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Define OccupationalSafety and Health Act

(OSHA) philosophies andphilosophies andobjectivesobjectives

Describe OccupationalSafety and Health (OSHA(OSHA

1994)1994)

Identify the objectivesobjectivesof Occupational Safety

and Health 1994

Explainemployersemployers

responsibilitiesresponsibilities(Part IV, Section(Part IV, Section

1515--19)19)

Explainemployeesemployees

responsibilitiesresponsibilities(Part VI, Section(Part VI, Section

2424--27)27)

Roles OSH in

Malaysia

State the FactoryFactoryand Machineryand Machinery

Act 1967Act 1967


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To promote and encourage occupational safety and health

awareness among workers and to create organization alongwith effective safety and health measures

Carried out by self-regulation schemes that match the

industry or related organization

Defines the responsibilities of employers, manufacturer,

employees, self-employed workers, designers, importers

and vendors


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Responsibilities to ensuresafety and health at theworkplace lies on those whocreate the risk and those who

work with the risk

Self-regulation

Consultation Co-operation


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OSHA 1994OSHA 1994

SCOPE;

In all economics

activities(public/statutory

authorities)

EXCEPT:

i. On board ships

ii. The armed forces


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FIRST SCHEDULE OSHA 19941. Manufacturing2. Mining and quarrying

3. Construction

4. Agriculture, forestry and fishing

5. Utilities; electricity, gas, water and sanitary services

6. Transport, storage and communication

7. Wholesale and retail trades

8. Hotel and restaurants

9. Finance, insurance, real estate and business services

10. Public services and statutory authorities


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OBJECTIVES OF THE ACT1. To secure the safety, health and welfare of persons at

work against risks

2. To protect persons at a place of work other thanpersons at work against risks

3. To promote an occupational environment for personsat work which is adapted to their physiological andpsychological needs

4. To provide the means whereby the associatedoccupational safety and health legislations may beprogressively replaced by a system of regulations andapproved industry codes of practice operating incombination with the provisions of this Act designed tomaintain or improve the standards of safety and health


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FMA 1967

Factories and Machinery Act (FMA) 1967

-scope

i. Quaryii. Manufacturing

iii. Construction

iv. Mining

-prescriptive

-too dependent on government


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EMPLOYERS RESPONSIBILITIES

(PART IV, Section 15-19)

So far as is practicable;

1. Provide and maintain plant and system of work

2. Arrangement safe use, operation, handling, storageand transportation of substance and plant

3. Provide information, instruction, training andsupervision

4. Provide and maintain place of work and means ofaccess to egress from any place of work

5. Provide and maintain working environment that issafe, without health risk and adequate welfarefacilities


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Cont

ACCESS TO & EGRESS FROM

To ensure the basic structure of the workplace

is safe for employees:

Walls and floors are not going to collapse

Lifts are properly maintained

Staircases are well lit

Passages and roadways are kept free from

obstacles


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Cont

SAFE AND HEALTHY WORKING

ENVIRONMENT

Includes:

Ventilation

Noise

Heat (stress)

Lighting


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Cont

WRITTEN SAFETY AND HEALTH POLICY(Section 16)

Employer to formulate a written statement of his

general safety and health policy To revise policy

To inform employees of any revision

To bring to the notice of all employees

*>5 workers does not to have a written policy

*40 workers need to have a safety committee

*Penalty: Fine 50K / 2 yrs imprisonment


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EMPLOYEES RESPONSIBILITIES

(PART VI, Section 24-27)1. To take reasonable care for safety and health

of himself and others

2.To co-operate with employer and others

3. To wear or use all the times any personal

protective equipment (PPE)

4. Comply with instruction on OSH


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FACTORY AND MACHINERY ACT 1967

(Act 139)

An Act to provide for the control of factorieswith respect to matters relating to the safety,health and welfare of person therein, the

registration and inspection of machinery and

for matters connected therewith.

[1 February 1970, P.U. (B) 5/1970]


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PART ISection 7 : Powers of an Inspector

1. To enter, inspect and examine, by day or by night any

factory, to believe that explosive or highly

inflammable materials are stored or used and to

exercise such powers as may be necessary to inspectand examine any machinery, plant, appliance or

fitting therein

Section 8 : Obstruction an offence

1. Willfully delays an Inspector2. Fails to comply with any order lawfully given or

3. Willfully withholds any information*Penalty: Fine 5K / 2 yrs imprisonment


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PART IISection 10 : Provisions relating to safety

1. Foundations and floors shall be of sufficient strength

to sustain the loads for which they are designed

2. Roofs shall be of sufficient strength to carry where

necessary suspended loads

3. All floors, working levels, platforms, decks,stairways, ladders and steps shall be of safe

construction so as to prevent a risk of persons falling

Section 11 : Persons exposed to explosive, inflammable

1. In every factory in which persons are exposed to risk of

bodily injury from explosive, inflammable, poisonous orcorrosive substances or ionizing radiations, such measures as

may be prescribed shall be taken as will eliminate the risk.


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ContSection 12 : Lifting of weights

1. No person shall be employed to lift, carry or move

any load so heavy as to be likely to cause bodily

injury to himSection 13 : Provisions against fire

1. Every factory there shall be taken such precautions

against fire, and there shall be provided and

maintained, such means of escape in case of fireother than means of exit in ordinary use, and such

means of extinguishing fire as may be prescribed


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Section 24 : Personal protective clothing and

appliances

1. For use of those persons suitable and

adequate

personal protective clothing and appliances

including where necessary goggles, gloves,

leggings,

caps, foot-wear and protective ointment or

lotion


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PART IIIPerson in charge and certificates of competency

Section 26 : Training and supervision of

inexperienced workers

Section 29 : Certain machinery not to be

operated without certificated staff

1. Example; operator crane, boiler etc


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PART IV

Notification of accident, dangerous occurrence

and dangerous diseases

Section 31 : Accidents and dangerous

occurrence to be reported

Section 32 : Notification of industrial diseases

Section 33 : Investigation and enquiries by

DOSH


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PART V

Notice of occupation of factory, and registration

and use of machinery

PART VIGeneral (fees and penalties)


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ROLE OSH IN MALAYSIA

1. Department of Safety and Health (DOSH)2. National Institute of Occupational Safety and

Health (NIOSH)

3. Social Security Organization (SOCSO)


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ContDEPARTMENT OF SAFETY AND HEALTH

(DOSH)1. To study and review the policies and legislations of occupational safety

and health.

2. To enforce the following legislations :

a) Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 and its regulations

b) Factories and Machinery Act 1967 and its regulations.

c) Part of Petroleum Act 1984 (Safety Measures) and its regulations.

3. To conduct research and technical analysis on issues related tooccupational safety and health at the workplace

4. To carry out promotional and publicity programs to employers, workersand the general public to foster and increase the awareness of

occupational safety and health5. To provide advisory service and information to government and private

agencies pertaining to management and technical aspects of occupationalsafety and health

6. To become a secretariat for the National Council regarding occupationalsafety and health


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Will ensure through enforcement and promotional

works that employers, self-employed persons,manufacturers, designers, importers, suppliers andemployees always practice safe and health workculture, and always comply with existing legislation,guidelines and codes of practice.

Will also formulate and review legislation, policies,guidelines and codes of practice pertaining tooccupational safety, health and welfare as a basis inensuring safety and health at work.

Also the secretariat to National Council forOccupational Safety and Health, a council establishedunder section 8 of the Occupational Safety and HealthAct 1994.


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ContNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL

SAFETY AND HEALTH (NIOSH) Also known as the Institut Keselamatan dan

Kesihatan Pekerjaan Negara

Established as a Company Limited by

Guarantee under the Ministry of HumanResources

Launched on December 1, 1992

NIOSH serves as the backbone to create a self-regulating occupational safety and healthculture in Malaysia


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ContSOCIAL SECURITY ORGANIZATION

(SOCSO) The Social Security Organization is an organization set up to

administer, enforce and implement the Employees' SocialSecurity Act, 1969 and the Employees' Social Security(General) Regulations 1971.

The Social Security Organization provides social securityprotection by social insurance including medical and cashbenefits, provision of artificial aids and rehabilitation toemployees to reduce the sufferings and to provide financialguarantees and protection to the family.

SOCSO is the abbreviation for Social Security Organization.It is commonly known in the Malay term as PERKESO orPertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial.


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An insured person or dependants will be entitled to the following benefits :

1. Periodical payments in the case of invalidity

2. Periodical payments in the case of disablement suffered as a result of anemployment injury

3. Periodical payments to the dependants of an insured person who dies as a

result of an employment injury

4. Payments for funeral benefit or expense on the death of an insured person

as a result of an employment injury5. Periodical payments to an insured person who is in receipt of invalidity

pension or disablement benefit and is so severely incapacitated or disabled

as to require the personal attendance of another person

6. Medical treatments for the attendance on insured persons suffering from

disablement

7. Periodical payments to dependants of an insured person who dies while in

receipt of invalidity pension

SOCSO provides coverage to eligible employees through 2 schemes namely

1. Employment Injury Insurance Scheme

2. Invalidity Pension Scheme.


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Thank You


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BAHAGIAN II

Seksyen 10: Peruntukan yang berhubungan dengan keselamatan1. Asas-asas dan lantai hendaklah cukup kuat untuk menampung beban

yang mereka direka bentuk2. Bumbung hendaklah kekuatan yang mencukupi untuk menjalankan

mana perlu digantung beban

3. Semua lantai, kerja tahap, platform, dek, tangga, tangga dan langkah-langkah hendaklah yang selamat pembinaan untuk mencegah risiko

orang-orang yang jatuh

Seksyen 11: Orang yang terdedah kepada bahan letupan, mudah terbakar1. Di kilang di mana setiap orang terdedah kepada risiko kecederaan

badan daripada bahan letupan, mudah terbakar, beracun atau bahan-bahan menghakis atau radiasi mengion, langkah-langkah seperti yang

ditetapkan hendaklah diambil sebagai akan menghapuskan risiko


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Seksyen 12: Mengangkat berat1. Tiada seorang pun boleh digunakan untuk mengangkat,

membawa atau memindahkan apa-apa beban yang

berat sebagaimana yang mungkin menyebabkan tubuh

kecederaan kepadanya.

Seksyen 13: Peruntukan terhadap kebakaran1. Setiap kilang hendaklah mengambil langkah berjaga-jaga

terhadap kebakaran, dan hendaklah berusaha dengan apa-apa

cara untuk melepaskan diri sekiranya berlaku kebakaran

selain daripada cara keluar dalam penggunaan biasa, dan apa-

apa cara pemadam kebakaran sebagaimana yang ditetapkan


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DOSH

Akan memastikan melalui penguatkuasaan dan kerja-kerja promosimajikan, orang bekerja sendiri, pengilang, perekabentuk,pengimport, pembekal dan pekerja sentiasa mengamalkan budayakerja yang selamat dan kesihatan, dan sentiasa mematuhi undang-undang yang sedia ada, garis panduan dan kod amalan

Juga akan merangka dan mengkaji semula undang-undang, dasar,garis panduan dan kod amalan yang berkaitan dengan keselamatan,kesihatan dan kebajikan sebagai asas dalam memastikankeselamatan dan kesihatan di tempat kerja

Juga sekretariat kepada Majlis Negara bagi Keselamatan danKesihatan Pekerjaan, sebuah majlis yang ditubuhkan di bawah

seksyen 8 Akta Keselamatan dan Kesihatan Pekerjaan 1994


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NIOSH

Juga dikenali sebagai Institut Keselamatan dan

Kesihatan Kerja Negara

Ditubuhkan sebagai sebuah Syarikat Berhad

Dengan Jaminan di bawah Kementerian Sumber

Manusia

Dilancarkan pada 1 Disember, 1992

NIOSH bertindak sebagai tulang belakang untukmewujudkan keselamatan diri mengawal selia

pekerjaan dan kesihatan budaya di Malaysia


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SOCSO

Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial adalah sebuah organisasiyang ditubuhkan untuk mentadbirkan, menguatkuasakandan melaksanakan Keselamatan Sosial Pekerja di bawahAkta ini, 1969 dan Keselamatan Sosial Pekerja (Am) 1971

Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial menyediakan perlindungankeselamatan sosial oleh insurans sosial termasuk faedahperubatan dan wang tunai, penyediaan alat bantu buatandan pemulihan kepada pekerja untuk mengurangkanpenderitaan dan untuk menyediakan jaminan kewangandan perlindungan kepada keluarga

PERKESO adalah singkatan bagi Pertubuhan KeselamatanSosial. Ini telah diketahui umum dalam jangka Melayusebagai PERKESO atau Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial


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SambSeseorang orang berinsurans atau orang tanggungannya akan berhak kepada manfaat

berikut:

Bayaran berkala dalam hal ilat

Bayaran berkala dalam kes hilang upaya yang dialami akibat bencana kerja

Bayaran berkala kepada orang tanggungan seseorang orang berinsurans yang matiakibat bencana kerja

Bayaran untuk faedah atau perbelanjaan pengebumian di atas kematian orangyang diinsuranskan akibat bencana kerja

Bayaran berkala kepada seseorang orang berinsurans yang menerima pencen ilatatau faedah hilang upaya dan begitu teruk tidak berupaya atau kurang upayauntuk menghendaki kehadiran peribadi orang lain

Rawatan perubatan untuk kehadiran pada orang yang diinsuranskan mengalamihilang upaya

Bayaran berkala kepada tanggungan seseorang orang berinsurans yang matisemasa menerima pencen ilat

PERKESO menyediakan perlindungan kepada pekerja-pekerja yang layak melalui 2 skimiaitu:

Skim Insurans Bencana Pekerjaan

Skim Pencen Ilat

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