ABOUT US
CORPORATE PROFILE
KPX Sdn. Bhd. has been actively involved in driver and fleet safety training and consultancy for over 7 years. Our strategic fundamental concept is based on a preventive, safe and defensive approach. We are passionate about road safety and our core objective is to help Malaysia’s land transport industry to reduce road accidents through instilling a commitment and motivation to safety, not just driving skills.
OUR KEY PEOPLE
KPX Sdn Bhd is led by Mohd Najeeb Rosli its principal consultant and assisted by Atan Othman who is a driver training specialist. Presently, KPX has 3 consultants and 10 specialist driver training instructors.
Mohd. Najeeb Rosli
Mohd Najeeb has 15 years of unparalleled and extensive road safety experience ranging from developing driver training curricula for Malaysia to designing novel and innovative fleet safety programmes for the dangerous unpredictable off-road driving conditions in the jungles of Malaysia. He is a Chartered Member of the United Kingdom's Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics and a qualified Defensive and Advance Driving Trainer from the highly regarded Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, United Kingdom. Najeeb also has an Advance Diploma in Business Administration majoring in Transportation from MARA Institute of Technology and now pursuing his Master degree candidate in Occupational Safety & Health, Risk Management. Some of his recent notable achievements and contributions to Malaysia's road safety are:
- Designed and developed Malaysia's new Driver Education Curriculum for Class D license holders (Manual & Automatic vehicles) for the Road Transport Department;
- Designed and implemented the Land Transport And Fleet Safety Programme for Petronas Carigali's Kimanis-Bintulu Gas Pipeline Project which runs over 520 kilometers;
- Designing and developing a driver training curriculum for commercial drivers for the Road Transport Department, Malaysia;
- Principal rainmaker for most of KPX's business.
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Muammar Quadaffi Mohd Ariffin, P. Eng (C115988)
Muammar is KPX's Chief Operations Officer. He has over 18 years of experience in the automotive industry, road safety behavioural research, the development of instrumented vehicles and driving simulators for experiments as well as extensive experience in organisational and project management. He is a registered Professional Engineer with Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). His specialities are vehicle design, occupant safety, driving simulation, the application of road safety research and project management. Muammar holds a Masters degree from Cornell University, USA and was the Head of Proton's Chassis Suspension and Steering Unit being in vehicle design at Proton for 10 years which included collaboration with Lotus Engineering, UK. He was thereafter the Head of the Design and Instrumentation Unit at the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research where he was responsible for the development of driving simulators and instrumented vehicles, specifically cars and motorcycles which are equipped with hidden electronic devices and sensors to covertly measure driving behaviour. Muammar's work in road safety and vehicle design has contributed to safer vehicles. Muammar has also trained dozens of road safety agencies and multinational corporations on vehicle maintenance and occupant safety. Muammar has developed and sharpened his skills in training programme development, training delivery and training assessment by achieving the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAE40110) from Australia. He is also a registered trainer with Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF).
Atan Othman
Atan has over 28 years of road safety experience. He is a qualified vehicle and maintenance trainer with driver training from The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, United Kingdom and prior to that was a Staff Sergeant with the Malaysian Armed Forces where he received vehicle safety training locally and in Europe under NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation). Atan served 22 years with the Malaysian Army's 4th Regiment Royal Armoury as a transport officer specialising in managing and maintaining the Regiment's fighting and nonfighting vehicles. He was thereafter at various logistics companies gaining extensive experience as a road safety and driver trainer. Atan's commercial driving background and army training and experience are invaluable in KPX's service offering of field training of commercial drivers on normal Malaysian roads as well as in off-road and jungle environments.
Abdul Rahmat Abdul Manap
Rahmat is a consultant and regarded as one of only a handful of crash investigation experts in Malaysia. He has years of highly intensive, broad and deep experience in investigating the most high profile of crashes in the country for the Government of Malaysia. His expertise includes motorcycle crash investigations and spinal injuries in automobile crashes. He holds a degree in biomedical engineering (Biomechanics) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA and currently pursuing his masters degree in mechanical engineering at Universiti Teknologi Petronas. He was the Head of the Crash Reconstruction Unit of the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS) where he led or was instrumental in the investigation of over 500 of Malaysia's worst and most high profile crashes. His work has assisted the Royal Malaysian Police's investigation of the crashes, the Land Public Transport Commission, PUSPAKOM and hospitals as well as providing information and recommendations to the Ministry of Transport and other relevant ministries on remedial measures that can be taken. His work has also contributed to numerous recommendations which have been translated into Malaysian policy and law, for example guardrail safety standards, rear seatbelt use, requiring a second driver on long distance journeys by commercial vehicles, the adoption of vehicle construction regulations from the United Nations and new law on electric bicycles in Malaysia. Rahmat has provided crash investigation training to dozens of road safety agencies and private sector companies and has been an expert witness in countless court cases on road accidents. His expertise in using crash reconstruction simulation software such PC Crash benefit tremendously in the analysis of motor vehicle crashes.
Khairilmizal Samsudin
Khairilmizal is KPX's specialist and consultant in Safety Engineering and Emergency Management. With more than 12 years of experience in Emergency Response and Management, Khairilmizal has worked and provided consultation to various industries and companies and countries. He holds a Masters Degree in Emergency Response and Planning from Universiti Putra Malaysia and currently pursuing his doctorate research in emergency management. With increasing numbers of academic publications relating to safety and emergency management to support his tertiary credentials, he also has undergone several professional certifications relating to emergency response and management, including NFPA 1041/1042 (Professional Instructor), NFPA 471/472 (HAZMAT), FEMA Incident Command System, FEMA Incident Manager and many more. Among his notable achievements are:
- HAZMAT SME After Action Review (AAR) team for ASEAN Regional Forum on Disaster Relief Exercise 2015 (ARF DIREx 2015),
- International speaker and presenter relating to safety and emergency response and management
- Disaster Management Consultant and Observer for EX-STORM Fire and Rescue Department (BOMBA), 2012-2016,
- Coordinating and delivering training programme for lead responding agency in Malaysia in accordance with Malaysia Security Council (MSC) directives and other related requirements,
- Developed Emergency Management module for both Bachelor and Master degree programmes.
- Designed conduct Cyberjaya Flagship Zone Emergency Exercise (CYMEX 2006)
- Reviewed and updated Petronas Dagangan Berhad's Road Transport Operations Guidelines with current regulatory requirement.
He also shares his passion in emergency response and management by providing lectures at several local universities in Malaysia, as he is a certified lecturer with Ministry of Education Malaysia.
Background
For a number of years many countries have adopted a basic test for driving competency. The required passing standards or competencies tend to focus on safety techniques for managing the control of the vehicle and making safe and controlled progress. Once someone has passed that initial competency test they will never need to prove their safe driving ability again. Yet, research has shown that almost half of experienced drivers would not pass the respective basic road safety test if they had to retake their driving test.
Typically, as we get older and more experienced, we become more safety conscious as we learn from experience. However, over time our driving standards tend to become corrupted by bad habits and an over confidence regarding our driving competence and ability to drive safely. Most vehicles are subjected to an annual test or transfer test to ensure they remain mechanically fit for use on the road. Statistics indicate that mechanical defects cause under 3% of road crashes, yet drivers whose errors and omissions are the main cause of over 95% of road crashes, do not have to prove that they too are fit for the roads.
All road users are exposed to some degree of risk but the those who drive as part of their work requirements are almost three times more likely to be involved in a crash as opposed to those who do not serve that requirement. Research has shown that drivers who have undergone some post-test driver development training are less likely to be involved in a crash than those who have not. Essentially, systematic driver training can significantly reduce a driver’s crash risk. There is a critical need to have in place, easily understood and relevant standards throughout the training of drivers and instructors, to create a competitive benchmark against which to measure.
Our Aims
Our drivers’ development programme is aimed at providing high quality training and fleet management support in enabling students to reach a higher level of skill and knowledge. This will help reduce their crash risk and enhance their driving efficiency and effectiveness.
The development of common standards of technical competency also promotes professionalism and a keener understanding of a driver’s own safety needs and the needs of other road users.
The interactive classroom-based and experience-sharing sessions are designed to be informative and provide participants with an understanding of the principles of defensive driving. They also challenge and explore the relationships between human attitude, stress, fatigue, a person’s driving performance and other essential elements.
Contact Us
KPX SDN. BHD.
(666919-P)
TEL: +03-51911837 FAX: +03-51910019