SANDAKAN: More than 50 schools nationwide have so far participated in the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) school programme – an initiative to help prevent accidents on school premises.

National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye attributes the high participation rate to the strong collaboration between the Human Resources Ministry and the Education Ministry, and anticipates that more schools will join the programme.

“Since the Memorandum of Understanding between the two ministries was signed in 2015, several schools and institutions in Sabah have also participated in the programme.

“They are Kolej Vokasional Tawau; Institut Sinaran (Kota Kinabalu), SMK Benoni (Papar); MRSM Tun Mohammad Fuad Stephens (Sandakan); SM St. Patrick (Tawau); and SMK Merpati, which saw the programme launched today,” he said during the launch event at SMK Merpati here.