MSOSH MASTERPLAN

2018-2021

MSOSH2021âSeptember 2018
 Introduction

For the first time, The Malaysian Society of Occupational Safety and Health (MSOSH)
is strategizing a 4-year strategies for the association in promoting its existence as a
prominent Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) association in Malaysia. Initially,
MSOSH was known as The Malaysian Society for Industrial Safety and it was
registered on the 27th April 1971. Since its formation and registration, the Society has
all the time been a non-profit, non-governmental and non-political organisation. In
1991 the Society was renamed as the Malaysian Society for Occupational Safety and
Health where the Patron of the Society is the Honourable Minister for Human
Resources Malaysia.

The current MSOSH objectives are:

1. To develop leadership, ethical and integrity values among the members
2. To enhance competency and capability for OSH Practitioners and
Professionals
3. To promote volunteerism among the members
4. To be a platform for togetherness and welfares through strong member
partnership
5. To move proactively into OSH international participation and
collaboration activities
6. To inculcate a balance health, safety, well-being among member as an
agent of change for public community

Our inaugural strategies, MSOSH2018-2021 “Shaping new OSH Profession in

Malaysia”, sets out to accomplish the objectives, hence paving the steps that we, the
association and profession need to take. It was planned as part of the MSOSH journey
to become an OSH association in Malaysia that will play a pro-active role in supporting
the OSH enforcement authority, Department of Occupational Safety and Health
(DOSH). MSOSH will help to elevate OSH at the workplace by supporting DOSH
activities and programs based on 5 Years OSH Master Plan known as OSHMP2020.

Besides that, MSOSH will also play its role to encourage OSH Practitioners and
Professionals to extend and share their expertise and experience in managing OSH
at workplace. This will help DOSH in their effort to reduce the accident rate at the
workplace among the industries in Malaysia. Furthermore, MSOSH feels driven to
inculcate OSH culture among the Malaysian society. And this is the beginning of
MSOSH journey in our commitment to upraise the OSH standards in Malaysia will be
initiated by OSH Practitioners and Professionals itself.
VISION:
To be the leader in Occupational Safety and
Health (OSH) Organization in Asia Pacific
MISSION:
To enhance and promote OSH in all workplaces and in all
industries in support of the Government’s policy on OSH

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 OSHMP2020
In establishing the master plan, our point of reference is the OSH Master Plan
(OSHMP2020) that was initiated by DOSH. Based on OSHMP2020, there are five (5)
main strategies based on the effort to increase awareness, responsibility and
commitment from the stakeholders (refer to figure 1).

Figure 1: 5 Main Strategies of OSHMP2020 by DOSH (ref: Pelan Induk

Keselamatan and Kesihatan Pekerjaan 2016-2020)

The five OSHMP2020 strategies, it will be supported by various programs and

activities that will focus to create preventive culture among the employers and
employees. Thus, commitment from the employers and employees is needed to
ensure the success of these strategies. BUT, OSH association and OSH competent
practitioners and professionals also play important roles. This is because, our co-
existence is vital as an agent of change to influence and convince all the stakeholders
such as the government, employers and employees on the importance of OSH at the
workplace.

MSOSH will use OSHMP2020 five strategies as a baseline and come out with its own
six strategies based on OSHMP2020 (refer to figure 2). This new initiative by MSOSH
will put in place a few programs based on OSHMP2020. This will help and support
DOSH in achieving its objectives and targets by the year 2020. Using SMART
approach in planning the related programs and activities, MSOSH will contribute and
play its role as an OSH association to help DOSH based on its capacity and capability
represented by OSH practitioners and professionals in Malaysia.

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 Figure 2: Summary of MSOSH2018-2021 Specific Strategies

In the industrial sector, six portfolios will focus on different industrial areas as stated
under schedule 1 of Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA). It is summarized in
Table 1. Each industry will be monitored by a dedicated portfolio for a more effective
execution in assisting the industry to manage their OSH and to cultivate OSH culture
at the workplace.

Portfolio 1 Portfolio 2 Portfolio 3 Portfolio 4 Portfolio 5 Portfolio 6

• Oil and Gas • Construction • Education • Manufacturing • Hospital • Financial
• Hotel • Agriculture • Utilities • Transport • Public Institution
• Restaurant • Forestry • Statutory • Warehouse services • Insurance
• Logging Authorities • Communication • Wholesale • Mining and
• Fishery • Retail Quarrying
Trades

Table 1: Summary of The Focus Industries

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 Figure 3: The Overall Summary of MSOSH Specific Strategies 2018-2021

Strategy 1: OSH Leadership
Focus Area
1. Leadership and Professionalism
2. Competency and Pro activeness
3. Ethical and Integrity
4. Welfare and Unity
Programs:
1. To promote leadership and top management commitment via leadership
high impact intervention and approach.
1. Leadership Commitment
- To promote leadership and top management
commitment in supporting Duty of Care
(DOC), OSH Culture and OSH Management
at workplace.
2. Professionalism
- To elevate OSH Professionalism among the
OSH Practitioners in Malaysia
3. Competency
- To establish new OSH Competency to meet
the industrial demand including OSH
Standard and Guideline establishment
4. Proactiveness
- To participate actively in National OSH
Agenda and NGOs (e.g. NCOSH)
5. Ethical and Integrity
- To inculcate etiquette and Integrity among
OSH Practitioners and Professionals
6. Welfare and Unity
To unite OSH practitioner under one umbrella
to ensure Welfare and for OSH significant
progression and impact

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 2. To groom leadership and professionalism among MSOSH members and
OSH practitioners.
3. To encourage commitment and pro-activeness among MSOSH
members and OSH practitioners via continuous volunteering and
professional activities in MSOSH.
4. To enhance integrity and ethics among members and practitioners

1. Membership
- To improve MSOSH membership
Strategy 2: OSH Professionalism management and program
Focus Area 2. OSH Proficiency
1. Membership - To encourage more OSH Practitioners to
2. OSH Proficiency involve in OSH volunteer programs
3. Marketing 3. Marketing
4. MSOSH Digital - To promote MSOSH's "Product and
Services" to MSOSH members and public
4. MSOSH Digital
- To digitalize MSOSH processes to benefit
the members and stakeholders

Programs:
1. To increase number of membership by 10000 through "Young, Professional
and Trendy (YPT)" Approach
2. To improve and upgrade MSOSH website to be more user friendly through
mobile application and cloud approach
3. To improve database management of membership for efficient and effective
monitoring of membership validity
4. To establish OSH Library in MSOSH Office and online library for MSOSH
members.
5. To organize roadshows and engagement sessions at state levels eg. Teh Tarik
session, SHO gathering and sport program.
6. To digitalise MSOSH community through maximising the use of MSOSH
website and online database.

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 1. Financial Sustainability
- To optimize the budget to balance the
MSOSH budget.
Strategy 3: OSH Sustainability 2. CSR Funding
Focus Area - To outsource additional financial support
1. Financial Sustainability to fund CSR Program
2. CSR Funding 3. OSH Academy
3. OSH Academy - To establish academy as one of the main
4. Grant incomes for MSOSH
4. Grant
- To manage and execute SOCSO and
other grants effectively

Programs:
1. To organize event for Malaysia Book of Record programs (or OSH related
events) during World OSH Day
2. OSH in Tahfiz as Malaysia Book of Record programs.
3. To set up MSOSH Academy for affordable and quality trainings for members
and other stakeholders.
4. To introduce OSH subjects in the education system (pre-school).
5. To collaborate with local universities in organizing seminar / talks on OSH.
6. To establish MSOSH Student Chapter for all universities.

1. Awareness
- To nurture the public on the existence of
MSOSH as a prominent OSH NGO in
Strategy 4: OSH Networking Malaysia.
Focus Area 2. Engagement
1. Awareness - To promote MSOSH and OSH through
2. Engagement active participation and sharing with other
3. MSOSH Branch stakeholders.
3. East Coast (EC) Branch
- To assist and support EC Branch in
executing the MSOSH Program

Programs:
1. To set up OSH mentor-mentee program to guide and coach young OSH
Practitioner and Professionals
2. To collaborate with other OSH stakeholders in cultivating OSH at workplace.
3. To produce OSH newsletter / article for the members based on article
contributed by the members itself.
4. To set up a new MSOSH Branch as part of promotion and engagement with
other members from other regions.

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 1. Strengthen IH and OH at Workplace
Strategy 5: Industrial Hygiene (IH) & - to assist and support DOSH in promoting
Occupational Health (OH) Reinforcement and create awareness on the importance
Focus Area of IH and OH at workplace
1. Strengthen IH and OH at workplace 2. Laboratory
2. Laboratory - to strengthen the capability and capacity
of local laboratories in IH.
Program:
1. To create IH and OH awareness programs and trainings for OSH Practitioners.
2. To establish IH and OH guidelines in supporting DOSH, industries and OSH
Practitioners/Professionals in managing IH issues at workplace.
3. To create new IH competency as part to promote specialization in IH
management.
4. To initiate the laboratory capability standard guideline for IH analysis.
5. To strengthen promotion, prevention, early detection, investigation,
rehabilitation for occupational/related disease by OH practitioners
6. To strengthen OH practitioners by assisting /supporting SOCSO for Workplace
Health Promotion (WHP) to Combat Non-Communicable diseases.(NCD) &
Vision Zero for Health & Wellbeing agenda.
1. Effective Execution of Program
- to support DOSH in executing specific or
Strategy 6: OSH International strategic OSH programs in Malaysia
Focus Area 2. Network with media
1. Effective Execution of Program - to engage with media or public social
2. Network with media
media to promote OSH in our society
3. International Collaboration
3. International Collaboration
- to strengthen MSOSH position through
strategic international collaboration with
International OSH Association or expertise
Programss:
1. To establish Malaysia OSH Professional Panel Expert based on International
OSH Competency and Malaysia Qualification Framework.
2. To engage, collaborate and MoU/MoA with international OSH Association /
Professional Body e.g. SISO, IOSH, ISSA, APOSHO
3. To introduce OSH Media Award for the media agency who promote OSH for
the society.
4. To organize APOSHO2020 International Conference in Malaysia.

For further information:

Malaysian Society for Occupational Safety & Health (MSOSH)
4th Floor Wisma PERKESO,
Lot 141 Jalan Selangor, Section 6,
46990 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor, Malaysia.

) +6 03 7956 1763
6 +6 03 7955 7195
ü www.msosh.org.my

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