Evaluation of Occupational Safety and Health Management System at Lab Test Lembaga Air Perak
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- 10.2991/978-2-38476-026-8_3How to use a DOI?
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- Occupational Safety and Health Management System; laboratory; implementation
- Abstract
All industries including the government organizations have to follows the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) 1994 which required the employers to perform minimum duties to ensure the safety, health and welfare of their workers, and joint the responsibilities between employer and employees. With the aim to evaluate the occupational safety and health management system at lab test Lembaga Air Perak a quantitative cross-sectional descriptive survey research was conducted at the laboratory test department of Lembaga Air Perak located at Ipoh in the Kinta district from the 4th October 2021 till the 31st March 2022. The data were collected in two phases; The first phase, the consented laboratory worker was interviewed using a pretested structured questionnaire as a guide focusing on the demographic characteristic and the sources and types of hazards encountered by them throughout the working period. On the second phase researcher naturalistic observe the participant and laboratory implementation towards the occupational safety and health management system based on Lembaga Air Perak Laboratory Quality Manual. This research found most of the participants are Laboratory Assistant with the median age of 39 years old and have been working between one to three years. Majority of the participants implement to occupational safety and health management system in general and within 12 elements been observe the laboratory fail to implement two of the requirements of the Lembaga Air Perak Laboratory Quality Manual. This study hypothesized that the occupational safety and health management system been implemented well at the laboratory of Lembaga Air Perak. This study provides a conceptualization of safety culture that can be used in future study.
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TY - CONF AU - Juhaidie Zamani Jamaludin AU - Norshahida Binti Hasan Saari PY - 2023 DA - 2023/07/31 TI - Evaluation of Occupational Safety and Health Management System at Lab Test Lembaga Air Perak BT - Proceedings of 6th FIRST T3 2022 International Conference (FIRST-SS 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 13 EP - 24 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-026-8_3 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-026-8_3 ID - Jamaludin2023 ER -