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Title: Obligation of occupational safety and health (OSH) legislation by designers and manufacturers: Perception of enforcement officers

Abstract

Designers and manufacturers of plants are responsible to design or redesign the process, product and workplace with consideration of eliminating hazards or controlling risks as early as possible at design stage.The purpose of this paper is to determine the perception of enforcement officers towards compliance and implementation of OSH legislation by the designers and manufacturers of plant.The research partners was a goverment department that enforce the related OSH laws to designers and manufacturers of the plant. A total of 59 technical staffs were surveyed together with examination of the sekunder data from the department to evaluate overall OSH legal obligation by the industries. This study demonstrate how OSH regulators play the roles to influence the industries to perform better in OSH.

Authors:
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  1. School of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan (Malaysia)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22488982
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
AIP Conference Proceedings
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 1678; Journal Issue: 1; Conference: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Faculty of Science and Technology 2015 Postgraduate Colloquium, Selangor (Malaysia), 15-16 Apr 2015; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS; COMPLIANCE; ENFORCEMENT; HAZARDS; IMPLEMENTATION; LEGAL ASPECTS; LEGISLATION; MANUFACTURERS; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; RISK ASSESSMENT

Citation Formats

Daud, Rabaayah, Petroleum Divison, Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Ministry of Human Resources Level 2, 3 & 4, Block D3, Complex D, Government Administrative Centre, 62530, Putrajaya, Wilayah Persekutuan, Mohamed, Faizal, Majid, Amran Ab, and Yasir, Muhammad Samudi. Obligation of occupational safety and health (OSH) legislation by designers and manufacturers: Perception of enforcement officers. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4931274.
Daud, Rabaayah, Petroleum Divison, Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Ministry of Human Resources Level 2, 3 & 4, Block D3, Complex D, Government Administrative Centre, 62530, Putrajaya, Wilayah Persekutuan, Mohamed, Faizal, Majid, Amran Ab, & Yasir, Muhammad Samudi. Obligation of occupational safety and health (OSH) legislation by designers and manufacturers: Perception of enforcement officers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4931274
Daud, Rabaayah, Petroleum Divison, Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Ministry of Human Resources Level 2, 3 & 4, Block D3, Complex D, Government Administrative Centre, 62530, Putrajaya, Wilayah Persekutuan, Mohamed, Faizal, Majid, Amran Ab, and Yasir, Muhammad Samudi. 2015. "Obligation of occupational safety and health (OSH) legislation by designers and manufacturers: Perception of enforcement officers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4931274.
@article{osti_22488982,
title = {Obligation of occupational safety and health (OSH) legislation by designers and manufacturers: Perception of enforcement officers},
author = {Daud, Rabaayah and Petroleum Divison, Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Ministry of Human Resources Level 2, 3 & 4, Block D3, Complex D, Government Administrative Centre, 62530, Putrajaya, Wilayah Persekutuan and Mohamed, Faizal and Majid, Amran Ab and Yasir, Muhammad Samudi},
abstractNote = {Designers and manufacturers of plants are responsible to design or redesign the process, product and workplace with consideration of eliminating hazards or controlling risks as early as possible at design stage.The purpose of this paper is to determine the perception of enforcement officers towards compliance and implementation of OSH legislation by the designers and manufacturers of plant.The research partners was a goverment department that enforce the related OSH laws to designers and manufacturers of the plant. A total of 59 technical staffs were surveyed together with examination of the sekunder data from the department to evaluate overall OSH legal obligation by the industries. This study demonstrate how OSH regulators play the roles to influence the industries to perform better in OSH.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4931274},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22488982}, journal = {AIP Conference Proceedings},
issn = {0094-243X},
number = 1,
volume = 1678,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}