DUW 10012 – OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

SESI 2 2022/2023

CASE STUDY 1

LECTERUR NAME: PUAN NORAIDAH BINTI HASSAN

GROUP MEMBERS:

NAME MATRIC NUMBER

1 NUR AINA AFIQAH BINTI FARIS 17DSK22F1019
.
2 IQMAH NASUHA BINTI DASRUL 17DSK22F1029
.
3 RASYA ALYA BINTI NORDIN 17DSK22F1031
.
4 SHAMIMI ALIA BINTI MOHD. SHIPOL 17DSK22F1033
.
BAHRI

COMMERCE DEPARTMENT

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PROGRAMME: DIPLOMA IN SECRETARIAL SCIENCE

CLASS: DSK2B

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF TOPICS PAGE

1.0 INTRODUCTION 3

2.0 THE POTENTIAL HAZARD IN SECRETARIAL LAB 4

3.0 OSH ON CONTROLLING THE RISK IN SECRETARIAL LAB 8

4.0 SUPPORTED CHARTS 10

5.0 CONCLUSIONS 11

6.0 REFERENCES / BIBLIOGRAPHY 12

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1.0 INTRODUCTION

Secretarial lab is often used by secretarial science student. Secretarial lab interior had a
similarity such as office design. They provide office equipment for example monitor, keyboard,
printer, lcd projector, mouse etc. It also has an air-conditioning for comfortability to a secretary’s
students. Besides, the light gives a pleasant feeling to student because they use warm light to
avoid tired eyes causes from viewing at a digital device screen for a long period.

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2.0 THE POTENTIAL HAZARD IN SECRETARIAL LAB

A hazard is any source or a situation at work with a potential for harm to humans, in terms of
injury, adverse health effects (ill health), environmental or property damage, or any combination
of these. Hazard identification is needed to identify each hazard that exist at work in order to
conduct good hazard control. It is the identification of undesired events, such as situations,
items, materials, work processes, and so forth, that may potentially cause harm. Therefore, a
job analysis is needed to identify each step of a task and the relevant associated hazards, in
view of ensuring worker’s safety.

Hazard can be divided into different types based on the substance, material, and environmental
and/or psychological conditions. Each hazard has in owns triggering elements. Generally,
secretarial lab has four types of hazards as shown below:

Physical,

 for example, constant loud noise such as from printing machines. It can disturb focus
employees to work. Next is extreme temperature which can be hot or cold. High
temperature can cause heat stress to develop, and workers may suffer cramps and lose
consciousness.

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Psychological,

 for instance, lack of social support or relationship and sexual harassment. It can affect
their mental related hazard. They are harder to determine because they are often no
definite signs to indicate any illness until it has become severe.

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Ergonomic,

 like poor or wrong posture during typing for too long and awkward movements especially
if they are repetitive. It can affect their muscles because wrong position with the chair,
keyboard, screen monitor, and work/copy position.

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Safety,

 for example, spills water on floor, monitor, keyboard, and wires from air-conditioning. It
can cause office equipment disabled to use and cause an electrical shock to student.

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3.0 OSH ON CONTROLLING THE RISK IN SECRETARIAL LAB

A risk is the chance, probability or likelihood of a person being harmed or experiencing an

adverse health effect based on the severity of damage and the injuries suffered, after exposure
to a hazardous event within a specific duration.

Risk control aims to eliminate, substitute or minimise the risks identified through job hazard
analysis (JHA) and risk assessment. This ensures the hazard identified poses no risk or as
little risk as possible to workers, who have to work in an area or work on equipment within the
course of scheduled work.

It is advisable for risk control methods to be as close as possible to the stores of the hazard to
ensure effectiveness. This method is often referred to as engineering controls and is use when
elimination and substitution cannot be applied.

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All possibilities of hazards must be studied. Each safety control should be specially designed to
suit the needs of the workplace, as no two risks or hazards will be exactly alike.
There are three steps in determining risk control:
1. Evaluating and selecting short- and long-term controls
2. Implement short-term measures to protect workers until permanent controls can be put
in place.
3. Implementing long-term controls when reasonably practicable.

For example, suppose a physical hazard is identified. Short-term (temporary) controls might
require workers to be more careful. Long-term (permanent) controls might require fixing the
broken floor.

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4.0 SUPPORTED CHART

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5.0 CONCLUSION

Safety and health at work need to be emphasized because it affects a lot of good to the
employee and the organization. To realize this thing should exist cooperation between the
organization and the employee. Increasing knowledge, skills and enforcement on an ongoing
basis is very important in ensuring the atmosphere, conditions and safe work behavior can be
realized. Safety and the health of workers must be given priority in everything.

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6.0 REFERENCES / BIBLIOGRAPHY

i. https://www.studocu.com/my/document/politeknik-mukah-sarawak/diploma-sains-
kesetiausahaan/osh-case-study-1/28428455

ii. https://www.slideshare.net/FikriZaidi1/osha-stdy-case

iii. https://images.app.goo.gl/8AqDBwGhXPsvoAXa7

iv. https://images.app.goo.gl/bM1GJiRpe29AgP1o9

v. Occupational Safety and Health Polytechnic Series, Mohd Khairul Domadi and Koo
Kean Eng, first published 2022

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