Last week, an 18-year old was sadly fatally electrocuted while charging his phone through a power socket on an express bus at Penang Sentral.
Since then, the transport ministry has activated an investigative task force comprising the Road Transport Department (JPJ), the Land Public Transport Agency (APAD), the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS), Puspakom and Sirim.
The bus’ operation was immediately suspended, and yesterday, APAD banned the use of all express buses’ charging sockets temporarily until the investigation is complete.
Now, Bernama reports that the company of the express bus in question has failed JPJ’s Occupational Safety and Health Industry Code of Practice for Road Transport Activities 2010 (ICOP) audit. As a result, the company faces the suspension of its operating permit.
“The ICOP audit has been conducted, and indeed, they (the company) failed. JPJ will refer the matter to APAD, as the authority for suspending permits lies with APAD, (which will) issue a letter of action against them (the company) for a specified period, during which they may appeal to the Minister’s Office,” transport minister Anthony Loke told reporters.
Responding to MCA Youth deputy chairman Mike Chong Yew Chuan saying in a Sinar Harian report two days ago that Loke instructing APAD to immediately suspend the bus company’s operations was hasty and done without understanding the incident’s actual cause, Loke said, “Firstly, he did not do his homework, and his facts are incorrect. I only stated that the bus operation was suspended, not the company’s permit.”
“All our actions are based on legal provisions, and we will fully comply with existing processes and procedures. No one is being victimised, what is important is ensuring public safety,” he said.
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of course fail la…. ah boh then? minister is stating the obvious when obviously someone has passed away. that’s no brainer. also trying to ban the use of charging ports temporarily, how are you going to enforce the ban? use mouth to talk only is it? Puspakom also don’t inspect charging ports as they treat it as accessories and now you conveniently suspend the bus company’s operations. Why not suspend Puspakom operations until they sort things out? As usual, very good in taichi the blame and pass the bug.
If ahlokekor go undercover secara besar besaran..oh my..he might faint.Almost all the express buses have these giant sockets.
In the first place,at regular Puspakom inspections..how come no one bring up this issue? Then whats the blardy purpose of having a privatised Puspakom?Then one fine day,u find all the taxis and ehailing cars having all these gigantic sockets embedded .
This madani govt is getting more unbelievably pathetic,hilarious,and dysfunctional.
If the incident didn’t happen, no audit done, permit not suspended, hence how to detect this issue ? Do we have to wait for incident then only be able to detect issue and suspend permit?
“The ICOP audit has been conducted, and indeed, they (the company) failed”
Interesting… how come only after some one is killed is an ICOP audit performed.
Why isnt periodic audits performed on a regular basis to ensure compliance
So how about lorry, rail and airlines.. are these sectors also audited?
We checked. Accessories not on our checklist. Not our problem
Already failed earlier…can still an ply the road. Sometimes, don’t understand all these checks…for show only perhaps. Until something big happen…then everyone panic what to do / what to say. Sigh.
On MCAs comment, why even bother answering to someone who posts a comment or question that is not constructive. In times of difficulty we should be thinking of ways to help not criticise.
Coz MCA learnt from Loki own party DAP that to become Gomen you no need help just only need to critise over & over.
Another proof that MOT is sleeping on the job. There I said it many times.. all MOT did was selling plates and creating hard time for e-hailing, NGV taxi drivers. Other than that, there is no improvement on road accident, drunk driving, problematic lorry, etc etc.
The Minister is simply over-rated
irony because this particular incident is related to usb charger . not related to “road accident, drunk driving, problematic lorry, etc etc.” as per your statement.
so should all vehicle usb ports come with SIRIM sticker now?
Anthony quit jual laksa Penang.
“the company of the express bus in question has failed JPJ’s Occupational Safety and Health Industry Code of Practice for Road Transport Activities 2010 (ICOP) audit.” – EVERY company will fail the DOSH audit if anyone cares to audit them – so this is just some scape-goating to prove they are doing their job, how pathetic … now the elephant in the room, why there aint no info about that offending charging socket ???