OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT

The Occupational Safety And Health Act is an Act which provides the legislative framework to secure the safety, health and welfare among all Malaysian workforce and to protect others against risks to safety or health in connection with the activities of person at work.

This Act was gazetted on 24^th February 1994 and may be cited as the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994. This Act is practical tool superimposed on existing safety and health legislation.

This aims of this Act are :         

1.     1.  To secure the safety, health and welfare of person at work against risks to safety or health of person at work.

2.       2.To protect person at place of work other than persons at work against risks to safety or health arising out of the activities of persons  at work.

3.       3.To promote an occupational environment for persons at work which is adapted to their physiological and psychological needs.

4.       3.To provide the means whereby the associated safety and health legislation may be progressively replaced by a system of regulations and approved industry codes practice operating in combination with provisions of this Act designed to maintain or improve the standards of safety and health.

The provision of the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 are based  on the self-regulation scheme. Its primary responsibility is to ensure safety health of work lies with those who create the risks and those who work with the risk.

Though self-regulation encourages cooperation and participation of Occupation Safety and Health (DOSH),a government department under the Ministry of Human Resources Malaysia.

Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) will ensure through enforcement and promotional works that employers, self-employed persons, manufacturers, designers,  importers, and employees always practice  safe and health work culture, and always comply with existing legislation, guidelines and codes of practice pertaining to occupational safety, health and welfare as a basis in ensuring safety and health at work.

Department  of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) will also formulate and review legislation, policies, guidelines and codes of practice pertaining to occupational safety, health and welfare as a basis in ensuring safety and health at work.

Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is also secretariat to National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, a council established under section 8 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994.

The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health shall have power to do things expedient or reasonably necessary for or incidental to the carrying out of the object of this Act.