Category: Safety EN

On 27 September 2020, a woman broke her back after the rope snapped during a rope swing activity in Kuala Kubu Bharu. This is not the first case involving extreme sports neither will it be the last as long as the authorities are lackadaisical. The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is shocked to learn on 11 October 2020 that the Hulu Selangor district council may allow the operator to...

The Penang ferry operator should be answerable for the repeated disruption of the ferry services, the latest being 14 October 2020. A ferry load of commuters arrived from Butterworth to Penang Island only to be unable to berth as they were told that the ferry that was supposed to leave was unable to as the ramp at the terminal had malfunctioned. Much to the frustration of many ferry commuters,...

"Car-travel interrupts the taskscapes of others (pedestrians, children going to school, postmen, garbage collectors, farmers, animals and so on), whose daily routines are obstacles to the high-speed traffic cutting mercilessly through slower-moving pathways and dwellings. Junctions, roundabouts, and ramps present moments of carefully scripted inter-car-action during which non-car users of the...

Within the past few days there have been a few accidents that have taken place involving construction sites and construction equipment. Thankfully the people involved in all these accidents managed to narrowly escape with their lives. However, the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is appalled that these accidents even happened in the first place. Every time there is an accident we ask why...

Some accidents should not be happening on the highways, e.g. those resulting from foreign objects lying on the highways.  However, such accidents happen when things fall off from vehicles (especially heavy vehicles) or retreaded tyres burst leaving chunks of rubber littering the highways. Highway users pay a toll and PLUS has a duty of care to ensure they can travel safely and not crash into...