Managing Occupational Safety And Health (OSH) Culture Practices At Small And Medium (S&M) Malaysia Manufacturing Sector

Khoo, Nee Kah and Hussin, Hanipah and Abdullah, Norida (2018) Managing Occupational Safety And Health (OSH) Culture Practices At Small And Medium (S&M) Malaysia Manufacturing Sector. Journal Of Human Capital Development (JHCD), 11 (1). pp. 79-90. ISSN 1985-7012

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Abstract

OSH is important in Malaysia workplace. In this paper we would like to include the culture practices as a new parameter in order to improve the number of percentage of the accidents in the workplace. Four components namely self-regulation, top management commitment, enforcement & promotion and safety culture influence the improvement of reducing of accident case in the workplace will be studied. A ten-month accident data at a manufacturing sector was taken to be analyzed on the cultural practice. From the analysis, it was found that with good understanding, commitment, practices, and behavior will reduce the accident case at the workplace. This research highlight the problems of accident case in the Malaysian workplace at manufacturing sector which are probably due to lack of safety culture and non-compliance of the requirements of Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) 1994. This study promotes OSH at Small and Medium Malaysia manufacturing sector through several management practices such training and safety management, understanding on self-regulation, enforcement, and promotion. The documentary analysis was used as a method for data collection from DOSH.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Divisions: Centre For Language Learning
Depositing User: Mohd Hannif Jamaludin
Date Deposited: 05 Mar 2020 12:07
Last Modified: 05 Mar 2020 12:07
URI: http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/24005
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