LANGKAWI (Bernama): Amendments to the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 will also involve higher penalties for employers who fail to ensure safety, health and welfare at the workplace.
Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Mahfuz Omar said currently, the amendments to the Act were still being drafted and expected to be brought to the next Parliamentary sitting.
"At the moment the maximum penalty is RM50,000, which is easy for major project developers to pay for it," he said at a press conference after opening the OSH for Langkawi Seminar here Wednesday. Meanwhile, Mahfuz said the ministry, through the Department of Occupational Safety and Health , had investigated 3,773 workplace accidents in 2018.
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