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OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH IN MALAYSIA - Coggle Diagram
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH IN MALAYSIA
Law enforce by DOSH
Factories and Machinery Act 1967(FMA1967)
Occupational Health And Safety Act 1994(OSHA 1994)
Approved by parliament in 1993 and was gazette on Februay 1994
Provided for
appointment of enforcement officers
Establishment of National Council For NIOSH
Formation of policy of measure to project safety and health
Types of the industry covered by this act
Manufacturing
hotels and restaurant
Final insurance, real estate
agriculture, construction
Objective of OSHA
To secure the safety and health at work
to protect person at work place
to maintain or improve the standards of safety and health
3 Principles of OSHA
1- Self-regulation. To handle issues relating to safety and health
2-Consultation. Negotiate to settle issue or problem relating to safety and health
3-Co-operation. employers and employees must cooperate to take care each other safety and health
Petroleum(Safety Measures) Act 1984
The Roles of Safety and Health Organization In Malaysia
NIOSH
To contribute towards effort in upgrading OSHA through developing curriculum
To assist the industry in solving issue related to safety and health
To dissiminate information on research finding
DOSH
to study and review the policies and legislation of occupation safety and health
To conduct research and analysis on issues related to OSH at workplace
To become a secretariat for the National Council OSH
SOCSO
Provide social security protection by social insurance
Accident at works
Elements of accident prevention planning
Management commitment
Hazard control
Record keeping
training
Accident investigation
workplace hazard assestment
safe work practices
Employee environment
accident is incident which occur and result to harm a person and even cause a death, damage to equipment and could be combination of both
Ensuring A Safe Workplace
OSH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM(OSHMS) is defined as a set of interrelated element to establish and implement OSH policy and objectives.
Managers can influence safety performance by
Settling Policies that require high safety performance
Providing resources to achieve the aim all of policies
Encouraging and supporting local managers for effort to achieve high safety performance
Demonstrating high commitment towards the development of safety and health
5 components of typical OSH-MS1722
Policy
Organizing
Planning and implementation
Evaluation
Action for improvement
Safety and Health Commitee
An effective safety and health committee is important for the following reasons
Accident rate reduce
Safety and health awareness improved
cooperation is encouraged through better communication
All employees have a way to impress concerns have them expressed
Safety and Health Committee Composition
A chairman
A secretary
2 representative of employers
2 representatives from the employees
Improving the Health Of Employees
The General Duties
Providing and maintaining plant and system work
Arranging safe use in any relation to operation
Providing information, training and egress from any workplace
Providing a safe and healthy work environment
Section 16 states employers and self employed person must have hand written safe and health policy for organization
Section 17 describe the duties of employer to ensure safety for the affect of work activities
Section 19 states penalty for disobeying the section 16,17,18
Employee's responsibillities
Section 24(1)
taking reasonable care for the safe and health during worl
Wearing PPE
Cooperating with employer in discharge of any duty
Section 25 States the duty of the employee not to interfere or misused the things provided for safety and health