Introduction to osha

CHAPTER 1-
INTRODUCTION TO OSHA

AN INTRODUCTION
OSH 1994(Act 154) is an act to make
further provisions for

1.securingthe safety, health and welfare
of persons at work

2.protecting others against risks to
safety or health in connection with the
activities of persons at work

CONT…
Legislationon occupational safety
and health was made in the year
1994.

ITS CONSIDERING THAT…
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.

DID YOU KNOW

Workers that are covered by
Factory and Machinery Act
1967 consists only of 24% of
the nation’s total man power,
while Occupational Safety and
Health 1994 would cover 90%
of the nation’s total man power

PURPOSE OF OSHA

To promote and encourage
occupational safety and health
awareness among workers and to
create organisation along with
effective safety and health
measures.

CONTAIN OF OSH 1994
1. 15 section- is a measure that
supersedes any conflict in existing
occupational safety and health laws

2. Regulation and Legislation

3. The responsibilities of employers,
manufacturer, employees, self-
employed workers, designers,
importers and vendors

LEGISLATION THAT CONNECTED
TO OSHA

1. Act
2. Regulation
3. Code of Practice
4. Order
5. Guideline

OBJECTIVES OF OSHA
tosecure 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 a place of work
other than persons at work against risks
to safety or health arising out of the
activities of persons at work;

OBJECTIVES 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 maintain or improve the
standards of safety and health.

DUTY OF CARE
Employer has a duty to ensure that
workers and others are not exposed
to risks to health or safety arising
from the conduct of the employer's
business

So every employee must have the
general statutory duty of care that
carry out by employer

PURPOSE OF DUTY CARE
identify hazards
identify, and assess the seriousness of,
risks resulting from the hazards
determine appropriate risk management
measures (e.g. eliminate, minimize)
carry the risk management measures into
effect and minimize risk
monitor and review the effectiveness of
the measures.

DUTIES IN A WORKPLACE
Employer take practical measure to :

a. Workplace (entering and leaving) are
safe

b. a person who designs, constructs,
manufactures, imports, installs or
supplies a workplace or any part or
component of a workplace.

c. An owner or occupier of the workplace

DUTIES TO WORKPLACE
EQUIPMENT
Employer take practical measure to
ensure :
1. workplace infrastructure or
equipment are safe

2. worker instructed in the use, and
warned about risks involved in the use,
of workplace infrastructure or
equipment,
3.worker known about workplace
materials are poisonous

EMPLOYER TO EMPLOYEE
1. Ensure the safety, health and welfare at
work of all his employees.

2. Ensure the maintenance of plant and
systems of work that are safe and
without risks to health

3. Ensure practicable, safety and absence
of risks to health in connection with the
use or operation, handling, storage and
transport of plant and substances

EMPLOYER TO EMPLOYEE
4. Provide training, information and
supervision to worker

5. maintenance of workplace condition are
safe and the means of access to and
egress from it that are safe

6. Working environment is safe as regards
facilities for their welfare at work.

EMPLOYER TO OTHER PERSON
1. Ensure that he and other persons, not
being his employees, who may be
affected thereby are not thereby
exposed to risks to their safety or
health.

EMPLOYEE
1. 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

2. 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 OSH Act or any
regulation

EMPLOYEE
3. 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

4. to comply with any instruction or
measure on occupational safety and
health instituted by his employer or any
other person

FACTORY AND MACHINERY ACT

An Act to provide for the control of
factories with respect to matters
relating to the safety, health and
welfare of person therein, the
registration and inspection of
machinery and for matters
connected therewith.

SAFETY AND HEALTH
ORGANIZATION

DOSH
- starting from April 1994 the
Department of Factory and
Machinery has been renamed as the
Department of Occupational Safety
and Health (DOSH) and the
Inspectors are called Occupational
Safety and Health Officers

FUNCTION OF DOSH
To study and review the policies and
legislations of occupational safety and
health.

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.

FUNCTION OF DOSH
 To conduct research and technical
analysis on issues related to occupational
safety and health at the workplace.

To carry out promotional and publicity
programs to employers, workers and the
general public to foster and increase the
awareness of occupational safety and
health.

FUNCTION OF DOSH

To become a secretariat for the National
Council regarding occupational safety and
health

NIOSH

NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational
Safety and Health) was established on 24
June 1992 as a Company Limited by
Guarantee, under the Malaysian
Companies Act, 1965.

FUNCTION OF NIOSH
1. To provide training and education of Safety
and Health

2. Organize and participate in Safety and
Health exhibition

3. Organize and participate in Safety and
Health seminar and conferences

4.Support industries in their safety and health
campaign activities

SOCSO
SOCSO was established in1971 to
implement and administer the social
security scheme under the Employee’s
Social Security Act 1969 (Act 4)

Under the scheme, worker are protected
against industrial accident including
accident occur while working, occupational
diseases, invalidity or death due to any
cause.

FUNCTION OF SOCSO
1. registration of employer and employee
to SOCSO Scheme

2. collecting contribution, processing
benefit claim and make payment to
injured worker and their dependents.

3. provide vocational and physical
rehabilitation benefits and enhance
occupational safety and health
awareness of worker.

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