Mental health in workplace: the role of safety and health committee

Safety and Health Committee services has been established since 1 January 1997 in Malaysia. According to Section 30 of Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) 1994, safety and health committee need to be establish and it is compulsory to the employers who have more than 40 employees. Department of Safety and Health (DOSH) are capable to issue an improvement or prohibition notice in order to get improvement in future

Institute Research and Public Policy on Disability

The past 30 years have been a period of fundamental change in public policies that relate to disability, from the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) of 1970, through hundreds of state workers' compensation enactments of the 1980s and 1990s and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, to the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998. The Upjohn Institute has maintained an active research interest in disability issues through most of this period. This article briefly reviews Institute contributions and outlines some research opportunities

Circuit over Troubled Waters: Ninth Circuit Comparative Fault Principles in Seaman\u27s Personal Injury Actions

Maritime personal injury actions employ the comparative fault doctrine, under which damages are allocated between mutually negligent parties according to their proportionate fault. This Comment focuses on recurring issues Ninth Circuit courts have faced in this area: apportioning liability in cases of violations by seamen\u27s employers of Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) regulations, and determining whether to include both causation and fault in making the apportionment. This Comment argues that the Ninth Circuit should adopt rules consistent with the pronounced congressional and U.S. Supreme Court policies of achieving uniformity in domestic and international admiralty and providing liberal recovery for seamen

Basic OSHA Recordkeeping & Training Requirements Affecting Printers

Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) requires written programs, training, and records to be collected and retained by most businesses in the United States. If you do not have them, or they are not available when required, the fines and penalties can be significant. This fact sheet is designed to give printers a basic understanding of some basic OSHA regulations which involve training and records they are required to maintain in order to be in compliance with OSHA regulations.Ope

The Occupational Safety and Health Act: A Promise That Failed

When Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) in 1970, it commanded industry to provide its employees with workplaces free from recognized dangers. The legislation declared that the safety of workers is a public concern, a concern vital to the community at large. Spokesmen for the then-presiding Nixon Administration praised the Act heartily and vowed to implement it energetically. This bill opens up a whole new vista for the Labor Department, said the Secretary of Labor. We plan to launch the administration of the Act with all the vigor and momentum we can generate. Four years later, the vigor is exhausted, the momentum has fizzled, and the vista ahead is the same bloody stream of injuries and fatalities that has marred the past

OSHA at the Threshold: Setting Permissible Exposure Levels For Known Carcinogens After American Petroleum Institute

This Comment examines the nature of scientific uncertainty that complicates precision in setting permissible exposure levels for carcinogens under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA). The author compares OSHA\u27s policy for dealing with these uncertainties with the legal and factual findings required by the Supreme Court in Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO v. American Petroleum Institute as a prerequisite to the promulgation of standards. The author argues that the future of OSHA\u27s attempts to set exposure levels depends on a partnership between courts and the agency to confront these scientific issues. The author argues that reviewing courts should yield to OSHA\u27s expertise in analyzing, interpreting, and applying complex scientific data in an effort to enhance the efficiency of OSHA

Fact Sheet: Support Legislation to Protect the Safety and Health of America’s Workers (H.R. 5663)

[Excerpt] The nation’s job safety laws were enacted 40 years ago. The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) has never been updated. Penalties are weak even in cases where workers are killed, the government’s enforcement tools are limited and protections for workers who raise job safety concerns are woefully inadequate. Legislation has been introduced in the Congress to prevent future disasters and protect the safety and health of miners and other workers. H.R. 5663 strengthens the Mine Safety and Health Act and Occupational Safety and Health Act, the nation’s primary job safety laws. The bill – the “Miner Safety and Health Act of 2010” - provides for stepped up enforcement and tougher penalties for employers who flagrantly violate the law and enhances the protection of miners and workers who speak out about job hazards, report injuries and exercise their rights. The mine safety provisions address problems identified after the Upper Big Branch disaster, including increased oversight, enforcement and penalties for mines with a pattern of violations. The provisions to strengthen the OSH Act come from H.R. 2067 – the Protecting America’s Workers Act – legislation introduced last year and the subject of numerous Congressional hearings

Occupational safety and health practice: a study at quarry site by using hirarc form

Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) is a discipline with wide scope involving many specialized fields. In other words, occupational health and safety comprises of aspects in terms of social, mental and physical. This study focuses on the occupational safety and health act ABC Quarry Site located in Kedah. Nowadays, the workers lack of safety and health practice from their companies based on the observations being done one site during this project’s site visit. It is very important for the employers to manage occupational safety and health at the workplace because of the lack of management control often leads to the existence of causes of accidents and allows for unsafe practices among the workers. The data collection was carried out through site investigation and HIRARC form and interview with the person in charge during the site visit. The objective of this study is to promote the occupational environment adaptable to the employer and employees at the workplace based on the existing potential hazard. This report was conducted to identify the hazard on the construction site and to analyse the occupational safety and health in the workplace. This study suggests recommendations for improving occupational safety and health act in the construction site. Effective job safety and health training will help to reduce worker injuries and illnesses

Epidemiology trend with particular spatio-temporal distribution of DIR in Malaysia

Previous epidemiology record shows obvious trend of dengue fever that contribute to significant upsurge in the increasing number of dengue cases and deaths until the late nineteenth century with the sharp straight trend. This virus is transmitted to human by the bite of a female Aedes Aegypti mosquito, that could simply recognise by a white marking on its legs and lyre on the upper surface of its thorax. In Malaysia, dengue fever has been occurred since the first case in Penang around 1901 and continuously showed an intensity increment over the past few decades. The epidemics of dengue in Malaysia were observed predominantly confined to the densely populated and urbanised areas of Peninsular Malaysia (East of Malaysia) focusing in the Selangor state. Dengue cases that recorded in the nine district of Selangor state over seven years' period were used to ample evidence of dengue and peak transmission occurred in 2014, 2015 and 2019. The objective of this study was to access the dengue incidence rate according to the district in Selangor. The results were clustered by district based on the mean annual dengue incidence rate (DIR) values to classify the dengue risk categories. Among highest incidence rates were located at four districts; Petaling, Hulu Langat, Klang and Gombak where surrounding federal territory of Kuala Lumpur in the center of the region is on of main interest from high population densities and conclusion has been made that high DIR is strongly increase the risk of dengue incidence in that state

Occupational safety and health practice: a study at rubber manufacturing industry by using hirarc

Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) is a discipline with broad scope involving many specialized fields. The definition of safety is the state of being ‘safe’, condition of being protected against physical, social, spiritual, financial, political, emotional, occupational, psychological, educational or other types of consequences of failure, damage, error, accidents, harm or any other events which can be considered non-desirable. Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. Engineers play their roles at workstations to ensure the safety and health of each staff is in good conditions with proper ergonomic condition. This study conducted occupational safety and health act study at Kenny Leather (M) Sdn Bhd. The site visit, observation and interview session were conducted. The objective of this study is to identify the current or potential hazard that might be occurred in the factory. This study also providing the suitable solution and precaution step towards the zero hazard for the factory for reducing the possible accidents or injuries. Some of the suggestion that has collected through data collected was carried out through site visit using Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA) and HIRARC form by interviewing several workers. As a result, this study gave recommendations to the company in order to practice the safe and no harm work practice and gives priority to the safety first