Safety Observation

Behavioral Safety.... emmh senang bunyi nya, memang susah untukdi praktik kan. Take time juga nak menegur orang nie. Terutamanya dengan orang-orang lama dan staff sendiri.

Sorang pakcik nie, safety glasses dah kelabu asap, susah nak nampak katanya... Company dia beri cuma pada permulaan kerja sahaja. Nak kena beli baru, sedih jer muka. Tapi aku kata kat dia, benda tuh just RM 8 jer. Better than mata yang cedera dan birokrasi yang perlu dihadapi selepas incident itu.

Itu lah hakikat kerja; berbelah bagi juga di antara keselamatan dan belas kasihan.

Anak di langgar lorry ayah sendiri

Takziah kepada keluarga terbabit. Sesungguhnya Allah swt maha mengetahui segala-galanya.

Sekali lagi kita melihat berita sebegini didada dada akhbar. Ia adalah amat menyedihkan. Tiada manusia yang waras mahu menghadapi kejadian sebegini semasa hidup kita. Anak-anak kecil yang riang ria, pergi dilanggar oleh kenderaan yang di pandu oleh insan yang disanyangi .

Sebagai manusia biasa; mungkin beberapa langkah boleh diambil untuk menggelakkan kejadian sebegini dari berlaku. Antaranya ialah;

(1) Pastikan seorang dewasa yang lain berada berdekatan kenderaan yang sedang di "reverse".Tugas mereka untuk memastikan tiada kanak-kanak yang berada berdekatan.

(2) Buka tingkap kenderaan. Teriak tawa mereka mungkin menyedarkan kita.

(3) Sentiasa tutup pintu rumah atau grill atau pintu pagar ketika keluar untuk memandu.

(4) Curiga dan waspada sekiranya kanak-kanak yang seminit lepas kita lihat berdekatan kenderaan, tiba-tiba hilang dari pandangan.

(5) Undur secara perlahan-lahan.

(6) Ajar mereka tentang bahaya berada berdekatan kenderaan yang sedang bergerak.

(7) Baca Doa. Semoga Allah menjauhkan kita dari perkara begini.

60 tan sampah cemari sungai di Selangor dan Kuala Lumpur setahun

PETALING JAY: Dalam setahun, sungai-sungai di Selangor dan Kuala Lumpur dicemari kira-kira 60 tan sampah-sarap, mengakibatkan kawasan perangkap sampah kelihatan seolah-olah permukaan tanah.

Bercakap kepada pemberita selepas merasmikan Projek Pemulihan Sungai Way "Sungai Amanah Alam" di sini hari ini, Ong berkata keadaan itu tidak akan berlaku sekiranya masyarakat mengamalkan tabiat membuang sampah yang baik.

"Negara kita masih memerlukan perangkap sampah untuk menahan sampah sarap namun kita berharap dalam tempoh lima hingga 10 tahun lagi jumlah sampah yang terperangkap dapat dikurangkan," katanya.

Beliau berkata, sebanyak RM150 juta diperlukan JPS untuk membersihkan sungai di seluruh negara daripada pencemaran sampah.

"Setakat ini kita (JPS) masih belum dapat peruntukan ini lagi, ia sedang dikaji dan dipertimbangkan oleh Kementerian Sumber Asli dan Alam Sekitar," katanya.

Sementara itu, Pengerusi Yayasan GAB Tan Sri Saw Huat Lye berkata, masyarakat perlu menyokong usaha JPS untuk memastikan sungai tidak dicemari sampah.

Katanya, walaupun secara teknikalnya, JPS boleh memasang perangkap sampah di sungai-sungai dan mengutip puluhan tan sampah sebulan, langkah itu tidak akan menyelesaikan masalah kerana orang ramai akan tetap membuang sampah di sungai.

Beliau berkata, orang ramai perlu dididik untuk menghargai sungai sebagai aset alam sekitar negara. GAB ialah penaja utama dan penaung Projek Pemulihan Sungai Way "Sungai Amanah Alam".-Bernama 2010/07/18

Polluted River... think again.

The World's Most Polluted River

West Java , Indonesia:

One of the world's most polluted rivers, the Citarum in Indonesia, is to get a $500m (£343m) clean up. It is hoped the effort, backed by a loan from the Asian Development Bank, will improve the lives of millions of people.

The loan package will be delivered over the next 15 years, and will support sanitation projects and construction of waste treatment plants in the river basin to provide safe water supply to poor families who use the polluted river for fishing, bathing and laundry.

Workers in Jakarta clean piles of rubbish along the river twice a week to minimise flooding in the city ahead of the rainy season.

It is hoped the clean up will allow the cultivation of an additional 61,700 acres (25,000 hectares) of rice paddy, benefiting 25,000 farming families.

The river management programme also aims to supply water to 200,000 more households in Jakarta. It will ultimately increase Jakarta's water supply by 2.5% yearly, and benefit millions by resolving critical water shortages in Bandung, Indonesia's fourth largest city.

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10-month-old boy chokes to death on a fish ball

Thursday April 15, 2010

TAMPIN: A 10-month-old baby boy choked to death on a fish ball at a nursery yesterday.

Wan Nur Alif Wan Arif Fadhla was having breakfast, which was prepared by the nursery, with other children at about 9am when the incident happened.

The baby was said to have collapsed and turned blue and was sent to the Tampin Hospital, where he was confirmed dead on arrival.

His father, Wan Arif Fadhla Wan Yusof, 41, said his wife called him at about 11.15am to tell him that their son had been sent to the hospital.

“I went to the hospital and was informed that my son had choked on a fish ball,” said the Rembau district information officer, who then lodged a police report.

Wan Arif said his son’s body would be brought back to his wife’s hometown in Marang, Terengganu, for burial.

Tampin police chief Supt Wooi Hooi Cheng said that police would

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Utusan Malaysia Online - Terkini

Utusan Malaysia Online - Terkini

KUALA TERENGGANU 29 Mac – Seorang buruh warga Bangladesh maut, manakala empat lagi rakannya cedera apabila para besi bagi pembinaan bangunan Institut Oseanografi dan Institut Akuakultur, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) runtuh dalam satu kejadian petang ini.

Pengarah Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Terengganu, Pauzan Ahmad berkata, buruh terbabit tertimbus dalam konkrit simen yang masih basah dan meninggal dunia di tempat kejadian.

Katanya, empat rakan mangsa dilaporkan cedera termasuk seorang cedera parah akibat dihempap dan terjatuh dari para besi yang runtuh ketika kesemua mangsa sedang melakukan kerja-kerja pembinaan konkrit tangki air dan membancuh konkrit di bangunan itu pada kira-kira pukul 5.10 petang.

Bagaimanapun, identiti kesemua mangsa belum diperolehi, katanya kepada pemberita di tempat kejadian.

"Ketika sedang melakukan kerja-kerja menyiapkan tangki air di tingkat empat bangunan itu iaitu di ketinggian lapan meter, para besi yang diduduki beberapa pekerja tiba-tiba runtuh bersama konkrit tangki air yang masih belum keras.

"Konkrit bersama para besi itu kemudian menimpa beberapa orang lagi pekerja Bangladesh yang sedang melakukan kerja-kerja membancuh simen di bawah,” katanya. – Bernama

A floor in a UMT building collapses, killing a Bangladeshi

A floor in a UMT building collapses, killing a Bangladeshi

Water pollution kills millions of children

Waste water kills millions of children, pollutes sea

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Human beings are flushing millions of tonnes of solid waste into rivers and oceans every day, poisoning marine life and spreading diseases that kill millions of children annually, the U.N. said on Monday.

"The sheer scale of dirty water means more people now die from contaminated and polluted water than from all forms of violence including wars," the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said.

Boys sit in front of a polluted canal in Jakarta March 21, 2010 Human beings are flushing millions of tonnes of solid waste into rivers and oceans every day, poisoning marine life and spreading diseases that kill millions of children annually, the U.N. said on Monday. (REUTERS/Supri)

In a report entitled "Sick Water" for World Water Day, UNEP said the two million tonnes of waste, which contaminates over two billion tonnes of water daily, had left huge "dead zones" that choke coral reefs and fish.

It consists mostly of sewage, industrial pollution, pesticides from agriculture and animal waste.

The report said a lack of clean water was killing 1.8 million children under five every year. Much of the waste came from developing countries, which dump 90 percent of their wastewater untreated.

Diarrhoea, mostly from dirty water, kills around 2.2 million people a year, it said, and "over half the world's hospital beds are occupied with people suffering from illnesses linked with contaminated water."

The report recommends water recycling systems and multi-million or multi-billion dollar water sewage treatment works".

It also suggests protecting wetlands, which act as natural waste processors, and saving animal waste to use as fertilizer.

"If the world is to ... survive on a planet of six billion people heading to over nine billion by 2050, we need to get smarter about how we manage wastewaters," said UNEP director Achim Steiner. "Wastewater is quite literally killing people."

(Reporting by Tim Cocks; editing by Ralph Boulton)

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Where is the safest place for the most valuable item?

Loss and Found Counter is needed urgently !
Stolen jet engine 'tip of the iceberg'

(above: The missing jet fighter engine is the powerplant of one of the four F-5E Tiger II fighters in the Malaysian air force.)

By Alang Bendahara

PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA - The armed forces has launched a full audit of its assets following the loss of a jet fighter engine from the Royal Malaysian Air Force air base in Sungai Besi here.
Armed forces chief Gen Tan Sri Azizan Ariffin said the stolen jet engine might just be the "tip of the iceberg", as initial investigations showed that other equipment might have gone missing from as far back as 2007.

"We have tightened all our procedures, especially at the logistics department, and also introduced new security procedures to prevent attempts to steal and sell sensitive military equipment," he told the New Straits Times after attending the national-level Maal Hijrah celebration at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre yesterday.

It is learnt that the armed forces had already taken disciplinary action against those responsible for the missing jet engine.

Sources said the engine, which was still operational, was transported in a military container from the air force's Butterworth base to the Sungai Besi base for a routine maintenance service last year.

The jet engine was stored at the Sungai Besi warehouse while its service and maintenance record was kept in a safe in an office on the base.

Air force officers found the jet engine missing in January when they sent a private contractor to Subang to service the engine.

They also discovered that the service and maintenance record was missing.

Both the air force and police were investigating the possibility that the engine was sold on the black market to either illegal arms traders or countries still flying the F-5E Tiger II and RF-5E Tigereye.

The stolen engine is the powerplant for one of the four F-5E Tiger II fighters and two RF-5E Tigereye reconnaissance jets still in active duty at the air force's 12th Squadron (Scorpion) at the Butterworth air base.