COMPONENT OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
By Faudzil Harun
1. OSH Management
1.1 The idea of planning to prevent accidents and ill health as opposed
to reacting after they have occurred.
1.2 Emphasize on ‘managing safety and health’ rather than ‘who causes
the incident’.
1.3 The path to a successful OSH management is :
2. OSH Legislation
2.1 The two main statue governing OSH in Malaysia is :
a) Occupational Safety and Health Act, 1994 (Act 514)
● A self regulated law that supersede others if conflict or
inconsistency occurs.
● Apply to all occupation except work on board ships and armed
forces.
b) Factories and Machinery Act, 1967 (Act 139)
● Apply to factory and premises and work defined in it.
● Control of specific hazard (e.g. noise, lead, asbestos, mineral
dust, building operation and work of engineering.
2.2 Other laws and regulations related to the place of work, nature of
work, machinery and substance used for any specific operation.
Authority
|
Law
|
Department of
Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) – Ministry of Human Resource
|
Act 514 –
Occupational Safety and Health Act, 1994 and its Regulations.
Act 139 –
Factories and Machinery Act, 1967
and it’s
Regulations.
|
National Institute
of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
|
Occupational
Safety and Health Education
and Competency
Examinations.
|
Ministry of Health
(MOH)
|
Act 366 – Poison
Act, 1952 and its Regulations.
|
Ministry of
Domestic Trade, Co-operative and Consumerism (KPDNKK)
|
Act 302 –
Petroleum (Safety Measures) Act, 1984 and its Regulations.
|
Fire and Rescue
Department (BOMBA)
Ministry of Home Affairs |
Act 341 – Fire
Services Act, 1988
and it’s
Regulations.
|
Polis DiRaja
Malaysia (PDRM)
|
Act 207 –
Explosive Act, 1957
and it’s
Regulations.
|
Department of
Environment (DOE)
|
Act 127 –
Environmental Quality Act, 1974
and it’s
Regulations.
|
Ministry of Agriculture
and Agro-Based Industry (MOA)
|
Act 149 –
Pesticides Act, 1974
and it’s
Regulations.
|
Local Authority of
State Government (PBT)
|
Uniform Building
by Laws, 1984
|
3. Occupational Safety
habits in all individuals so as to engender a strong safety culture in
the workplace. It requires stakeholders to take reasonably practicable
measures to ensure the safety and health of workers and other
people that are affected by the work being carried out.
3.2 It should aim to protect the people employed in a work environment
through promoting awareness, teaching workers how to work safely,
compliance of laws and regulations to prevent workplace illnesses,
accidents, injuries, and fatalities.
4. Occupational Health
Occupational health should aim at: the promotion and maintenance of the
highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all
occupations; the prevention amongst workers of departures from health
caused by their working conditions; the protection of workers in their
employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health; the
placing and maintenance of the worker in an occupational environment
adapted to his physiological and psychological capabilities; and, to
summarize, the adaptation of work to man and of each man to his job.”