Awareness Among Students and Staff on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200921.003How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Occupational Safety and Health, laboratory, consciousness
- Abstract
Laboratory plays important role to ensure efficient scientific work and promotes safety work environment. Nevertheless, there are an increased numbers of reported laboratory accidents led to numerous catastrophic calamities such as injuries and fatalities. Therefore, it is important to access current research status and trends that meets safety research environment prior to laboratory standard. Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) is a performance standard designed to protect employees working in both laboratory and industrial area. This act has been implemented in academic community and essentially replaced safety education among students to develop strong safety ethics. This study is designed to access factors effecting consciousness among students and laboratory staff in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia such as safety policy, safety procedure, safety training, safety tools and equipment, OSH committee, commitment and attitude and working environment. Findings conclude that the respondents are considered to possess high level of consciousness toward OSH with overall mean grade of 4.20. The overall mean grade of staff (4.26) is higher than students (4.14).
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Faiqah Binti Ramli AU - Siti Nabila Binti Mokhtar AU - Mohd Haizal Bin Jamaluddin AU - Muhammad Noor Bin Harun AU - Muhammad Aizi Bin Mat Salim AU - Muhammad Nizam Bin Lokman AU - Abdul Rashid Bin Zailan AU - Norhidayah Binti Md. Yunus AU - Nurshaidatul Hidayah Binti Mohd Nor PY - 2020 DA - 2020/09/22 TI - Awareness Among Students and Staff on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Student and Disable Student Development 2019 (ICoSD 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 13 EP - 18 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200921.003 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200921.003 ID - Ramli2020 ER -