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Recording 0.99 per 100,000 workers, this rate falls lower than the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) 2028 target — a first excluding 2020 when the pandemic disrupted work.
The MOM said it would step up checks in the manufacturing industry after the sector recorded the highest number of major workplace injuries in H1 of 2023.
A rate of 0.8 was recorded in H1 2023, down from 1.3 in H2 2022 and 1.6 year-on-year, when measured per 100,000 workers.
But manufacturing still a 'sector of concern,' says MOM
Source: Press release The move was announced by Senior Minister of State for Manpower Zaqy Mohamad during the launch of the National Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Campaign 2023.