INTRODUCTION

The Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 (Akta Keselamatan dan Kesihatan Pekerjaan
1994) is a piece of Malaysian legislation which was gazetted on 25 February 1994 by the
Malaysian Parliament. An Act to make further provisions for securing the safety, health and
welfare of persons at work, for protecting others against risks to safety or health in
connection with the activities of persons at work, to establish the National Council for
Occupational Safety and Health, and for matters connected therewith. The act regulated by
the Department of Occupational Safety and Health under the ministry of human resources.
Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 is designed based on six principles, namely:
1. Accident prevention is an important part of good management and skills.
2. The management and employees must work together to ensure a workplace that is
more than any crash.
3. The involvement of top management is paramount in leading the implementation of
safety at work.
4. occupational safety and health policies should be formulated and announced to all
employees in the workplace.
5. Organization and resources need to be developed and provide support to the
occupational health and safety.
6. Knowledge and best available methods used.
IMPORTANCE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
1. RESPONSIBILITIES OF EMPLOYERS
It is the responsibility of employers to ensure the safety, health and welfare of employees
at work.Procurement and maintenance of plant and systems of work, to the extent
practicable,safe and without risk to health.Making arrangements for ensuring, so far as
practicable, safety and absence risk.Procurement, information, instruction, training and
supervision as is necessary to ensure as far as practicable, the safety and health of its
employees.

2. RESPONSIBILITIES OF EMPLOYEES

It is the duty of every employee while at work to take reasonable care for the safety and
health of themselves and others who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work.To
work with his employer or any other person in the discharge of any duty or requirement
imposed on the employer or other person by this Act or any regulations made thereunder.To
wear or use at all times any protective equipment or clothing provided by the employer for
the purpose of preventing any risk to safety and health.
OSHA ORGANIZATIONS IN MALAYSIA:
The Occupational Safety and Health (JKKP)
1. To formulate and review from time to time through a tripartite process the policies,
laws, codes of practice and guidelines.
2. To assist and provide expertise in the encouragement, training, dissemination of
information and research.
The Social Security Organisation (SOCSO)
1. Provide Protection Against Multiple Term Employees As Disasters, Accidents
Commuting and Death.
Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB)
1. Setting up a agencies of to supervise and control issues and impacts that occur in the
construction industry across the country.
Institute of Occupational Safety And Health(NIOSH)
1. Provide training, information resources, and research centers.
2. Assist in the implementation and solve problems related to occupational safety and
health.

planning of occupational safety and health

the organisation may wish to have the OH&S management system objectively assessed and
certified by an impartial and independent body. This external assessment of the system offers
the organisation several advantages: certification by the labour authority of the integration of
prevention and legal compliance with its responsibilities; eligibility for reductions in some
insurance premiums related to this matter; it enhances the companys image among its clients
and the whole society and improves the social climate of the firm itself and its productivity,
representing as it does an achievement for all members to ensure that risks are managed and
their occupational health is protected.

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