Promotion of BOSH in KK

NIOSH Chairman, Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye announced in Kota Kinabalu today that NIOSH has decided to do more promotional efforts for occupational safety and health (OSH) in East Malaysia with the holding of the First Borneo Occupational Safety and Health Convention (BOSH) in Kota Kinabalu on the 8th and 9th of June 2009 at the One Borneo Convention Centre. An OSH Exhibition will also be organized along with the Convention where many exhibition booths will be made available to display various safety equipments and services in safety and health for public information.

The BOSH Convention aims to attract about a thousand participants not only from Sabah but also Sarawak, the Federal Territory of Labuan, Brunei Darussalam as well as Kalimantan Indonesia.

The Convention is open to OSH practioners, Government Departments and Agencies, private sector organizations as well as interested Non-Government bodies.

The BOSH Convention is the first of its kind NIOSH is organizing in East Malaysia to facilitate greater participation by East Malaysians and the neighbouring countries.

Every year NIOSH organizes an Annual Conference of Occupational Safety and health (COSH) in Kuala Lumpur but participation from East Malaysia and Labuan is limited in view of distance and other difficulties.

With this in mind BOSH is organized to facilities greater participation by those participants from Borneo.

Besides this, it is intended to provide industries in the Borneo region with new and improved ideas on the implementation of OSH and OSH Management within their organizations to reduce industrial accidents and improve productivity.

BOSH will also see the presentation of papers on good OSH practices by local and foreign OSH practioners and experts in the Agricultural, oil and gas, service and hospitality sectors, the construction industry as well as the Small and Medium Industries.

NIOSH Sabah is committed to its role to promote safety and health at the workplace and help contribute towards the attainment of an OSH Culture through education and training, provision of consultancy services, research and development on OSH issues as well as dissemination of OSH information to the industries.

Since it started its operations in Kota Kinabalu in 2007, as of today 162 training courses involving 4337 participants have been successfully conducted.

For the year 2008, 127 training courses were conducted and 2848 participants were trained.

Those participants interested to participate in BOSH can contact NIOSH Sabah – telephone number 088 – 264 252 or 088 – 266 252.

Enquires can also be made via email: bosh2009@niosh.com.my to the NIOSH Sabah office which is located at Wisma PERKESO Tanjung Aru, Kota Kinabalu.