Strategies

Form the data explain above we can see that although the automotive industry in Malaysia is
not more than half from the manufacturing sector in Malaysia, but we can see clearly that it
are one of the main contributor on number of incident in the manufacturing sector in
Malaysia. From the respondent data that been collected from some automotive factory in
Malaysia, we can conclude that there are some of the data clearly show there is some factor
that is critical and need to be consider. The factor that need to consider to reduce the issue
regarding to safety and health are age, length of service, work task, medical consultant and
off-the-jobs safety. From the observation most experience worker which already work in the
industry for 3 to 5 years of service often involve in accident in workplace. Automated
production line and semi-automated production line is the major contribution for accident
cases. From the journal its quiet hard to come out with the prevention because the analysis of
the data just touch roughly on the surface of the problem. But from the questioner we can
come with the strategies on how to reduce the safety and health issue in automotive industry
in Malaysia. Of course when we talk about occupational safety and health issue, the main
pioneer must come from the government itself. Thus a standard and regulation must be
enforces by the government. ISO 9000 or 90 series one of the standard that need to become a
compulsory standard for all automotive industry in Malaysia. ISO 9000 is a family
management system. When talking about OSH, there is no reasons to separate OSH and
quality into 2 different things. Quality management and safety management is dependent to
one and another as the Total Safety Management concept that been introduce in 1996 is come
from the concept of Total quality Management in 1968. Safety and health is one factor that
cannot be taken easy to the manufacturing safety as in the accident cost iceberg theory says
that the first iceberg effect only cost at the upper level of the cost which is can be seen but
inside the largest part of the iceberg is hidden inside the water is been analogy as the hidden
cost that need to be covered. When a serious accident occur there are actually the great deal
of activity associated with the accident. There are maybe a slowdown in production near the
site of accident, for instance. There also will be a need to replace the injured worker, at least
temporally, and there will be a cost associated with the learning curve of the replacement
worker. The supervisor and the accident investigation team probably will need to spend time
to conducting investigation, and there will need a lot of time to spent on the administration of
paper work related to the accident (Daniel Corcoran). Thus from the statement we can
conclude that it’s a must to have an effective control on the safety and health in workplace to
overcome the bigger consequence in term of cost and reputation of the company. Lastly there
also one standard that related to the automotive industry which ISO/TF 16949:2009. ISO/TS
16949:2009 is an international Quality Management Systems automotive “sector-specific”
technical specification based on ISO 9001:2008. The ISO/TS 16949 was jointly developed by
the International Automotive Task Force (IATF) members and the ISO/TC 176 committees
of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for approval and publication.
Large automotive industry Malaysia already implemented the standard as it’s is one
requirement to get the ISO 9001 certificate in automotive industrial sector.