"NSSF targets Kampong Chhnang garment workers for road safety initiative", 25 December 2019

Some 120 people in Kampong Chhnang province, including garment workers, transportation drivers and employees of Can Sports Shoes Co Ltd Cambodia were … educated on road safety laws and practices, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) said…

“Disseminating information and education on the Law on Road Traffic to drivers and employees serves to prevent them from being in traffic accidents,” the post quoted provincial police station representative Keth Yong as saying.

NSSF Road Safety Department adviser Preap Chan Vibol said traffic accidents involving garment workers continued to occur because some transportation vans were modified against approved technical standards.

“Workers, transportation drivers and all employees have to obey the Traffic Law,” he said.

Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW) president Pav Sina told … that he supported the potentially life-saving initiative, but urged “stricter implementation of traffic laws”.

Sina asked whether drivers followed traffic laws, held proper documentation, or if vehicles were checked for safety.

“The majority of worker transportation vans are old and of bad quality. The vehicles are bought second-hand from auto-collision repair shops or modification garages…

The NSSF quoted deputy national police chief Him Yan as saying that 488 people had died in traffic accidents in the third quarter of this year – 38 per cent of whom were workers.

…, the NSSF announced that it had educated more than 16,312 people across the Kingdom on road safety at 243 separate events.