An evaluation of the Safety Management System compliance amongst Malaysian major hazard industries
An evaluation of the Malaysian major hazard industries (MHI) compliance towards the OSHA requirement on Safety Management System (SMS) was undertaken. The research was carried out via documentary reviews on the individual company Safety Reports submitted to the Department of Occupational Safety a...
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2000
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| Summary: | An evaluation of the Malaysian major hazard industries (MHI) compliance towards
the OSHA requirement on Safety Management System (SMS) was undertaken. The
research was carried out via documentary reviews on the individual company Safety
Reports submitted to the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH)
under the Control oflndustrial Major Accident Hazards (CIMAH) Regulation of the
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) 1994. Out of the available one hundred
fourteen (114) Safety Reports containing the SMS information, forty (40) MHI
reports were sampled.
Given that MHIs have the potential to cause potential major accident hazards within
and outside their boundaries, one of the main objectives of this evaluation is to
assess the MHl compliance towards the SMS requirement. The evaluation revealed
that the level of compliance meets the minimum requirement. However, the overall
mean score of 2.75 at standard deviation of l.6 barely passes the median value of
2.5. Of the sampled assessed, only 48% data falls within I standard deviation, thus
the samples chosen were almost representative of the MHI population.
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The compliance is based on six main Management System Information (MSI)
elements against twelve main Installation Demographic Information (101)
categories. The high levels of compliance were exhibited by;
• LPG storage plants as compared to other oil, gas, chemical, insecticides
manufacturing plants.
Manufacturing industry involved in the use of flammable as compared to toxic,
reactive or explosive substances.
Organisation having worker population of between 300 to 500.
Organisation having expatriate management but with local operations personnel
Multinational companies with foreign technology.
Organisation that have been in operations between 6 to 10 years ago.
• Organisations that are certified to the ISO quality system.
Some of the sample assessed did exhibit a structured management system approach
as required, however others only have disjointed safety programme and procedures
to manage their safety and health issues. The next step forward for these
organisations to formally structure these practices into a coherent and holistic system
approach as required.
The evaluation had also revealed that there were many approaches in the
development of SM_S ranging from codes, standards, industry practices, legislation
and international safety organisations. It was recognised that every organisation is
unique in its own ways, as such there is no hard and fast rule on what would be the
best SMS model for the respective organisation. The main aim is to have a SMS that
is simple yet comprehensive to meet all foreseeable circumstances specific to the
organisation and at the same time be flexible enough to be verified and accredited to
an internationally accepted standards, where possible. |
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