Chapter 3 Occupational Safety & Health Management Concept of Safety Management Struggle to be effective in reducing incidents and injury

y unless they are deployed an effective management framework. To be effective, the organization as a whole need to understand it roles and responsibility. Employer to provided safe system of work, information, instruction, training and supervision. This can best be achieved through a proper organization and administration. Objective of Safety Management Effective health & safety policies to send clear direction for its organization to follow; Effective management structure and arrangement for delivering the policy Planned & systematic approaches to implementing the H&S policy through an effective H&S management system. Performance to be measured against agreed criteria to reveal when and where improvement is needed. Occupational Safety And Health Act 1994 (Act 514) Sec.29 : S&H Officer (1) This section shall apply to such class or description of industries as the Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, specify. (2)An occupier of a place of work to which this section applies shall employee a competent person to act as a safety and health officer at the place of work. (3)The safety and health officer shall be employed exclusively for the purpose of ensuring the due observance at the place of work of the provisions of this Act and any regulation made thereunder and the promotion of a safe conduct of work at the place of work. (4)The safety and health officer shall possess such qualifications or have received such training as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, from time to time prescribe. (5)An occupier who contravenes the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to a term of imprisonment not. OSH Officer The Occupational Safety and Health (Safety and Health Officer) Order 1997 which came into force on 22 August 1997 requires that certain industries to employ a competent safety and health officer to resolve matters pertaining to the safety and health at their workplace. SAFETY & HEALTH COMMITTEE Sec.30 : S&H Committee (1) employer to establish committee if(a) 40 or more persons employee. (b) Director General direction Regulation Safety & Health (Safety & Health) 1996 give detail guide. (2) The composition , election or appointment of persons, the powers of the members and any other matter shall be as prescribed. Chairman (manager), secretary (Safety Officer), employer member (*),employee member (**). <=100employee, 2 member each

 >100 employee, 4 member each (3) employer consult the committee to the making and maintenance of arrangements in promoting and developing measures & checking the effectiveness of such measures. (4) A person who contravenes shall be guilty, to be fine not exceeding RM5000 or imprisonment not exceeding 6 months or to both. FUNCTION OF SAFETY &HEALTH COMMITTEE Sec.31 : Function Committee (a) shall keep under review the measures taken to ensure the safety and health of persons at the place of work; (b) shall investigate any matter at the place of work(i) which a member of the committee or a person employed thereat considers is not safe or is a risk to health; and (ii) which has been brought to the attention of the employer; (c) shall attempt to resolve any matter referred to in paragraph (b) and, if it is unable to do so, shall request the Director General to undertake an inspection of the place of work for that purpose; and (d) shall have such other functions as may be prescribed. Role of Management To promote safety & health culture Prepare frame work of implementation safety & health Provide infrastructure & tools Encourage skill & knowledge enhancement SAFETY & HEALTH TRAINING What is training? Training means helping people to learn how to do something, telling people what they should or should not do, or simply giving them information. Training isnt just about formal classroom courses. Who needs H&S training? Managers and supervisors All employees new recruits people changing jobs Updating employees skills Purpose of safety training Providing training helps you to: _ ensure employees are not injured or made ill by the work; _ develop a positive health and safety culture, _ you could manage health and safety better; _ meet your legal duty to protect employees. Effective Training _ making your employees competent in health and safety; _ help your business avoid the distress that accidents and ill health cause; _ help you avoid the financial costs of accidents and occupational ill

health. Training for OSH Management-1 Incident Prevention OSH Policy Organisation & Arrangements Risk Assessment and Management + Job Safety Analysis (JSA) (MA) OSH Promotion & Communication and Training OSH Programme Information Technology in OSH Procurement and Contractor Management + Document (Ex) PPE for Safety and Health Training for OSH Management-2 Emergency Response Preparedness and Recovery Planning First-Aid Documentation + Safety Manual (Ex) Performance Measurement & Monitoring + Calculation Incident Investigation and Corrective Action + Accident Report (MA) Auditing + Revision Question (MA) Management Review OSH Management Systems + ILO OSH MS Guideline