Some Basic Precautions for All Workers
* H1N1 Flu - Self-EvaluationStay at home if you are sick. The HHS/CDC recommends that workers who have a fever or chills and a cough or sore throat stay at home until 24 hours after their fever ends (defined as 100 degrees Fahrenheit [37.8 degrees Celsius]), without the use of medication. Not everyone who has 2009 H1N1 flu will have a fever. Other symptoms could include a runny nose, body aches, headache, tiredness, diarrhea, or vomiting. Note that HHS/CDC has special instructions for workers returning to work in areas with severely immunocompromised patients.
Woman sneezing into a tissue
Washing hands
* Keep frequently touched common surfaces (for example, telephones, computer equipment, etc.) clean.
* Try not to use a coworker's phone, desk, office, computer, or other work tools and equipment. If you must use a coworker’s equipment, consider cleaning it first with a disinfectant.
* Stay in shape. Eat a healthy diet. Get plenty of rest, exercise and relaxation.
Vaccine
* If you are in a high risk category for 2009 H1N1 flu (e.g., pregnant women, persons with asthma, etc.) talk with your employer about alternative work assignments.
* Get vaccinated for both the seasonal and the 2009 H1N1 flu. For additional information about seasonal flu vaccine priorities, see Key Facts About Seasonal Flu Vaccine. For information about 2009 H1N1 flu vaccine priorities, see 2009 H1N1 Vaccination Recommendations.
Additional Precautions for Healthcare Activities
Your employer should use a combination of the workplace controls, work practices, and personal protective equipment listed below to reduce your exposure to the 2009 H1N1 virus. HHS/CDC has recommended these practices for use during the 2009-2010 flu season. Follow your employer's procedures for implementing these controls and use the protective equipment provided to reduce your exposure risk.
Workplace Controls
* Modify patient intake, triage and other service areas to increase space between workers, coworkers and patients (e.g., install partitions).
* If available, use airborne infection isolation rooms for aerosol-generating procedures and limit the number of people present during the procedure.
* Isolate and group 2009 H1N1 flu patients according to your facility’s procedures.
* Handle 2009 H1N1 flu specimens in Biosafety Level 2 equipment.
* Transport 2009 H1N1 flu patients in ambulances with separate ventilation systems for the driver and patient compartments or increase ventilation by operating the system in non-recirculation mode and letting in as much outdoor air as possible.
* Use closed suctioning systems to suction a patient’s airways and use high quality filters on the expiratory port of ventilators.
Safe Work Practices
* Screen incoming patients and separate those with respiratory illness.
* Only the staff necessary for patient care should enter patient and airborne infection isolation rooms.
* Restrict visits for patients in isolation.
* Use proper respiratory and cough etiquette, and encourage hand washing by patients and visitors.
o Cover your coughs and sneezes with a tissue, or cough and sneeze into your upper sleeve. Throw tissues into a "no touch" wastebasket.
o Clean your hands after coughing, sneezing, or blowing your nose.
o Avoid touching your nose, mouth and eyes.
* Wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds before and after contact with patients, after using PPE, and after touching contaminated surfaces; use an alcohol-based hand rub if soap and water are not available.
o When using soap and water, rub soapy hands together for at least 20 seconds, rinse hands with water, and dry completely.
o If soap and water are not available, use of an alcohol-based hand rub may be helpful as an interim measure until hand washing is possible. When using an alcohol-based hand rub, apply liquid to palm of hand, cover all surfaces of the hands with the liquid, and rub hands together until dry.
* Limit the transportation of 2009 H1N1 flu patients within the facility; use mobile diagnostic equipment and collect specimens in the room.
* Check yourself for symptoms of respiratory illness.
* Follow routine cleaning and disinfection strategies during flu season.
* Keep frequently touched common surfaces (for example, telephones, computer equipment, etc.) clean.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
* Use a respirator when you come in contact with or enter the room of a patient who has or may have 2009 H1N1 flu; a fit-tested N95 disposable respirator or better is needed. This contact may include patient support tasks like dietary and housekeeping services when the patient is in the room.
* Use a respirator during aerosol-generating procedures; a fit-tested N95 disposable respirator or better is needed.
* Use gloves, gowns, and eye protection for any tasks that might cause contamination or create splashes.
Note: Demand for disposable respirators may outpace available supplies. Your employer should work with you so that you understand how the other controls identified above will be used to maximize the availability of respiratory protection and how disposable respirator use will be prioritized in your workplace if a severe shortage exists. See the NIOSH Trusted-Source page to verify which respirators are approved by NIOSH, and for more information about how to get and use NIOSH-approved respirators.
Other Work Practices
* Participate in any training offered by your employer. Make sure that you understand your exposure risk; your facility's policies and procedures for isolation precautions, use of workplace controls, work practices, and PPE protection during aerosol-generating procedures; and potential complications of 2009 H1N1 flu.
* Be ready for school and daycare closures; make backup child care plans
Planning for Social Distancing and Other Controls if Severity Increases
If the severity of 2009 H1N1 increases, your employer should be planning to use other control measures to reduce close contact among coworkers and with others in the workplace. Not all of the following options can be used in every workplace or for every job task. The controls that your employer uses will depend on how the workplace is set up and what the job task involves. Workplace controls that you employer should be considering include the following:
* Installing additional sneeze guards, and plexiglas or other barriers between you, coworkers, and the general public.
* Setting up work and service areas to increase the distance between you, coworkers and clients.
* Using the Internet, phone and drive-thru windows more for customer service.
* Avoiding close contact (within 6 feet) with coworkers and clients.
Man talking on the telephone
o Minimizing face–to–face meetings; using virtual/remote meetings, emails, phones and text messaging. If meetings are unavoidable, minimize close contact (within 6 feet) with others.
o Limiting visitors to minimize contact between workers and the general public.
o Physician with stethoscope and young boy Discouraging hand shaking.
For more information, see OSHA’s Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Guidance for Healthcare Workers and Healthcare Employers. OSHA Publication No. 3328, which can be accessed at www.osha.gov. Also see HHS/CDC’s Interim Guidance on Infection Control Measures for 2009 H1N1 Influenza in Healthcare Settings, Including Protection of Healthcare Personnel.
This guidance is not a standard or regulation, and it creates no new legal obligations. It contains recommendations as well as descriptions of mandatory safety and health standards. The recommendations are advisory in nature, informational in content, and are intended to assist employers in providing a safe and healthful workplace. The Occupational Safety and Health Act requires employers to comply with safety and health standards and regulations promulgated by OSHA or by a state with an OSHA-approved state plan. In addition, the Act's General Duty Clause, Section 5(a)(1), requires employers to provide their employees with a workplace free from recognized hazards likely to cause death or serious physical harm.
SAFETY AND HEALTH ASSESSMENT SYSTEM IN CONSTRUCTION
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WHAT IS SHASSIC ?
SAFETY AND HEALTH ASSESSMENT SYSTEM IN CONSTRUCTION
( SHASSIC )
WHAT IS SHASSIC ?
Safety and Health Assessment System in Construction or SHASSIC is an independent method to assess and evaluate the safety and health performance of a contractor in construction works/ projects. SHASSIC was developed by a Technical Committee comprises of industry stakeholders. It was published as Construction Industry Standard or CIS 10 : 2008 in November 2008.
SHASSIC OBJECTIVES
SHASSIC was designed and developed to enable the user to achieve any or combination of the following objectives:
a) to benchmark the level of safety and health performance of construction industry in Malaysia;
b) to have a standard system on safety and health assessment in the construction industry;
c) to assess safety and health performance of contractor(s) based on this standard;
d) to evaluate the performance of contractor(s) on the safety and health practices at site;
e) to improve and to take necessary corrective action on OSH performance and management at site; and
f) to compile data for statistical analysis.
USE OF SHASSIC IN CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES
SHASSIC is intended to complement the normal contractual requirement and specification in a project. It is not intended to be used independently as working requirement and specification. Unless specified in the project contract, safety and health designated person should not use SHASSIC to decide if the project site or parts of the project site are in accordance with requirement of the relevant Acts and Regulations or OSH Management System. It is still the responsibility of the contractor to ensure that safety and health of the construction site conforms to legislations requirement, approved standards, code of practice, guidelines, specifications and contractual requirements.
Preferably, the assessment shall be carried out when there are different type of activities that are on going at same time (concurrent activities) and many workers of different trades are involved at the site. It is recommended that SHASSIC assessment be carried out when the actual physical work progress had achieved or fall within 25 % to 75 %.
SCOPE OF SHASSIC
SHASSIC sets out the safety and health management and practices of contractor for various aspects of the construction work activities. SHASSIC cover 3 (three) main components of assessment such as document check, site/ workplace inspection and employees interview and covering components such as OSH policy, OSH organization, HIRARC, OSH training and promotion, machinery and equipment management, materials management, emergency preparedness, accident investigation and reporting and records management and performance monitoring.
Application shall cover COSH management system and practices during construction work activities, particularly work activities covered under Occupational Safety and Health Act, 1994, Factories and Machinery Act, 1967 and regulations made under this act such as Factories and Machinery (Building Operations and Works of Engineering Construction) (Safety) Regulations 1986, and Factories and Machinery (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1970.
For the purpose of terms and references, the following Acts, Regulations and OHS management system standards shall take precedence, Occupational Safety and Health Act, 1994 (Act 514) and Regulations, Factories and Machinery Act, 1967 (Act 139) and Regulations and Rules, OHSAS 18001: 2007, MS 1722: 2005 and ILO OHS MS: 2001.
SHASSIC ASSESSMENT
Basically, SHASSIC assessment is divided into 3 (three) different components namely, document check; work site inspection and employee interview.
Document check
Checking of OSH related documents and records will enable the assessor to determine the compliances of the establishment of safety and health programmes and activities. There are 63 questionnaires identified for this component check and is listed out in Annex A.
Site/ workplace inspection
There are 62 items identified for inspection for this component and they are listed out in Annex B. Workplace inspection shall be carried out at 5 (five) highly risk areas within a site. These locations will be determined by the SHASSIC assessor. The assessor may also discuss with the principal contractor prior to selection of these high risk areas for assessment.
This assessment shall provide the assessor with the valuable visual comparison evidence on the OSH programs implemented, enforced and practiced at site/ workplace.
Employees interview
Employees shall be randomly selected from all levels and occupation so that they could be interviewed by the assessor using established standard questionnaire. There are 48 questions for this component as listed in Annex C.
The employees in this component are categorised into 3 (three) categories, as spelt out in Annex C. The numbers of employee from each category to be interviewed are as follows:
Category ‘A' - 1 (one) employee from management personnel,
Category ‘B' - 3 (three) employee from safety and health personnel or OSH Committee members and/or combination of both; and
Category ‘C' - 10 (ten) workers from various trades/skills.
WEIGHTAGE & SCORE
The weightage for safety and health performance are allocated in accordance to 3 (three) components as shown in Table 1 and the score calculation is shown below.
Table 1. Allocation of weightage for components
Components
Weightage (%)
Document check
40
Workplace inspection
40
Employee interview
20
Total score
100
The weightage system is aimed at making the score quantitative in representing the safety and health performance of the respective contractor.
Basic formulas for respective component weightage are as follows:
•Document check
Total Number ‘C' Scored X 40 % = SHASSIC score for Document Check- (A)
(63 - Number of ‘NA')
•Workplace Inspection
Total Number ‘C' Scored X 40 % = SHASSIC score for Workplace Inspection - (B)
(310 - Number of ‘NA')
•Employees Interview
Total Number ‘C' Scored X 20 % = SHASSIC score for Employees Interview - (C)
(330 - Number of ‘NA')
where,
C is the total number of "Compliance"
NA is the total number of item that is "Not Applicable".
The total SHASSIC score in Document Check (A) plus (+) total SHASSIC score in Workplace Inspection (B) plus (+) the total SHASSIC score in Employees Interview (C) components shall justifying the ranking star or stars. Stars awarded ranges from 1 star to 5 stars as per Table 2.
Table 2. Star Ranking
SHASSIC
(Score %)
Star(s) Awarded
Justification
85 to 100
Potential and significant workplace high risks/ hazards are managed and documented.
70 to 84
Potential and significant workplace high risks/ hazards are managed and documented but there are few low risks work activities are neglected.
55 to 69
Potential and significant workplace high risks/ hazards are managed and documented but there are few medium risks work activities are neglected.
40 to 54
Potential and significant workplace high risks/ hazards partly managed and not properly documented.
39 and less
Potential and significant risks/ hazards poorly managed and not properly documented.
WHO CAN BE A SHASSIC ASSESSOR ?
SHASSIC Assessor must be a person who is qualified and have certain years of working experience in construction industry. A SHASSIC Assessor shall fulfil one of the following criteria below.
•Has successfully attended and passed one day course organised by CIDB and has a minimum of 5 years working experience in the construction industry; or
•Has successfully attended and passed OHSAS 18001 Lead Auditor Course and has a minimum of 3 years working experience in the construction industry (construction site). (Exempted from attending 1 day course conducted by CIDB); or
•A Construction Safety and Health Officer (CSHO * ) with 2 years experience in the construction industry. (Exempted from attending 1 day course conducted by CIDB)
* Note : CSHO means a person who is registered with DOSH as Safety & Health Officer and attended 5 (five) days course organised by CIDB for Construction Safety & Health Officer.
Contractors may engage any qualified person above to carry out SHASSIC assessment or alternatively they can make arrangement with CIDB to carry out SHASSIC assessment. Currently CIDB is providing this service Free of Charge ( FOC ). Contractors just need to fill in a FORM which is available at Standard & Quality Division, 10 Floor, Grand Seasons Avenue, Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur and fax it to 03 - 40451808. That's all, so simple ! CIDB officers will contact the contractor and will make arrangement for SHASSIC assessment.
Application Form for SHASSIC
HOW CONTRACTORS CAN BENEFIT FROM SHASSIC ASSESSMENT ?
Some of the benefits that the contractor could expect after carrying out SHASSIC assessment are as listed below :-
•Base on SHASSIC score, contractor could identify those ‘areas' where they have failed or did not score high. Customise training or remedial measures could be arranged to improve safety and health management for these ‘areas'
• A proper safety and health assessment system would be established at construction sites and would make easier for authorities to inspect at site as OSH system already in place.
• Guided checklists based on SHASSIC's document will help the Safety and Health Officers to discharge their duties more effective and efficiently
CONCLUSION
SHASSIC was developed to assist everyone particularly the contractors in managing their safety and health at construction sites based on safety and health performance's assessment. CIDB believes, by using SHASSIC assessment system as a norm of practice at site, accidents could be prevented or min
( SHASSIC )
WHAT IS SHASSIC ?
Safety and Health Assessment System in Construction or SHASSIC is an independent method to assess and evaluate the safety and health performance of a contractor in construction works/ projects. SHASSIC was developed by a Technical Committee comprises of industry stakeholders. It was published as Construction Industry Standard or CIS 10 : 2008 in November 2008.
SHASSIC OBJECTIVES
SHASSIC was designed and developed to enable the user to achieve any or combination of the following objectives:
a) to benchmark the level of safety and health performance of construction industry in Malaysia;
b) to have a standard system on safety and health assessment in the construction industry;
c) to assess safety and health performance of contractor(s) based on this standard;
d) to evaluate the performance of contractor(s) on the safety and health practices at site;
e) to improve and to take necessary corrective action on OSH performance and management at site; and
f) to compile data for statistical analysis.
USE OF SHASSIC IN CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES
SHASSIC is intended to complement the normal contractual requirement and specification in a project. It is not intended to be used independently as working requirement and specification. Unless specified in the project contract, safety and health designated person should not use SHASSIC to decide if the project site or parts of the project site are in accordance with requirement of the relevant Acts and Regulations or OSH Management System. It is still the responsibility of the contractor to ensure that safety and health of the construction site conforms to legislations requirement, approved standards, code of practice, guidelines, specifications and contractual requirements.
Preferably, the assessment shall be carried out when there are different type of activities that are on going at same time (concurrent activities) and many workers of different trades are involved at the site. It is recommended that SHASSIC assessment be carried out when the actual physical work progress had achieved or fall within 25 % to 75 %.
SCOPE OF SHASSIC
SHASSIC sets out the safety and health management and practices of contractor for various aspects of the construction work activities. SHASSIC cover 3 (three) main components of assessment such as document check, site/ workplace inspection and employees interview and covering components such as OSH policy, OSH organization, HIRARC, OSH training and promotion, machinery and equipment management, materials management, emergency preparedness, accident investigation and reporting and records management and performance monitoring.
Application shall cover COSH management system and practices during construction work activities, particularly work activities covered under Occupational Safety and Health Act, 1994, Factories and Machinery Act, 1967 and regulations made under this act such as Factories and Machinery (Building Operations and Works of Engineering Construction) (Safety) Regulations 1986, and Factories and Machinery (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1970.
For the purpose of terms and references, the following Acts, Regulations and OHS management system standards shall take precedence, Occupational Safety and Health Act, 1994 (Act 514) and Regulations, Factories and Machinery Act, 1967 (Act 139) and Regulations and Rules, OHSAS 18001: 2007, MS 1722: 2005 and ILO OHS MS: 2001.
SHASSIC ASSESSMENT
Basically, SHASSIC assessment is divided into 3 (three) different components namely, document check; work site inspection and employee interview.
Document check
Checking of OSH related documents and records will enable the assessor to determine the compliances of the establishment of safety and health programmes and activities. There are 63 questionnaires identified for this component check and is listed out in Annex A.
Site/ workplace inspection
There are 62 items identified for inspection for this component and they are listed out in Annex B. Workplace inspection shall be carried out at 5 (five) highly risk areas within a site. These locations will be determined by the SHASSIC assessor. The assessor may also discuss with the principal contractor prior to selection of these high risk areas for assessment.
This assessment shall provide the assessor with the valuable visual comparison evidence on the OSH programs implemented, enforced and practiced at site/ workplace.
Employees interview
Employees shall be randomly selected from all levels and occupation so that they could be interviewed by the assessor using established standard questionnaire. There are 48 questions for this component as listed in Annex C.
The employees in this component are categorised into 3 (three) categories, as spelt out in Annex C. The numbers of employee from each category to be interviewed are as follows:
Category ‘A' - 1 (one) employee from management personnel,
Category ‘B' - 3 (three) employee from safety and health personnel or OSH Committee members and/or combination of both; and
Category ‘C' - 10 (ten) workers from various trades/skills.
WEIGHTAGE & SCORE
The weightage for safety and health performance are allocated in accordance to 3 (three) components as shown in Table 1 and the score calculation is shown below.
Table 1. Allocation of weightage for components
Components
Weightage (%)
Document check
40
Workplace inspection
40
Employee interview
20
Total score
100
The weightage system is aimed at making the score quantitative in representing the safety and health performance of the respective contractor.
Basic formulas for respective component weightage are as follows:
•Document check
Total Number ‘C' Scored X 40 % = SHASSIC score for Document Check- (A)
(63 - Number of ‘NA')
•Workplace Inspection
Total Number ‘C' Scored X 40 % = SHASSIC score for Workplace Inspection - (B)
(310 - Number of ‘NA')
•Employees Interview
Total Number ‘C' Scored X 20 % = SHASSIC score for Employees Interview - (C)
(330 - Number of ‘NA')
where,
C is the total number of "Compliance"
NA is the total number of item that is "Not Applicable".
The total SHASSIC score in Document Check (A) plus (+) total SHASSIC score in Workplace Inspection (B) plus (+) the total SHASSIC score in Employees Interview (C) components shall justifying the ranking star or stars. Stars awarded ranges from 1 star to 5 stars as per Table 2.
Table 2. Star Ranking
SHASSIC
(Score %)
Star(s) Awarded
Justification
85 to 100
Potential and significant workplace high risks/ hazards are managed and documented.
70 to 84
Potential and significant workplace high risks/ hazards are managed and documented but there are few low risks work activities are neglected.
55 to 69
Potential and significant workplace high risks/ hazards are managed and documented but there are few medium risks work activities are neglected.
40 to 54
Potential and significant workplace high risks/ hazards partly managed and not properly documented.
39 and less
Potential and significant risks/ hazards poorly managed and not properly documented.
WHO CAN BE A SHASSIC ASSESSOR ?
SHASSIC Assessor must be a person who is qualified and have certain years of working experience in construction industry. A SHASSIC Assessor shall fulfil one of the following criteria below.
•Has successfully attended and passed one day course organised by CIDB and has a minimum of 5 years working experience in the construction industry; or
•Has successfully attended and passed OHSAS 18001 Lead Auditor Course and has a minimum of 3 years working experience in the construction industry (construction site). (Exempted from attending 1 day course conducted by CIDB); or
•A Construction Safety and Health Officer (CSHO * ) with 2 years experience in the construction industry. (Exempted from attending 1 day course conducted by CIDB)
* Note : CSHO means a person who is registered with DOSH as Safety & Health Officer and attended 5 (five) days course organised by CIDB for Construction Safety & Health Officer.
Contractors may engage any qualified person above to carry out SHASSIC assessment or alternatively they can make arrangement with CIDB to carry out SHASSIC assessment. Currently CIDB is providing this service Free of Charge ( FOC ). Contractors just need to fill in a FORM which is available at Standard & Quality Division, 10 Floor, Grand Seasons Avenue, Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur and fax it to 03 - 40451808. That's all, so simple ! CIDB officers will contact the contractor and will make arrangement for SHASSIC assessment.
Application Form for SHASSIC
HOW CONTRACTORS CAN BENEFIT FROM SHASSIC ASSESSMENT ?
Some of the benefits that the contractor could expect after carrying out SHASSIC assessment are as listed below :-
•Base on SHASSIC score, contractor could identify those ‘areas' where they have failed or did not score high. Customise training or remedial measures could be arranged to improve safety and health management for these ‘areas'
• A proper safety and health assessment system would be established at construction sites and would make easier for authorities to inspect at site as OSH system already in place.
• Guided checklists based on SHASSIC's document will help the Safety and Health Officers to discharge their duties more effective and efficiently
CONCLUSION
SHASSIC was developed to assist everyone particularly the contractors in managing their safety and health at construction sites based on safety and health performance's assessment. CIDB believes, by using SHASSIC assessment system as a norm of practice at site, accidents could be prevented or min
The Factory & Machinery Act 1967
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Factory and Machinert Act
THE FACTORY & MACHINERY ACT 1967 ( Act No. 139 )
The Factory and Machinery Act 1967 (Act 139) is a piece of Malaysian legislation which was enacted in 1967 as Act No. 64 of 1967 and revised on April 1, 1974 as Laws of Malaysia Act 139. The Act was gazette on February 1, 1970. The principle of the act is "An Act to provide for the control of factories with respect to matters relating to the safety, health and welfare of person therein, the registration and inspection of the machinery and for matters connected therewith".
The jurisdiction of the act covers all factories which in the act means:
within the close or curtilage of precints of the premises or part thereof persons are employed in manual labour in any process for or connected with or incidental to the making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, sorting, finishing, cleaning, washing, breaking, demilishing, constructing, re-constructing, fitting, refitting, adjusting or adapting of any article or part thereof; and
the said work is carried on by way of trade for the purposes of gain or incidentally to any business so carned on, and (whether or not they are factories by reason of the foregoing definition) the expression factory also includes the following premises in which persons are employed in manual labour:
any yard or dry dock (including the precincts thereof) in which ships or vessels are constructed, re-constructed, repaired, refitted, finished or broken up;
any premises in which the business of washing or filling bottles or containers or packing articles is carried on incidentally to the purposes of any factory;
any premises in which the business of hooking, plaiting, lapping, making-up or packing of yarn or cloth is carried on;
any laundry carried on as ancillary to another business or incidentally to the purposes of any public institution;
any premises in which the construction, reconstruction, or repair of locomotives, vehicles or other plant for use for transport purposes is carried on ancillary to a transport undertaking or other industrial or commercial undertaking;
any premises in which printing by letter press, lithography, photogravure, or other similar process, or bookbinding is carried on by way of trade or for purposes of gain or incidentally to another business so carried on;
any premises in which the production of cinematograph films is carried on by way of trade or for purposes of gain;
any premises in which manual labour is employed and mechanical power is used in connection with the making or repair of any article of metal or wood incidentally to any business carried on by way of trade or for purposes of gain;,
any premises used for the storage of gas in a gasholder having a storage capacity of not less than 140 cubic meters;
any premises, place or space where any building operations or works of engineering construction are carried out; and
any premises belonging to or in the occupation of the Federal Government or the Government of any State or of any local authority or other public authority which would be a factory within the meaning of this Act but for paragraph (b),
but does not include:
any premises used for the purposes of housing locomotives or vehicles where only cleaning, washing, running repairs or minor adjustments are carried out; or
any premlses where five or less persons carry on any work in which machinery is not used notwithstanding that the premises, by virtue of the work, would constitute a factory within the meaning of this section.
The jurisdiction of the Act only covers lest than 20 percent of all working areas in Malaysia, the Malaysia government has enacted the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 which covers almost all areas of work within Malaysia.
The list of Regulations and Rules under this act are:
Factories and Machinery (Steam Boilers And Unfired Pressure Vessel) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Electric Passenger And Goods Lift) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Fencing Of Machinery And Safety) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Person-In-Charge) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Administration) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Certificates Of Competency-Examinations) , 1970
Factories and Machinery (Notification Of Fitness And Inspections) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Compounding Of Offences) Rules, 1978
Factories and Machinery (Compoundable Offences) Regulations, 1978
Factories and Machinery (Leads) Regulations, 1984
Factories and Machinery (Asbestos) Regulations, 1984
Factories and Machinery (Building Operations And Works Of Engineering Construction) (Safety) Regulations, 1986
Factories and Machinery (Noise Exposure) Regulations, 1989
Factories and Machinery (Mineral Dust) Regulations,
The Factory and Machinery Act 1967 (Act 139) is a piece of Malaysian legislation which was enacted in 1967 as Act No. 64 of 1967 and revised on April 1, 1974 as Laws of Malaysia Act 139. The Act was gazette on February 1, 1970. The principle of the act is "An Act to provide for the control of factories with respect to matters relating to the safety, health and welfare of person therein, the registration and inspection of the machinery and for matters connected therewith".
The jurisdiction of the act covers all factories which in the act means:
within the close or curtilage of precints of the premises or part thereof persons are employed in manual labour in any process for or connected with or incidental to the making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, sorting, finishing, cleaning, washing, breaking, demilishing, constructing, re-constructing, fitting, refitting, adjusting or adapting of any article or part thereof; and
the said work is carried on by way of trade for the purposes of gain or incidentally to any business so carned on, and (whether or not they are factories by reason of the foregoing definition) the expression factory also includes the following premises in which persons are employed in manual labour:
any yard or dry dock (including the precincts thereof) in which ships or vessels are constructed, re-constructed, repaired, refitted, finished or broken up;
any premises in which the business of washing or filling bottles or containers or packing articles is carried on incidentally to the purposes of any factory;
any premises in which the business of hooking, plaiting, lapping, making-up or packing of yarn or cloth is carried on;
any laundry carried on as ancillary to another business or incidentally to the purposes of any public institution;
any premises in which the construction, reconstruction, or repair of locomotives, vehicles or other plant for use for transport purposes is carried on ancillary to a transport undertaking or other industrial or commercial undertaking;
any premises in which printing by letter press, lithography, photogravure, or other similar process, or bookbinding is carried on by way of trade or for purposes of gain or incidentally to another business so carried on;
any premises in which the production of cinematograph films is carried on by way of trade or for purposes of gain;
any premises in which manual labour is employed and mechanical power is used in connection with the making or repair of any article of metal or wood incidentally to any business carried on by way of trade or for purposes of gain;,
any premises used for the storage of gas in a gasholder having a storage capacity of not less than 140 cubic meters;
any premises, place or space where any building operations or works of engineering construction are carried out; and
any premises belonging to or in the occupation of the Federal Government or the Government of any State or of any local authority or other public authority which would be a factory within the meaning of this Act but for paragraph (b),
but does not include:
any premises used for the purposes of housing locomotives or vehicles where only cleaning, washing, running repairs or minor adjustments are carried out; or
any premlses where five or less persons carry on any work in which machinery is not used notwithstanding that the premises, by virtue of the work, would constitute a factory within the meaning of this section.
The jurisdiction of the Act only covers lest than 20 percent of all working areas in Malaysia, the Malaysia government has enacted the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 which covers almost all areas of work within Malaysia.
The list of Regulations and Rules under this act are:
Factories and Machinery (Steam Boilers And Unfired Pressure Vessel) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Electric Passenger And Goods Lift) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Fencing Of Machinery And Safety) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Person-In-Charge) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Administration) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Certificates Of Competency-Examinations) , 1970
Factories and Machinery (Notification Of Fitness And Inspections) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Compounding Of Offences) Rules, 1978
Factories and Machinery (Compoundable Offences) Regulations, 1978
Factories and Machinery (Leads) Regulations, 1984
Factories and Machinery (Asbestos) Regulations, 1984
Factories and Machinery (Building Operations And Works Of Engineering Construction) (Safety) Regulations, 1986
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Occupational Safety & Health Act 1994
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OSHA 1994
The Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 (Act 514) is a piece of Malaysian legislation which has been gazetted on the 25 February 1994 by the Malaysian Parliament.
The principle of the Act is "To make further provision for securing that 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 applies throughout Malaysia to the industries specified in the First Schedule, nothing in this act shall apply to work aboard ships governed by the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952, the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1960 of Sabah or Sarawak or the armed forces.
First Schedule
1. Manufacturing
2. Mining and Quarrying
3. Construction
4. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
5. Utilities:
1. Electricity;
2. Gas;
3. Water; and
4. Sanitary Services
6. Transport, Storage and Communication
7. Wholesale and Retail Trades
8. Hotel and Restaurants
9. Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Business Services
10. Public Services and Statutory Authorities
The list of regulations under this Act are:
1. Occupational Safety and Health (Employers' Safety and Health General Policy Statements)(Exception) Regulations 1995
2. Occupational Safety and Health (Control of Industry Major Accident Hazards) Regulations 1996
3. Occupational Safety and Health (Safety and Health Committee) Regulations 1996
4. Occupational Safety and Health (Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Hazardous Chemicals) Regulations 1997
5. Occupational Safety and Heath (Safety and Health Officer) Regulations 1997
6. Occupational Safety and Health (Prohibition of Use of Substance) Order 1999
7. Occupational Safety and Health (Use and Standards of Exposure of Chemicals Hazardous to Health) Regulations 2000
8. Occupational Safety and Health (Notification of Accident, Dangerous Occurrence, Occupational Poisoning and Occupational Disease) Regulation 2004
The principle of the Act is "To make further provision for securing that 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 applies throughout Malaysia to the industries specified in the First Schedule, nothing in this act shall apply to work aboard ships governed by the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952, the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1960 of Sabah or Sarawak or the armed forces.
First Schedule
1. Manufacturing
2. Mining and Quarrying
3. Construction
4. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
5. Utilities:
1. Electricity;
2. Gas;
3. Water; and
4. Sanitary Services
6. Transport, Storage and Communication
7. Wholesale and Retail Trades
8. Hotel and Restaurants
9. Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Business Services
10. Public Services and Statutory Authorities
The list of regulations under this Act are:
1. Occupational Safety and Health (Employers' Safety and Health General Policy Statements)(Exception) Regulations 1995
2. Occupational Safety and Health (Control of Industry Major Accident Hazards) Regulations 1996
3. Occupational Safety and Health (Safety and Health Committee) Regulations 1996
4. Occupational Safety and Health (Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Hazardous Chemicals) Regulations 1997
5. Occupational Safety and Heath (Safety and Health Officer) Regulations 1997
6. Occupational Safety and Health (Prohibition of Use of Substance) Order 1999
7. Occupational Safety and Health (Use and Standards of Exposure of Chemicals Hazardous to Health) Regulations 2000
8. Occupational Safety and Health (Notification of Accident, Dangerous Occurrence, Occupational Poisoning and Occupational Disease) Regulation 2004
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