DEPARTMENT

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH

(DOSH)
MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE

MUHAMMAD TASYRIF AHMAD ANUAR

DEPARTMENT OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH SELANGOR
SCOPE
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01. OBJECTIVE

02. INTRODUCTION OF DOSH

03. THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH ACT (OSHA) 1994

OBJECTIVE
1. To understand the requirements of safety and health
legislation

2. Appreciate the importance of occupational safety and health

3. The role we have to play in promoting and creating a safe

and healthy workplace
INTRODUCTION OF DOSH
• The Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is
a department under the Ministry of Human Resources.

• As a government agency, the department is responsible for the

administration and enforcement of legislations related to
occupational safety and health of the country
INTRODUCTION OF DOSH
• This department is responsible for ensuring the safety, health
and welfare of people at work as well as protecting other people
from the safety and health hazards arising from the activities
sectors which include:

▫ Manufacturing
▫ Mining and Quarrying
▫ Construction
▫ Hotels and Restaurant
▫ Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
▫ Transport, Storage and Communication
▫ Public Services and Statutory Authorities
▫ Utilities - Gas, Electricity, Water and Sanitary Services
▫ Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Business Services
▫ Wholesale and Retail Trades
INTRODUCTION OF DOSH
• Jabatan Keselamatan dan Kesihatan Pekerjaan formerly
known as Jabatan Kilang dan Jentera is given the mandate
to administer and enforce the safety and health law in
Malaysia.

▫ Factories and Machinery Act 1967

▫ Petroleum (Safety Measures )Act 1984
▫ Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994
INTRODUCTION
Occupational Safety and Health
Act (OSHA) 1994
And Its Regulations
 PHILOSOPHY AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES
“ Responsibilities to ensure safety and health at
the workplace lies with those who create the
risk and with those who work with the risk ”

• Self-regulation
▫ employers must develop a good and orderly management system
• Consultation (tri partite)
▫ Employers, employees and the government must negotiate to settle issues
and problems relating to occupational safety and health at the workplace
• Workers cooperation & participation
▫ Employers and employees must co-operate to take care, nurture and to
increase the quality of occupational safety and health at the workplace
SCOPE
Persons at work –

• In Industries specified in the First Schedule

• Except for work

▫ on board ships
▫ in the Armed Forces
LIST OF INDUSTRIES (FIRST SCHEDULE)

• manufacturing
• mining and quarrying
• construction
• agriculture, forestry and fishing
• utilities - electricity, gas, water, and sanitary services
• transport, storage and communication
• wholesale and retail traders
• hotels and restaurants
• finance, insurance, real estate and business services
• public services and statutory authorities
OBJECTS OF THE ACT
• To secure the safety, health and welfare of persons at work
against risks

• To protect persons at a place of work other than persons at

work against risks

• To promote an occupational environment for persons at work

which is adapted to their physiological and psychological
needs.

• to provide the means towards a legislative system based on

regulations and industry codes of practice in combination with
the provisions of the Act.
 SALIENT PROVISION
• National Council for OSH
• General duties of - employers & self-employed;
designers, manufacturers and suppliers; employees
• Safety and Health Organisation
• Reporting of accident, dangerous occurrence,
occupational poisoning and disease
• Prohibition of the Use of Plant or Substance
• Industry Code of Practice
• Enforcement and Investigation
• Liability for offences
• Appeals
• Penalties
GENERAL DUTIES OF EMPLOYERS AND
SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS (SECTION 15)

• So far as is practicable –

▫ Provide and maintain plant and system of work

▫ Make arrangements for the safe use, operation, handling,

storage and transportation of substances and plant

▫ Provide information, instruction, training and supervision

▫ Provide and maintain place of work and means of access to

and egress from any place of work

▫ Provide and maintain working environment that is safe and

without health risk and adequate welfare facilities
 GENERAL DUTIES OF EMPLOYERS AND
SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS

“PRACTICABLE”
means practicable having regard to –

i. the severity of the hazard or risk in question;

ii. the state of knowledge about the hazard or risk and the way
of removing or mitigating the hazard or risk;

iii. the availability and suitability of ways to remove or mitigate

the hazard or risk; and

iv. the cost removing or mitigating the hazard or risk

PHILOSOPHY AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• Duty of care under common law now

becomes a legal duty of the employer to
provide the necessary care to his
employees

• non-compliance is a crime
ROOT CAUSE OF ACCIDENT
• Most occupational accidents is cause by Unsafe Act or
Unsafe Condition or the combination of both

▫ Unsafe Act
 Activity that is conducted in a manner that may threaten the
health and/or safety of workers.
▫ Unsafe Condition
 A condition in the work place that is likely to cause property
damage or injury.

• However the 2 reasons are the result of factors that can be

prevented or controlled by employer/management
WHAT TO DO
• Establish programs on the provision, maintenance and
procedure for the safe use of plant and substances e.g.
purchasing procedure, SOPs, work permit, maintenance
schedule etc.

• Establish training, education and supervisory programs for

new employees and continuous training and education
programs on existing employees

• Establish programs to ensure workplaces are safe e.g.

housekeeping, lighting, inspection etc.

• establish industrial hygiene programs to ensure healthy

working environment e.g. monitoring, PPE, Chemical Health
Risk Assessment.
HOW TO MAKE IT WORK
• Set Goals & The Means Of Achieving Them
▫ Safety & Health Policy

Duty to formulate safety and health policy (section 16)

 It shall be the duty of every employer and every self-employed person to

prepare and be appropriate revise a written statement of his general
policy with respect to the safety and health at work of his employees and
the organisation 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.

 Except those with not more than 5 employees

 HOW TO MAKE IT WORK
• Assign Responsibilities
▫ Safety & Health Organisation

Medical Surveillance (Section 28)

 Cases of illness he has reason to believe may be due to the nature of the
process or other conditions of work;
 Cases of change in process or substance which may cause risk of injury;
 Persons below age 16 years are about to be employed in work which may cause
risk of injury; or
 Risk of injury to health from Third Schedule of new substance as result of
process changes.
 HOW TO MAKE IT WORK
• Assign Responsibilities
▫ Safety & Health Organisation

Safety & Health Officer (Section 29)

 Safety and health officer shall be appointed to such class of industries as the
Minister may published in the Gazettes.
 Shall employ a competent person to act as safety and health officer.
 Safety and health officer employed for ensuring this Act and any regulation
thereafter is followed.
 The safety and health officer shall possess such qualifications or have received
such training as the Minister may from time to time prescribe.

Other provision:
 OSH (Safety & Health Officer) Regulation 1997
 OSH (Safety & Health Officer) Order 1997
 HOW TO MAKE IT WORK
• Assign Responsibilities
▫ Safety & Health Organisation

Establishment of safety & health committee at place of work (Section 30)

 Every employer shall establish a safety and health committee at the place of
work in accordance with this section if :-

▫ there are 40 or more persons employed at the place of work; or

▫ the Director General directs the establishment of such a committee at the
place of work.

 Every employer shall consult the safety and health committee to the making
and maintenance of arrangements which will enable him and his employees to
co-operate in promoting and developing measures to ensure the safety and
health at the place of work and in checking the effectiveness of such measures.
HOW TO MAKE IT WORK
• Identify hazards & assess risks

▫ Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment & Risk Control (HIRARC)

• Determine appropriate Control Measures & Management

Strategies

▫ Hierarchy Of Control
▫ Use Of Industry Codes Of Practice & Guidelines
HIERARCHY OF CONTROL
HOW TO MAKE IT WORK
• Implement Action Plan

▫ Implement Control Measures

▫ Disseminate Osh Information
▫ Training & Supervision
▫ Monitoring, Medical Surveillance
 Noise Monitoring, Audiometric Test,
 Chemical Health Risk Assessment, Ergonomic Risk Assessment
▫ Emergency Procedures
▫ Reporting & Investigation Of Accident, Dangerous Occurrence,
Poisoning & Diseases

• Get Osh Services/Advice

GENERAL DUTIES OF DESIGNERS,
MANUFACTURERS AND SUPPLIERS (SECTION 20 & 21)
• So far as is practicable -

▫ To ensure plant/substance is designed and constructed to be safe

and without risk to health when properly used

▫ Arrange for carrying out testing and examination

▫ Availability of adequate information

▫ For designers and manufacturers - arrange for research to

eliminate or minimize hazards

▫ Safe erection and installation

GENERAL DUTIES OF EMPLOYEES (SECTION 24)

• Take reasonable care for safety and health of himself and

others

• Co-operate with employer and others

• Wear and use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Comply with instructions on OSH

 OSH – ELEMENT OF SUCCESS

Self Involvement
+
Time
+ Safety & Health
Financial awareness
+
Cooperation
+
Willingness

COMMITMENT BY ALL PARTY

REPORTING OF ACCIDENT, DANGEROUS OCCURRENCE,
OCCUPATIONAL POISONINGS AND DISEASE
• Employer to report to the nearest OSH office of any accident,
dangerous occurrence, occupational poisonings and disease

▫ Refer to OSH (Reporting Of Accident, Dangerous Occurrence,

Occupational Poisonings And Disease) Regulations 2004
 Death
 Serious bodily injury (1st Schedule under these regulation)
 Dangerous Occurrence (2nd Schedule under these regulation)
 Accident arising out or in connection with work which cause bodily
injury to any person which prevents the person from following his
normal occupation for more than four calendar days
 An employee, as a result of an accident arising out or in connection with
work, has suffered an injury or condition reportable under sub
regulation (1) which cause death within 1 year of the date of that
accident
REPORTING OF ACCIDENT, DANGEROUS OCCURRENCE,
OCCUPATIONAL POISONINGS AND DISEASE

• Registered medical practitioner or medical officer to report on

scheduled diseases in FMA67 or any other diseases named by
Minister
▫ Reporting of cases of occupational poisoning & occupational
disease
 OSH (Prohibition of Use of Substance)
Order 1999

4-aminodiphenyl; Manufacture and use for all purposes To prevent cancer

benzidine;2-naphthylamine; including any manufacturing process
4-nitrodiphenyl; their salt & in which a substance described in
substance exceeding 0.1% column (1) is formed, except for
research or analytical purposes
White phosphorus Use in the manufacture of matches Chronic phosphorus
poisoning (osteomyalitis of
the jaw bone)
Benzene Cleaning and degreasing purposes Human carcinogen

Carbon disulphide; carbon Cleaning and degreasing purposes Damage to nervous

tetrachloride and n-hexane system
Liver or kidney nacrosis
Damage to paripheral
nerves
Crocidolite All purposes except for research or Lung cancer and
analytical purposes mesotheliomas
PENALTIES
RM50,000 /+ 5 years +
Notice of improvement / prohibition
RM500 per day
General duties of employer and self-
RM50,000 /+ 2 years
employed
Safety and Health Policy RM50,000 /+ 2 years
Safety and health organisation RM5,000 /+ 6 months
Interfere or misuse things provided for
RM20,000 /+ 2 years
safety and health
RM10,000 /+ 1 year
Discrimination against employee

RM10,000 /+ 1 year
Offences in relation to inspection

RM1,000 /+ 3 months
Duties of employee

RM10,000 /+ 1 year
General Penalty Clause
REMINDER
• We were given
▫ 2 hands
▫ 2 legs
▫ 2 eyes
▫ 2 ears
• But
▫ We only have 1 life
REMINDER

Therefore…

Think safety
Work safely
 Thank you

DEPARTMENT OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH

SELANGOR