The Federation of Malaysian Consumers Associations (FOMCA) and Child Passenger Safety Malaysia (CPSM) have questioned the recently-launched child restraint system guidelines by the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS). CPSM is a non-government organisation focused on educating the public on the importance of using child seats.
According to the two organisations, the guideline indicated that a MIROS QR code will be present in approved seats sold in Malaysia. Upon clarification by FOMCA with the JPJ, it was found that a component type approval by the department is enough to show that a safety seat is approved, as per safety standards. This leads to the question of the necessity of the MIROS QR code.
It is said that there are currently no known child safety seats sold in Malaysia that comes with the QR code, and this has caused parents to hesitate on buying child seats. “It is a counter-intuitive measure to introduce the QR code now when Malaysia is still at its early stage of introducing this new law and promoting the use of child safety seats,” the organisations said in a statement.
Nur Asyikin Aminuddin, a senior manager at FOMCA said that the guideline does not portray the views from stakeholders such as independent bodies and consumers. “MIROS as a research body is not a certifying body. I hope that Standards Malaysia should intervene with this issue as they are the national accreditation body,” she said.
The FOMCA rep added that JPJ and the transport ministry should be the responsible bodies to endorse, set guidelines and make official announcements related to child safety seats; and they should also publish the list of approved brands and models online.
Another issue addressed by FOMCA at a press conference earlier this week was MIROS’ collaboration with Lazada for the latter’s Car Seat Assurance Program. The NGO says that the tie-up is violating the Competition Act 2010 as it breaches the rights of consumers to choose. The association says that it should be an open market and child safety seats should be made available not only through one online platform.
Staying on the topic of child seats, it was reported yesterday that the while the usage of child car seats will become mandatory from January 2020, the transport ministry is considering an exception for those with large families.
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ide drpd seseorang tanpa mengambil maklum perkara2 berkaitan. masalah la akhirnya. MIROS sekarang dah rasa besar sangat kot
This is already so bad but still cannot beat the news that abang abangs with big families are now exempt from car seat.
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If you can have so many kids yet, you cannot buy safety seat for your child…….this is so sad lah
Then what about those who have already bought the safety seats before this? Those seats do not have MIROS QR code before the introduction of this guideline.
Don’t have to worry lah sure u-turn punya
MIROS can only test the child seat and issue ratings based on its performance, they are not the regulatory body for standards as that is the jurisdiction of SIRIM, the same reason why helmets are certified by SIRIM.
SIRIM can set the minimum regulation standards for child seat and MIROS could then evaluate and judge their performance rankings based on their results which must at least pass the minimum level set be SIRIM. That is MIROS’s job.
Let SIRIM do their job and not take on their’s. And what is this partnership to certify those sold on Lazada only? Something smells fishy.
biasalah, go to SIRIM and see who are working there. Then you will understand why they duit kopi so much
MIROS impartiality is even more of a suspect when they can allow Perodua to send and unknown Aruz variant for crash testing and allowed them to promote that undeserved star ratings.
Agree. On top of that, the SIRIM certification should only applies for locally produced car-seat. Those imported one already certified and internationally recognized.
Biasalah… Miros tunjuk pandai. Rupanya masih kurang pandai
I help you, you help me mechanism. All the good brand child seat already follow standard set by UN. This silly sticker is just to milk money and also enrich certain business holder. And not forget, the sticker supplier too. LOL
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Will there be any direct/indirect payment for QR CODE? if yes then are the buyers not being used to finance MIROS?
So where is the paper guideline for child seats?
MIROS is going U-turn or withdraw the policy? cant find any such guideline anymore online. The link by MIROS shown as broken link only. check here https://www.miros.gov.my/xs/dl.php?filename=Garis%20Panduan%20Kerusi%20Keselamatan%20Kanak-kanak%20Di%20Malaysia.pdf
What a waste of time and resources.
Remember when a foreigner highlight the danger of a local car with el instrument backlight which tend to have the driver driving at night with headlights off?
Nobody seems to be bothered abt this.
Oh wait, this issue cant be manipulated to make money….
MIROS, just do your job…and use yr brain while ur at it. There are lots other issue to study and improved.
This people don’t understand. The QR sticker is just a VETTING exercise by Miros to ensure that the carseats / CRS sold here have GENUINE EUROPEAN STANDARD ECE certification, Installation method and the CRS’s weight and height capacity ONLY. So it’s NOT a CERTIFICATION sticker like SIRIM.
In essence, the government is doing every user a favour by not enforcing another LOCAL (SIRIM) standard to the existing INTERNATIONAL UN approved ECE standards which would push the prices higher.
So please don’t involve SIRIM or the poor will be buying more expensive car seats.