Prepared by:

Azhani binti Ariffin

BSc. (Hons) Housing, Building & Planning (Construction), USM
Msc. (Hons) Civil Engineering (Construction), UiTM
Learning outcomes for DUW1012
Upon completion of this course, student should
be able to:

 Identify the OSH legislation and its compliance in

Malaysia (PLO 1, C2)
 Explain briefly incident, hazard, risks and safe work
practices in order to maintain healthy and safe
working environment (PLO 1, C2)
 Discuss cooperatively in responding to an accident
action at workplace (PLO 1, C3, A2)
 Adhere to the safety procedures in respective fields
(PLO 8, A3)
The course is assessed through:
 50% Continuous Assessment (CA)
 50% Final Examination (FE)

 Continuous Assessment (CA)

 Quiz (minimum 2) 20%
 Test (minimum 1) 30%
 Case Study (minimum 3) 30%
 Group Discussion (minimum 1) 20%
Importance of Safety in Workplace
• Occupational safety and health can be important for
moral, legal, and financial reasons.
• All organisations have a duty of care to ensure that
employees and any other person who may be
affected by the companies undertaking remain safe
at all times.
• Moral obligations would involve the protection of
employee's lives and health.
• Legal reasons for OSH practices relate to the
preventative, punitive and compensatory effects of
laws that protect worker's safety and health.
• OSH can also reduce employee injury and illness
related costs, including medical care, sick leave
and disability benefit costs
THREE main Acts or statute laws that govern
or focus on safety and health of workers in
Malaysia:

 The Factories & Machineries Act,1967

(Act 139)
 The Occupational Safety & Health Act,1994
(Act 514)
 The Construction Industries development Act,
1994
(Act 520)
Is an act to make further provisions for
securing that safety, health & welfare
of persons at work, for protecting
others against risks to safety & health
in connection with the activities at
work, to establish the National Council
for Occupational Safety & Health, &
for matters connected therewith
Also provides the legislative
framework to secure the safety,
health and welfare among all
Malaysian workforce and to protect
others against risks to safety or health
in connection with the activities of
persons at work.
Consists of 15 parts
Part I : Preliminary
Part II : Appointment of Officers
Part III: National Council for OSHA
Part IV: General Duties of Employers
& Self-Employed Persons
Part V: General Duties of Designers,
Manufacturers & Suppliers
Part V: General Duties of Designers,
Manufacturers & Suppliers
Part VI: General Duties of Employer
Part VII: Safety & Health Organisation
Part VIII: Notification of Accidents,
Dangerous, Occurrence, Occupational
Poisoning & Occupational Diseases,
Inquiry
Part IX: Prohibition Against Use of
Plant or Substance
Part X: Industry Codes & Practice
Part XI: Enforcement &
Investigation
Part XII: Liability For Offences
Part XIII: Appeals
Part XIV: Regulations
Part XV: Miscellaneous
 The provision of the Occupational Safety and Health
Act 1994 are based on the self-regulation scheme.
 Its primary responsibility is to ensure safety and
health of work lies with those who create the risks
and those who work with the risks.
 Through self-regulating scheme that is designed to
suit the particular industry or organization, this Act
also aims to establish effective safety and health
organization and performance.
 The concept of self-regulation encourages
cooperation, consultation and participation of
employees and management in efforts to upgrade
the standards of safety and health at the workplace.
OBJECTIVES:

 To secure the safety, health and welfare of persons

at work
 To protect persons at a place of work other than
the persons at work
 To promote an occupational environment for
persons at work which is adapted to their
physiological and psychological needs
 To provide the means towards a system of
regulations and approved industry codes of practise
Section 15 – As far as practicable:
 Ensure the safety, health and welfare of all
workers while at work

This includes:
 Making arrangements and maintenance of
plants and work system
 Making arrangement for the use, handling,
storage and transportation of the plant and
substances
Cont’d

 Provision of information, instruction,

training and supervision
 Provide and maintain workplace/access
routes to and from work areas
 Provide and maintain work environment
with adequate welfare facilities

Refer also Section 16, 17, 18 & 19

Section 24

 Ensure personal safety and that of others

 Cooperate with employer and others
 Properly wear and/or use personal protective
equipments that are provided
 Comply to any safety instructions

Refer also Section 25, 26 & 27

 Enacted on 1st February 1970
 To provide for the control of factories
 Scope: Manufacturing, mining & quarrying,
building operations and works
 OSHA, 1994 supersedes the FMA, 1967 in
the event of any conflict and inconsistency
between the 2 laws
 DOSH – the power of authority; appointment of public
officer by Minister, appointment of independent
inspecting body by DG (refer Section 5, 34, 39, 40,
41 & 42)
 NIOSH – appointed by Minister
(refer Section 9)
 SOCSO – protection plan for person at work
 Must established safety & health committee if there
are 40 or more persons employed at the place of
work; or the DG direction
DOSH Functions

 willensure through enforcement and

promotional works that employers, self-
employed persons, manufacturers, designers,
importers, suppliers and employees always
practice safe and health work culture, and
always comply with existing legislation,
guidelines and codes of practice.
DOSH Functions

 willalso formulate and review legislation,

policies, guidelines and codes of practice
pertaining to occupational safety, health and
welfare as a basis in ensuring safety and
health at work.
 also the secretariat to National Council for
Occupational Safety and Health, a council
established under section 8 of the
Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994.
NIOSH Functions : To study and review:

 OSH Legislations
 Improvement of the administration &
enforcement of OSH legislations
 Fostering of a cooperative consultative
realtionship between management & labour
 Specific OSH problems and issues related to
women & disabled employees
 Establishment of adequate methods of control
of industrial chemical
NIOSH Functions : To study and review: (cont’d)

 Statistical
analysis of occupational related deaths
and industries
 Provisions of healthcare facilities
 Development of rehabilitation plans and facilities
and adoption by law of industry codes of practice
 Development of plans and facilities for disabled
employees
 Chairman of Appeal Committee
 THANK
YOU
“No construction project is risk free. Risk can be
managed, minimized, shared, transferred or
accepted. It cannot be ignored.”

Sir Michael Latham, 1994