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OCCUPATIONAL
SAFETY AND
HEALTH 1 Understand the Occupational Safety and Health

(OSH)
- Define the concepts of OSH
- Explain the history of OSH
- Explain the importance of safety in workplace
- Describe the major safety terminologies
- Classify types of accident

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OSH is study concerned with protecting • Work is central role in people’s lives.
the safety, health & welfare of all
• Most worker spend min.8 hour/day
people/personnel/stakeholders engaged
in work place or employment; including • Work place must safe & healthy
workers, co-workers, employers, family • Worker faced multitude health hazard;
members, customers, suppliers, nearby dust, gases, noise, vibration, high
communities and other members of the temperature
public who are impacted by the
workplace environment.
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• Some employer , little responsibility for

protecting worker’s health & safety.
• Some do not even know they have the
moral and often legal responsibility to
protect worker
• Lack attention - work-related accidents
and diseases are common in all parts of
the world.

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OSH role existence since 120 years ago. • Boiler surveyor system was terminated
The history, can be explained in 5 eras. in 1900
- Steam Boiler Safety Era (before 1914)
- Machinery Safety Era (1914 - 1952) • Machinery Enactment of 1913 was
abolished and replaced with Machinery
- Industrial Safety Era (1953 – 1967) Enactment of 1932
- Industrial Safety and Hygiene
(1970 – 1994)
- Occupational Safety and Health Era
(after 1994)
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• 1st of January 1914, the steam boiler
enactments of the Allied Malay States
were abolished and were replaced with
Machinery Enactment of 1913
• job title of Inspector of Boiler was also
abolished and was replaced with
inspector of Machinery and Assistant
Inspector of Machinery
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• Machinery Department form in 1953
• In 1953, all of the machinery inactments
of the Allied Malay States (Negeri-
Negeri Melayu Bersekutu), Non-Allied
Malays States (Negeri- Negeri Melayu
Tidak Bersekutu) and Strait States
(Negeri-Negeri Selat) were abolished
and replaced with the Machinery
Ordinance 1953
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• inspectors were not only to inspect
steam boilers but also had to inspect
machineries, including self-combustion
engines, water turbines and other related
auxiliary machineries.
• 1967, the Factory and Machinery Act
was approved by the Parliment
• 1970, the Factory and Machinery Act
and eight regulations under the act were
enforced.
• Machinery Ordinance 1953 was
abolished
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• Occupational Safety and Health Act

• The inspectors who enforce the act are
renamed as Factory and Machinery
Inspector
• overcome the weaknesses in the
Machinery Ordinance 1953
1994 (Act 514)
• approved by the Parliament in 1993 and
was gazetted on February 1994.
• Workers that are covered by Factory and
• Machinery Act 1967 consists only of
24% of the nation’s total man power

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• Occupational Safety
"employee” - means a person who is
and Health 1994
employed for wages
would cover 90%
under a contract of
of the nation’s total
service on or in
man power
connection with the
• Exempt those
work of an industry
working on ships
and in the armed
forces
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"employer“ - means the immediate "near-miss accident"

employer or the principal - means any accident at a place of
employer or both. work which has the potential of
causing injury to any person or
damage to any property;.
"principal employer“
- means the owner of an industry or the
person with whom an employee has
entered into a contract of service

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“loss-time injury"
“outcome“ - is the harm that results
- means an injury which prevents any
from an uncontrolled hazard.
worker from performing normal
work and leads to a permanent or
“risk“ - is a combination of the
temporary incapacity of work;
probability that a particular
outcome will occur and the
“Hazard" - something that can cause
severity of the harm involved.
harm if not controlled.

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“accident“ - is an unexpected or
unplanned events or
occurrences which results in
injuries, fatalities, loss of
production or damage to
property.
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“near miss“
- is an event which did not result in
injury or damage to property but had
the potential to do so. It shares the
same root causes as accident but
because of chance no harm or damage
has occurred.
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“incident“
- is unexpected or unplanned events
in a sequence of events that occurs
through a combination of causes
which results in physical harm,
damage to property, near miss or
combination of the above..
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• Slips, Trips & Falls
• Related to machineries
• Related to in contact with electricity
• Related to in contact with chemicals,
toxic or radioactive materials
• Related to exposure to high temperature,
noise, pressure.
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What is safety sign available now?

Find it at least FOUR (4)

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INSTRUCTION:
• You are required to present your
findings on 6/1/2011(Thursday) for not
more than 5 minutes per group.

• You are allowed to form a grouping of

not more than (4) persons

PREPARED BY
• Work presented and written in English
will be given bonus marks. MOHD FAIZ HUSNY BIN YUSOF
Lecturer,
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