical teams may be well trained to handle emergency response operation, additional assistance from other relevant stakeholders such as DOSH, Department of Environment (DoE), departments under Ministry of Economic Affairs (MEA) and other local government offices may also be required. Local NGOs, universities and private sector organizations may also provide technical and logistical support to the front liners.<\/span><\/p>\n

A commonly seen response-oriented approach to industrial and technological disasters is another issue. While the government may have done their work in developing and enforcing proper regulations to manage HAZMAT, illegal dumping and other \u201coff-site\u201d incidents may require a group of disaster managers, industry representatives, chemical engineers and researchers to work together to analyze and plan a more effective preventive measures towards industrial and technological disasters.<\/span><\/p>\n

With new concepts such as \u201cNatech\u201d \u2013 defined as \u201ctechnological disasters triggered by a natural hazards, such as earthquakes, floods, storms, lightning and landslides,\u201d have been increasingly getting more attention, the members in the meeting agreed that a stronger partnership with DOSH, UTM and other DRM agencies would be beneficial to all parties as well as residents in high disaster risk areas in Malaysia.<\/span>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”28464,28466,28470,28472″ show_title_and_caption=”off” zoom_icon_color=”#2ea3f2″ _builder_version=”3.29.3″ title_font_size=”11″ caption_font_size=”11″ custom_css_gallery_item=”margin:0 !important;||clear: none !important;||width: 50% !important;||padding: 10px;||padding-left: 65px;” border_style=”solid” _i=”1″ _address=”0.0.0.1″][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 4 October, MJIIT\/UTM Disaster Program, represented by Dr Khamarul Azahari Razak and Dr. Shohei Matsuura made a courtesy call to the Director General, YBhg. Dato\u2019 Ir. Mohtar Bin Musri and the management of DOSH to discuss on future collaborations to integrate occupational safety and health (OSH) issues, particularly on industrial hazards, with disaster risk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":28466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-and-photo-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28460"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28474,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28460\/revisions\/28474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}