Minister: Resolve on-site safety issues before implementing proposal

SEPANG: Several issues need to be ironed out before the proposal requiring construction companies to have on-site safety and health officers and site safety supervisors can be implemented.

“The main issue is to determine the size of the projects.

“Are we going to include those handling small projects like class F contractors?” Works Minister Datuk Fadillah Yusof said.

“There will be another round of discussion with the sector’s players soon to determine this,” he said after launching the KLIA Professional and Management College construction safety mock-up facilities here yesterday.

Fadillah said the proposal was aimed at reducing accidents in construction sites.

On the facilities, he said it would enable more safety and health officers and site safety supervisors to be trained.

“Our construction sector needs about 3,000 such officers and supervisors and we can look forward to having the numbers with the availability of the facilities,” he said.

KLIA Premier Holdings Sdn Bhd president Tan Sri Jamilus Hussein said the facilities, the first in Malaysia, would provide real training experience on construction safety.

“Students and participants of our training programme will be able to experience the real meaning of construction safety at construction sites at the college itself.

“The mock-up facilities will allow students to undergo courses such as confined space, scaffolding, working at height, industralised building system crane operations, lifting and rigging,” he said.

KLIA Premier Holdings Sdn Bhd is the major stakeholder of KLIA College.