Employer
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 1994
Duties and Responsibilities
Employer
The Act requires you to :
a. Provide and maintain palnt and safe systems of work that are
safe and risk-free.
b. Make arrangements for ensuring safety and health in connection
with the use or operation, handling, storage and transportation of plants
and substances.
c. Provide information, instruction, training and supervision
to ensure employees perform their work in a safe manner and without risk
to health
d. Maintain a place of work that is safe and without risks to
health including means of access and agress
e. To provide and maintain a working environment that is safe
and without risks to health with adequate health facilities
f. Penalty for failure to comply is RM50,000 or TWO YEARS IMPRISONMENT
or BOTH.
Employee
The Act requires you to :
a. Take reasonable care at work for your own safety and that
of others
b. Cooperate with the employer or any other person in he discharge
of any duty, under the Act or its Regulations
c. Wear or use any protective equipment or clothing
d. Comply with any instruction or measure on occupational safety
and health as required under the Act or its Regulations
e. Penalty for failure to comply is RM 1, 000 or THREE MONTHS IMPRISONMENT
or BOTH
Designer/Manufacturer/Formulator/Importer/Supplier
The Act requires you to :
a. Ensure that the plant or substance is safe without risks
to health when properly used
b. Carry out or arrange for carrying out of necessary testing
and examination on the plant or substance
c. Provide adequate information on the use of such plant or substance
so that it will be safe and without risk to health when properly used
d. Carry out or arrange for the carrying out of necessary research
to eliminate or minimise any risk to safety or health to which the design
or plant may give rise
e. Erectors or installers of plants should ensure safe erection
and installation of plant for use by persons at work
PENALTY OF FAILURE TO COMPLY IS RM20,000 OR TWO (2) YEARS IMPROSONMENT OR BOTH
Provisions of the OSHA 1994
are based on the SELF REGULATIONS approach, which is primarily where responsibility
to ensure safety and health at work lies with those create the risks and
those who work with the risks
The concept of self-regulation
encourages consultation, cooperation and participation of workers and management
in efforts to upgrade the standard of safety and health at the workplace