KUCHING, May 23 — Sarawak recorded a total of four workers who suffered fatal workplace accidents from Jan 1 to April 30 this year.

State Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) director, Dr Nor Halim Hasan, said that his department also recorded four workers who suffered permanent disability during the period.

Meanwhile, a total of 121 workers suffered temporary disability, and nine workers experienced dangerous incidents, he said.

"(Workers) who died involved those from the manufacturing sector, the agriculture and fisheries sector, the forestry sector and the financial sector,” he said after officiating the state-level World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2023, today.

Nor Halim said that, based on statistics, the incidence of workers involved in fatal workplace accidents in Sarawak has shown a sharp drop since 2017.

"A total of 34 (workers) died in 2017 compared with only 22 killed last year,” said. — Bernama