OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH (OSH)

• SAFETY AND AWARENESS AT THE WORKPLACE

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  Managers play an important role in creating the conditions for a safe and healthy working environment-a function as important as ensuring quality or maintaining productivity. With this in mind, this program has been designed to look at how a manager can help to provide a safe working environment.
  
  The objective of this program is for participating to have an appreciation and understanding of the OSHA 1994 including their role and involvement for ensuring safety and health at the workplace.

• ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION

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  This program on accident investigation provides an introduction to basic accident investigation procedures and describes accident analysis techniques. The goal of the program is to help participants gain the basic skills necessary to conduct an effective accident investigation at their workplace. The target audience is the small employer, manager, employee or employee representative who, as part of a firm's safety and health system, would be involved in conducting accident and/or near-miss investigations.

• FORMATION OF AN EFFECTIVE SAFETY & HEALTH COMMITTEE

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  Safety committees take many different forms. Ideally, the committee should have representation from both management and labour, as well as from all departments and shifts as applicable. A formal safety committee is not the only way. In small organizations, it may be as effective to have all employees attend a monthly or quarterly (at a minimum) safety meeting during which safety issues and concerns are discussed and recent incidents and injuries are reviewed. Some organizations may elect to have a group such as department heads fulfill the functions of the safety committee. As long as employee input is solicited, such a group can also accomplish the safety committee's stated duties.

• OSH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR EXECUTIVES

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  In this program you will learn to establish OSH systems and procedures for the organization, and learn to implement OSH programs effectively. At the same time, you will be taught how to implement an effective management system, ending with the basic fundamentals of Plan, Do, Check and Take Action on this management system. Overall you will understand that maintaining safety and health is an integral part of the business system.

• UNDERSTANDING AND IMPLEMENTING NOTIFICATION OF
  ACCIDENT, DANGEROUS OCCURRENCE, AND OCCUPATIONAL
  DISEASE REGULATIONS

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  At the end of this program, participants will understand the provisions under the Notification of Accident, Dangerous Occurrence, Occupational Poisoning and Occupational Disease Regulations 2004 (NADOPOD 2004). Participants will also be able to distinct between work-related incidences and non-work related incidences. They will also be able to use the appropriate form for reporting purposes to the Department of Occupational Safety and Health.

• OSH ACT 1994

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  The Occupational Safety and Health Act is an Act which provides the legislative framework to secure the safety, health and welfare among all Malaysian work forces and to protect others against risks to safety or health in connection with the activities of persons at work. This Act was gazette on 24th February 1994 and may be cited as the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994. This Act is a practical tool superimposed on existing safety and health legislation. The aims of this Act are :
  
  • to secure 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 person 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
  
  • 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 legislation 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.

• OSH AT THE WORKPLACE

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  This program will highlight the importance of safety and health at the workplace, and will impart safety and health elements to improve work conditions. By the end of the program, participants will understand the need to cultivate safety and health culture at the work place.