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

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 s...

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Main Authors: Khoo, Nee Kah, Hussin, Hanipah, Abdullah, Norida
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http://journal.utem.edu.my/index.php/jhcd/article/view/4251/3123
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Abdullah, Norida
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description 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.
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spelling my.utem.eprints-240052020-03-05T12:07:32Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/24005/ Managing Occupational Safety And Health (OSH) Culture Practices At Small And Medium (S&M) Malaysia Manufacturing Sector Khoo, Nee Kah Hussin, Hanipah Abdullah, Norida H Social Sciences (General) HD28 Management. Industrial Management 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. Penerbit Universiti, UTeM 2018-06 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/24005/2/MANAGING%20OCCUPATIONAL%20SAFETY.pdf 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 http://journal.utem.edu.my/index.php/jhcd/article/view/4251/3123
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Khoo, Nee Kah
Hussin, Hanipah
Abdullah, Norida
Managing Occupational Safety And Health (OSH) Culture Practices At Small And Medium (S&M) Malaysia Manufacturing Sector
title Managing Occupational Safety And Health (OSH) Culture Practices At Small And Medium (S&M) Malaysia Manufacturing Sector
title_full Managing Occupational Safety And Health (OSH) Culture Practices At Small And Medium (S&M) Malaysia Manufacturing Sector
title_fullStr Managing Occupational Safety And Health (OSH) Culture Practices At Small And Medium (S&M) Malaysia Manufacturing Sector
title_full_unstemmed Managing Occupational Safety And Health (OSH) Culture Practices At Small And Medium (S&M) Malaysia Manufacturing Sector
title_short Managing Occupational Safety And Health (OSH) Culture Practices At Small And Medium (S&M) Malaysia Manufacturing Sector
title_sort managing occupational safety and health (osh) culture practices at small and medium (s&m) malaysia manufacturing sector
topic H Social Sciences (General)
HD28 Management. Industrial Management
url http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/24005/2/MANAGING%20OCCUPATIONAL%20SAFETY.pdf
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