The Sustainable Development Goals and Workplace

Health and Safety

Shamsul Sarip
UTM Campus Sustainability
 With 17 Goals, 169 Targets and
more than 244 Indicators
covering 5 dimensions namely
People, Planet, Prosperity,
Peace and Partnership

Sustainable Development Goals

(SDG)
Relevant SDG Targets related to Health and
Safety at the Workplace

• Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at

all ages
• SDG Targets on this page: 3.8 , 3.9
• 3.8 Achieve universal health coverage (UHC), including
financial risk protection, access to quality essential health
care services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and
affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
• 3.9 By 2030 substantially reduce the number of deaths
and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water,
and soil pollution and contamination 3.a strengthen
implementation of the Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control in all countries as appropriate

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), officially known as Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, sets out an ambitious plan of action for People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and
Partnership with objective of LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND.
MDGs SDG Sustainable Development
Millennium Development Goals (SDG)
Goals (MDGs) 8 Goals 17
17 Targets 169
65 Indicators 244
Less Scope Comprehensive
comprehensive
Macro Level Leave no one
Halve Targets Aspirations behind
Zero Targets
Individual Goals Trade-offs Interconnected and
Cross-cutting
goals
11 Agencies > 70

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):

a set of universally applicable goals that balances the three dimensions of sustainable development:
social, environmental and economy
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 25 September 2015 12 October 2016

MALAYSIA has committed to support and Establishing a multi-stakeholder and participatory governance structure
implement the 2030 Agenda for spearheaded by the National SDG Council, chaired by Prime Minister
Sustainable Development at the UN
Formulated a National SDG Roadmap to guide the implementation of
Sustainable Development Summit New
Agenda 2030 and SDGs
York, 25 September 2015
Phase I Prioritising SDG
(2016-2020) according to 11MP

Phase II Focus on post 2020 goals and

(2020-2025) targets

Phase III Remaining goals and targets in line with

(2025-2030) Malaysia’s capacity and global role

EPU
Technical DOSM MESTECC
Committee
MOE
MOH
5 Working Committee : EPU 21 December 2016
Cluster 1 Cluster 2 KDN
i) Cluster Inclusivity Private Sectors

ii) Cluster Well-Being

Cluster 3 Cluster 4
SDG SC Chaired by DG EPU and Universities ....
NGOs

iii) Cluster Human Capital

Cluster 5
members from various government Etc.
CSOs
iv) Cluster Environment & Natural Resources and private agencies includes
v) Cluster Economic Growth academic, NGOs and CSOs

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Example: Cycling and
Sustainable Development Goals
• Mobility is an essential element of development
strategies that aim to achieve the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)*.
• Meeting the needs of people who cycle continues
to be a critical part of the mobility solution for
helping cities de-couple population growth from
increased emissions, and to improve air quality and
road safety.
• There are 11 SDGs involved with cycling
• World Bicycle Day is celebrated annually on June 3

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Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy for all

• An increasing proportion of the population have

gained access to electricity, but 1.1 billion
people still live without it
• Orang Asli villagers have not had electricity since
1963

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 Towards Net-Zero
Carbon by 2050
• In 2017, Kuala Lumpur recorded an
annual carbon footprint of 25 million
metric tonnes of carbon emissions.
• Transportation accounts for the largest,
56% of carbon emissions in the city.
• This is followed by static energy (energy
used in buildings) representing 41% of
emissions and waste representing the
remaining 3% of emissions.
• Projections show that by 2050, emissions
will more than double to over 58 million
metric tons per year compared to 2017,
unless we act immediately
 The carbon footprint of a university or other
organization is the sum of all greenhouse gas
emissions caused by institutional activities, as
measured in units of CO2.
By knowing the amount of carbon footprint
Carbon
footprint • To better understand how your university
contributes to climate change,
• Identify where the discharge begins,
• And understand which areas you need to
address to reduce emissions
Bagaimana

http://greentechmalaysia.my/carboncalculator/index.php
Campus Cycling

There is huge potential to

reduce CO2 emissions
through environmentally
friendly modes of
transportation: if 30% of
all short-distance travel
on campus was by bicycle
rather than by car, about
a million tons of CO2
could be avoided
CFC UTMKL is a guide in preparing
planning and sustainable
development that can contribute to
the reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions (GHG).

• To measure and quantify the

actual carbon emissions of
campus
• To guide university in
transforming their campus
into low carbon campus
• To create awareness and
promote the concept of low
carbon campus in UTM
HOW?
ONLINE CLASS
45%

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

40%
CARPOOL

WALKING/CYCLING
 Examples of Activities
Empowering Campus Sustainability
How do face masks, gloves and other coronavirus
residues pollute the ocean?

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• Millions of used gloves and face masks will be thrown away every day
• Face masks, gloves, hand sanitizer bottles and other viral corona
debris have been found on the seabed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p7awU6ZeFA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCZMeLpl04Y

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• Global face mask production is estimated at 52 billion by 2020, about 3% or
1.56 billion, an average weight of 3 to 4 grams
• Our oceans will be flooded with around 1.56 billion face masks by 2020
• This will produce an additional 4,680 to 6,240 metric tons of marine plastic
pollution annually
• The use of plastics, increased significantly as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak
• Disposable face masks will take 450 years to dissolve, slowly turning into micro-
plastic and negatively impacting wildlife and marine ecosystems

OceansAsia Report For Immediate Release: December 7, 2020

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 • On March 11, 2020, the World Health
Organization (WHO) characterized COVID-
19 as a pandemic.
• It has caused severe illness and death. It
features sustained person-to-person
spread worldwide.
Pandemic • It poses an especially high risk for the
elderly (60 or older), people with
declaration preexisting health conditions such as high
blood pressure, heart disease, lung
disease, diabetes, autoimmune disorders,
and certain workers.
 • all restrictions on business operating hours
removed and prayer activities allowed without
physical distancing
Malaysia to • return to near-normal life after nearly two
transition to years of battling the pandemic
• a temporary phase before the country moves
endemic phase to the endemic phase, which can only be
announced by the World Health Organization
of Covid-19 on • but we must all adopt a way of life with new
norms from the present time
1st April 2022 • our lives cannot run away from the presence
of viruses and other microorganisms in our
environment

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 Meaning of Epidemic,
Pandemic and Endemic
Epidemic – incidence of disease with the number of cases exceeding
the number of cases at normal times or exceeding the normal rate
(Nipah virus in N.S, 1999, Polio epidemic in Sabah, 2019)

Pandemic – disease incidence with the number of cases exceeding the

normal rate occurring in many countries around the world and involving
large populations (Pandemic Influenza-Spanish Flu, 1918-1919 &
Influenza H1N1, 2009, Pandemic COVID-19, 2020-present)

Endemic – carrying agents that always exist in a place at a stable or low

rate (Dengue in Malaysia)

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Employer and worker responsibilities

Employers and workers have responsibilities under the OSH Act.

The Occupational Safety and Health Act requires that employers provide a
safe and healthy workplace free of recognized hazards and follow OSHA
standards.

Workers should participate in the development and implementation of

the employer’s safety and health policies and help ensure that they are
appropriate and implemented.
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 Precautionary principle

When it comes to worker safety, we should be driven

by the ‘precautionary principle’ that reasonable steps
to reduce risk should not await scientific certainty
about the nature of the hazard or risk.

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What is SARS-CoV-2?
SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• SARS = severe acute respiratory
distress syndrome
• Spreads easily person-to-person
• Little if any immunity in humans

Detailed information:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

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Pandemic influenza
Experts have been recommending preparedness, warning about the
likelihood of future pandemic influenza outbreaks for decades.

Flu pandemic fatalities,

worldwide, in the last
century:
• 1918 – between 40
and 100 million
• 1957 – 2 million
• 1968 – 1 million
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 Assessing the Potential for Exposure to COVID-19 in
the Workplace

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Key exposure factors in the
workplace
• Does the work setting require close
contact with people potentially
infected with the COVID-19 virus?
• Do specific job duties require close,
repeated or extended contact with
people with known or suspected
COVID-19?
• Has the community spread of the
virus included cases in the
workplace?

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 High potential for exposure

Examples of work settings Examples of job activities

• direct patient or long-term resident care
hospitals and other
correctional
types of healthcare medical transport
facilities • emergency medical services
facilities
• housekeeping and maintenance in
patient and resident areas
drug treatment
homeless shelters home health care • meat packing
centers

environmental long term and

correctional
clean-up of SARS- resident care
facilities
CoV-2 facilities

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 Healthcare settings
Refer to the KKM and state health department guidelines for protection of
healthcare workers. In the current and past coronavirus outbreaks,
healthcare workers have had a high rate of infection. It is especially
important to ensure that procedures, equipment, and training are fully
protective.

https://covid-19.moh.gov.my/

The KKM site includes guidelines for infection control, home care,
long term care, clinical care, evaluating persons under investigation,
and more.
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Emergency services
Emergency services and critical infrastructure must be able to function during a
national emergency.

Emergency services and critical

infrastructure include:
• law enforcement
• fire and
• hospitals
• public utilities

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 Methods to Prevent COVID-19 in the Workplace

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 Key steps for preparing for and managing
epidemics in the workplace
• Preparing for the threat.
• Implementing preventive measures.
• Implementing the continuity of operations plan.
• Managing business recovery post-epidemic.

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 Key elements: COVID-19 workplace plan
• Management leadership and employee participation
• Hazard identification and assessment
• Hazard prevention and control
• Risk communication, education, and training
• System evaluation and improvement
• Family preparedness
• Emergency operations procedures
• Post pandemic recovery

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 Protecting workers
Start with the most effective method to protect workers.

Physically remove the

hazard

Replace the hazard

Isolate people from the hazard

Change the way people work

Protect the worker with Personal

Protective Equipment

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Engineering controls

• Ventilation
• Drive-thru service
• Plastic shields and other barriers
• Sneeze guards

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Administrative controls
and work practices to
reduce exposure
• Enable sick workers to stay home
• Establish work from home policy
• Minimizing contact among
workers and clients
• Discontinue non-essential travel
• Limiting the number of staff
present for high potential
exposure tasks
• Training
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 OSHA PPE standard
Where applicable, the OSHA PPE standard
requires employers to:
• Conduct an assessment for PPE
• Provide PPE at no cost, appropriate
to the hazard
• Train employees on how to put on
and take off PPE
• Train workers to maintain, store,
and replace PPE
• Provide medical evaluation and fit
testing

https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_id=9777&p_table=STANDARDS 43
 Respirators
Respirators are needed when there is a potential for
aerosol transmission.
An N95 respirator is the minimum
level of protection to prevent
inhaling coronavirus.

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 Respirators (continued)
Advantages of reusable respirators:
• Durability
• Stand up to repeated cleaning &
disinfection
• Maintain fit over time
• Cost savings
• Powered air-purifying respirator
(PAPR)
• Half or full-face elastomeric
respirators

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 Respirators (continued)
Surgical masks are not respirators!

Surgical masks do not:

• Fit tightly against the skin to
form a seal
• Filter tiny particles, such as
viruses or bacteria that are in
the air

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 Respiratory protection standard
Written
program
Selection
Respiratory Recordkeeping according to
hazard
programs must
comply with all Program Medically fit
evaluation to wear
elements
https://www.moh.
gov.my/index.php/ Employee
Fit testing
pages/view/190 training

Ensure proper
Labeling/color
use of
coding filters
respirators
Respirator
maintenance
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 PPE for jobs with
high potential
exposure
• Face/eye protection
• Gloves
• Gowns
• Respirators
• At least N95
• PAPR or full or half face
elastomeric for greater
protection
• NOTE: there is a worldwide
shortage of PPE!
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Training and
drills
• Must be hands-on and
frequent
• Should not be primarily
computer based or lecture
• Must include an opportunity
to drill the actual process of
donning and doffing PPE and
respirators
• Should include a trained
observer
• Cover site specific
decontamination procedures.

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OSHA Hazard Communication standard
• List of all hazardous chemicals in the workplace
• Labels on containers
• Chemical information (safety data sheets)
• Training
• Written program and worker access to information
• These rights may be relevant to the cleaning and disinfecting of chemicals

Occupational Safety And Health (Safety Data Sheet and Labeling Users Guide)

Globally Harmonized System

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 Mental
health and
stress
The Role of the Vaccine
Cases of COVID-19 will decrease with the administration of the vaccine.

With uptake of the vaccine and continued workplace controls in place,

occupational exposures will decrease.

People who are vaccinated can still be exposed and potentially expose
someone else even if they don’t become sick.

A continued focus on maintaining workplace preventive measures is important

to protect workers in all industries.

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 » Receive workplace safety and health training
in a language you understand.
» Be protected from potentially toxic
chemicals like cleaners and disinfectants.
» Request an OSHA inspection and speak to
Workers the inspector.
have the » Report an injury or illness and get copies of
your occupational medical records.
right to: » Get copies of the employer’s log of
recordable work-related injuries and
illnesses.
» Information is available website at
https://www.dosh.gov.my/index.php

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Pandemic and Endemic Planning

Maintain Inform Train Monitor

Maintain social Inform employees Train workers on Monitor the
distancing between which work-related proper procedures coronavirus
co-workers activities present for putting situation as it
wherever feasible an elevated risk of on/taking off unfolds around the
and discourage exposure to protective clothing, globe to keep
handshaking. sources of masks, gloves, and current with any
infection. equipment. new developments.

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Pandemic and Endemic Planning
Promote personal hygiene to include
hand washing, hand sanitizing (when
hand washing is not feasible), and
disinfecting tools and equipment after
use. Employers must also be sure to keep
all soaps, disinfectants, and disposable
items fully stocked at all times.
Encourage respiratory etiquette,
especially when masks are not
worn, to include sneezing or
coughing into the crux of an arm or
into a shirt sleeve.

Discourage employees from using

Encourage all employees to report
each other’s personal items such as
all health and safety concerns and
cellphones, desks, pens, and other
experiences.
tools where feasible.

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Pandemic and Endemic Planning
• Keep employees informed of medical services, testing, and
assistance available to them either through the business or
locally.
• Consider instituting or increasing paid sick leave options for
employees so they can stay home if they experience
symptoms.

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 OSHE Sustainable

Implementing health hazards in

the workplace arising from work Audits of inspection work, all
activities carried out public buildings and facilities
MONITORING
HEALTH
HAZARDS INSPECTION AND
SUSTAINABILITY
AUDITING

ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSERVATION TRAINNING AND PROMOTIONS

 You cannot protect the environment unless you
empower people, you inform them, and you
help them understand that these resources are
their own, that they must protect them.

-Wangari Maathai

Thank you