DEPARTMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (DOSH)

Introduction

The Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is a government department

under the Ministry of Human Resources Malaysia. The department is responsible for
ensuring the safety, health and welfare of persons at work and protections of other people
from hazards to safety and health arising from the activities of persons at working various
economic sectors, that is:

Manufacturing

Mining and Quarrying

Construction

Hotels and Restaurants

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing

Transport, Storage and Communication

Public Services and Statutory Authorities

Utilities - Electricity, Gas, Water and Sanitary

Trades Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Business Services

Wholesale and Retail Trades

Vision

To be a dynamic organization that leads the nation in creating a safe and healthy work
culture towards enhancing the quality of working life

OBJECTIVES

To formulate and review policies, legislation, codes of practice and guidelines

pertaining to occupational safety, health and welfare as a basis in ensuring safety
and health at work

To ensure through enforcement and promotional works that employers, self-

employed persons, designers, manufacturers, suppliers, importers and employees
always practice safe and healthy work culture, and always comply with existing
legislation, codes of practice and guidelines

To assist and provide expert services in promotional, training, information

dissemination and research activities organized by government and non-
governmental agencies, institutions of higher learning, associations of
employers, workers and professionals in efforts to further upgrade the standard of
occupational safety, health and welfare

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Services

Services provided by DOSH is inline to the main activities that is:

a.) Standard Setting

b.) Enforcement

c.) Promotion and Publicity

d.) Secretariat to National Council for Occupational Safety and Health

STANDARD SETTING

a) Policy review

This department from time to time carry out review to safety and health policy to see until
where the policy fit its purpose. These policies will be transferred according to current
situation in order to achieve the goal of establishing safe and health work culture among
employer and employee

b) Legislation of the regulation, guidelines and code of practice of new industry

In order to help industry to implement their responsibility towards safety and health
occupational as required by the occupational safety and health Act 1994, this department
has and in the process of legislation and amendment of existing regulations and in the
process of to provide new regulations, new guidelines and code of practice of new industry

Regulations under OSHA 1994

1. Occupational Safety and Health Regulations (General Statement on employer's

safety and health) (exemption) 1995

2. Occupational Safety and Health Regulations (Control of Industrial Major Accident

Hazards) 1996

3. Occupational Safety and Health Regulations ( Committee of Safety and Health) 1996

4. Occupational Safety and Health Regulations (Classification, Packaging and Labeling

Hazardous Chemicals) 1997

5. Occupational Safety and Health Regulations (Safety and Health Officer) 1997

6. Occupational Safety and Health Order (Safety and Health Officer) 1997

7. Occupational Safety and Health Regulations (Use and Standards of Exposure of

Chemicals Hazardous to Health) 2000

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LEGISLATION

Laws Enforced by DOSH:

1. Factories and Machinery Act 1967 (Act 139)

2. Petroleum (Safety Measures) Act 1984 (Act 302)

3. Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 (Act 514)

4. Regulations under Factories and Machinery Act

5. Regulations under Occupational Safety and Health

DOSH ACTIVITIES

1. To become a secretariat and to give input to National council regarding the safety
and health at the workplace.

2. To study, identity and policy making; and regulations regarding the safety and health
at the workplace.

3. To do technical analysis and to identity steps to control dangerous occurrences of

safety and health at the workplace

4. To review and to improve the design of boilers, unfired pressure vessels, hoisting
machine

5. to review and to improve the design of instrument related to the usage of petroleum
product, industrial hygiene instruments and personnel protective equipment.

6. to review and to improve the design of storage system, delivery and usage of
petroleum product.

7. to provide examination syllabus and assessment and to carry out examination for
certification competent person

8. to provide certification criteria and to do work on certification of competent firms and

organizations

9. to identify, to review safety report and emergency response plan, to do examination

and audit on major hazard installation

10. periodic examinations and safety and health audit on machinery and other workplace
covered by Act 514

11. to monitor health hazard at the workplace

12. to review health hazard report by a competent person

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13. Accident investigation, industrial disease and poisoning at the workplace and
happenings at the workplace and related complaints.

14. Organize and give talks and training related to safety and health

15. to give advisory service related to safety and health at the workplace to public and
private agents and organizations

16. to collect and to provide information regarding safety and health at the workplace for
reference, lending and circulation

17. to do prosecution activities.