OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH

MANAGEMENTABDUL MUHAIMIN BIN YUSOFF ZAKIMUHAMMAD AFIFUDDIN BIN AHMAD

3.1 Understand the concepts of safety management

3.1.1 Define the concepts of safety management

3.1.2 Explain the objective of safety and health in the workplace

3.2 Understand the establishment of safety and health comitte

Contents

3.2.1 Explain Section 30 (1) 1 Regulation 1996

3.2.2 Determine composition of committee 3.2.3 Classify specific function of committee 3.3 Understand the roles of the

management 3.3.1 Explain the roles of the management 3.3.2 Explain the procedures in policy ,

standard and safety guideline development 3.3.3 Develop rules and workplace

procedures 3.3.4 Understand enforcement and follow-up

3.3.5 Understand the responsibilities of department and sections

3.4 Understand the safety training 3.4.1 Determine the purpose of safety

training 3.4.2 List training needs 3.4.3 Practice the exercise procedure

Struggle to be effective in reducing incidents and injury unless they are deployed an effective management framework.

To be effective, the organization as a whole need to understand it roles responsibility.

Employer to provided safe system of work, information, instruction, training, and supervision.

This can best be achieved through a proper organization and administration.

Concept of safety management

• Effective health & safety policies to send cleardirection for its organization to follow;• Effective management structure and

arrangement for delivering the policy• Planned & systematic approaches toimplementing the H&S policy through an

effectiveH&S management system.• Performance to be measured against agreedcriteria to reveal when and where improvement

isneeded.

Objective of safety management

SAFETY & HEALTH COMMITTEE

OSHA Section 30

Section 30 ( 1 ) 1 Regulation 1996 (1) employer to establish committee if- (a) 40 or more persons employee. (b) Director General direction • Regulation Safety & Health (Safety & Health) 1996 give detail guide.

Section 30 : S&H Committee (2) The composition , election or

appointment of persons, the powers of the members and any other matter shall be as prescribed.

• Chairman (manager), secretary(Safety Officer), employer member (*),employee member (**).• <=100employee, 2 member each• >100 employee, 4 member each

(3) employer consult the committee to the making

and maintenance of arrangements in promoting

and developing measures & checking theeffectiveness of such measures.(4) A person who contravenes shall be

guilty, to befine not exceeding RM5000 or imprisonment

notexceeding 6 months or to both.

FUNCTION OF SAFETY &

HEALTH COMMITTEE

(a) shall keep under review the measures taken to ensure the safety and health of persons at the place of work;

(b) shall investigate any matter at the place of work-

(i) which a member of the committee or a person employed thereat considers is not safe or is a risk to health

(ii) which has been brought to the attention of the employer;

(c) shall attempt to resolve any matterreferred to in paragraph (b) and, if itis unable to do so, shall request theDirector General to undertake aninspection of the place of work forthat purpose; and (d) shall have such other functions asmay be prescribed.

Role of Management

• To promote safety & health culture• Prepare frame work of implementation

safety & health• Provide infrastructure & tools• Encourage skill & knowledge

enhancement

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3.3.2 Explain the procedures in policy , standard and safety guideline development• are consistent with those of any parent company;•are relevant to its activities, products and services, and their effects on HSE;• are consistent with the company’s other policies;• have equal importance with the company’s other policies and objectives;•lare implemented and maintained at all organisational levels;• are publicly available;• commit the company to meet or exceed all relevant regulatory and legislative requirements;•apply responsible standards of its own where laws and regulations do not exist;• commit the company to reduce the risks and hazards to health,

3.3.3 Develop rules and workplace procedures

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1. Preamble• Almost all tasks undertaken by an employee are the result of some form of instruction. Personal injury and property damage can be minimised by compliance with established rules and practices.• Safety rules are explicit instructions aimed at eliminating or reducing the employee’s exposure to foreseeable risks. Therefore safety rules are designed to control workplace hazards and develop a uniform standard of behaviour.• In general terms safety rules can be divided into two categories, those rules that are general and those that are specific.(i) General Rules – Example “Do not obstruct emergencyequipment”.(ii) Specific Rules and / or Work Instructions “Safety glasses mustbe worn when operating the grinder”.

2. Aim•University of Western Sydney’s general and specific safety rules pertaining to all employees and/or specific groups are to be developed for each College/ School/ Division in consultation with employees.• Safety rules apply equally to all personnel present at the workplace therefore each person has an obligation under the OH&S Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000 to comply with the established rules.

3. Responsibilities3.1 Managers are responsible for:(i) Analysing injury and hazard reports to identify the need to develop and or review health and safety rules.(ii) Developing new or revised rules in consultation with relevant supervisory personnel and employees.(iii) Reviewing on an annual basis all developed rules.(iv) Providing a copy of the developed or revised rules to the OHS&R Co-ordinator.

3.2 Supervisory Personnel are responsible for: (I) Issuing copies of all applicable rules to

employees.(ii) Training all employees in the new or revised rules.(iii) Maintaining training records.(iv) Enforcing the developed rules.(v) Implementing the University’s disciplinary procedure for noncompliance with established rules.

3.3 Employees are responsible for:(i) Complying at all times with established rules.(ii) Notifying their immediate supervisor of any revision or development of safety rules they believe is needed to protect the health and safety of all persons present at the workplace.

3.4 OHS&R Co-ordinator is responsible for:(i) Providing technical advice and experience to all staff to assist in the development or revision of safety rules.

Understand the safety training

What is training?• Training means helping people tolearn how to do something, tellingpeople what they should or shouldnot do, or simply giving theminformation. Training isn’t just aboutformal ‘classroom’ courses.

Who needs H&S training?• Managers and supervisors• All employees• new recruits• people changing jobs• Updating employee’s skills

Purpose of safety trainingProviding training helps you to: ensure employees are not injured or made ill

by the work; develop a positive health and safety culture, you could manage health and safety better; meet your legal duty to protect employees.

Effective Training

• making your employees competent in health and safety;

• help your business avoid the distress that accidents and ill health cause;

• help you avoid the financial costs of accidents and occupational ill health.

Training for OSH Management-1

• Incident Prevention• OSH Policy Organisation & Arrangements• Risk Assessment and Management + Job SafetyAnalysis (JSA) (MA)• OSH Promotion & Communication and Training• OSH Programme• Information Technology in OSH• Procurement

and Contractor Management + Document (Ex)• PPE for Safety and Health Adobe Acrobat

• Emergency Response Preparedness and Recovery Planning

• First-Aid• Documentation + Safety Manual (Ex)• Performance Measurement & Monitoring +

Calculation• Incident Investigation and Corrective Action +

Accident Report (MA)• Auditing + Revision Question (MA)• Management Review• OSH Management Systems + ILO OSH – MS

Guidelines