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MALAYSIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS &

EMPLOYMENT LAW
Author: Maimunah Aminuddin
Chapter Four Malaysian Industrial
Relations & Employment

The Law on Occupational

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Safety & Health

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 occupational accident and disease
 Cost of occupational accidents and disease
high
 Factories and Machinery Act
 Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
 Duties of employers under OSHA
 Powers of DOSH officers
 Occupational health issues
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Why safety & Malaysian Industrial

health for Relations & Employment

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employees
matter?

Ergonomic:
does it
applicable
for WFH
scenarios?
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Why safety & health matter

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introduction
• Why cautious about accident at workplace?
• Who are responsible for accident happened at
the workplace?
• What are their responsibilities?
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question
• Why employer must give
attention to reducing work
related accident?
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Accidents occur-people are

at risk all the time
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According to Eurostat (2000),
the “risk
Malaysian of having an accident
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higher for workers
in companies with fewer than
50 employees and for the self-
employed”.
A research done within SMEs in
Malaysia, the top three reasons selected
by the respondents for not conforming
to OSH standards are due to:
i)the lack of staff with knowledge on
how to implement and comply with
OSH regulation (34.9%);
ii)negative perception that it is difficult
and expensive to comply with the
regulation (27.9%);
iii)the respondents believe that they are
working in low risk work environment
(23.3%). T
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The Cost of Accidents to Employers

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WHAT IS OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND

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HEALTH ACT ?
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Department of Occupational Safety an

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d Health (DOSH)
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Role of DOSH
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Department of Occupational Safety an

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d Health (DOSH)
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Factories and Machinery Act

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Occupational Safety and Health Act

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1994

Scope:
Nearly all employers and employees
in the private and public sectors

Philosophy of the Act:

“The responsibility to ensure safety and
health at the workplace lies with those who
create the risk and with those who work
with the risk”
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HOW DOES THE ACT AFFECT ME ?

• All employers with more than 5 employees are
required by the legislation to formulate a written
Safety and Health Policy.
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Employer’s responbilities under

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the Requirements of OSHA

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Duty of the employer

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Duty of employer (cont) Malaysian Industrial

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Duty of employee Malaysian Industrial

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Please watch this video.

https://youtu.be/3z3LBSsAwXI
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Power of DOSH
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Health Issues
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WATCH THIS VIDEO AS A WRAP UP

• https://youtu.be/qMxQYOzXFo8

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