PRODUCT SAFETY and RECALLS in Southeast Asia and Malaysia

Anda mungkin telah menggunakannya hari ini. Sebenarnya di Amerika Syarikat sahaja ia mencatat 90 biliion penggunaan setahun – iaitu eskalator.  Pada awal bulan Februari ini, seorang kanak-kanak berumur empat tahun telah hilang separuh sebelah tapak kakinya akibat insiden eskalator di KL Sentral. Analisa laporan insiden keselamatan eskalator dalam talian mendapati sebanyak sembilan insiden di mana kanak-kanak tercedera semasa menggunakan eskalator. Di Singapura sahaja tujuh insiden kemalangan semasa menggunakan eskalator telah dilaporkan (tahun 2006-2016) dan lima daripada insiden tersebut melibatkan kanak-kanak.  Adakah eskalator merbahaya kepada kanak-kanak? Suruhanjaya Keselamatan Produk Pengguna Amerika Syarikat (US CPSC) melaporkan pada tahun 2007, sebanyak 11,000 kes kecederaan berkaitan penggunaan eskalator telah direkod. US CPSC juga mendapati kebanyakan kecederaan adalah disebabkan jatuh, 10 peratus kecederaan berlaku apabila kaki, kasut atau tangan terp...

Fire and Rescue Department personnel were called in to retrieve part of a severed foot of a child who got stuck in an escalator at KL Sentral. The incident occurred at around 4pm on Monday while the boy, three, was on a family outing. According to City Fire and Rescue Department assistant director (operations) Azizan Ismail, the boy's foot got stuck in the escalator at the KTM Komuter platform. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOSH director-general Datuk Mohtar Musri said the KL Sentral shopping mall escalator was found to have been properly maintained by the complex and had all the safety features as stipulated by the EN 115-1 escalator design. "It had the emergency stop buttons, the yellow demarcation lines on steps and skirt brushes, and had gone through maintenance. More News Stepping up escalator safety Be alert when children wearing soft rubber shoes ride escalators –DOSH