Diploma Occupational Safety and Health Management

WHY OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH?

- People are the most valuable asset of an organization and nation
- safe workplace leeds to increased productivity and greater profits
- safe work culture leeds to increased investor confidence
- Accident free safe workplace leeds to less compensation payments from public funds
- Safe workplace means less trauma for families and nation

WHY OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH? MALAYSIAN STATISTIC ( PERKESO )

No of DEATHS Due to workplace Accidents = nearly 1000 per year
No of PERMANENT DISABILITY Due to workplace Accidents = more than 22,000 per year
COMPENSATION PAYMENT Due to Workplace Accidents = RM 750 million per year

WHY A QUALIFICATION IN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH?

• The occupational Safety and Health Act ( OSHA 1994 )" the appointment of a Competent Safety and Health Officer in certain industries is mandatory "
• As of 2004, there are only 2500 Safety and health Officers who are qualified are registered with the Department of Occupational Safety and health ( DOSH ) Malaysia. Based on a report by DOSH Malaysia requires an estimated 5000 individuals who are qualified in this area by the year 2005
• current Safety and Health Officers are encouraged to upgrade their qualifications to enhance their knowladge and skills as for career advancement

It shall be the duty of a Safety & Health Officer

• To advise the employer or any person in charge of a place of work on the measures to be taken in the interests of a safety and health of the person employed in the place work
• To inspect the place of work to determine whether and machinery, plant, equipment, substance, appliance or process or any descripsion of manual labour used in the place or work, is of such nature liableto cause bodily injury to any person working in the place of work
• To investigate any accident, near miss, dangerous occurrence, occupational poisoning or occupational disease this has happened in the place work
• To assist employer or Safety & Health Committee, if any,pursuant to regulation 11of the Occupational Safety and Health (Safety and Health Commitee) Regulations 1996 in organizing and implementing Occupational Safety and Health programme at the place of work
• To become the secretery of a Safety & Health Committee, if any, as specified under subregulation 6 (2) of the Occupational Safety & Health (Safety & Health Commitee) Regulation 1996, and perform all functions of a secretary as specified in that Regulation
• To assist the Safety and Health Commitee in any inspection of the place of work for the purpose of checking the effectiveness and efficacy of any measures taken in compliance with the Act or any regulation made under the Act
• To collect, analyse and maintain statistics on any accident,dangerous occurrence, occupational poisoning,occupational disease which have occurred at the place work
• To assist any officers in carrying out hi duty under the Act or any regulation made under Act
• To carry out any other instruction made by the employer or any person in charge of the place of work on any matters pertaining to safety and health of the place of work