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CIDB and DOSH collaborate for greater
safety and health in Malaysian construction
Joint pledge to reduce, by 2020, fatality rate in the construction sector by 50 per cent.

IT IS CAUSE for concern when out of the total of 668 fatalities
registered in 2015 in cases of occupational hazards, the Malaysian
construction industry accounts for 21%, or 140, up from 89 in 2014,
numbers alarming enough to earn the sector discredit in having the
“worst safety and health record.” By the same token, it is also cause for
“critical intervention”, for corrective action and for a concerted effort
by party(ies) concerned to reduc