18 March 2013

OSH MANAGEMENT - Component of OSH






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

     3.1  Occupational safety refers to framework to cultivate good 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.”