In the time of the current COVID-19 Pandemic and until there is a definitive treatment or vaccine that can protect us from the SARS-CoV 2 infection that is the cause for the COVID19 infection, we need to maintain infection control practices that help to reduce transmission. Any action should be based on the key principles of Occupational Safety and Health.
General return to work protocol are as follows:
i. There should be workplace protocols in place that includes disease surveillance and prevention of the spread of infection.
ii. All employers to screen staff on a daily basis for symptoms of Covid-19, including a symptom check as well as temperature assessment.
iii. All employees to use appropriate protective equipment especially where social distancing is not possible. An appropriate mask should be worn in all public places and during work.
iv. Work environment and surfaces need to be cleaned on a regular basis or at least twice daily.
v. Hand disinfectants and/or hand washing facilities with soap should be made available for all workers and visitors.
vi. Stringent social distancing measures should be implemented in the workplace. Provide and ensure employees have space to be at least one meter apart.
vii. If a company provide accommodation for its workers, the above measures should be implemented at the place of accommodation.
TQVM to HEPKL TEAM for the help – to ready the office for post MCO return to work
UNIVERSITIES have prepared the necessary action plans to help stranded students get back to their hometowns. Proper SOP must be established to arrange for buses and flights that will ferry the students to their respective drop-off points. A tight schedule for the movement has been established and the university has conducted a survey among the students on important information such as the destination and appropriate mode of movement. Movement guidelines have also been prepared to ensure that movement proposals are in full compliance with any decision made by the authorities. All of us will fall in line to ensure that the welfare, well-being and safety of the students are maintained.
The students have been staying at their residential colleges located within each respective campus for almost five weeks, which is two cycles (of 14-days quarantine). As far as the decision to go back or continue to stay on campus, there are factors being considered by students like – Internet connectivity, the situation back home, the safety of their families and etc., coordination is very crucial because there are so many things involved, including conditions and approval from relevant authorities that need to be considered and complied with before the students safely arrive to their families. Representative from each family would be present at identified police district headquarters to pick up the students or student who would not be picked up by their family members upon arrival, government agency representatives would send them home.
Finally on 27 April 2020 UTMKL has made its first trip to northern states in 3 buses that had been disinfected. In UTMKL from 27 April to 20 May 2020, HEPKL has organised 11 trips involving 284 students. This included Sabahan and Sarawakian students :-).
Thank you to all as task involving multiple agencies and partners working in collaboration in ensuring the safe return of the students to their loved ones…LOVE you ALL
How individuals respond to government advice on preventing the spread of Covid-19 will be at least as important, if not more so, than government action.This is according to a commentary published in The Lancet journal on March 9 (2020) from researchers at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, and Utrecht University and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands.
Professor Deirdre Hollingsworth from Oxford’s Big Data Institute said: “Completely preventing infection and mortality is not possible, so this is about mitigation.“Our knowledge and understanding of Covid-19 will change over time, as will the response.“High quality data collection and analysis will form an essential part of the control effort.“Government communication strategies to keep the public informed will be absolutely vital.”Social distancing is currently the most important measure, with an individual’s behaviour key.This includes early self-isolation and quarantine, seeking remote medical advice, and not attending large gatherings or going to crowded places.
The virus seems to largely affect older people and those with existing medical conditions, so targeted social distancing may be most effective.Government actions will be important, including banning large events such as football matches; closing workplaces and schools where Covid-19 has been identified; and making sure that good diagnostic facilities and remotely-accessed advice, like telephone helplines, are widely available.Ensuring the provision of specialist healthcare is also vital.The researchers warn, however, that large-scale measures may only be of limited effect without individual responsibility.
All measures, of course, will have an economic impact, and some stricter measures, such as shutting down entire cities as seen in Wuhan, China, may be less effective in Western democracies.The aim of these measures is to slow the spread of the virus and avoiding a huge peak in the number of new infections.This can avoid overwhelming health services, keep the impact on the economy to within manageable levels, and effectively buy more time to develop and manufacture effective vaccines and treatments.
Imperial College’s Prof Sir Roy Anderson said: “Governments need to decide on the main objectives of mitigation: is it minimising morbidity and associated mortality, avoiding an epidemic peak that overwhelms healthcare services, keeping the effects on the economy within manageable levels, or flattening the epidemic curve to wait for vaccine development and manufacture on scale and antiviral drug therapies? “We point out they cannot achieve all of these, so choices must be made.”The researchers highlight that wider support for healthcare services and workers is vital.
Containing the spread of an infectious disease relies on keeping the reproduction number (R0) – the number of people infected by each infected person – below 1, where the pathogen will eventually die out.If R0 rises above 1, i.e. each infected person infects more than one other person, the pathogen will spread.Early data from China suggests that the R0 for Covid-19 could be as high as 2.5, implying that in an uncontained outbreak, 60% of the population could be infected.However, with Covid-19, it is not currently clear how long it takes for an infected person to become infectious to others, the duration of infectiousness, the fatality rate, and whether and for how long people are infectious before symptoms appear.It is also not currently clear if there are cases without symptoms.
It currently seems likely that the pandemic will spread more slowly than seasonal influenza and SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), but last longer, which has economic implications.Seasonal influenza is generally limited by warmer weather, but it is not known if this is the same for Covid-19, so monitoring is needed.Ongoing clinical research into treating seriously ill patients is also necessary.One of the main priorities for researchers and policymakers will be contact tracing, with models suggesting that 70% of people an individual has come into contact with will need to be traced to control the early spread of the disease.
The authors say other priorities include shortening the time from symptom onset to isolation, supporting home treatment and diagnosis, and developing strategies to deal with the economic consequences of extended absence from work.Prof Hans Heesterbeek from Utrecht’s Department of Population Health Sciences said: “Social distancing measures are societally and economically disruptive, and a balance has to be sought in how long they can be held in place.“The models show that stopping measures after a few months could lead to a new peak later in the year.“It would be good to investigate this further.”
MORE THAN 40 people in Segambut participated in a Ferrocement Landscape with Community programme at the Taman Desa Segambut community hall. It was organised by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia’s (UTM) Centre for Curriculum and Services Learning (CCSL), in partnership with Zone 5 Federal Territory Residents Representative Council (MPPWP), Taman Desa Segambut Residents Council, the Surau Al-Mukhlisin Taman Desa Segambut management and Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to provide creative public park furniture for senior citizens in the area.
The two-day programme highlighted theoretical and practical techniques in building ferrocement landscape furniture, enabling participants to develop their own products using basic materials such as sand, cement and water. Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh, who launched the event, complimented the efforts of students. “Retired senior citizens can often be seen exercising and walking around the neighbourhood parks. I have already received many requests for chairs and tables at multiple locations. “With this inter-generational programme, senior citizens can interact with youths and learn updated skills from them, ” she said.
“Taking part in this programme will also give the community a sense of ownership as they are physically involved in the making of these products.“Other than saving costs, it provides an opportunity for the community to work on their own products and maybe earn a living from it in the future, ” she added.
Also present were MPPWP Zone 5 Segambut chairman Dr Abdul Basir Kunhimohamed, UTM Student Affairs Office director Dr Pauziah Muhamad, UTM Office of Postgraduate Studies chairman Professor Dr Mohd Shafry Mohd Rahim, Centre for Community and Industry Network deputy director Associate Professor Dr Aznah Nor Anuar, UTMSPACE Diploma Studies School general manager Nik Maria Nik Mohamood and CCSL coordinator Associate Professor Zainudin Abdul Razak.
With the aim of encouraging the spirit of technology-based volunteerism, community-based teaching and learning among people, especially senior citizens, programme advisers Shaiful Ziyad Shaiful Zahrein, Salina Sadeli and Mohd Hazri Ishak along with 21 diploma students from UTM assisted participants in creating four sets of ferrocement landscape tables and 16 chairs. The finished products made during the programme were then presented directly to the local community of Taman Desa Segambut.
“If the feedback for this programme is positive, then I will introduce it to my community garden as well, where a lot of women are involved in community farming, ”
Intelligent Dynamics & System iKOHZA
Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
54100 Kuala Lumpur
1. To provide detailed roll crash simulation test to determine the strength and durability of the proposed roll cage protection frame when subjected to rolling crash at a given speed. The simulation shall also be to obtain the most optimum built, maximizing strength of the structure with the least density. The tests should reference to applicable standards of testing in the vehicle industry.
2. To provide reports detailing the strength of the frame design and possible improvement where applicable for example on welding points of the frame and bolting points to the vehicle chassis. The reports must be signed by a professional engineer
3. Inspect the single cab, design the bracing, seat design, final evaluation, fabricator and you to discuss if has difficulty doing the roll cage fitting to chasis, Mr Gam the fabricator boss at P/L 38, Lorong 7a Phase 1, Stage 4, Demak Laut Industrial Estate, 93050 Kuching
4. Come to Kuching for first visit of prototype and again when the full prototype ready. On the day of inspection, your side prepare a short report on;
1) inspection of final prototype and meeting design spec.
2) installation meeting requirement of good engineering practise.
5. Meet the Gant chart by Sampling Company
6. DS shall invoice Samling for the utilization costs of the laboratory and analysis input time
Job Interview for qualified people for the following positions will be on 15-16 February 2020.
The interview is for Train & Place Program for the positions below.
1. Data Engineer 2. Junior Data Scientist 3. Data Scientist 4. Data Analyst
We are pleased to inform you that you are invited to attend an interview for the above positions in one of the leading IT company based in Penang & Kuala Lumpur. The details of the interview date are as follows :
Date : 15th &16th Feb 2020 (Saturday & Sunday)
Venue : A-7-1(Block A, Level 7, Unit 1), Ativo Plaza, Persiaran Perdana.Bandar Sri Damansara, 52200 Kuala Lumpur.
Itinerary:
9.00 am – Registration
9.30 am – Briefing
10.30 am – Career Profiling by OAESIS
11.00 am – Technical Interview starts
11.30 pm – HR Interview starts
If you have not registered, kindly do so at this link
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2IRH_RYdKAC1p85eHjEQvFyET4fNIB1mMkoqPE6RqyD49GQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
Documents to bring:
1. 1 copy resume/ Curriculum vitae (include picture)
2. Certificates
Please CONFIRM your attendance by replying or whatsapp to 6017-6340045 (Ms Fira) before 14th February 2020 (Friday).
