Introduction to Occupational Safety and Health Legislation

Occupational Safety and Health Management System

Incident Prevention Emergency Preparedness, Response and

Fire Safety Occupational First Aid Hazard Identification, Risk Assesment and

Risk Control (Hirarc) Electrical Safety

DUW 1012 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

OSH/KKP- Occupational Safety and Health/Keselamatan Dan Kesihatan Pekerjaan : Bidang

OSHA/AKKP-Occupational Safety and Health Administration/Akta Keselamatan dan Kesihatan Pekerjaan : Perundangan

DOSH/JKKP-Department of Occupational Safety and Health / Jabatan Keselamatan Dan Kesihatan Pekerjaan : Organisasi yang bertanggungjawab (pihak berkuasa) berkaitan OSH di Malaysia

NIOSH-National Institute Of Occupational Safety And Health/ Institut Keselamatan Dan Kesihatan Pekerjaan: Organisasi penyedia latihan (training provider) dan juga penyelidikan (research) berkaitan OSH

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

LEGISLATION-Understand OSH Legislation

-Understand the importance of Safety in Workplace- Understand Statutory Requirements

- Understand the role of Safety and Health Organization in Malaysia

Philosophy of the Act that is,

Responsibility for safety and health in the workplace lies with:

1. Those who create the risks (employers)2. Those who work with the risks

(employees).

OSHA Philosophy & Objective

FALSAFAH & KONSEP AKTA

Tangungjawab memastikan keselamatan dan kesihatan di tempat kerja terletak di atas mereka yang bekerja dengan bahaya tersebut (pekerja) dan mereka yang mengwujudkan bahaya tersebut (majikan)

Konsep setakat yang PRAKTIK atau MUNASABAH

FALSAFAH & PRINSIP AKTA

“Peraturan Kendiri” atau “Pengurusan Tempat Kerja Sendiri” (Self Regulation)

Kerjasama Pekerja (Cooperation) dan, Perundingan (Consultation)

PERATURAN-PERATURAN DI BAWAH OSHA1994

Employers’ Safety and Health General Policy Statements Exception Regulations 1995

Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1996

Safety and Health Committee Regulations 1996

Classification, Packaging and Labeling of Hazardous Chemical Regulations 1997

PERATURAN-PERATURAN DI BAWAH OSHA 1994

Safety and Health Officer Regulations 1997

Safety and Health Officer Order 1997

Use and Standard Exposure of Chemical Hazardous to Health 2000

Notification of Accident, Dangerous Occurrence, Occupational Poisoning and Occupational Disease Regulations 2004

SKOP AKTA• merangkumi dan melindungi semua

orang yang bekerja dalam semua aktiviti ekonomi termasuk perkhidmatan awam, badan berkanun dan sektor swasta kecuali :

Angkatan Tentera

Mereka yang bekerja di atas kapal perdagangan

SKOP AKTA Pengilangan Perlombongan dan Kuari Pembinaan Pertanian, Perhutanan dan Perikanan Kemudahan Elektrik, Gas, Air dan Perkhidmatan

Kebersihan Pengangkutan, Penyimpanan dan Komunikasi Perdagangan Borong dan Runcit Hotel dan Restoran Kewangan, Insurans, Hartanah dan Perkhidmatan

Perniagaan Perkhidmatan Awam dan Pihak Berkuasa Berkanun

To secure the safety, health and welfare of persons at work against risks to safety or health arising out of the activities of persons at work;

To protect persons at place of work other than persons at work against risks to safety or health arising out of the activities of persons at work;

The Aims of OSHA

To promote an occupational environment for persons at work which is adapted to their physiological and psychological needs;

To provide the means whereby the associated occupational safety and health legislations may be progressively replaced by a system of regulations and approved industry codes of practice operating in combination with the provisions of this Act designed to maintainor improve the standards of safety and health.

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TUJUAN AKTA OSHAUntuk memastikan keselamatan, kesihatan dan kebajikan orang-orang yang sedang bekerja.

Untuk melindungi orang-orang di tempat kerja (selain daripada orang-orang yang sedang bekerja).

Untuk mengalakkan suatu persekitaran pekerjaan yang bersesuaian dengan fisiologi dan psikologi orang-orang yang sedang bekerja.

Untuk mengadakan suatu sistem perundangan yang berasas kepada peraturan-peraturan dan tata amalan industri disamping peruntukan Akta.

PART I - PRELIMINARY PART II - APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS PART III - NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH PART IV - GENERAL DUTIES OF EMPLOYERS AND SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS

PART V - GENERAL DUTIES OF DESIGNERS, MANUFACTURAERS AND SUPPLIERS PART VI - GENERAL DUTIES OF EMPLOYEES PART VII- SAFETY AND HEALTH

ORGANISATION PART VIII - NOTIFICATION OF ACCIDENTS, DANGEROUS OCCURRENCE

OCCUPATIONAL POISONING AND OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES AND INQUIRY PART IX - PROHIBITON AGAINST USE OF PLANT OR SUBSTANCE PART X - INDUSTRY CODES OF PRACTICE PART XI - ENFORCEMENT AND

INVESTIGATION PART XII - LIABILITY FOR OFFENCES PART XIII - APEALS PART XIV - REGULATIONS PART XV- MISCELLANEOUS

Pembangunan Perundangan Keselamatan & Kesihatan

Pekerjaan (OSH)

Section 15. General duties of employers and self-employed persons to their employees.

Section 16. Duty to formulate safety and health policy

Section 17. General duties of employers and self-employed persons to persons other than their employees

Employers’ Responsibilities (Part IV, Section 15-19)

Section 18. Duties of an occupier of a place of work to persons other than his employees

Section 19. Penalty for an offence under section 15, 16, 17 or 18

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(1) It shall be the duty of every employer and every self-employed person to ensure, so far as is practicable, the safety, health and welfare at work of all his employees.

Section 15. General duties of employers and self-employed persons to their employees.

Seksyen 15: KEWAJIPAN AM MAJIKAN & ORANG BEKERJA SENDIRI Bah. IV Seksyen 15 ( 1 )“SETAKAT YANG PRAKTIK” Teruknya bahaya atau risiko terlibat Pengetahuan mengenai hazad, risiko dan

cara mengawalnya. Kewujudan dan Kesesuaian kaedah

pengawalan Kos yang terlibat bagi mengawal bahaya atau

risiko tersebut

a) the provision and maintenance of plant and systems of work that are, so far as is practicable, safe and without risks to health;

b) the making of arrangements for ensuring, so far as is practicable, safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use or operation, handling, storage and transport of plant and substances;

General duties of employers and self-employed persons to their employees.

c) the provision of such information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure, so far as is practicable, the safety and health at work of his employees;

d) so far as is practicable, as regards any place of work under the control of the employer or self-employed person, the maintenance of it in a condition that is safe and without risks to health and the provision and maintenance of the means of access to and egress from it that are safe and without such risks;

e) the provision and maintenance of a working environment for his employees that is, so far as is practicable, safe, without risks to health, and adequate as regards facilities for their welfare at work.

KEWAJIPAN AM MAJIKAN & ORANG YG BEKERJA SENDIRI

Mengada dan menyelenggara loji dan sistem kerja yang selamat dan tanpa risiko kepada kesihatan

Membuat perkiraan tentang langkah-langkah yang perlu diambil dalam penyimpanan, pengendalian, penyimpanan dan pengangkutan loji dan bahan.

Menyediakan maklumat, arahan, latihan dan pengawasan ke atas aktiviti-aktiviti berbahaya

Menyelenggara tempat kerja serta menyediakan laluan keluar dan masuk yang selamat.

Menyediakan dan memelihara persekitaraan tempat kerja yang selamat dan dengan kelengkapan yang mencukupi.

“it shall be the duty of every employer and every self-employed person to prepare and as often as may be appropriate revise a written statement of his general policy with respect to the safety and health at work of his employees and the organization and arrangements for the time being in force for carrying out that policy, and to bring the statement and any revision of it to the notice of all of his employees.”

Section 16. Duty to formulate safety and health policy

Prepare a written policy Employers are therefore required to review

the policy periodically. These policies are acceptable as long as

information on organization and arrangements to ensure safety and health in the workplace are included in the policies.

The employee should be informed

Responsibilities to prepare OSH policy.

KEWAJIPAN AM MAJIKAN & ORANG BEKERJA SENDIRI Bah. IV : Seksyen16“Kewajipan majikan dan orang yang bekerja sendiri menyediakan kenyataan bertulis mengenai DASAR AMNYA berkenaan keselamatan dan kesihatan pekerja-pekerjanya, ORGANISASI dan PERKIRAAN yang sedang berkuatkuasa bagi menjalankan dasar itu dan memberitahu pekerja-pekerjanya tentang dasar tersebut.”

KEWAJIPAN AM MAJIKAN & ORANG BEKERJA SENDIRI Bah. IV : Seksyen16

Kewajipan menyediakan POLISI OSH◦ Menyediakan dasar yg bertulis.◦ Semakan dari masa ke semasa dasar bertulis.◦ Mengadakan susunatur dan perkiraan di dalam

melaksanakan dasar tersebut.◦ Memaklumkan kepada pekerja.

“the duty of every employer and every self employed person to conduct his undertaking in such a manner as to ensure, so far as is practicable, that he and other persons, not being his employees”

Ensure that so far as is practicable, a person other than his employees who might be affected is not exposed to any health and safety risk.

Provide informations about work activities carried out

Section 17. General duties of employers and self-employed persons to persons other than their employees

KEWAJIPAN AM MAJIKAN & ORANG BEKERJA SENDIRI Bah. IV : Seksyen17

Kewajipan majikan dan orang yang bekerja sendiri terhadap orang lain selain dari pekerja mereka.

• Memastikan setakat yang praktik mereka tidak terdedah kepada risiko bahaya dari tempat kerja

• Memberi maklumat tentang aspek aktiviti di tempat kerja

(1) An occupier of non-domestic premises which has been made available to persons, not being his employees, as a place of work, or as a place where they may use a plant or substance provided for their use there, shall take such measures as are practicable to ensure that the premises, all means of access thereto and egress there from available for use by persons using the premises, and any plant or substance in the premises or provided for use there, is or are safe and without risks to health.

Section 18: Duties of an occupier of a place of work to persons other than his employees

(a) the maintenance or repair of a place of work or any means of access thereto or egress therefrom; or

(b) the prevention of risks to safety and health that may arise from the use of any plant or substance in the place of work,

(2) A person who has, by virtue of a contract or lease or otherwise, an obligation of any extent in relation to

liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit

imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years

or both.

Section 19: Penalty for an offence under section 15, 16, 17 or 18

Seksyen 19: PENALTI DI ATAS PELANGGARAN SEKSYEN 15 -18 DENDA : tidak melebihi RM 50,000.00 PENJARA : tidak melebihi 2 tahun atau KEDUA-DUANYA SEKALI

Section 24: General duties of employees at work

Section 25. Duty not to interfere with or misuse things provided pursuant to certain provisions

Section 26. Duty not to charge employees for things done or provided

Section 27. Discrimination against employee, etc.

Employees’ Responsibilities (Part VI, Section 24-27)

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General Duties of an Employee (P VI) To take care to ensure the safety of himself and other

persons. To provide full cooperation to the employer and other

persons in complying with the requirements of OSHA 1994.

To wear or use, at all times, any protective equipment or clothing provided by the employer.-Section 24

Not to intentionally, recklessly or negligently interfere with or misuse any item provided or activity carried out in the interest of OSH in pursuance of the OSHA 1994.-Section 25

Penalty for failure to comply: RM 1,000 or three months imprisonment or both.

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Safety and Health Organisation (P VII)

An employer with 40 or more employees must establish an OSH committee. -Section 30

Both management and workers must have adequate and equal representation in the committee.

The committee provides a path for consultation and cooperation between management and workers in identifying, assessing and controlling workplace hazards.

Among the committee’s functions are ◦ review OSH measures undertaken; ◦ inspect the workplace;◦ investigate possible hazards, accidents, near-misses; ◦ recommend corrective action.

Penalty for failure to comply: RM 5,000 or six months imprisonment or both

(1) It shall be the duty of every employee while at work

(a) to take reasonable care for the safety and health of himself and of other persons who may be affected by his acts or omissions at work;

(b) to co-operate with his employer or any other person in the discharge of any duty or requirement imposed on the employer or that other person by this Act or any regulation made thereunder;

Section 24: General duties of employees at work

(c) to wear or use at all times any protective equipment or clothing provided by the employer for the purpose of preventing risks to his safety and health;

(d) to comply with any instruction or measure on occupational safety and health instituted by his employer or any other person by or under this Act or any regulation made thereunder

(2) A person who contravenes the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.

A person who intentionally, recklessly or negligently interferes with or misuses anything provided or done in the interests of safety, health and welfare in pursuance of this Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.

Section 25. Duty not to interfere with or misuse things provided pursuant to certain provisions

“No employer shall levy or permit to be levied on any employee of his any charge in respect of anything done or provided in pursuance of this Act or any regulation made thereunder.”

The employer must not charge his employees for providing personal protective equipments or other requirements of the law.

For example the employee cannot be required to pay for personal protective equipments (e.g. safety boots, goggles, face mask, gloves or safety helmet) and employees welfare facilities (e.g. first aid box).

Section 26. Duty not to charge employees for things done or provided

(1) No employer shall dismiss an employee, injure him in his employment, or alter his position to his detriment by reason only that the employee:

(a) makes a complaint about a matter which he considers is not safe or is a risk to health;

(b) is a member of a safety and health committee established pursuant to this Act; or

(c) exercises any of his functions as a member of the safety and health committee.

Section 27. Discrimination against employee, etc.

(2) No trade union shall take any action on any of its members who, being an employee at a place of work

(a) makes a complaint about a matter which he considers is not safe or is a risk to health;

(b) is a member of a safety and health committee established pursuant to this Act; or

(c) exercises any of his functions as a member of a safety and health committee.

(3) An employer who, or a trade union which, contravenes the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year or to both.

(4) Notwithstanding any written law to the contrary, where a person is convicted of an offence under this section the Court may, in addition to imposing a penalty on the offender, make one or both of the following orders:

(a) an order that the offender pays within a specific period to the person against whom the offender has discriminated such damages as it thinks fit to compensate that person;

(b) an order that the employee be reinstated or re-employed in his former position or, where that position is not available, in a similar position.

See Folder Factory & Machinery Act

Factory & Machinery Act 1967

Gives protection in terms of health and safety for all workers working in factories regardless of sex

The jurisdiction of the act covers all factories

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Factory & Machinery Act 1967

In the year 1967, the Factory and Machinery Act was approved by the Parliament of Malaysia.

In 1970, the Factory and Machinery Act and eight regulations under the act were enforced.

This act was legislated to overcome the weaknesses in the Machinery Ordinance 1953, ◦ They were not protected if they are working

in a workplace that doesn’t use machinery.

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OSHA 1994

This legislation was made considering the fact that the Factory and Machinery Act 1967 only covers occupational safety and health in the manufacturing, mining, quarrying and construction industries, whereas the other industries are not covered.

The purpose of Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 is to promote and encourage occupational safety and health awareness among workers and to create organization along with effective safety and health measures.

Department of Safety and Health (DOSH) National Institute of Occupational Safety an

d Health (NIOSH) Social Security Organization (SOCSO)

Safety & Health Organizations in Malaysia